[Khaled] So where does that squirrel fit in the scheme of things? Is preening, nesting, and storing goods for winter a biological pattern or a social one?
[Arlo] Pirsig reserves the social and intellectual levels for "man", so a strict MOQ answer would be that these are biological patterns. Personally, I think such an exclusion hurts the MOQ's explanatory power, and I do allow "non-man" creatures into my understanding of social and intellectual patterns. To the examples you provide, my inclination is to answer "if the behavior is learned, then it is likely a social pattern. if even a lone squirrel who never encounters another squirrel would do this, then it is likely biological". (Great, this is now when then Man-Glorious-Man crowed is cued to begin their expected assault...) 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/
