[MD] Valuing Bodvar's SIM (BSIM)

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DMB

15 July :

Mati said:
> ...What Bo points out is that SOM creates a distortion of understanding
> reality, something Pirsig seems to really tease out in ZMM.  One of the
> distortions is that these thought patterns related to how we view
> ourselves via SOM. It is a nasty game of chasing your tail, but from my
> very humble perspective SOL or now SIM, stop us from doing that. 

dmb says:
> Ron asked you to explain how SOM or SIM stops us from doing this? I'd
> also like to know what "this" is. It seems Bo's equation is supposed
> to save us from something. 

It is of course the MOQ that "stops us" from using SOM as our frame 
of reference, but the weak interpretation renders MOQ impotent by its 
disastrous 4th.level which is SOM's "mind" in a Q-disguise. This the 
strong interpretation puts right by making intellect what it was meant to 
be (in ZAMM) namely SOM stripped down to the S/O distinction. 
Thereby the MOQ regains its strength and mows down all SOM-
induced paradoxes.      

> What is that something, exactly? What's the problem? 

The problem is the "weak interpreters" who postulate that the MOQ is 
an expansion of the intellectual level which is impossible because Q-
intellect is MOQ's property, nothing that the MOQ can fit inside or 
"expand". What you mean is an expansion of MIND and if mind is 
back SOM is back and the MOQ is shot.. 

Bodvar