Hugo Fjelsted Alroe (alroe@vip.cybercity.dk)
Wed, 3 Dec 1997 15:19:57 +0100
Dave,on your quote:
“ All life is a migration of static patterns of quality toward Dynamic
Quality” Lila pp 139.
I would put it the other way around, or, I think this misses the
complementary part of dynamic quality getting actualized in form of static
structures. I take Dynamic Quality to be both 'source' and 'freedom';
historically Dynamic Quality was the source of every static structure
around, and dynamically (NOW) Dynamic Quality is the freedom, the
indeterministic aspect of our world. Pirsig put Dynamic Quality both above
and beneath the levels of static patterns, so I gather my view is no
different from his, this sentence just highlights one aspect. Just a thought.
Dave, you wrote further:
"So I will make this assertion about those elements of reality we call now
call “objects” in MoQ all will have aspects of their total reality that
lies in each of the four static levels."
>>
>Is the last line true?
I can see your point that 'objects', being intellectual constructs, will be
part of the intellectual level, and - us being inherently biological and
social too - they "have aspects of their total reality that lies in each of
the four static levels". But this does not mean that there is, or was,
nothing just inorganic, something non-intellectual, before we formed our
view of the world. I would say that we cannot do without this naturalistic
or realistic or evolutionary view of the world. But your idea goes straight
to the heart of the idealistic worldview.
Hugo
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