To Erin and Rick
ERIN
> I have been thinking about the description of the intellectual level being
> "marketplace of ideas" . I like it. I think it brings in the importance of
> the interaction on this level and not just dormant ideas.
RICK
Right. Interaction leads to competition, competition leads to evolution.
Look for more on this theme in my forthcoming essay "Intellectual Antitrust
and the Metaphysical Basis of Human Rights" (target date June 2002).
ROG
I like it too. It is odd that we characterize the intellect in such 3rd
level ways, but I think it points to the social level roots of intellect. I
can't wait to read your essay.
Some members of this forum seem to focus on the intellectual level's quality
of building a master plan. I concentrate more on its greatest asset being as
a marketplace of ideas. Intellectual progress depends more upon building and
sustaining the marketplace of ideas than upon any particular idea.
Rog
PS -- I would say that interaction can also lead to cooperation. As we
progress up the levels, competition gains in its ability to be cooperative.
For example, companies learn from their competitors, and scientists
definitely gain more from other scientists and theories than they lose. I
once thought about coining a new word "coopetition" to portray how
competition and cooperation can be more inter-related than people think, but
then I found someone else already appropriated the word.
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