Mental Patterns Do Not Originate Out Of

Robert M. Pirsig

Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. they originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. and, as anthropologists know so well, what a mind thinks is as dominated by biological patterns as social patterns are dominated by biological patterns and as biological patterns are dominated by inorganic patterns. there is no direct scientific connection between mind and matter. as the atomic scientist, niels bohr, said, "we are suspended in language." our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived.