Hettinger (hettingr@iglou.com)
Wed, 12 Nov 1997 04:30:12 +0100
Bodvar Skutvik wrote:
<snip>
> There are moments when I become a little scared of what Pirsig has
> released. He says the quality version of physics won't change the
> settings of any scientific measuring apparatus, but will it be a
> motivation for doing research in a MOQ steeped culture? Isn't
> science built upon the notion of a detached subject viewing objective
> reality? Phaedrus of ZMM found that there are an unlimited number of
> theories that fit ANY observation (the implication of this is
> sobering), and Phćdrus of LILA says that science is just as
> value-dependent as anything else (science abhors 'value'
> as you know. Its even worse than 'purpose'). Well, who is there to
> answer. ("Som man roper i skogen fâr man svar!" - heter det pâ
> norsk)
<snip>Just a comment. I don't think the motivation for doing science will change
by adopting Pirsig. The "values" that science frees itself from are the values
inherent in the social/biological spectrum. The values that science is dependent
on (and doesn't admit to because it doesn't have MoQ to define the difference)
are the values inherent in the social/intellectual spectrum.
Nevertheless, the process of a person removing him- or herself from the traps of
the biological/social world to use the tools of the intellectual is powerful
enough it ought to continue, and that step-stool to Dynamic Quality will continue
to reap its own reward.
IMHO. :-)
Maggie
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