Thanks gav, you make a good case for my suggestion to change the name of the intellectual level to the individual level where SOM reigns supreme.
Platt. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:28 PM, gav <[email protected]> wrote: > the MOQ is an evolutionary hierarchy. > > to understand it we need to tell the story of the evolution of its four > levels. > > the first - the inorganic - is the level of mineral matter. at this level > entropy is rule. but even at this level there is the prototype of the next > level's (i believe this must be a feature of all levels - reminds one of the > tai chi symbol) characteristics. that prototype is the crystal. the crystal > seems to reproduce itself - but without any modification. the crystal also > seems to have other properties - electromagnetic, magical. some crystals > seem to disobey the law of entropy - eg diamond. gold also seems to do this. > they are intrusions of the eternal on the temporal plane. at the inorganic > level intelligence is already manifest in the inorganic reactions that take > place, in the properties of crystals and metals and also, most notably in > the appearance of water. > > water is the key to the next level - water is life, intelligent, multiform, > capable of memory and response. > > the second level - the biological - comes about proper when, in water, > complex molecules are borne (lightning strike? - cosmogonical parallel - > fire, air, earth, water) which can reproduce themselves - the forerunner of > DNA and the cell. the key to the biological level is reproduction, > reproduction with modification. evolution now speeds up. > > at the biological level extropy is the rule. organisms function > synergistically, that is with a mechanical efficiency of more than 100%. > > with the appearance of flowering plants things speed up again. sexual > reproduction has hit the scene and again we get a foretaste of the social - > this mating function being the platform upon which the society will > eventually base itself. > > also we see the social level foreshadowed in the plant and animal realm. > most notably with bees and ants. these developments are accurate biological > analogies for the coming age of man, and his social structures. > > the social level does not arrive proper until we have developed language > and art and technology. the primates may be argued to be very primitive > forerunners here. but the show doesn't really hit the road til we get > vertical, and develop opposable thumb action. it is these factors that > require greater cerebral coordination, which produces a neural net > sufficient to allow the evolution of language. > > the social level, by integrating individuals into larger and larger > superorganisms, accelerates evolution once more. > > the social level is still the dominant level today. the ego is the social > level in the individual. society provides meaning for the individual through > conformity - the individual sacrifices his/her freedom in order to be looked > after by the mother-state. the parallel twixt this and the ant/bee world is > clear. this is the world of the greek gods - benign sometimes, manipulative > at others. today moloch or mammon seems to capture the social spirit best. > > as before the next level is foreshadowed. it is language and art here that > start to question the divine right of the gods - for that is what society > sees itself as, in relation to the individual. this is hubris on the part of > society for the individual is as much 'god' as itself (perhaps more so). > this hubris is the beginning of the end for any society, from rome to the > 'new world order'. > > in greece the rebellion of prometheus, bringing the fire of intellect to > man from the gods is key. eden too. the key is rebellion. > > the next level is borne of the growing sophistication of language. the > power of self-reflection comes with the abstract plane of consciousness. > this more than any other single thing defines the intellectual level (not > SOL). *it is an interior world, of imagination*. imagination now accelerates > evolution exponentially. > > this interior world is the barrier between the gods and the individual. and > remember that society is a god - moloch, in this context. the imagination > frees the individual from the social - but it is his choice. does he follow > the old road of social conformity, or take the difficult high pass of his > own conscience? this is the existential question. > > the individual now divorced from gods (the fall) is reconnected to them at > a higher level through the hero's journey. by undergoing trials by fire, > whether through ritual or not, he is forged in the crucible of the world - > gold sublimated from base metal. the mystery of the cross is understood with > the whole being, the delphic mission complete - the logos inhabited and > destroyed. man is now one with the godhead - the source of all gods. he has > become morally superior to society and is no longer subject to its laws or > commands. for he lives by a higher law, that is incorporated into his very > being. he returns to society with the gift of life and society is > transformed by his return - the balance of nature is restored when > transformed, the hero returns, with love, to the fold of humanity. love is > the knowledge of god, of self that reason can never achieve. > > this is all made up > > > > 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/
