Hi Steve I see. No argument there then. But you are choosing too easy an example. I'd suggest that if you look at any form of practical activity there is both an inventive/intellectual aspect and a cultural-treansmitting aspect that requires understanding that is intellectual in character even of practical and social in purpose. This is why I think the scale is a sliding one even if you have to draw a distinction somewhere to say an activity is more intellectual than social. But is any activity exclusively intellectual and in no way social. Lots of academic papers published to further careers even if they further knowledge. I don't buy a digital interpretation of reality. It's mainly analogue and very varied I'd suggest.
David M > Hi DM, > >>> 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. > >> DM: Does that mean all language use is intellectual rather than >> social? That >> would seem an odd suggestion. > > Steve: > > All language use is not intellectual. Language itself is maintained > through unconscious copying of behavior and is a social phenomenon. As > Pirsig commented in Lila's Child, saying gesundheit when someone > sneezes is a social pattern. My comment was that rationalizing behavior > is intellectual activity. "I did this because..." is an intellectual > pattern. > > 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/ > 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/
