> My understanding of "basic" here is that of "commonly held" concepts -- > those that everybody perceives from experience. The primary division that > forms the self/other dichotomy is an ontological concept which is > intuitive > rather than gleaned from experience. It involves more than an ability to > distinguish one's self from objective experience, and I doubt that most > people acknowledge or even understand this ontology. >
Hi Ham Sure, we make a distinction between self and not self in our cultural development. We realise that some change we cause and some change seems to have a different cause. Hence the distinction is one between the self-subject and the other-subject and we usually call the latter mother or god. Thousands of years later in cultural development do we get SOM and consider that there are changes that might not be moved by a subject and could be mechanical or accidental or law-like, hence SOM. You think SOM is more intuitive and basic than I'd look at it. Recognising otherness does not introduce the SO divide I'd suggest. David M Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
