Hi Roger and Group
A few days ago you asked me why a group of people coming together
planning to kill other people weren't displaying Intellectual value.
(I think this was your formulation, my inbox is so choked that using
the search engine is useless).
It's Sunday morning and I have just downloaded today's mail
and there may be something that pertains to it, with that in mind my
idea is (as in the opening of my BMI entry): Mind-matter as a
fundamental split goes along with S-O, what is left is MOQ's
dynamic-static split. Consequently "thinking" isn't a spiritual
exercise taking place in a mind realm as different from the matter
realm, but ONE STATIC LEVEL.
Forgive my digression, but I must stress that this is why I turn so
Jesuitical when the "consciousness" and "awareness" terms are aired,
because they immediately switch us on to the SOM track of
thinking as leaving for an otherwordly sphere. Walter said people
were conscious and able to foresee the future, and I possibly went a
little to far in denying this "ability". Of course humankind has
entered a quality dimension - Intellect - that sets them apart, but
it is not as in SOM: MATTER (brain) CONSCIOUS OF *T H E* OBJECTIVE
REALITY. If my SOLAQI idea holds water it is: ENTERING THE OBJECTIVE
AND SUBJECTIVE LEVEL. Subtle deviations, but is the linchpin of the
MOQ. "Mind" does not stem from the brain, but from society!!!!!!!
If brain was the source all vertebrates would be part of the
intellectual reality. Neural activity takes place in all living
things that have such network. Yes, there's "communication"
within a single cell too, and it gets more and more complex until it
can support the abstractions necessary for social understanding
which in turn gave rise to intellect. (Donny rejected my once
assertion that bee-hives is society in the Quality sense and I
agree).
Finally: Why a gang planning action in the future isn't Q-Intellect
is because "thinking" is not automatically conveying Intellectual
values, but just as easily social ones, and extermination of other
groups is a social value. My country right or wrong....etc.
Bodvar
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