[MD] Three Hot Stoves

[John Carl]

Dan,


> Dan:
>
> From LILA:
>
> "Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality, the
> source of all things, completely simple and always new."
>
> Dan comments:
>
> Please note that Robert Pirsig says that Dynamic Quality is
> "pre-intellectual", not intellectual. It is simple and always new
> (just in case John is reading).
>
>
John:

I always read.  You haven't addressed my distinction of conceptualization
and intellectualization yet Dan.  Because with that in mind, I completely
agree with DQ as pre-intellectual.  I question DQ as pre-conceptual,
however.  As "the patterning force" I could imagine it as somewhat
pre-conceptual, but yet it isn't completely "pre" because as I see it, it is
that which patterns (conceptualizes).

There.  That's a key synonym - a concept is a pattern - a distinct pattern
cut out of the cosmic flow of patterns and understood or seen as a unit.
The question of how these patterns arise in the mind is an ancient
philosophic problem, and as I see it, this is what the MoQ answers and
solves perfectly - the way patterns are distinctified by animal minds.