This is the notion that any old group constitutes a social level, a notion flatly denied by Pirsig:
"One can also call ants and bees "social" insects, but for purposes of precision in the MOQ social patterns should be defined as human and subjective. Unlike cells and bees and ants they cannot be detected with an objective scientific instrument. For example there is no objective scientific instrument that can distinguish between a king and commoner, because the difference is social." (LC, Note 49) Regards, Platt On 15 Apr 2010 at 17:10, Horse wrote: > But they wouldn't be destroying their own social level - they'd be > destroying ours. If they were intelligent and significantly different to > us their social level would remain intact. Why would they worry? > > On 15/04/2010 16:35, Platt Holden wrote: > > It would be just like intelligent computers to attain such a level of > > arrogance that they would believe they would be better off by eliminating > > the social level on which their existence depends. > > Reminds me of some intellectuals I know. > > > > Regards, > > Platt > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Tudor Boloni<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> would be morally correct to kill us if they feel > >> > >> a) they will be able to contribute more ideas and intellectual patterns > >> than > >> human can achieve > >> > >> and > >> > >> b) they determine humans are eating up too many resources and produce too > >> few intellectual patterns for the expense > >> > >> am i missing something? > >> > >> tudor > >> 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/md/archives.html > >> 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/md/archives.html
