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[Platt]
> > As I understand him, Bo says SOM is the dominant value of the
> > intellectual level, not that SOM equals intellect. The levels are
> > patterns of value separated by dominant and competing values, not
> > valueless SOM categories like society and intellect.
{Bo}
> No Platt, It's not so, I very much regard SOM all of intellect. It's just
> that in the MOQ the 4th level is not SOM, but the value of the S/O
> distinction. I don't know if this is possible to convey, but the snag is
> that in SOM the term "intellect" means a mental compartment that
> manipulate ideas and when this is transferred into the MOQ it screws it
> up.
Hi Bo,
That's what I thought I said -- " . . . the 4th level is the VALUE of the S/O
distinction" which forms the basis of SOM. (By contrast the MOQ stresses the
value of the DQ/SQ distinction.) I've also stressed the levels are NOT
isolated mental compartments but dominating value regions that overlap at the
edges -- or if you like, a hierarchy of changing values running morally upwards
from rocks to reason. I don't think SOM can be all of intellect because then you
would have no place to put symbolic systems like mathematics and computer code.
By stating "I very much regard SOM all of intellect" you are placing intellect
in a tight mental compartment which, as you say, transfers that idea into the
MOQ
which "screws it up."
Best,
Platt
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