Denis
> OK, let's say that language is the machine code of the Q-Intellect. It
> conveys information (static intellectual value), has the possibility to
> replicate itself, and to evolve in response to Dynamic Quality.
>
> So what is the Q-Intellect ? Try this : it is the greater patterns in
> which static intellectual patterns organize themselves. Hierarchies,
> relations, similarities, opposites, functions. A metaphysics. We define
> the ontology (Ideas and Appearances, Substance and Forms, four classes
> of Static Patterns of Value, Spirits and Elements, Yin and Yang), then
> the relationships between things.
>
> What is SOM ? A metaphysics with great Dynamic potential. It created
> guidelines to access high-Quality intellectual patterns, defining
> Quality as Good Intellectual patterns : Truth.
>
> So, the battle between the Sophists and Plato was already on the
> Intellectual level, it was a battle between two different world-views,
> two metaphysics, which *are* intellectual patterns.
>
> The Q-Intellect as I see it now is the ecosystem in which competing
> metaphysics vie for dominance, just as different species vie for
> resources in Earth biosphere. The most dynamic ones make it to the top,
> the others don't.
>
> The real metaphysics of the Sophists is now lost to us, except for its
> central tenet : Arete. Its greatest tool, rhetoric (its replicative
> system, we could say) lost its battle with dialectics. Perhaps its
> ontology wasn't good enough, didn't include enough of the world. Perhaps
> it was too centered on the social level and lost because SOM had a
> better grip upon the intellectual level. Who knows ?
>
> Now MOQ has a chance to dethrone it. Its grip on all four levels is the
> best one I've found yet. So what do you think ?
You nailed it! End of thread! Break's over, go back to your school work.
DLT
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