Friday, August 14, 2009

Ah! maybe . . . still thinking . . .

a question:
Is the aesthetic experience identical to "Quality" as examined in "Zen and the Art" ( Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (P.S.) by Robert M. Pirsig)?
It very well may be. If it is not this project grows without bound. If it is, the project is still enormous. Pirsig leaves quality experiential and otherwise undefined. The "We know it when when we find it." definition is a very slippery thing.
It is also very real.
If I consider it as a statistical space it appears to have multiple maxima. Most of the aesthetic fights I have encountered have been between believers in different peaks.

Competing orthodoxies

examples

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