Pirsig's SQ by itself is rigid . Our inanimate Planck quantons appear rigid, like SQ without DQ, but when we animate them we can see their own vibrant semantics . When we look at an inanimate quanton, we imagine its animacy , and thus help it to keep its Quality as it plays on our quantum stages . Any symbol can be thought of as animate if we just commence a Quantonic habit of doing that. Every actual constituent both compenetrates and coinsides its nonactual complement.
Invention becomes complete when it is materialized in a manufactured instrument.
Towards that achievement the intelligence of animals tends as towards an ideal. And though, ordinarily, it does not yet succeed in fashioning artificial objects and in making use of them, it is preparing for this by the very variations which it performs on the instincts furnished by nature. As regards human intelligence, it has not been sufficiently noted that mechanical invention has been from the first its essential feature, that even to-day our social life gravitates around the manufacture and use of artificial instruments, that the inventions which strew the road of progress have also traced its direction. This we hardly realize, because it takes us longer to change ourselves than to change our tools. Our individual and even social habits survive a good while the circumstances for which they were made, so that the ultimate effects of an invention are not observed until its novelty is already out of sight.