From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2004 - 18:50:05 BST
Platt to Paul: To focus on intellect without acknowledging the individual is
like putting the cart before the horse, or more appropriately, to eliminate
the vital role of the horse altogether....While you emphasize the
transcendent nature of of successful intellectual patterns, I emphasize the
originator or creator of such patterns.
Isn't the orignator Quality? And doesn't the individual have the same role
for patterns of every level?
Platt to Paul: Your "life of their own" remark suggests Richard Dawkin's
"memes."
Yes, patterns are like memes. Do you not like memes?
Do you feel that an individual could come up with an intellectual pattern
from out of the blue? I mean, how come no one invented the jet airplane in
the bronze age? Why did the propellor plane have to be invented first? Do
you see how the jet plane sort of came to its own fruition, that the
inventors of it were just in the right place at the right time to bring it
together? Not to take anything away from them or their genius and
inspiration, their genius and inspiration is theirs and they deserve the
glory and rewards, but the idea just landed on them because they wre at the
confluence of patterns that added up to the new idea. That's why the Wright
Brothers invented the airplane and Edison the light bulb, and not the other
way around.
Johnny
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