Hi Jonathan:
Great to "hear" your voice after many months of absence. Would that
your words of reason and sanity were seen on this site more often. But,
let's not go overboard by tossing away the intellectual level. After all,
you are one of its finest representatives.
> My own solution to this conundrum is to conclude that there is no need for
> a separate intellectual level. Intellect is the whole of the MoQ, and
> patterns of value are all intellectual patterns, subdivided into inorganic,
> biological and social patterns. Those 3 subdivisions are enough. Before
> anyone challenges met with the example of mathematics, let me give my
> pre-emptive answer: Mathematics is a social pattern; it is a language for
> communicating experiences and perceptions.
Since you live in Israel right in the middle of a social vs. intellectual
conflict, your denial of an intellectual level seems to me unimaginable.
Further, denying the intellectual level pulls the rug out from Pirsig's
analysis of the crises of modernity which is one of the major revelations
of the MOQ. Finally, your denial of the intellectual level sounds
suspiciously like "it's all in the mind" idealism which is probably not
your intention but I can see no way to escape that conclusion if all
patterns are, as you claim, intellectual.
Best regards,
Platt
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