[MD] Why are things called patterns?

[David Harding]

Hi Craig, 

How do you know that? It is known through experience yes, but what you are communicating to me now are ideas, not experience. It is only, our unique human minds which can recognise these patterns.  This is in line with Pirsig's quote that it is ideas which create what we know as inorganic patterns.

"The MOQ says that Quality comes first, which produces ideas, which produce what we know as matter." - Lila's Child. 

-David. 


On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 4:55 PM, craigerb at comcast.net wrote:

> [David]
> > The reason we call them this is because they are only ever recognised as patterns *because*
> > of our intellect. They only exist *because* of our intellect.
> > 
> 
> 
> I don't think this is Pirsig's view. Inorganic patterns (iron filings) recognize other inorganic 
> patterns (magnets); biological patterns (predators) recognize the patterns of their prey.
> Craig
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