JOHN:
"Dynamic quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality." "Static
quality ... always contains a component of memory." Pirsig saw this division
into dynamic and static as fundamental to his metaphysics, yet it lacks
clarity. In this polarity he seems to be addressing the question of how
dynamic experiences of quality are preserved or integrated into the ongoing
lives of organisms.
ROGER:
I agree with this last statement.
Avid:
I don't.
Again John treats it as if there are Organisms [on the Biological level]
that own the SQ.
Big mistake. Whatever you call Organism is in my eyes [and in RMP eyes too]
a Biological SPQ, meaning it is also a static pattern of quality in its
entity. So how the transition is made DQ >SPQ is not of the organism but in
any possible level, including the organism itself.
I agree however that memory is a wrong choice of a word, because it suggests
an owner. Code, or [theoretical code] could be a better one [even this is a
value statement].
To
and don't forget to be gentle
Avid
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