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These 12 Photos were taken by Robert Pirsig’s very own camera, as he Chris, Sylvia and John made that 1968 epic voyage upon which The Travel Narrative for Mr Pirsig’s ‘‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‘‘ (ZMM) book was based. Taken in 1968 along what is now known as ‘‘The ZMM Book Travel Route ‘‘ each photo scene is actually ‘‘Written-Into ‘‘ Mr. Pirsig’s book => ‘‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‘‘ (ZMM)

Author Robert Pirsig’s Own 12 Color Photos, Of His 1968 ZMM Travel Route Trip: Each Is Written-Into His ZMM Book. AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn 2nd Down.

Each of the 832 photographs in these Four Albums show a scene described in the book ‘‘Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‘‘. Each photo was especially researched and photographed along the ZMM Route to show a specific ZMM Book Travel Description Passage: This passage is shown in quote marks below the respective photo. As you look at each of these photos, you will be viewing scenes similar to those that author Pirsig, Chris, and the Sutherlands might have seen, on that epic voyage, upon which the book ‘‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‘‘ was based. Thus it is, that these 832 photographs are ‘‘A Color Photo Illustrated Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‘‘. Indeed ‘‘A Photo Show Book‘‘ for ZMM. Sights & Scenes Plus Full Explanation.

My ZMM Travel Route Research Findings, Are A Page-By-Page, Color Photo Illustrated ZMM. AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn Top Album.

Each of these 28 photos are Full Circle Panorama Photos Seven-Feet-Wide. They were taken along the Travel Route of the book ‘‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance‘‘. They show a 360 degree view, made by stitching together eight photos. These Panoramic Photos, complement and add to those of my Photo Album ABOVE named  => ‘‘A Color Photo Illustrated ZMM Book, With Travel Route Sights & Scenes Explained‘‘.

ZMM Travel Route Research PANORAMIC PHOTOS 7ft wide! Henry Gurr, 2002 ZMM Research Trip. AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn 2nd Down.

This album shows what I saw  on my RETURN trip home (San Francisco California to Aiken South Carolina), Summer 2002. These 55 photos were taken along the Route of the “1849er’s Gold Rush to California” (In Reverse Direction). After I completed my ZMM Research, I RETURNED home by way of the Route of the ‘49’s Gold Rush. This route included the route of the “California Gold Rush Trail” (in Nevada & California), as well as portions of the Oregon Trail' all the way into Missouri. These 1849er’s Travel Route Photos, were taken AFTER I took those Photos shown in the above Album named “A Color Photo Illustrated ZMM Book, With Travel Route Sights & Scenes Explained”.

Henry Gurr’s 2002 Research Photos: California Gold Rush Trail & Oregon Trail. AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn 3rd Down.

Each of these seven 360 degree  Full Circle Panoramic Photos were taken along the route of the Gold Rush ‘1849’ers from Missouri to California. Each is 7 foot wide! These Panorama Photos complement and add to those of my Photo Album above named  => "Henry Gurr’s Research Photos: California Gold Rush Trail & Pioneer Oregon Trail".   AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn Top Album.

California Gold RushTrail & Pioneer Oregon Trail PANORAMIC PHOTOS 7ft wide! Henry Gurr, 2002 ZMM RETURN Trip. AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn Top Album.

Enjoy 225 Photos of Flowers & Red Wing Blackbirds Along the ZMM Route. This Album of  Color Photos shows every Flower and Red Wing Blackbird (RWBB) that I could “get within my camera sights!!”  This was done in honor of the ZMM Narrator's emphasis of Flowers and Redwing Blackbirds in the book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. I was very surprised to find RWBB's the entire travel route from Minneapolis to San Francisco.

In Honor of ZMM Narrator’s Emphasis: 225 Color Photos of ZMM Travel Route Flowers & Red Wing Blackbirds. AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn 5th Down.

These 165 photos show ‘‘Tourist Experiences’‘ the ZMM Traveler may have along the ZMM Route.

My 2002 ZMM Travel Route Experience: By Henry Gurr ZMMQ Site Master. AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn 3rd Down.

Starting Monday 19 July 2004, Mark Richardson traveled the ZMM Route, on his trusty Jakie Blue motorcycle. Mark made these 59 interesting photographs of what he saw along the way. As he toured, he pondered his own life destiny (past present future), and sought to discover his own deeper personal meaning of the book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.

Mark Richardson’s 19 July 2004, ZMM Route Trip & Photo Journal. AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn 5th Down.

The former home (~1968) of John and Sylvia Sutherland, at 2649 South Colfax Ave, Minneapolis MN, shown in 18 photos. Despite John's quite negative disparaging statements in ZMM, about their home back in Minneapolis, this same house, shown in these photos, looks to us like a wonderful, beautiful home along a very nice, quiet, shady street, in a perfectly fine Minneapolis Neighborhood!

John & Sylvia Sutherland of “The ZMM Book”: 18Potos Of Former Minneapolis Home>2649 South Colfax Ave, AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn 4th Down.

A 36 Photo Tour of Two University of South Carolina Buildings:  a) Etherredge Performing Arts Center Lobby + b) Ruth Patrick Science Education Center, some of which show “Built In Educational Displays

Site Master Henry Gurr's Campus: Photos Of Two Buildings (of 32 total), University of South Carolina Aiken. AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn 2nd Down.

A 105 Photo Tour of Science Building
At The University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken SC.
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And b) The Rarely Seen Equipment Service Room & Dungeon.
Site Master Henry Gurr's Campus: Photos Of Science Building, One (of 32 total Buildings) At The University of South Carolina Aiken. AFTER the 5 Albums Comes Up, Read & ClickOn 5th Down.

IThese 15 photos show persons & scenes, related to how we got this ZMMQ WebSite going, back in ~2002. Included are "screen captures" of our software systems in use. A few of these photos show the screen views of what we were “looking at,” some including brief notes & hints on how to get around some of the problems we experienced.

Software We Used ~2002, In Creating and Maintaining This ZMMQ WebSite: Illustrated & Explained. AFTER the 5 Albums Cones Up, Read & ClickOn Top Albun.

Photos of Faculty, Administrators, and Students who were at Montana State College ~ 1956-1960. These persons, especially Sarah Vinke, were faculty (or colleagues of) ZMM author Robert Pirsig, during his teaching (1959 – 1961), as Professor of English, at Montana State College, Bozeman MT.

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KEY WORDS: Patten Recognition, All Is Partial Fit Problem Solving, Generated Constructed Created Problem Solving, Neuroscience, Brain Science, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology of Mind, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Theory, intellectual functions such as: perception awareness attention thought imagination intelligence ideas formation of knowledge memory and working memory judgment evaluation reasoning, Philosophy, Psychology, Spiral learning, Learning Theory, Theory of Mind, Consciousness, Primary Consciousness, Brain, Direct Observation, Thoughts, Single Coherent Holistic Unified, Generated Constructed Created, Solution To Problem, Problem Solving, Sensory Input, Best Respond, Automatic Spontaneous Mental Arrival, Optimal (Best or Near Best) Solutions To Life’s Oncoming Problems. Watch Your Own Mind At Work, Watching & Listening Closely To Students Eureka! Epiphany It Dawned On Me The Light Came On, A Flash of Insight It **AHA**, Light Bulb As In Cartoons OH Now I see it !! Sudden laughter when hit by a joke punch-line, Darwinian Evolution, Evolutionary Development, Brain rapidly, reliably, and accurately, comes up with amazingly correct solutions to life’s oncoming problems, The Flash of Insight as a Research Methodology and Writing Detailed Data Records Of What Observed. Memory, Perception, Insight, and Problem Solving – **AHA**, Teaching, Learning, Perception, Memory, Problem Solving, Insight, Illumination, Creativity, Invention, Discovery, Adaption, Accommodate, Accommodation, Intelligence, Sympathetic-Poetic Associatives = Analogy, Metaphor, Allegory, Simile, Similar, Similarity, Like Seems-like, Looks Like, Likeness, Synonym, Homonym, Deja Vu, Poetic Rhyme, Rhythm, Alliteration, Affinity, Semblance, Resemble, Assonance, Consonance, Idiom, Imagery, Image, Allegory, Trope, Hyperbole, Metonymy, Rhetorical Figures Of Speech, Mind-Brain Physiology, A Gestalt and Gestalt Psychology, Shifting attention from the particular to the whole to see the joint meaning, Mind-Body Problem, Explanatory Gap, Brain Owner’s Manual. …. Fred Reines, Jean Piaget Genetic Psychology, Wolfgang Kohler, Betty Edwards, Tom Cornsweet, Richard L Gregory, Henri Poincaré Sudden Revelation of Correct Most Meaningful Mathematics, Daniel Dennett, ((J J Hopfield Neuron Network Theory Of The Mammalian Brain, Is Necessary To Understood => Our Problem Solving Brain, Automatically, Spontaneously, Generate, Construct, Create Into Conscious Mind )), Owen Barfield In Poetry Felt Change In Consciousness & Evolution of Consciousness, Michael Polanyi Structure of tacit knowing + we perceive & control our actions by integrating our subsidiary awareness into a focal awareness, John K. Sheriff, Robert Pirsig Crystallization Quality & Track of Quality, Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift + Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Ray Bradbury Book Writes Itself.

“But How Do We Know What’s Good? ” [Or ” Best” ?],. .... ” You Just See It. ”

Enthusiasts Of Book ” Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” (ZMM), Will Find Solid Support For What Pirsig Says …. In Henry Gurr’s “Cognitive Theory Of How Our Mind Works” .

Henry Gurr’s “Cognitive Theory Explanation” Is Based On, => A General Problem Solving Brain’s, Automatically & Spontaneously Finding => Optimal, Best Or Near Best, Solutions To Life’s On-Coming Problems.

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To ZMM Enthusiasts

… Pirsig’s ZMM has the beginnings of an “Explanation (Theory) Of How Our Mind Works”: FOR EXAMPLE => “But that which causes us to invent the analogues is Quality. Quality is the continuing stimulus which our environment puts upon us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it.”.

Above, At The Top It Said => "But how do we know what’s good?" [or “Best” ?]
…To See More Examples Of Pirsig’s Beginnings Of A Theory Of Mind =>
1) Click on the blue link below, and after it comes up.
2) Scroll down to and start reading at … Throughout ZMM, Robert Pirsig Provides ….
3) And stop reading at … your Problem Solving Brain, has connected with what is Really There !! ….
Click Here For A Full Listing Of Pirsig ZMM Examples. AFTER This Page Comes Up. Scroll Down To (and start reading) After => … Throughout ZMM, Robert Pirsig Provides …..

…And although Pirsig’s statements, which are effectively how best to use our mind are correct, it is valuable to be able to go deeper and at a more basic level, to understand just why Pirsig is correct,
….AND, this is exactly what my Theory provides.

…Thus I urge you to read further, and as you do so, I certainly hope that my Cognitive Theory will make sense, and be illuminating in its own right.
....But beyond this, it ultimately should help an individual person =>
...... To use their own mind more effectively,
And this alone should make my theory worth your time to learn about it !!
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Based On Direct Observation Of Our Mind At Work =>
… Henry Gurr Offers => A General “Cognitive Theory of How Our Mind Works” , In Which =>
...1) Our Brain, and those of animals, Automatically & Spontaneously seeks and finds optimal solutions, which are best or near best ways, to respond to life’s on-coming life’s problems. (This fits Pirsig’s “Quality” , which is an automatic & spontaneous operation of our mind. See examples below.)
....2) These optimal solutions automatically & spontaneously appear as Mental Arrivals into our Conscious Mind, And then these solutions then guide our successful conscious behavior. (Similarly for animal behavior. And thus a Proper Understanding of Human Mind, should ALSO have interesting and illuminating parallels with the other animal creatures of this world.)
....3) Is specifically consistent with. Evolutionary Biology, both => a) Darwinian evolutionary development of any species AND b) Development of mental abilities, in an individual person, from birth on.
…4) Builds upon the clear implications of “The Neural Network Model” .of Princeton Theoretical Physicist J. J. Hopfield.
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In My General “Cognitive Theory of How Our Mind Works” , Eventually You Will Understand These Components =>
…1.) These above-mentioned Creative Solutions, from UN-Conscious brain processes (as can be directly observed, automatically & spontaneously, come into our Conscious Mind: And, to do this, our “Problem Solving Brain” =>

.a) Uses Previous Optimal, “Best Or Near Best” Problem Solutions, already saved into memory, from which =>
. b) To Find—Build---Generate---Construct---Create: The NEXT Optimal, “Best Or Near Best” Solution, which are then saved to create an even better solution stored into memory,.

….2) Thus the Problem Solving Brain Will Typically And Creatively, Go Beyond Where It Is! And, thus, our brain’s observed ability to find Optimum Solutions (from where it is), means it will AUTOMATICALLY find BETTER from where it is, and hence move to NOVEL .. DE-NOVO .. Solutions (Answers)!!
…3) AND These new Creative Solutions (Answers), are then Automatically Stored Back Into Memory, but at an advanced level, ready for the next oncoming problems of living.
…4) Building on above 3), this is An Upward Spiral, wherein => a) A Brain’s Newly Created Problem Solution is then > b) Stored As New Memory > c) Which means that => These advanced Problem Solutions, newly stored into Memory, are in effect New Learning & Added Knowledge. (See NOTE2).
…5) This “Cognitive Theory Of How Our Mind Works” , will help persons be more effective In Their Daily Lives: And thus is effectively A Brain- Owner’s Manual!
...6) Several times above you see the words “Create” or “Creative” Problem Solving. And from this, you should see that => This Cognitive Theory at heart, shows => How Our “Problem Solving Brain”, Is exactly the Source And The Well Spring, of ALL Hunan Creativity
…7) AND once you know what to watch for: These Sudden Automatic & Spontaneous New Creative Mental Arrivals (into your Conscious Mind), are FUN TO WATCH, as they happen! This may be called “Watching your mind at work!)
…8) These Sudden New Mental Arrivals, as they Pop Into One’s Mind, are especially to be noticed, in the process of writing composition.
'''ATTENTION: THESE IMPORTANT ASPECTS, OF OUR PROBLEM SOLVING BRAIN ARE OBVIOUS!
…But you Must => Pay Attention, And Take The Time To Check-This-Out!! '''
… However, of course, it is only “Obvious” if you know when, where, and how to look . And it is the purpose of this WebPage (and my Cognitive Theory (Explanation) to help you see this “Obvious”, by helping you to Know How To Watch Your Own Mind At Work!!
… But of course, you must know the Full Meaning of this “Obvious”, which again it is the purpose of this WebPage (and my Cognitive Theory (Explanation) to help you see this “Meaning”.
…9) Overall, Be Sure To Notice & Remember => The above statements can be directly observed, moment by moment, in daily life, and thus experimentally establish their truth.
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NOTE1: I’ve used “ALL”, without qualification, because I believe this is the fact of the matter, as may be directly observed.
….In fact I believe all the above “CLUES” 1) thru 10) will stand true to direct observation.
NOTE2: 'ATTENTION: THESE IMPORTANT ASPECTS, OF OUR PROBLEM SOLVING BRAIN ARE OBVIOUS! '
But you Must => Pay Attention, And Take The Time To Check-This-Out!!
… However, of course, it is only “Obvious” if you know when, where, and how to look . And it is the purpose of my Cognitive Theory WebPages (Top 9 Blue Links in Menu at left) to help you see this “Obvious”, by helping you to Know How To Watch Your Own Mind At Work!!
… But of course, you must know the Full Meaning of this “Obvious”, which again it is the purpose of my Cognitive Theory WebPages (Top 9 Blue Links in Menu at left) to help you see this “Meaning”..

NOTE3: Continued from, and building upon. the above 3 thru 7) .=> This “Problem Solution > Memory > Learning, forms a cycle, a regenerative upward spiral of compounded, ever-improved memory => Original Memory > Guides > Perception > Plans > Action > Success > Refine & Improve Memory. This is an optimizing, creative cycle, which achieves learning, refinement of skills, better habits, improved, solidified, updated knowledge, and many more examples.
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From The Above, You Should Understand This => Our Human Ability To See And Know ”What Is Good” , [Or See And Know What Is Best?], Is A Natural & Important Consequence Of Our Problem Solving Brain’s Built-In Ability To =>
… Automatically & Spontaneously Finding => Optimal, Best Or Near Best, Solutions To Life’s On Coming Problems.
This “ability” is both 1) Very important for you to fully understand, 2) But quite hard to put into words.
…Hopefully, you will see & believe this “by Intuition”. Or perhaps, your Problem Solving Brain (with abilities as stated), will actually, in real-life experience, bring this enough times, into your conscious mind, so you will “See And Know ' examples of ”What Is Good” … enough times … that this truth will then be obvious, by your own repeated direct observation!!!
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The Above Ideas May At First Seem Unreasonable, and Thus You Might Promptly Resist and/or Reject:
….And Such Is The Fate Of Most New Theories, Until Such Are Gradually Recognized As Valid .
(See Thomas Kuhn’s book => “The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions”. )

I’m an unknown worker to the study of mind, and of course no match to the range of knowledge or experience professional philosophers or workers in mind. … However, I hope you can accept these new Cognitive Theory ideas from a newcomer, since often a Beginner’s Mind is a VIRTUE, when it comes to new or/and breakthrough ideas.
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Since there is a whole lot more to be said, I will gladly send more information and answer your questions.

To read further, I suggest you investigate my compact explanation, of “A General Cognitive Theory of How Our Mind Works”, Click Here.

Thanking you in advance for considering my ideas, and any reply you may care to make.

PS: 'Similar to the above Owen Barfield’s Evolution Of Consciousness is supported by Henry Gurr’s How Our Mind Works
…Eventually, this will be written up and posted hereby. Send an Email if you want me to hurry up on this.

Sincerely

Henry Gurr,

Professor of Physics Emeritus,
University of South Carolina Aiken,
471 University Parkway,
Aiken South Carolina 29801
HenryG@USCA.edu


A POSTLOG:

Henry Gurr’s Good Friend French Professor Stanley Levine, After Reading The Above, Had These Observations =>

A) As we think about Darwinian Evolution, there is the problems of =>
…1) Why are older people, beyond their years of successful reproductive child-bearing, are still around?
…2) Problem of Aggressive People killing the Peaceful People. (Or problem of Selfish People grabbing all the resources for living
…3) The answer to above 1) => Older People, staying home contribute skilled work productions and are repository of needed knowledge & wisdom . Older People, especially Grand Parents, watch over and train the children,
…4) The answer to above 2) => Apparently Evolutionary EvoDevo, supports tow counteractive tendencies a) Opposing Selfish Behaviour, are the very real benefits of Cooperation! and b) There are the added benefits of Society, Socially Working Together, which gets added to Culture, and retained in Memory of Older People. Our own culture which has elections, for example.
…4) And, as Dr Levine is quick to point out => Our Problem Solving Brain’s Mental Arrival Optimal Solitons Into Conscious Mind => Are Constrained by what we know => From our surroundings, society, culture & language that we experienced as we grew up, from childhood thru to our current adult life. Examples => a) Some African Tribes only have words (and concepts) for 5 Colors: Red, Orange, Pink, Brown and Some Yellows And although the eyes of these tribal people can register all colors, their ability to distinguish & talk about color is limited to these 5 colors. Consequently they only “see” these five colors! b) Similarly, compared to English speakers, some Eskimo Tribes have a greater ability to distinguish various varieties of snow. For Example Wikipedia Says Click Here. =>
Languages in the Inuit and Yupik language groups add suffixes to words to express the same concepts expressed in English and many other languages by means of compound words, phrases, and even entire sentences. One can create a practically unlimited number of new words in the Eskimoan languages on any topic, not just snow, and these same concepts can be expressed in other languages using combinations of words. In general and especially in this case, it is not necessarily meaningful to compare the number of words between languages that create words in different ways due to different grammatical structures.[4][8]

On the other hand, some anthropologists have argued that Boas, who lived among Baffin islanders and learned their language, did in fact take account of the polysynthetic nature of Inuit language and included "only words representing meaningful distinctions" in his account.[3] Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Washington, supports Boas's work but notes that Boas was careful to include only words representing meaningful distinctions. Krupnik and others charted the vocabulary of about 10 Inuit and Yupik dialects and concluded that they indeed have many more words for snow than English does. Central Siberian Yupik has 40 terms. In Nunavimmiutitut, the Inuktitut dialect spoken in Canada's Nunavik region has at least 53, including matsaaruti, for wet snow that can be used to ice a sleigh's runners, and pukak, for crystalline powder snow that looks like salt. Within these dialects, the vocabulary associated with sea ice is even richer. In the Iñupiaq language of Wales, Alaska, Krupnik documented 70 terms for ice including: utuqaq, ice that lasts year after year; siguliaksraq, a patchwork layer of crystals that form as the sea begins to freeze; and auniq, ice that is filled with holes. Similarly, the Sámi peoples, who live in the northern tips of Scandinavia and Russia, use at least 180 words related to snow and ice, according to Ole Henrik Magga, a linguist in Norway. Unlike Inuit dialects, Sámi languages are not polysynthetic, making it easier to distinguish words.[9]
Studies of the Sami languages of Norway, Sweden and Finland, conclude that the languages have anywhere from 180 snow- and ice-related words and as many as 300 different words for types of snow, tracks in snow, and conditions of the use of snow.

…5) Henry Gurr’s Theory Only Mentions UN-CONSCIOUS Brain Processes, But We All Need To Remember The Following Which Are At Variance With HSG Theory =>
…'The SUBCONSCIOUS and UNCONSCIOUS are both parts of the mind that are not immediately available to consciousness, but they have different functions and characteristics:

SUBCONSCIOUS:

Stores, and retrieves data, and manages automatic actions and reactions that occur without conscious thought. For example, breathing and habit formation are subconscious processes. The subconscious protects us from being overwhelmed by sensory input.

UNCONSCIOUS:

Stores memories, initial impressions, base instincts, and first experiences. Unconscious features include implicit memory, implicit perception, implicit thought and language, and implicit learning. Examples of unconscious events include suppressed feelings, auto reactions, complexes, and concealed phobias.


APPENDIX I: Lets Extensively Study Robert Pirsig’s Book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, To Find His Words “Comes To Mind”, Many Of Which (Having Word “Mind” Or “Quality”) Which Are Shown Below: … These Are Pirsig Examples Of What Henry Gurr Calls “Automatic Spontaneous Mental Arrivals”!

(And How Such Can Happen, Can Be Understood, Of Course, By Understanding Henry Gurr’s => “Cognitive Theory: Our Problem Solving Brain, Automatically & Spontaneously Finds Optimal (Best or Near Best) Solutions To Life’s Oncoming Problems.” Which In Turn Is Helped By Understanding =>The Hopfield Neuron Network Theory.
NOTE: Please use the listing of Henry Gurr’s 9 Cognitive Theory Pages (Given at the bottom end of this page), to guide your study of my Theory.

Below, Are Examples Of Mental Arrivals, That Likely Happened, When Robert Pirsig Wrote In ZMM => “What comes to mind … “ or similar.

'' “ What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone. Now that we do have some time, and know it, I would like to use the time to talk in some depth about things that seem important.
… '' “ What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua—that’s the only name I can think of for it—like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer.

… '' “ …would never have become magnified if we didn’t spend so much time riding together and sitting in country roadhouses drinking beer and talking about whatever comes to mind. What comes to mind, usually, is whatever we’ve been thinking about in the half hour or forty-five minutes since we last talked to each other.

'' “ When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. That is fairly well understood, at least in the arts. Mark Twain’s experience comes to mind, in which, after he had mastered the analytic knowledge needed to pilot the Mississippi River, he discovered the river had lost its beauty. Something is always killed. But what is less noticed in the arts—something is always created too.

'' “ … they must have been thinking about [in mind] how bad all this is. That’s what’s really wearing them down. The thought.

'' “ The image of a laser beam comes to mind instead; a single pencil of light of such terrific energy in such extreme concentration it can be shot at the moon and its reflection seen back on earth. Phædrus did not try to use his brilliance for general illumination. He sought one specific distant target and aimed for it and hit it.

'' “ As he was testing hypothesis number one by experimental method a flood of other hypotheses would come to mind, and as he was testing these, some more came to mind, and as he was testing these, still more came to mind until it became painfully evident that as he continued testing hypotheses and eliminating them or confirming them their number did not decrease. It actually increased as he went along.

'' “ This picture-postcard scenery vaguely fits memory but not definitely. This interstate freeway we are on must not have existed then.
The statement "To travel is better than to arrive" comes back to mind again and stays. We have been traveling and now we will arrive.

'' “ DeWeese says. "You know how cold it is up there. You used to spend all your time up there."
"It brings back memories," I say.
… A single fragment comes to mind now of night winds all around a campfire, smaller than this one before us now, sheltered in the rock against the high wind because there are no trees.

'' “ After conjuring up this vision of a Qualityless world, he was soon attracted to its resemblance to a number of social situations he had already read about. Ancient Sparta came to mind, Communist Russia and her satellites. Communist China, the Brave New World of Aldous Huxley and the 1984 of George Orwell.

Squareness. That’s the look. That sums it. Squareness. When you subtract quality you get squareness. Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.
… Some artist friends with whom he had once traveled across the United States came to mind. They were Negroes, who had always been complaining about just this Qualitylessness he was describing. Square. That was their word for it.

'' “ A whole new flood of philosophic associations came to mind. Hegel had talked like this, with his Absolute Mind. Absolute Mind was independent too, both of objectivity and subjectivity.
However, Hegel said the Absolute Mind was the source of everything,

Chapter 24
'' “ The chrome of the cycle gleams beside me and then I see the pines and then Idaho comes to mind.
The door and the shadowy figure beside it were just imaginary. We’re on a logging road, that’s right . . . bright day . . . sparkling air. Wow! . . . it’s beautiful. … Good old reality.

'' “ Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration’s programs, "We’ll just try them . . . and if they don’t work . . . why then we’ll just try something else."

'' “ Boredom is the next gumption trap that comes to mind. This is the opposite of anxiety and commonly goes with ego problems. Boredom means you’re off the Quality track, you’re not seeing things freshly, you’ve lost your "beginner’s mind" and your motorcycle is in great danger. Boredom means your gumption supply is low and must be replenished before anything else is done.

Chapter 32
'' “ As we ride now through coastal manzanita and waxen- leafed shrubs, Chris’s expression comes to mind. "I knew it," he said.
The cycle swings into each curve effortlessly, banking so that our weight is always down through the machine no matter what its angle is with the ground. The way is full of flowers and surprise views, tight turns one after another so that the whole world rolls and pirouettes and rises and falls away.
"I knew it," he said. It comes back now as one of those little facts tugging at the end of a line, saying it’s not as small as I think it is. It’s been in his mind for a long time. Years. All the problems he’s given become more understandable. "I knew it," he said.


APPENDIX II: Lets Extensively Study Robert Pirsig’s Book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, To Discern What Words (Verbs Or Other Mind Active Words) He Uses (Which Are Shown Below) => When He Speaks About The Problem Solving, Mental Dynamic Action Of Our Mind ,Which He Calles Quality.

(And How Such Can Happen, Can Be Understood, Of Course, By Understanding Henry Gurr’s => “Cognitive Theory: Our Problem Solving Brain, Automatically & Spontaneously Finds Optimal (Best or Near Best) Solutions To Life’s Oncoming Problems.” Which In Turn Is Helped By Understanding =>The Hopfield Neuron Network Theory.
NOTE: Please use the listing of Henry Gurr’s 9 Cognitive Theory Pages (Given at the bottom end of this page), to guide your study of my Theory.

Throughout ZMM, Mr Pirsig’s attention is on "What is best?," (as he said on ZMM page 7), and his attention is on how to explain his Quality,. This naturally extends to "What is good, and how do we know it?," And then this naturally extends to practical applications, to show these “play our” in daily life.
For This Appendix II, Henry Gurr scanned through ZMM in search of ~good example Pirsig sentences or paragraphs, which you see below: You will see, I have underlined sentences that have Mind Active Verbs or Quality or other sentences that roughly show “his mind processes at work” or his other “purposeful active problem solving”:
… Now, to discern what Words (Verbs Or Other Mind Active Words), Mr. Pirsig uses, it is a tough, many faceted task =>
… In many cases below, you will see Mr. Pirsig’s purposeful Problem Solving At Work: You can also see he is moving to better & better. Plus: You can see how he is moving forward, into new practical useful ideas and discoveries, and new understandings. These are on =>

a) Narrator’s Problem Solve On His Honda Motorcycle as he travels the ZMM Route.
b) During the Mountain Climb with Chris, The ZMM Narrator’s struggle to work out the real nature of Quality.
c) Phaedrus’ University Of Chicago studying to Puzzle Solve “What Happened In Ancient Greece, So Aristotle Won & The Rhetoricians Lost. Also how to “Out Wit” The Chairman.
d) The ZMM Narrator’s long chapters on Gumptionalogy. Here he offers extensive advice on Problem Solving for the benefit of the reader, in their own Life’s Problems.

… Of course my “underlines” are somewhat arbitrary, and other choices might be more realistic. Please send email with your suggestions or comments.

*** ZMM PASSAGES, WITH “UNDERLINE” BY HENRY GURR ***

A) The ZMM Narrator’s Problem Solving On His Honda Motorcycle As He Travels The ZMM Route.
… This eternally dualistic subject-object way of approaching the motorcycle [that needs Problem Solving] sounds right to us because we’re used to it . But it’s not right.
It’s always been an artificial interpretation superimposed on reality . It’s never been reality itself. When this duality is completely accepted a certain nondivided relationship between the mechanic and motorcycle, a craftsmanlike feeling for the work , is destroyed. When traditional rationality divides the world into subjects and objects it shuts out Quality, and when you’re {+really stuck it’s Quality , not any subjects or objects, that tells you where you ought to go .
By returning our attention to Quality it is hoped that we can get technological work out of the noncaring subject-object dualism and back into craftsmanlike self-involved reality again, which will reveal to us the facts we need when we are stuck .
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B) During The Mountain Climb With Chris, The ZMM Narrator’s Reports Phaedrus Long Struggle To Work Out The Real Nature Of Quality.
… But then, below the definition on the blackboard, he wrote, "But even though Quality cannot be defined, you know what Quality is !" and the storm started all over again.
"Oh, no, we don’t!"
"Oh, yes, you do."
"Oh, no, we don’t!"
"Oh, yes, you do!" he said and he had some material ready to demonstrate it to them.
He had selected two examples of student composition. The first was a rambling, disconnected thing with interesting ideas that never built into anything. The second was a magnificent piece by a student who was mystified himself about why it had come out so well. Phædrus read both, then asked for a show of hands on who thought the first was best. Two hands went up. He asked how many liked the second better. Twenty-eight hands went up.
"Whatever it is," he said, "that caused the overwhelming majority to raise their hands for the second one is what I mean by Quality. So you know what it is."
There was a long reflective silence after this, and he just let it last.
This was just intellectually outrageous, and he knew it. He wasn’t teaching anymore, he was indoctrinating. He had erected an imaginary entity, defined it as incapable of definition, told the students over their own protests that they knew what it was, and demonstrated this by a technique that was as confusing logically as the term itself. He was able to get away with this because logical refutation required more talent than any of the students had. In subsequent days he continually invited their refutations, but none came. He improvised further.
To reinforce the idea that they already knew what Quality was he developed a routine in which he read four student papers in class and had everyone rank them in estimated order of Quality on a slip of paper. He did the same himself. He collected the slips, tallied them on the blackboard and averaged the rankings for an overall class opinion. Then he would reveal his own rankings, and this would almost always be close to, if not identical with the class average. Where there were differences it was usually because two papers were close in quality.
At first the classes were excited by this exercise, but as time went on they became bored. What he meant by Quality was obvious. They obviously knew what it was too, and so they lost interest in listening. Their question now was "All right, {+we know what Quality is. How do we get it ?"
Now, at last, the standard rhetoric texts came into their own. The principles expounded in them were no longer rules to rebel against, not ultimates in themselves, but just techniques, gimmicks, for producing what really counted and stood independently of the techniques—Quality. What had started out as a heresy from traditional rhetoric turned into a beautiful introduction to it.
He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on ; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques . He showed how the aspect of Quality called unity, the hanging-togetherness of a story, could be improved with a technique called an outline. The authority of an argument could be jacked up with a technique called footnotes, which gives authoritative reference. Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose. And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn’t {+fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless .
Now, in answer to that eternal student question, How do I do this? that had frustrated him to the point of resignation, he could reply, {+"It doesn’t make a bit of difference how you do it! Just so it’s good." The reluctant student might ask in class, {+"But how do we know what’s good?" but almost before the question was out of his mouth he would realize the answer had already been supplied . Some other student would usually tell him, "You just see it." If he said, "No, I don’t," he’d be told, "Yes, you do. He proved it ." The student was finally and completely trapped into making quality judgments for himself. And it was just exactly this and nothing else that taught him to write.
Up to now Phædrus had been compelled by the academic system to say what he wanted, even though he knew that this forced students to conform to artificial forms that destroyed their own creativity . Students who went along with his rules were then condemned for their inability to be creative or produce a piece of work that reflected their own personal standards of what is good .
Now that was over with. By reversing a basic rule that all things which are to be taught must first be defined, he had found a way out of all this. He was pointing to no principle, no rule of good writing, no theory—but he was pointing to something, nevertheless, that was very real , whose reality they couldn’t deny. The vacuum that had been created by the withholding of grades was suddenly {+filled with the positive goal of Quality, and the whole thing fit together . Students, astonished, came by his office and said, "I used to just hate English. Now I spend more time on it than anything else." Not just one or two. Many. The whole Quality concept was beautiful. It worked. It was that mysterious, individual, internal goal of each creative person, on the blackboard at last .
I turn to see how Chris is doing. His face looks tired.
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C) During The COTINUED Mountain Climb With Chris, The ZMM Narrator’s Struggle To Work Out The Real Nature Of Quality.
… Now that was over with. By reversing a basic rule that all things which are to be taught must first be defined, he had found a way out of all this. He was pointing to no principle, no rule of good writing, no theory —but he was pointing to something, nevertheless , that was very real, whose reality they couldn’t deny . The vacuum that had been created by the withholding of grades was suddenly filled with the positive goal of Quality, and the whole thing fit together. Students, astonished, came by his office and said, "I used to just hate English. Now I spend more time on it than anything else." Not just one or two. Many. The whole Quality concept was beautiful. It worked. It was that {+mysterious, individual, internal goal of each creative person, on the blackboard at last .
I turn to see how Chris is doing. His face looks tired.

I don’t know how much thought passed before he arrived at this, but eventually he saw that Quality couldn’t be independently related with either the subject or the object but could be found only in the relationship of the two with each other. It is the point at which subject and object meet .
That sounded warm.
Quality is not a thing. It is an event .
Warmer.
It is the event at which the subject becomes aware of the object .
And because without objects there can be no subject—because the objects create the subject’s awareness of himself—Quality is the event at which awareness of both subjects and objects is made possible .
Hot.
Now he knew it was coming.
This means Quality is not just the result of a collision between subject and object. The very existence of subject and object themselves is deduced from the Quality event. The Quality event is the cause of the subjects and objects, which are then mistakenly presumed to be the cause of the Quality !
Now he had that whole damned evil dilemma by the throat. The dilemma all the time had this unseen vile presumption in it, for which there was no logical justification. that Quality was the effect of subjects and objects. It was not! He brought out his knife.
"The sun of quality," he wrote, "does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has created them. They are subordinate to it!
And at that point, when he wrote that, he knew he had reached some kind of culmination of thought he had been unconsciously striving for over a long period of time .
"Blue sky!" shouts Chris.

D) The ZMM Narrator’s LONG & MANY Chapters On GUMPTIONALOGY. Here He Offers Extensive Advice On Problem Solving, For The Benefit Of The Reader, So As To Guide Their Own Life’s Problems.
… This eternally dualistic subject-object way of approaching the motorcycle sounds right to us because we’re used to it. But it’s not right.
It’s always been an artificial interpretation superimposed on reality. It’s never been reality itself . When this duality is completely accepted a certain nondivided relationship between the mechanic and motorcycle, {+a craftsmanlike feeling for the work , is destroyed. When traditional rationality divides the world into subjects and objects it shuts out Quality, and when you’re {+really stuck it’s Quality, not any subjects or objects, that {+tells you where you ought to go .
By returning our attention to Quality it is hoped that we can get technological work out of the noncaring subject-object dualism and back into craftsmanlike self-involved reality again, which will {+ reveal to us the facts we {+need when we are stuck.
In my mind now is an image of a huge, long railroad train, one of those 120-boxcar jobs that cross the prairies all the time with lumber and vegetables going east and with automobiles and other manufactured goods going west. I want to call this railroad train "knowledge" and subdivide in into two parts: Classic Knowledge and Romantic Knowledge.
In terms of the analogy, Classic Knowledge, the knowledge taught by the Church of Reason, is the engine and all the boxcars. All of them and everything that’s in them . If you subdivide the train into parts you will find no Romantic Knowledge anywhere . And unless you’re careful it’s easy to make the presumption that’s all the train there is . This isn’t because Romantic Knowledge is nonexistent or even unimportant. It’s just that so far the definition of the train is static and purposeless. This was what I was {+trying to get at back in South Dakota when I talked about two whole dimensions of existence. It’s two whole ways of looking at the train.
Romantic Quality, in terms of this analogy, isn’t any "part" of the train. It’s the leading edge of the engine, a two-dimensional surface of no real significance unless you understand that the train isn’t a static entity at all . A train really isn’t a train if it can’t go anywhere . In the process of examining the train and subdividing it into parts we’ve inadvertently stopped it, so that it really isn’t a train we {+are examining. That’s why we get stuck.
The real train of knowledge isn’t a static entity that can be stopped and subdivided. It’s always going somewhere. On a track called Quality . And that engine and all those 120 boxcars are never going anywhere except where the {+track of Quality takes them; and romantic Quality, the leading edge of the engine, takes them along that track .
] Romantic reality is the cutting edge of experience . It’s the leading edge of the train of knowledge that {+keeps the whole train on the track . Traditional knowledge is only the collective memory of where that leading edge has been. At the leading edge there are no subjects, no objects, only the track of Quality ahead , and if you have no formal way of evaluating, no way of acknowledging this Quality , then the entire train has no way of knowing where to go . You don’t have pure reason—you have pure confusion. {+The leading edge contains all the infinite possibilities of the future. It contains all the history of the past. Where else could they be contained?
The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future . The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is .
Value, the leading edge of reality, is no longer an irrelevant offshoot of structure . Value is the predecessor of structure. It’s the preintellectual awareness that gives rise to it . Our structured reality is preselected on the basis of value, and really to understand structured reality requires an understanding of the value source from which it’s derived .
One’s rational understanding of a motorcycle is therefore modified from minute to minute as one works on it and sees that a new and different rational understanding has more Quality [ie Better]. One doesn’t cling to old sticky ideas because one has an immediate rational basis for rejecting them . Reality isn’t static anymore. It’s not a set of ideas you have to either fight or resign yourself to. It’s made up, in part, of ideas that are expected to grow as you grow, and as we all grow , century after century. With Quality as a central undefined term, reality is, in its essential nature, not static but dynamic. And when you really understand dynamic reality you never get stuck . It has forms but the forms are capable of change.
To put it in more concrete terms: If you want to build a factory, or fix a motorcycle, or set a nation right without getting stuck, then classical, structured, dualistic subject-object knowledge, although necessary, isn’t enough . You have to have some feeling for the quality of the work. You have to have a {+sense of what’s good . That is what carries you forward. This sense isn’t just something you’re born with, although you are born with it. It’s also {+something you can develop . It’s not just "intuition," not just unexplainable "skill" or "talent." It’s the direct result of contact with basic reality, Quality, which dualistic reason has in the past tended to conceal .

The reality of the American government isn’t static, he said, it’s dynamic. If we don’t like it we’ll get something better. The American government isn’t going to get stuck on any set of fancy doctrinaire ideas.
The key word is "better"—Quality . Some may argue that the underlying form of the American government is stuck, is incapable of change in response to Quality,
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After all, it’s exactly this stuckness that Zen Buddhists go to so much trouble to induce ; through koans, deep breathing, sitting still and the like. Your mind is empty, you have a "hollow-flexible" attitude of "beginner’s mind ." You’re right at the front end of the train of knowledge, at the track of reality itself . Consider, for a change, that this is a moment to be not feared but cultivated. If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then you may be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas .
The solution to the problem often at first seems unimportant or undesirable, but the state of stuckness allows it, in time, to assume its true importance . It seemed small because your previous rigid evaluation which led to the stuckness made it small .
But now consider the fact that no matter how hard you try to hang on to it, this stuckness is bound to disappear. Your mind will naturally and freely move toward a solution . Unless you are a real master at staying stuck you can’t prevent this . The fear of stuckness is needless because the longer you stay stuck the more you {+see the Quality-reality that gets you unstuck every time . What’s really been getting you stuck is the running from the stuckness through the cars of your train of knowledge looking for a solution that is out in front of the train .
Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding . An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors. It’s this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.
Normally screws are so cheap and small and simple you think of them as unimportant. But now, as your Quality awareness becomes stronger, you realize that this one, individual, particular screw is neither cheap nor small nor unimportant. Right now this screw is worth exactly the selling price of the whole motorcycle, because the motorcycle is actually valueless until you get the screw out. With this reevaluation of the screw comes a willingness to expand your I think he would ledge of it.
With the expansion of the knowledge, I would guess, would come a reevaluation of what the screw really is. If you concentrate on it, {+think about it, stay stuck on it for a long enough time , I would guess that in time you will come to see that the screw is less and less an object typical of a class and more an object unique in itself. Then with more concentration you will begin to {+see the screw as not even an object at all but as a collection of functions . Your stuckness is {+gradually eliminating patterns of traditional reason.
In the past when you separated subject and object from one another in a permanent way, your thinking about them got very rigid. You formed a class called "screw" that seemed to be inviolable and more real than the reality you are looking at . And you couldn’t think of how to get unstuck because you couldn’t think of anything new, because you couldn’t see anything new.
Now, in getting that screw out, you aren’t interested in what it is. What it is has ceased to be a category of thought and is a continuing direct experience. It’s not in the boxcars anymore, {+it’s out in front and capable of change. You are interested in what it does and why it’s doing it. You will ask functional questions . Associated with your questions will be a subliminal Quality discrimination identical to the Quality discrimination that led Poincaré to the Fuchsian equations.
What your actual solution is, is unimportant as long as it has Quality . Thoughts about the screw as combined rigidness and adhesiveness and about its special helical interlock might lead naturally to solutions of impaction and use of solvents. That is one kind of Quality track. Another track may be to go to the library and look through a catalog of mechanic’s tools, in which you might come across a screw extractor that would do the job. Or to call a friend who knows something about mechanical work. Or just to drill the screw out, or just burn it out with a torch. or you might just, as a result of your meditative attention to the screw, come up with some new way of extracting it that has never been thought of before and that beats all the rest and is patentable and makes you a millionaire five years from now. There’s no predicting what’s on that Quality track. The solutions all are simple—after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are .
Highway 13 follows another branch of our river but now it goes upstream past old sawmill towns and sleepy scenery.
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Peace of mind isn’t at all superficial to technical work. It’s the whole thing. That which produces it is good work and that which destroys it is bad work . The specs, the measuring instruments, the quality control, the final check-out, these are all means toward the end of satisfying the peace of mind of those responsible for the work. What really counts in the end is their peace of mind, nothing else . The reason for this is that peace of mind is a prerequisite for a perception of that Quality which is beyond romantic Quality and classic Quality and which unites the two, and which must accompany the work as it proceeds. The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through .
I say inner peace of mind. It has no direct relationship to external circumstances. It can occur to a monk in meditation, to a soldier in heavy combat or to a machinist taking off that last ten-thousandth of an inch. It involves unselfconsciousness, which produces a complete identification with one’s circumstances , and there are levels and levels of this identification and levels and levels of quietness quite as profound and difficult of attainment as the more familiar levels of activity. The mountains of achievement are Quality discovered in one direction only, and are relatively meaningless and often unobtainable unless taken together with the ocean trenches of self-awareness—so different from self-consciousness—which result from inner peace of mind.
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.
I’ve sometimes thought this inner peace of mind, this quietness is similar to if not identical with the sort of calm you sometimes get when going fishing, which accounts for much of the popularity of this sport. Just to sit with the line in the water, not moving, not really thinking about anything, not really caring about anything either, seems to draw out the inner tensions and frustrations that have prevented you from solving problems you couldn’t solve before and introduced ugliness and clumsiness into your actions and thoughts .
You don’t have to go fishing, of course, to fix your motorcycle. A cup of coffee, a walk around the block, sometimes just putting off the job for five minutes of silence is enough. When you do you can almost feel yourself grow toward that inner peace of mind that reveals it all. That which turns its back on this inner calm and the Quality it reveals is bad maintenance. That which turns toward it is good. The forms of turning away and toward are infinite but the goal is always the same.
I think that when this concept of peace of mind is introduced and made central to the act of technical work, a fusion of classic and romantic quality can take place at a basic level within a practical working context . I’ve said you can actually see this fusion in skilled mechanics and machinists of a certain sort, and you can see it in the work they do. To say that they are not artists is to misunderstand the nature of art. They have patience, care and attentiveness to what they’re doing, but more than this— there’s a kind of inner peace of mind that isn’t contrived but results from a kind of harmony with the work in which there’s no leader and no follower. The material and the craftsman’s thoughts change together in a progression of smooth, even changes until his mind is at rest at the exact instant the material is right.
We’ve all had moments of that sort when we’re doing something we really want to do. It’s just that somehow we’ve gotten into an unfortunate separation of those moments from work. The mechanic I’m talking about doesn’t make this separation. One says of him that he is "interested" in what he’s doing, that he’s "involved" in his work. What produces this involvement is, at the cutting edge of consciousness, an absence of any sense of separateness of subject and object. "Being with it," "being a natural," "taking hold" —there are a lot of idiomatic expressions for what I mean by this absence of subject-object duality, because what I mean is so well understood as folklore, common sense, the everyday understanding of the shop. But in scientific parlance the words for this absence of subject-object duality are scarce because scientific minds have shut themselves off from consciousness of this kind of understanding in the assumption of the formal dualistic scientific outlook.
Zen Buddhists talk about "just sitting," a meditative practice in which the idea of a duality of self and object does not dominate one’s consciousness. What I’m talking about here in motorcycle maintenance is "just fixing," in which the idea of a duality of self and object doesn’t dominate one’s consciousness. When one isn’t dominated by feelings of separateness from what he’s working on, then one can be said to "care" about what he’s doing. That is what caring really is, a feeling of identification with what one’s doing. When one has this feeling then he also sees the inverse side of caring, Quality itself .
So, the thing to do when working on a motorcycle, as in any other task, is to cultivate the peace of mind which does not separate one’s self from one’s surroundings. When that is done successfully then everything else follows naturally. Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all. That was what it was about that wall in Korea. It was a material reflection of a spiritual reality .
I think that if we are going to reform the world, and make it a better place to live in, the way to do it is not with talk about relationships of a political nature, which are inevitably dualistic, full of subjects and objects and their relationship to one another; or with programs full of things for other people to do. I think that kind of approach starts it at the end and presumes the end is the beginning. Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. . The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value .
A town called Riggins comes up and we see a lot of motels,
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This often shows up in premature diagnosis, when you’re sure you know what the trouble is, and then when it isn’t, you’re stuck. Then you’ve got to find some new clues, but before you can find them you’ve got to clear your head of old opinions. If you’re plagued with value rigidity you can fail to see the real answer even when it’s staring you right in the face because you can’t see the new answer’s importance .

The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It’s dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone’s awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears .
The overwhelming majority of facts, the sights and sounds that are around us every second and the relationships among them and everything in our memory—these have no Quality, in fact have a negative quality. If they were all present at once our consciousness would be so jammed with meaningless data we couldn’t think or act. So we preselect on the basis of Quality, or, to put it Phædrus’ way, the track of Quality preselects what data we’re going to be conscious of, and it makes this selection in such a way as to best harmonize what we are with what we are becoming .
What you have to do, if you get caught in this gumption trap of value rigidity, is slow down—you’re going to have to slow down anyway whether you want to or not—but slow down deliberately and go over ground that you’ve been over before to see if the things you thought were important were really important and to . . . well . . . just stare at the machine. There’s nothing wrong with that. Just live with it for a while. Watch it the way you watch a line when fishing and before long, as sure as you live, you’ll get a little nibble, a little fact asking in a timid, humble way if you’re interested in it. That’s the way the world keeps on happening. Be interested in it .
At first try to understand this new fact not so much in terms of your big problem as for its own sake. That problem may not be as big as you think it is. And that fact may not be as small as you think it is. It may not be the fact you want but at least you should be very sure of that before you send the fact away. Often before you send it away you will discover it has friends who are right next to it and are watching to see what your response is. Among the friends may be the exact fact you are looking for .
After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine. When that happens you’ve reached a kind of point of arrival. Then you’re no longer strictly a motorcycle mechanic, you’re also a motorcycle scientist, and you’ve completely conquered the gumption trap of value rigidity .
The road has come up into the pines again,



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3)Cont: For Further Reading => My WebPage, Where You May Learn More About => The Actions Of The Many Cases Herein Named => Sympathetic Poetic Associatives (SPA). Further discussion of my “Sympathetic-Poetic Associatives” (a new term coined by me Henry Gurr) is here => AFTER This WebPage Comes Up, Please Scroll Down To D) We All Use Mental Abilities Such a Metaphor, Analogy, Simile …

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After this WebPage comes up, you will need to explore around, to see how this discussion supports my Theory.



FOR FURTHER READING => Below Is A Listing Of Henry Gurr’s NINE Cognitive Theory (Explanation) Pages, Which You Can Study To Learn About. …. You Will Find That => These Describe The Best Available Cognitive Theory Of How Our Mind Works, => In the Creation of Sudden, Automatic, Spontaneous Mental Arrivals, by UN-Conscious Brain Processes: This Theory Explanation, Which Is Confirmed By Direct Observation Of Our Mind At Work, Also Offers A Very Viable Answer To “The Mind-Body Problem”, And Effectively Closes “The Explanatory Gap”.

… … … As You See In The Main Menu, UPPER LEFT, Starting At The TOP =>
First Blue Menu Link: Suggest You START Your Study Here => H Gurr’s Compact Explanation: => A Unified Panorama View Into “How Our Mind Works”.

THEN Suggest You Continue Reading Next Page Below, Which Is => :

2nd Blue Menu Link: Collected Properties & Characteristics All Mental Arrivals Such As => , Such As => Eureka!, Epiphany, The Light Came On!!, A Flash of Insight It **AHA**, It Dawned On Me, Light Bulb As In Cartoons, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, And Many Others Similar But Less Dramatic.
…From scattered places in Henry Gurr’s 8 WebPages (hereby listed) “How Our Mind Works” => Here collected into one WebPage, are the ALL of the Properties & Characteristics Of Every Mental Arrival: These are such as “Flash Of Insight”, Epiphany, Etc), which come automatically, spontaneously, Into Our Conscious Mind. Or similarly for the creation of our Primary Consciousness, for our Every Waking Moment, Second By Second:
…On this WebPage are also => A Picture Analogy of Before (& After) A Mental Arrival.
…… By reading this essential summary overview WebPage, you will prepare your mind for easier reading of Henry Gurr’s 9 WebPages (hereby listed) “How Our Mind Works”. …You will need to read this page => Because otherwise these various => Properties & Characteristics Of Each & EveryMental Arrivals , In Their Original Scattered Paces, Are Presented In A Way, Such That It Is Hard To See “The Big Picture”.

3rd Blue Menu Link: H Gurr’s FULL DETAIL Expounding => A Unified Panorama View Into “How Our Mind Works”,

4th Blue Menu Link: A Very Important IDEA => Even Partial Fit Problem Solution Is Highly Useful, especially for how Our Problem Solving Brain so easily gives us a Best Understanding for 1) Camouflage, 2) Concept Confusion, and3) Figures of Speech, Such as Metaphor, Analogy, Allegory, Simile, Similar, Similarity, and 22 more.

5th Blue Menu Link: Henty Gurr’s Explanation of => “How Our Mind Works”, Helps Illuminate What’s Happening In Procrastination, And Helps Avoid Procrastination’s Blockages.

6th Blue Menu Link: Hopfield Neuron Network Theory => Illuminates How Brains Generate (Construct Create) Optimal Solutions To “Life’s Problems Coming At Us”, plus Links To Other H Gurr Writing On Mind.

7th Blue Menu Link: Constructivist Epistemology +An Anatomy Of An Idea Come To Mind, Which Is A => Full Exhaustive Listing of Mental Arrivals, Such As => Eureka!, Epiphany, The Light Came On!!, A Flash of Insight It **AHA**, It Dawned On Me, Light Bulb As In Cartoons, I Suddenly Realized Or Noticed, And MANY OTHERS Similar, But Less Dramatic.

8th Blue Menu Link: It’s A Marvel! It’s SO Incredible!! …. The Wonderous, Wonderful, Amazing, Gift Of Consciousness!!.
… Our Brain Generates, Constructs, Creates => Our Primary Consciousness. And Subsequently, As A Specialized Mental Arrival, We Perceive A Glorious 3D World In Full Color Around Us!

9th Blue Menu Link: But How Do We Know What’s Good? [Or Best?],. .... You Just See It. ” ''
… Enthusiasts Of Book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. (ZMM), Will Find Solid Support For Robert Pirsig’s Quality”, In Henry Gurr’s Cognitive Theory Explanation Of => How ” Our Problem Solving Brain, Automatically & Spontaneously Finds Optimal (Best or Near Best) Solutions To Life’s Oncoming Problems” .
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NOTE: You may access any of these above-mentioned WebPages, by clicking (Main Menu At Upper Left) on any of the TOP NINE Blue Links there.

A Good Place To Start Is Above 2), And Then Continue With Above 3).

Please let me know what you think.

Sincerely Henry Gurr



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