> Matt:
> That's why I don't go for the distinction between
> intelligence and
> intellect as what divides Pirsig's levels.
> Intelligence is obviously
> the biologically linked thing that we share with the
> animals, but I
> think that's all there is. "Intellect" is a
> reification of a set of
> cultural innovations that humans were able to create
> in part through
> their creation of language. Language was just a
> tool we created to
> help us survive. So were all the other innovations
> that language made
> possible. Some of these innovations took on a life
> of their own, but
> how do we tell an evolutionary story about the
> creation of "intellect"
> if it isn't a set of cultural innovations? We
> haven't been able to do
> it for "mind" or "representations" yet, and that's
> partly why
> philosophers of a pragmatist stripe have been
> working so hard to retire
> them.
My point exactly. This is why I keep saying we
could try to define intellect and any other level all
day and night and we wouldn't be able to. If we
completely thought we did, then we would be stuck.
These levels are defining something more dynamic,
creative, free, and open than we may think at this
moment. This is how improvising works so well on the
day to day events. We may try to organize and
structure our lives into Confucian habits, but
nature's wind will blow and the inspiration will flow.
night stars,
SA
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