From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Mon Jul 25 2005 - 20:14:14 BST
Hi all,
I'd like to inject a thought here, not directed at anyone in
particular.
someone said:
The MOQ sees intellect, like everything else static, as a product,
and ongoing process of, evolution. Evolutionary advances occur on
what has gone before. Dynamic advances happen individually but
static latching requires patterns to spread out amongst others if the
advancement is to be maintained. Both processes are needed.
msh 7-25-05:
I see no reason to believe that dynamic advances happen individually.
Newton and Liebniz "invented" calculus simultaneously. Who knows
how many others, fiddling with the notion of limits, might have
worked it out for themselves. Darwin and Wallace arrived at the
theory of evolution at the same time.
To me, it makes no more sense to say that one "genius" came up with a
unique idea than to say that one fish was the first to drag himself
onto land and develop lungs. A belief in such nonsense requires a
tremendous ignorance about the the way evolution (whether biological
or cultural) occurs.
Recently, someone on the list said that one guy had to be the first
to develop language, for god's sake. See, these cavemen we're
sitting around mutely staring at one another when one of them thought
to himself, "Gee, we need a way to communicate," so he goes off on
his own and invents language then comes back and teaches it to the
others, for a price of course. Ridiculous.
I think this yammering about them "brilliant" individuals is way
overplayed, and for obvious reasons. It's all about getting a
proprietary lock on a culturally-developed idea in order to profit
from it. Just ask the caveman who invented language.
Best to all,
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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