From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2003 - 13:36:01 BST
Hi Steve,
> Steve:
> Do you see monkeys as participating in social patterns of values? I think
> they probably do, but I didn't think that you thought so. Between the
> genes and intellect there is the social level. It is this social level
> that first separated us from the animals.
I follow Pirsig's line that the social level applies only to humans, not
animals. I also follow his line that intellectual patterns were present at
the beginning of the social level and in fact were necessary for the
social level to survive. So I agree that the social level first separated
us from the animals. Symbol-making is the Rosetta stone for identifying
humans and the primary requirement for the emergence of levels three and
four.
Platt
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