[MD] Intellectual Level

[Platt Holden]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:03 PM, <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:

> [Platt]
> > The SOM premise is self-evident and thus invisible to the
> > intellectual level of patterns.
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> I don't think this is possible. "Self-evident" means "easily seen"
> & "invisible" means "cannot be seen". They are contradictory.
> Craig
>

[Platt]
"Self-evident" points to a preconscious assumption, thus invisible. It's an
assumption accepted without thought, without question. For example, it is
self-evident to science that an order exists in the universe to be
discovered. Similarly, it is self-evident to Western thinking that the
primary division of experience is subjects/objects, mind/matter,
mental/physical, etc., i.e. SOM. that in Pirsig's static value hierarchy
infuses the intellectual level.



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