Hi John, To keep it straight in my tiny skull, I think of intelligence as a process, an activity, and I associate intellect with a type of abstract pattern from the Intellectual Level.
While I see that an independent, enduring self is an illusion, I do believe there is more to an individual than patterns. There is an awareness that is separate from patterns. I can experience it, but I'm not sure how to define it. I do not understand what you mean when you talk of truth as related to intellect, because I associate intellect with a type of abstract pattern. I'm not sure we are sharing like definitions. For example, in a given situation it would be using intelligence to apply the most appropriate social pattern. While in the same situation it might be a total lack of intelligence to apply a intellectual pattern. Am I making sense? Marsha -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Carl Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MD] The relativity of the MoQ Marsha, > That last remark was really to John who suggested that truth is the highest > quality of intellect. NOT! At least, not for me. > > Biology has the highest value of procreation. Society worships celebrity and for any intellectual statement there is no higher value than truth. Now, in this formulation, an individual contains biological, social and intellectual patterns, but an individual is more then their patterns. So I agree with you, that a person's highest value is DQ, but an intellect's highest value is truth. Intellect is alienated from experience, whereas a person is not. Does that make more sense formulated that way? John the person 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/
