In a message dated 7/2/02 8:51:02 PM GMT Daylight Time, pholden@sc.rr.com
writes:
> I need not remind you (but I will anyway) that "mind" is a perfectly
> legitimate word in the MOQ lexicon. Pirsig uses it frequently in LILA and
> speaks of the "intelligence of the mind," referring to the intellectual
> level.
>
> Platt
>
Hellooooo!
Pirsig does indeed use terms such as mind and substance but with proviso?
Mind becomes a jungle of static patterning and substance becomes Inorganic
patterning.
Pirsig's use of the term mind agrees with those who have been arguing that it
is culturally derived.
The central problem is that substance metaphysics after Descartes is a two
tier metaphysics. Now we have a four tier metaphysics and mind is a more
subtle proposition in the MOQ.
Squonk.
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