I don't think of inorganic static quality as being "prior to" organic, but more
like being "underneath." I see the developement of Pirsig's system as follows:
energy patterns into particles, particles pattern into atoms, atoms into
molecules, molecules into chemistry, chemistry into biology, biology into living
organisms, into population, into society, into intellectual society. All these
layers having an independence of their own, but in the same right depending upon
the underlying pattern.
Like Pirsig's analogy of the computer: software layered on top of hardware;
each independent of, and dependent upon each other. Hardware does not function
without software, and software doesn't function without hardware, but each is
independent of the other. And possessing qualites not inherent within the other,
but at the same time based within the other.
Where is this email message within your computer? It's there, but just try to
dismantle primary memory and find it :)
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