Dear Jonathan
Good to "see" you, also thanks for mentioning me in your initial message and in
the follow-up where you comment the various responses, but have I really said
anything about it? I believe not, only here is my reply.
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I agree about the deterioration of this discussion, we have come a long way
since the good old Lila Squad days, but it can't be helped. A few comments to
your understanding of the intellectual level.
I think that your wish to abolish Intellect somehow springs from the same
source as my wish to cut it down to size, because the current model is
untenable, it leads - as you imply - to the conclusion that everything is
intellectual or nothing is. I am worn out by my effort to bring this argument to
dawn on the discussers who go on in their hopeless effort to align SOM's Mind
with MOQ's Intellect. A disappointment is that you (after this realization) don't
see the virtue of my SOLAQI interpretation, but I guess it's become a principle
not to agree with old Bodvar ... I would probably faint if it happened :-)
You said:
> Finally, it is my observation that when we "intellectually" analyse our own
> thoughts in this forum, we inevitably look at the inorganic patterns
> (molecular interactions and electric pulses in neurons), the biological
> level (senses, instincts etc.) or the social level (language,
> communication). Again, 3 levels are enough - you don't even need an
> intellectual level to talk about intellect.
"Intellectually analyse our own thoughts in this forum" The significance of the
last part evades me, but the whole S/O aggregate (subject analysing the rest of
existence) is intellectual value, yet many re-introduce the metaphysical "M" into
the S/O and those with their logic intact (you) soon realize that the rest of
existence becomes "our own thoughts" about it ...which is inevitable from a SO
..metaphysics point of view (what broke P. the great logician and made Pirsig
lay the foundation of a new metaphysics), but nonsense from the new
metaphysics (properly understood).
Bo.
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