From: Michael Hamilton (thethemichael@gmail.com)
Date: Tue May 24 2005 - 11:05:00 BST
Hello again,
Luckily I just stumbled across the relevant chapter of Lila's Child, so I'm
now aware that I'm doing something "dangerous" by trying to tie DQ to an
existing concept. I definitely need to clarify my suggestion.
By "Time", I wasn't referring to the concepts we have of before and after,
or the arbitary ways in which we divide time into minutes and seconds and so
forth. If it's even possible, I was referring to time in a concept-free way,
as the thoroughly empirical and undefined Big Long Now, equivalent to
Pirsig's wordier description "the first slice of undifferentiated
experience". I guess that Pirsig's description is much better, because
"Time" has a monstrous amount of philosophical, conceptual and scientific
baggage attached to it.
However, I still think that the MOQ leads to all sorts of interesting
thoughts about time, with the proviso that these thoughts always involve
intellectual conceptualisations. Time is the constant interaction of static
patterns, though calling it "interaction" is misleading, because the
interaction itself empirically precedes the static patterns. The success of
a static pattern in this constant interaction (time) determines its quality.
And so on...
Regards,
Mike
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