From: Steve & Oxsana Marquis (marquis@nccn.net)
Date: Tue Aug 09 2005 - 02:07:46 BST
Sam wrote:
________
> Hang on, let's not get hung up on the words. Do you think that there is
> something that might be legitimately described as an 'individual'
(referring
> to a human centre of response to DQ at the fourth level), in the way that
> there is also, say a 'dog'. In other words, whilst we might describe a dog
> as a particular set of inorganic and biological patterns, there is sense
to
> saying 'that dog bit me'. It's precisely my point that we can talk about
> distinct individuals as coherent sets of particular patterns. Which I
think
> is what the MoQ denies. (For the record, I think that the MOQ could easily
> be phrased so as not to make that point, but my usual interlocutors don't
> want to go down that road. It was one of the ones I mentioned at the end
of
> my eudaimonic paper).
_________
Sam, what about utilizing agency as the qualifiying attribute of the
individual? It seems to me self-awareness / agency is also tied to the
intellectual level. Self-awareness is a pre requisite for both recogntion
of onself as an indivual and agency, that power to respond to DQ by choice.
Live well,
Steve
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