Hi David, >> Steve: >> Thick and thin are on a continuum. I don't see how inorganic, biological, >> social, and intellectual are on a continuum.
DM: >I don't know. Are apes social on a sliding scale that can evolve to what is >human? Steve: To the extent (if at all) that apes can manipulate symbols that stand for patterns of experience, they participate in intellectual patterns. I think gorillas have been taught sign language wihich suggests to me that humans are not the only animals capable of participating in intellectual patterns. DM: >Are tool making, agriculture, story telling, art of war, language, the arts, >social patterns that evolve >on a sliding scale to what we might call intellectual? Steve: I think of social patterns as maintained through copying behavior of others without thinking (manipulating symbols) while intellectual patterns are maintained through copying rationales for behavior. I don't see any sliding scale or overlap between a rationale and a mimicked behavior. Regards, Steve 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/
