Good analogy DMB .... My exact point with Bo ... I cannot accept that intellect is "defined" by SOM, the latter is just one (very stubborn) pattern it holds / held.
Ian On 11/15/07, david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bo said: > ...But this also proves my SOL (Intellect=S/O) There can't arrive an > "intellectual" pattern that overthrows the S/O while remaining an > intellectual pattern. The MOQ started as one but "took off on a purpose of > its own". > > dmb says: > Why not? Why do you imagine that non-SOM intellectual patterns are > impossible? I have been reading anti-SOM or non-SOM intellectual descriptions > from a variety of philosophers for a couple of months now and so this > assertion strikes me as quite absurd and quite obviously false. Radical > Empiricism is a direct attack on SOM. In what sense is radical empiricism NOT > intellectual? How does this prime example fail to prove the falsity of your > assertion? On top of James, we also see this attack on SOM in Dewey, Mead, > Nietzsche. Not to mention the Eastern philosophies. It seems to me that I > have been handling non-SOM intellectual patterns, trying to show them to > MOQers in my posts and so I just can't make any sense of what you're saying. > > To say that SOM equals intellect is like saying that a transportation system > is defined by the cargo it carries. Intellect is a capacity, an ability and > SOM is a product of that capacity. As I see it, there is no good reason to > think that trucks can carry only one kind of cargo or can only take that load > to one certain place. It confuses form with content. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Boo!Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! > http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/purchase/trial.aspx?s_cid=wl_hotmailnews > 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/ > 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/
