Of course, morals often play a large part in determining what is quality, but sometimes the path of quality is not the path of morals. Pirsig suggests that quality is something very complex and when he tried to figure out what exactly it was, he went insane. In response to this incident, I will focus less on what quality is, and more on where quality exists. Pirsig establishes a set of different qualities that exist in our world, such as social quality, intellectual quality, biological quality, and inorganic quality. In addition, by expanding on the inorganic quality, we come up with chemical quality and physical quality to replace it.
Social quality is the most complex, because it changes so often.
These qualities align perfectly with the probabilities assigned to various choices in different entities. Our consciousness can be described as a series of decision-making processes in which the mind chooses between several choices, picking the one with the most intellectual quality. Many decision options in our brain all have very similar probabilities, so the choices our brain makes may seem random, but this is fine since intellectual quality is changing constantly. In other words, intellectual quality has some structure, but not much. For instance, humans observe how objects react to forces, form a set of rules, and call them classical physics.