From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 20:23:05 GMT
DMB said:
I mean, I like to think of things like strings, quarks, neutrons, atoms and
molecules as little manifestations of consciousness. Its not the kind of
consciousness we humans can easily relate to, but if preferences are
expressed at the inorganic level, then a sense of value goes all the way
down.
DM: Me too. All the way down. The thing I find disappointing about
Pirsig's ideas on value is that I think that it could have been more
linked to a shift from the view of a mechanistic cosmos to one of
a process/active cosmos. If activity and event is the heart os cosmic
process
then the question has to arise of how activity opperates, why things go one
way rather than another, how the enourmous range of possibility is reduced
to this
finite world (think of your own life and all the things you could have done
but reduced
to what you actually do/did with your life).Value is linked to this
activity. Why this life
rather than that, why this cosmos, this particular history? Value is the
moving towards
one possibility (or bowl of food) rather than another, each decision takes
the cosmos one
particular way, abandoning many other possible worlds, this has to link
closely with
all things Eros. Eros brings together what has been split apart, holding out
the prospect
of jumping across the SO divide, the theme of Wagner's Tristan and
Isolde -something of
very high Quality indeed.
regards
David M
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