[MD] Valuing Bodvar's SIM (BSIM)

[Mary]

Well put, Bo!

> 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.
> 
[Bo]
> 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.
> 
[DMB]
> > What is that something, exactly? What's the problem?
> 
[Bo]
> 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..
>