[Krimel]
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.
{Ron}
That's it exactly Krimel, this is what I'm trying to convey by Establishing
SOM as cultural as it stands today. We need not suppress it, shed it, Or
replace it. It can however be transformed.
[Krimel]
Well for me static and dynamic are terms that refer to the relative flux of
Quality. Rate of change, if you will. If we insist on sticking with the
levels then each of the levels is always in some state of relative change
internally and in relation to the other levels. In fact the levels suggest a
progressive rate of change as we ascend them.
I don't need to tell you about the current rate of change at the social
level but an interesting article in the current issue of Scientific American
Mind notes that in 30 western countries where data is available IQ rose
dramatically throughout the 20th century. The standard tests for IQ are
renormalized periodically so that the average IQ remains constant at 100.
However, there were several such renormalizations. The author of the article
suggests that what was going up was the capacity for abstraction and the use
and manipulation of categories of thought. People 100 years ago were
inclined to look things much more concretely than people of today.
One can only imagine where this is heading. I would maintain that westerners
live in a world nearly completely constructed of ideas, already. Perhaps
this has something to do with our inability to understand or be understood
outside of the western sphere of influence.
My second favorite author, William Gibson, has suggested that more and more
people are spending more and more time in virtual space which is entirely
synthetic. You know the kind of people I mean: those who spend lots of time
in Norrath or Googleing or engaging in online forum discussions. Gibson, who
has been uncannily right about such things, maintains that in the not too
distant future people will be unable to distinguish time spent in the
virtual world from time spent in the "real" world.
virtual woods, without, bugs, heat or grit, unless you prefer them...
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