Wim
Thanks.
> By the way, where you write: 'in nature ... evolution is an excruciatingly
> slow process' I take you to refer to evolution at the biological level of values.
> Evolution at the social level of values is relatively fast compared to
> biological evolution (but still excruciatingly slow compared to intellectual
> 'evolution').
What I was referring to primarily was the relative slowness or "trickle
down" aspect of intellectural values from the time a shift occurs there,
until it widely effects the other levels. Democracy is a prime example
of this. It has been floating around as an "intellectual pattern" for
thousands of years yet it still has not come to dominate the social
level in any global sense.
> In this post you seem to me to use 'values' mainly in the SOMish sense.
Direct proof of the previous statement. It is very difficult to maintain
that distinction. Under the MoQ, "People changing their values" requires
first a shift, a dynamic change, in their intellectual values or they
have to value intellectual pre condition B over their current condition.
If that shift is made and stablized, then and only then are shifts in
social values possible.
3WD
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