first, i want to say that Pirsig's MOQ applies to our experienced
sensations and cognitive constructions a "static" metaphsyics with which
we have a comprehensive "measure" of reality, morality, and [the godhead
of this "interpretation"] quality.
so dealing with so many "suppose"s and "if"s somewhat defeats the purpose
of an applicable, "metaphysical" interpretation (as Pirsig's).
that's enough of my deconstructive criticism, however. about cloning, i'd
say that a facsimile of me (memory included) would be a different human
being. like in the movie Multiplicity, starring Michael Keaton, the clone
would soon understand (much like a toddler begins to understand) what
happened (that the clone was actually cloned), and this "divergence" (as
Horse pointed out) demonstrates the separatedness of these "two
originals".
Magnus questioned how the MOQ with DQ and the four levels of static
quality fit in to the picture. copying static elements makes sense
logicly, thus the discussion on DNA replication. copying Dynamic elements
seems to me to be a contradiction of terms. note that if we talk about
our psyches, our souls, or our "being", we are talking about something
that contains static elements but is driven by Dynamic Quality. exact
copies of such things are logical chimeras, since Dynamic Quality is not
static, and therefore not copiable.
finally, Mary brought to light the perspective anthropologists might
share: in a sense, biological reproduction (procreation) is playing this
game of facsimile. humankind keeps on making more humans. at the simple
level of one bacterium, it is simple to say that it is almost exactly the
same bacterium as its foreparent a thousand generations back. likewise,
in light of human complexities, at least at the inorganic and biologic
levels, we individual sapiens (like me) are facsimilies of homo sapiens
who looked up at the stars ten thousand years ago and wondered (human DNA
is human DNA). only the social changes and intellectual constructs
differentiate us (a result of the driving force of Dynamic Quality).
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