[MD] On Pirsig's letter to Paul Turner

Tuukka Virtaperko mail at tuukkavirtaperko.net
Fri Jul 15 06:26:56 PDT 2016


Dan, all

The reason why I said inorganic patterns have value only as extensions 
of biological patterns is that this way the inorganic level has some 
value, but it also has necessarily less value than the biological level. 
This is required by Pirsig.

If I drop the idea that an inorganic pattern has value as the extension 
of a biological pattern, the model doesn't explain inorganic value at 
all. If I adopt the idea that an inorganic pattern may inherently have 
value, the model might result in a situation in which the inorganic 
level has more value than the biological level, which is disallowed by 
Pirsig.

Inorganic patterns may have value so that their value is an intellectual 
pattern, such as an estimate of how much something should cost. But that 
value is another kind of value than the one modeled by my theory and 
they can't necessarily be compared to each other just like that.

Regards,

Tuk




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