Bodvar said:...I believe that the "SOM as intellect" tenet is now generally
accepted (among the thinkers) and that means that the MOQ is no intellectual
pattern and thus saved. DMB will probably repeat "Bo is wrong" till he drops,
but that can't be helped.dmb says:Consider it repeated. There are many thinkers
that make a case against SOM and of course they use intellect to make that
case. I think this should be obvious because the MOQ is our prime example of
such a non-SOM intellectual description. Maybe your confusion is caused by a
failure to distinguish between the capacity to think with the product of that
capacity. It's like the difference between the skill of a carpenter and one of
his products, between the ability to cook and the meal that's been prepared.
The ability to manipulate abstractions is different than any particular
configuration of of abstractions. That's how we can think of metaphysical
systems as paintings in a gallery. The same basic skill set can produc
e any number of pictures. The notion that there can only be one true picture
of reality is one of the central problems with SOM. Unlike the MOQ, scientific
objectivity allows only one construction of things. This is also a feature of
all forms of essentialism. I mean, your insistence that intellect equals SOM is
probably, and ironically, a stubborn vestige of the SOM picture of
reality.Personally, I don't like the consequences of that equation either. It
denigrates the intellect and more or less denies it the capacity to change or
evolve or to paint new pictures. Pirsig is saying that intellect is the most
dynamic level and that's what makes it the most moral level but your equation
turns the intellectual level into the MOQ's own worst enemy. Time to go to work.
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