Excellence and the Platypus Paradox | The Mike Hill Series | Episode 8 (WiM155)

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action.

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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Seeing Quality or Excellence as the Ultimate Reality
00:06:07 Human Egotism and Our Failure to Understand the Universe…
00:09:01 The Connection Between Quality and Resolution
00:12:52 Money as the Most Dynamic Static Representation of Value
00:14:59 An Excellent Performance Exists as the Bleeding Edge of Order and Chaos
00:17:23 The Pioneers Taking Arrows in the Back in Pursuit of Excellence
00:20:02 NYDIG
00:21:10 Analogizing Metaphysical Perspective to Selecting the Right Map for the Job
00:24:55 Metaphysics of Quality and its Role in the Destruction of Moral Relativism
00:28:59 Introducing Pirsig’s Platypus Paradox…
00:32:12 The Platypus Blew Out Biological Categories and Led to a Procrustean Bed
00:35:51 Light as a Phenomenological Representation of Pure Dynamic Quality
00:38:03 “The Whole World as a Marketplace of Kingdoms within Kingdoms within Kingdoms…”
00:40:19 Life as a Strategy Stack with an Overarching Aim of Territoriality
00:43:37 Property as an Abstract Expression of the Extended Human Phenotype

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