On Feb 6, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Khoo Hock Aun wrote: > > The argumentation of the MOQ is that the process of intellectual abstraction > and conceptualisation is the highest level in human evolution. That the > humans can conceive of 'mental objects" and manipulate them is on this plane > an apex achievement and direct the course of human civilisation. This is > what is meant by the intellectual level and not the "subject-object split". > The moral force, or karma drives the "patterning" process either upwards or > downwards, in terms of organisational complexity, and therefore > "intellectual objects" as they form, have implications for society and the > Earth as a whole. >
Khoo, I'd like to ask you about what you say above, because it represents the reason for agreeing with Bo that the fourth level is the SOM level. It's at this level that abstract mental objects are reified and manipulated in a formal way, with the subject's feelings/opinions supposedly extracted. Marsha ___ 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/
