[MD] The other side of reified

[Mary]

[dmb]
You can't say that reification is "interdependent with the conceptualization
process" or simply "conceptualization reifies" AND also say that concepts
are necessary to act in the world.

[Mary]
Why not?

The human brain is nothing more than the product of the evolution of
Pirsig's static patterns of value.  Static patterns of value interact with
one another in static ways.  It would be a leap to expect the static brain
to function in a non-static way, would it not?  Conceptualization is no
doubt a high quality STATIC pattern of value.  It is a useful and necessary
tool for interacting with other static patterns.  It does not follow that it
would be necessary for it to develop transcendence.  If it were even a
"tendency" of the human mind to flexibly transcend the static, then DQ would
not be undefined.  Capisce?