Dan, all
The reason why I said inorganic patterns have value only as extensions
of biological patterns is that this way the inorganic level has some
value, but it also has necessarily less value than the biological level.
This is required by Pirsig.
If I drop the idea that an inorganic pattern has value as the extension
of a biological pattern, the model doesn't explain inorganic value at
all. If I adopt the idea that an inorganic pattern may inherently have
value, the model might result in a situation in which the inorganic
level has more value than the biological level, which is disallowed by
Pirsig.
Inorganic patterns may have value so that their value is an intellectual
pattern, such as an estimate of how much something should cost. But that
value is another kind of value than the one modeled by my theory and
they can't necessarily be compared to each other just like that.
Regards,
Tuk
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