tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post8613665619211015368..comments2024-03-02T00:44:55.128-08:00Comments on Pleiotropy: Robert M. Pirsig's Zen shot to piecesBjørn Østmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post-13990079916769453392014-12-10T07:42:41.931-08:002014-12-10T07:42:41.931-08:00What does the territory of the map's surface l...What does the territory of the map's surface look like?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17785211594587603878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post-64384679915484810592013-09-17T20:45:46.310-07:002013-09-17T20:45:46.310-07:00@Bjørn Østman:
I think this is what Pirsig meant:...@Bjørn Østman:<br /><br />I think this is what Pirsig meant:<br /><br />"We are suspended in language." Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived.” -Niels Bohrintothewoodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13146397951217632860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post-42387746996339731622010-05-02T21:23:03.328-07:002010-05-02T21:23:03.328-07:00@DM:
you are crazy and need professional help!
C...@DM:<br /><br />you are crazy and need professional help!<br /><br />Cheers ArendDr. Arend Hintzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01939871283783922116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post-50945665654969104792010-05-02T07:05:44.853-07:002010-05-02T07:05:44.853-07:00@DM:
you are crazy and need professional help!
C...@DM:<br /><br />you are crazy and need professional help!<br /><br />Cheers ArendDr. Arend Hintzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01939871283783922116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post-41569458233003280152010-04-30T15:36:39.121-07:002010-04-30T15:36:39.121-07:00DM (aka Dave Mabus, I'm told), you comment was...DM (aka Dave Mabus, I'm told), you comment was off-topic and has thus been removed. Besides, we all know already that you hate atheists, particularly James Randi. Now get lost.Bjørn Østmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post-15135080964669705462010-04-29T13:51:24.770-07:002010-04-29T13:51:24.770-07:00so we all fall down on that point here and there!
...<i>so we all fall down on that point here and there!</i><br /><br />Speak for yourself.<br /><br />Could it be the schizophrenia? You got it?<br /><br />But okay, jokes aside... speak for yourself.<br /><br />;pBjørn Østmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post-62698310970570149362010-04-29T11:43:50.351-07:002010-04-29T11:43:50.351-07:00A phrase that keeps cropping up for me lately, whe...A phrase that keeps cropping up for me lately, whether it be in regards to some interesting existential conversations I have had with a True Believing Christian co-worker, or in regards to the Fodor/Piatelli-Palmini <i>What Darwin Got Wrong</i> travesty, or in regards to Pirsig's mental error highlighted in this post:<br /><br /><b>The map is not the territory.</b><br /><br />kthxbye. hehehehe<br /><br />(On a side note, in the existential conversations with the co-worker, it was I who needed to be reminded that the map was not the territory, not him... so we all fall down on that point here and there! Like you say, if such an error is good enough for Plato, I guess it's no surprise us modern joes might make the same error from time to time....)James Sweethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17212877636980569324noreply@blogger.com