Re: MD A bit of reasoning

From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 23:37:06 BST

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    David M,

    > Do we need an Intellect/intellect distiction?
    >
    > Where intellect is human and dominated by symbol usage
    > and Intellect is any making of SQ by DQ that is purposeful
    > and valu driven rather than contingent.

    Yes, we need one, but not for the reasons you give. My reason is simply
    that Intellect that gets the biological out of the inorganic, etc,. is
    Intellect well beyond my imagining. (BTW, I don't actually assume that the
    inorganic came first. There may have been an earlier-stage biological that
    was not physically based, and the physical was "thought up" to make the
    physically-based biological that we know. Since this is just conjecture on
    my part, I just mention it -- I'm not going to attempt to justify it.)

    While human intellect is dominated by symbol usage, so is all other. The
    particular is a symbol for the universal. The next step in the argument,
    then, is to say that all reality is semiotic. (This is Peirce's view, by
    the way.)

    And I don't see why all making of SQ by DQ shouldn't be viewed as
    contingent. A Buddhist would see it that way.

    - Scott

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