From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 20:40:28 BST
Mark,
You addressed the wrong guy. I (Platt) wrote what you attribute
erroneously to Bo.
> Platt: (Not Bo)
> With a another small twist, intellect's value is that of division,
> period. Experience is a continuum, indivisible. Intellect divides the
> continuum symbolically, laying as it were a grid over experience so
> intellect can deal with it.
> Mark: You are stating here that intellect is prior to differentiation:
> 'Intellect divides the continuum symbolically...' So, intellect chooses
> the differentiation's based upon quality or harmony. If this is the
> case, and it is your statement, not mine, then intellect is not the
> differentiation, it simply invents differentiation's, or not, as the
> case may be.
Platt:
Intellect (thinking) is the process of differentiation. It cannot be
prior to itself.
> Platt: (Not Bo)
> Experience must be patterned before
> intellect can even begin to represent it.
>
> Mark: If, 'Intellect divides the continuum symbolically...' as you
> state, then what you are in fact saying is, 'Intellect differentiates
> experience symbolically in response to Quality.'
Platt:
Intellect (thinking) responds to Quality in the sense that intellect
(thinking) differentiates experience. Quality and experience in the MOQ
are synonymous.
> Platt: (Not Bo)
> Whether the division is S/O
> or figure/ground or DQ/SQ isn't the issue when it comes to
> understanding intellect. The value of intellect is the /. We divide to
> survive.
>
> Mark: The differentiation's intellect chooses are made in response to
> Quality. Quality comes first. You state differentiation comes before
> Quality. As for dividing for surviving, that sounds dangerously like
> biological and social imperative - Mating, tribal, etc. The intellect
> can help to enforce these patterns of biological and social patterns, it
> may also ignore them. Today is a wonderful day. Mark
Platt:
Quality or experience comes first, then differentiation by intellect
(thinking). Dividing or laying a grid over experience cannot occur
before the experience. Intellect (thinking) divides experience to
survive. You wouldn't last a week without thinking or somebody thinking
for you.
Platt
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