[MD] MOQ/BOC

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:58 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> [Dan]
> Thank you for the reply. I take this of course from the Robert Pirsig letter to
> Paul Turner. To be honest, parts of this have troubled me and I welcome an
> opportunity to perhaps get into it more deeply.
>
> [Arlo]
> I went back and pulled this quote and it does appear to me you got the
> social-intellectual thing reversed. Here is what Pirsig said.
>
> "Just as every biological pattern is also inorganic, but not all inorganic
> patterns are biological; and just as every social level is also biological,
> although not all biological patterns are social; so every intellectual pattern
> is social although not all social patterns are intellectual."
>
> Your analogy had the opposite, "every social pattern is an intellectual pattern
> but not all intellectual patterns are social."

Hi Arlo

Yes you're right. I should have pulled up the quote instead of relying
on memory.

But my question still stands: If social patterns are not intellectual,
how do we discriminate them from other patterns? As I said, I am
confused. Are they hard-wired into our nature?

Thank you,

Dan

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