[MD] LC Comments

[Mary]

Hi Magnus,

IMHO these are excellent insights!  Thank you for posting.  

[Magnus]

> What I was trying to explain with the house example (and with the
> broken
> computer) is that a thing that possesses a certain type of patterns
> must
> be supported by all lower patterns *at that very instant*. Whether some
> other patterns have once supported it by building it is completely
> irrelevant.
...
At one
> instant, the computer was working and supported intellectual patterns.
> The next moment it didn't work anymore. That means that some supporting
> pattern failed, which caused a snowball effect so that the intellectual
> patterns vanished as well.
...
> Do you now understand what I mean? Do you understand that a computer
> that supports intellectual patterns must be supported by all lower
> levels at all times, otherwise it doesn't work?
...
> Because subject and object is created by the Quality event.
> And a Quality event is of one the levels, either intellectual, social,
> biological or inorganic.
> So, at each inorganic quality event, there's a subject and an object.
> At each biological quality event, there's a subject and an object.
> At each social quality event, there's a subject and an object.
> At each intellectual quality event, there's a subject and an object.
> 
> If Pirsig were telling the truth and all intellectual and social
> patterns were subjective and all biological and inorganic patterns were
> objective, then the only possible quality events would be:
> 
> intellectual-biological
> intellectual-inorganic
> social-inorganic
> social-biological
> 
> That's what's wrong.