[MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

[Steven Peterson]

Hi Joe,


On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Joseph  Maurer <jhmau at comcast.net> wrote:

> Emotions are DQ only.

On the contrary in LC Pirsig says, "The MOQ sees emotions as a
biological response to quality..."

As I see it it emotions play the role on the biological level that
carbon plays on the inorganic level and language plays on the social
level in being that pattern that offers the versatility and stability
needed for the next level to evolve. Now that's just my view, and I
don't know whether Pirsig would agree or disagree, but your statement
about emotions being DQ rather than some type of pattern is
specifically contradicted by Pirsig. Whatever you were talking about
in your last post just isn't the philosophy of RMP, aka the MOQ.

Best,
Steve