> Thats another idea which zones me out. At about that time, I
> was reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
> That passage where Pirsig is pondering Quality and totally
> wigs, well, I felt like I knew wherewithal he spoke.
>
> spike
Yeah, he made a big deal about his inability to define quality. Today we have
google to tell us: "A high quality Internet resource is one that meets the
information needs of the user."
Quality: How Do You Define It
http://www.qualitydigest.com/html/qualitydef.html
My favorite:
Quality: The totality of features and characteristics of a product or service
that bears on its ability to satisfy given needs.
No matter how convulsive the enigma, self-organization somehow insinuates
itself to produce a recognizable pattern. Sometimes it seems like intelligence
infuses all of existence... saving human brains for last.
τΏτ
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
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