[MD] Decision

[Platt Holden]

Hi All:

As long as there's a suggestion to add selected quotes from Pirsig at the
top of posts from Platt and Bo, and in the interest of presenting a fair and
balanced opinion from the Great Author, I vote for the following:

"God knows the MOQ has never had two better friends than Bo and Platt, so
this is no criticism of their otherwise brilliant thinking." -- Robert
Pirsig, "Lila's Child"

Thanks, Bob.

Regards,
Platt





On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:46 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
>  I think the following should be re-quoted at the top of every post from Bo
> and Platt from now on. Check it out.
>
> >From Lila's Child, Chapter 13...
>
>
> Platt said:
>
> Bo has maintained that the intellectual level is SOM (rationality,
> language, science). It's gradually seeped into my mind that Bo is right
> about this. ...
>
> Pirsig replied:
> I've always thought this is incorrect because many forms of intellect do
> not have a subject-object construction. These include logic itself,
> mathematics, computer programming languages, and, I believe some primitive
> languages (although I can't remember what they are).
>
>
>
> Platt said:
> After all, the MOQ is an SOM document based on SOM reasoning. ...I fully
> agree with Bo's insight that the SOM and the intellectual level are one and
> the same. .., the MOQ is the best S/O answer I've found yet.
>
> Pirsig replied:
> I think this conclusion undermines the MOQ,..  The MOQ is in opposition to
> subject-object metaphysics. To say that it is a part of that system which it
> opposes sounds like a dismissal. ... I see a lowering of the quality of the
> MOQ itself if you follow this path of subordinating it to that which it
> opposes.
>
>
>
>
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