[John] Ok then, by grounding in biological you are referring to the mechanism (I'm using the term analogously) of the biological brain and how that mechanism supports a higher level of social and intellectual quality?
And I further ask, do "specific neural biological developments" merely underscore, or do they cause and create this symbolic representation that we call consciousness? [Arlo] No, it does not "cause" it in any deliberate sense of the word. It merely provided for the foundation necessary for which symbolic abstraction became possible; an unintended consequence if you will. The key (in my understand) in the MOQ is that once it first emerges, the "new" level goes off on its own. Neural activity does not "create" symbolic representations, symbolic representations manipulate neural activity for their own ends. Pirsig's analogy of the hardware/software of a computer points to this. [John] But I'm sure we are not going to batter the poor old platypus of the Mind/Body split to death again? Help me Arlo. [Arlo] I certainly hope we aren't. :-) 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/
