From: Kirk Rankin (kriketkrankin@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 02:20:58 BST
What is a level?
A level is a static latching of a tremondous
dynamic growth. If we look at what defines a level we
see that they were all (except possibly social)
created by some of the largest Dynamic movements ever.
These Dynamic movements have provoked much thought
and debate among philosophers. This is because we can
not fully comprehend these Dynamic movements, even
with the help of the MOQ. I think that to understand
what a level is and why it makes more sense to see the
world in terms of these levels, we should look back to
see how the levels came to be.
To go from nothing to the inorganic level required
a giant Dynamic leap. Much theory has been developed
surrounding the "first cause", be it big bang or
whatever. I think our inability to understand how
these levels are created can in large part be
attributed to the Dynamic movement necessary to create
them, a Dynamic movement so great we have problems
fitting it into a static pattern of thought (The MOQ
is able to do this well, although we are still unable
to truly understand how these Dynamic shifts could
occur).
The next jump in levels was to biological, the
great question of how life came to be, how something
that strives to grow in complexity could be created
from something that naturally decreases in complexity.
I am not sure about the Dynamic leap that created
society, as I am not entirely sure of what constitutes
the level of society or where it began. Under the
premise that society only refers to human society, I
would have to guess that this Dynamic leap would've
been the development of complex language, although
this would appear to be more a progressive evolution
than the leap that was necessary in creating the other
levels (im sure someone has a better explanation for
this).
I feel that the Dynamic shift to an intellectual
level is best explained by Julian Jaynes theory
(although I think we can all agree that this Dynamic
shift involved something similar to this). Man was
not conscious before about 700 BC, the voices in his
head that grew out of complex language were attributed
to gods. Once man became conscious he seperated
himself from society. An evolutionary progress than
took place at the intellectual level, until intellect
dominated society. In this way the creation of the
intellectual change can not really be understood by
us. Philosophers have wondered for thousands of years
about this consciousness that mankind has gained, we
are unable to truly understand how consciousness came
to be (which we still have, despite clarification as
to the conditions it began in) or what exactly it is.
This has created a main point of disagreement between
materialists and dualists in a SOM.
I hope that this look back at the creation of levels
can offer some insight into what a level is.
Hopefully this'll create more clarification than
confusion.
Thanks,
Kirk
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