From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 17:02:31 BST
Hi Platt, others,
> This raises the question: Did aborigines prior to the influences of
> Western civilization think? Or did they survive by mystic intuition alone?
> Jonathan says yes, they did think and thus participated in intellectual
> level patterns. Bo says no. Going along with Pirsig's "collection and
> manipulation of symbols" definition of thinking, I say yes.
>
> What do you say, and why?
I'm not aware that there is any agreement as to what 'thinking' actually is. Dependent on how you
define it, dogs, cro-magnons and physics professors can all think. Trouble is, as soon as you define
it, you are making something other than *thinking* the criterion of distinction between the levels.
For what it's worth, I think there is thinking at at least levels three and four, and probably in
level two as well.
Sam
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