Martin Striz (striz1@MARSHALL.EDU)
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 06:54:25 +0100
I didn't notice he had a webpage, but after posting a message to the
newsgroup asking him about it, I received this message from him earlier
today:
absolutely. I'm assuming that if you've read Lila you've also read
Pirsig's previous work too. His work has had an extremely profound
influence on me. My uncle bought those books for me when I was much
younger, and I've read them repeatedly.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: striz1@MARSHALL.EDU [SMTP:striz1@MARSHALL.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 10:46 PM
> To: bailey9@users.marshall.edu
> Subject: Re: paradox in religion
>
>
> > There is an interesting study of paradox in a book by Dougas
> Hofstader called
> "GEB" effectionately, or
> >properly "Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid". First let
> me offer
> an unequivocal recommendation
> >for this book. Paradox usually comes about when a statement or idea
> spans two
> logical "layers", if you
> >will. Heres a rudimentary diagram that I use frequently:
> >
> >
> >---------------------------
> > Intellectual?
> >---------------------------
> > Social (gleeful colonies of organisms)
> >---------------------------
> > Biological (organisms)
> >--------------------------- (certainly more substrata in here)
> > Physical (atoms)
> >---------------------------
> >
>
> I was just browsing through this newsgroup when I came across these
> categories.
> Did you make them up or did you get them from Hofstader's book?
> Also, have
> you ever read "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals" by Robert Pirsig? I'd
> really like
> to know because it corresponds to a certain philosophy I've learned
> about.
>
> Martin
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It's odd that someone who holds such a unique set of beliefs could be
walking by me everyday on my way to class and for four years I'd never
know.
martin
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