From: skutvik@online.no
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 12:40:02 BST
Ian and Group.
On 6 Sep. you spoke thus:
Bo to Sam before:
> > Do you really agree with a "more broadly defined intellect"? It is
> > the breadth that is the problem and it gets worse when Ian goes on
> > to say (if my reading is correct) "consisting (at levels above that
> > latch) as the MOQ itself". The MOQ as an intellectual pattern is
> > impossible.
Ian now:
> [IG] What else could it possibly be ?
"It" is the MOQ, no? It is the QUALITY REALITY of which
intellect is a static sub-set.
(It's obviously expressed and evident in all the other levels as well.)
Er....if you men that all levels are quality levels ...sure. None
corresponds to any somish counterpart, the inorganic level is not
matter ...etc. but most of all: Intellect is not mind ...or intelligence.
> [IG[ Then your Oxford dictionary is useless - or just very outmoded
> for our purposes. An intellect that ignores feelings and instincts is
> a very low quality one - Like a SOMist one.
No, my dictionary is updated enough, but this is the very point
Ian. Intellect is the a static level and of course it ignores or -
better - slights emotions, it's the MOQ that recognizes both
emotions and "instincts" (I like sensations better) by seeing them
as separate evolutionary levels. Forget about intellect, it is a
static level and can as little be improved as biology or society.
The MOQ is beyond intellect!
The very leap from primitivity to modernity is the ability to
distance oneself from emotions. The biological beings can't
distance themselves from sensations and the social beings can't
from emotions. But - and here's the clue - the intellectual beings
can't distance themselves from SOM-rationality. "Distancing
oneself from rationality" sounds odd, but it just means seeing
intellect as the highest static level, yet not the Quality Reality
itself.
Bo
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