[MD] Emptiness & Quantum Mechancics

[Andre Broersen]

  John to Andre:

Pray tell, Andre, how much  does your creative misspelling reveal about YOUR
agenda,...

Andre:
I'd like to get 'inside the head' of Mr. Pirsig, a bit like a biographer tries to get 'inside'
his/her subject, so when I try to get into the MOQ and find that I not understand certain parts
I try to find out what it is about me that stops/prevents me from understanding.
I do not place the responsibility for this at the author's feet, nor do I bend meanings or dismiss
sections to make them fit my (preconceived)ideas.

John:
Radical Empiricism, I'm a bit hazy on.  You should ask that question of
those interested in that framework.  I'm not enough of a philosopher to
understand Rad. Emp. and it's relation to Existentialism, to be able to give
the trumpet that certain sound.  You should probably ask dmb about RE.
That's more his bag, eh?

Andre:
I appreciate your frankness but am a bit confused about what you say in the above. The MOQ is
arrived at through radical empiricism. Without an understanding of this it would seem, to me,
extremely difficult to get a grasp on the MOQ, and for that matter, those concepts named 'truth'
(a high quality intellectual pattern) and 'emptiness' or 'nothingness' ('There is nothing in the
sense of no 'thing', that is, 'no object', and the Buddhists use nothingness in this way, but the
term Dynamic is more in keeping within the quotation, 'Within nothingness there is a great working'
from the Zen master,Katagiri Roshi') Anthony's PhD, p 35.

Hence my confusion re Marsha's insistence that all is unpatterned...bla bla...whilst maintaining that
the intellectual level is SOM.