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alexr_rwx1) The first class is aesthetic: you may find the whole enterprise uninteresting, dry, yucky, or overly focused on the bizarre western/phallogocentric/dualistic notion of the observer as separate from an objectified environment.
2) The second class of problems has just one member: it is the state of affairs in which not all published articles are freely available online from the personal homepage of the author.
2) The second class of problems has just one member: it is the state of affairs in which not all published articles are freely available online from the personal homepage of the author.
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Date: 2006-05-01 10:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-01 11:01 am (UTC)Seriously, though, it seems we handle this one by intuitive, heuristic means... it's maybe not so much of a problem as Pirsig makes it out to be; somehow, we still make decisions, even given the staggering number of options available to us. Given an infinite number of hypotheses, what will you have for breakfast today?
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Date: 2006-05-01 05:00 pm (UTC)Damn you. IHOP's syrups were giving me enough trouble already.
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Date: 2006-05-01 06:51 pm (UTC)Now, I don't think we need to build a school of philosophy to solve this problem. It seems pretty obvious that the biological process inside our heads generate some small set of possible hypotheses and we pick the one that satisfies us (chemically, I suppose).
Pirsig wants to connect the chemical satisfaction in our brains and some innate "quality" in the object (sometimes a concrete object, sometimes something abstract). I don't understand why this must exist and it seems hard to defend.
As an aside, I'm tired of people demanding that aesthetically pleasing things be propped up by some sort of quality or otherwise subjective measure (deemed objective by Those Who Know). I want to like things because I like them, not because people call them art or because they were taken upside-down, at night and with a ridiculous f-stop.
Also, the cat is flatuating.