Bodvar and all MOQers:
I hardly know what to say to a MOQer that disagrees with the author. But
here are a few thoughts. I can only pray that they might begin to dislodge
your demon. er, ghost.
It seems to me that saying the intellectual level is identical to SOM is
like saying that Newtonian physics is identical to science. It gives too
much power to a system that has some worth, but that has been surpassed by
larger systems. The MOQ goes beyond SOM and corrects its flaws by embedding
in a larger framework. It seems evolutionary advances work that way.
The code of art doesn't refer to a 5th static level. No such thing yet
exists and any talk of such a thing is sheer speculation. The code of art is
about the relationship between DQ and all static patterns at all levels.
The SOM ghost appears everywhere because its not just an intellectual level
philosophy. It is embedded in the very structure of language, which is at
the social level. Like all intellectual level constructs, SOM is culturally
derived, even if SOM can't see that.
(In fact, the subject/object split is so deeply imbedded in the social level
that I suspect it might even stem from biology. Perhaps it seems inescapable
because it is related to the way biological sense organs work.)
I think your tendency to scold anyone who makes reference to mind or matter
goes too far. The MOQ does not even try to eliminate mind and matter. It
simply re-frames them in a larger context, one that has a duality of it own:
Dynamic and static quality. And since subjects and object are totally
embedded in the language it is impossible to speak without them.
I have a hunch that you reject the idea that the MOQ is a description of a
mystical reality and this is what has prompted you to create a solution, a
solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. This non-existent problem
is only created by your rejection of Pirsig's mysticism.
Respectfully,
The exorcist. :-)
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