[MD] Intellectual Level

[Platt Holden]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Carl" <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Intellectual Level


> Platt,
> 
> I thought Pirsig said somewhere that higher patterns are DQ to lower.
> 
> And if he didn't, he should have.  Because they demonstrably are.
> 
> John

John, 

I guess you mean DQ created the levels. No doubt about that. DQ is
the force of evolutionary creation, the origin of all static values
that we call "the world." Now, only a living being can respond to 
DQ.  Intellectual patterns, social patterns, biological patterns, and 
inorganic patterns need not apply. Pirsig makes that clear: "And 
beyond that is an even more compelling reason; societies and thoughts  
and principles themselves are no more than sets of static patterns.
These patterns can't by themselves perceive or adjust to Dynamic Quality. 
Only a  living being can do that "( Lila, 13).

.Platt 
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