Mary to Marsha and Andre: I agree with you, Marsha, this was a good post. I appreciate the clarification of "belief", but Andre, I'm disappointed that you discount the importance of the levels.
Andre: Dear Mary, I do NOT discount the importance of the levels at all!!! My comment about accepting or rejecting them was a reflection, on this Discuss from time to time, of suggestions about additions or subtractions of levels. I also agree with you about the contentiousness of the intellectual level. One little note though, when you say: The intellectual level represents the scientific method in its purest form. "Let's go out and try to answer some questions without being clouded by preconceived notions and social values. Let's look for the best explanation we can find based on empirical evidence, even if it proves us wrong, and then, if we later find new evidence we didn't know about before, let's incorporate that too and change our explanation as necessary." To me, that's what it is. Not an evolutionary developmental stage. It is an attitude. Now, convince me I am wrong. I'm open to it. I think of Pirsig arguing that science, in fact is not 'independent' from society. 'A science in which social patterns are of no account is as unreal and absurd as a society in which biological patterns are of no account. It's an impossibility" (LILA, CH 24). Thanks Mary, next time I'll try to be a little more precise. Cheers Andre 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/
