From: Matthew Stone (mattstone_2000@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 11:23:15 GMT
Matt said:
> Specifically to your query, I don't think the MoQ
> can "survive on only one
> level - the material." I say this because I take
> one of the innovations of
> the MoQ to be that we shouldn't think of the world
> as either material OR
> ideas OR spiritual OR valuistic.
But if a thought could be analysed as being the
movement of chemicals within one's brain (I know it's
not that simple) couldn't you apply the MoQ to human
tissue in the same way as you would to slate molecules
or magnets and filings, thus casting the intellecutual
level in the mould of the material. It's immensely
difficult to comprehend, but not because it is
impossible or illogical, but simply because the human
is a hyper-complex material structure. It is this
hyper-complexity that has thrown up all the problems
in philosophy in the past - e.g. reality seeming real,
an illusion, the supposed autonomy of human
rationality.
I know Pirsig never mentions his purpose being to
create a postmodern 'metaphysics' (if that's not a
contradiction), or a subject-free epistemic model, but
I'm really interested in these things, and Pirsig gets
closer than most to doing so.
Matt S
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