Hettinger (hettingr@iglou.com)
Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:05:43 +0100
Diana McPartlin wrote:
> Magnus Berg wrote:
> > If you really mean this, we're really starting to understand each other.
> > A human with a warm coat and a good pair of shoes is a society (a
> > composition of organic patterns) that can better withstand cold
> > weather than a human without them. Therefore, the coat and the
> > shoes (and the human) are organic patterns to that society.
>
> Sorry, no, a warm coat in a cold climate would be biological because it
> keeps the person alive - thus propagating biological value. No social value
> here. (Unless it was a designer coat)
About that coat.
The substance of the coat is inorganic value.
If it is a fur coat, the form of the material (the shape of that inorganic
substance) is set by biological value. The inorganic patterns were mediated by
biological patterns. The process of reproducing these new patterns is stored
in the DNA of the raccoon who first wore the fur.
The habit (pattern) of putting on a coat over the human body when chilly is
social value. Whatever habits people had before they discovered putting on
coats have been supplanted by a new pattern that resulted from DQ mediation.
(This happened long enough ago that it seems ok to assume that the intellectual
level had not formed.) That DQ insight has been stored in the shared custom of
humans. The reproduction of this mediated social value (covering the body) is
managed by a process that is different from learning algebra. It is a social
process that is accomplished by imitation, not thought. The biological level
has been mediated as well (just ask the raccoon). The process of the
reproduction of fur pieces for coat material has been stored in human biological
patterns as well, as the maintainence of this process has become linked to the
biological welfare (paycheck = food) of the trapper, merchant, salesman, and
banker (thus, of course, creating and affecting other social patterns).
The knowledge of varieties of ways to sew a coat, the many different
intellectual patterns that mediate the social patterns of the coat industry, are
all intellectual patterns. These patterns were mediated by dynamic Quality,
and that DQ is stored as static intellectual patterns that are available to be
shared among people, ONLY if they can be stored in some lower-level pattern for
transmission and reproduction. The chain of mediation continues downward from
there, to the point where the inorganic patterns that make up the coat may be
something totally different (ie. petroleum-based).
Maggie
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