--- SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com wrote: > 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.
>
Squonk + Platt,
I reckon mind is a collective noun. Like flock and
pride. i.e. A flock of geese, a pride of lions, a mind
of thoughts. No goose, no flock. No thought, no mind.
just a piece of my mind,
André
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