[Ron then] Dogs, Primates, the meercats in "meercat manor" all exhibit communication And reasonably complex social structure. Which implies a certain degree Of symbol manipulation and subjective agreement. We humans exhibit the Most complex forms but I'd hesitate to say we are the only species That displays intellect. However crude.
[Krimel now] Ants "communicate" with chemical signals. Bees do the "waggle dance" and putty nose monkeys have different alarm cries for leopards than eagles. They even combine the two cries syntactically to signal time to move to a new territory to forage. I would be as reluctant to call this "intellect" as I would be to say that the Greeks invented "intellect" [ron then] When intellect has yet to be defined sufficiently yes, it does create a Lot Of confusion about what is meant by pre-intellect. The important part I Feel Needs clarification is which way are we focusing to achieve a quality awareness? Some impressions imply that it is to be found in pre-intellect And replacing SOM with MOQ. We have demonstrated that SOM is cultural As well as intellectual and is a huge contributing factor in how we Perceive reality. [Krimel now] I don't think we need to focus on intellect to find Quality awareness. This Quality awareness is rooted in biology and modified through experience but it does not require intellect to be expressed or for that matter to be suppressed. In other words Quality awareness is not something that needs to be achieved. It just is. 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/
