Keith wrote:
"If the baby ignores
this force of Dynamic Quality it can be speculated that he will become
mentally retarded, but if he is normally attentive to Dynamic Quality he
will soon begin to notice differences and then correlations between the
differences and then repetitive patterns of the correlations" (*Lila*,
chapter 9). So there are static patterns in Dynamic Quality? Static quality
within Dynamic Quality? How can something be dynamic and static, changing
and unchanging, in flux and fixed at the same time? I smell a mucky
contradiction here."
Clark writes:
As I interpret this passage:
If the baby is normally perceptive of the impulses acting on him he will
respond in some way. I take Pirsig to mean that the baby is too young to
have a coherent response to the DQ stimulus. As the baby matures and
becomes capable of connected thought processes he will begin to extract his
own static quality from the original DQ or whatever the current DQ happens
to be. There is no set pattern of static quality contained in the DQ. Each
individual will draw his/her own pattern of static quality from a given set
of DQ stimuli. The static quality does not exist until an entity capable of
responding statically observes the DQ. Normally the sq will impose a
different set of stimuli for each observer whether it be a living entity or
a previously established set of sq. As I interpret the interaction between
DQ and sq it is in a constantly ongoing state of flux with DQ being the
subliminal function and sq being the state of new awareness deriving from
the DQ stimulus. Again, the sq derived from an instantaneous state of DQ
will be peculiar to each entity.
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