Bo, Higher levels dominate lower - have them at their mercy if you like - but patterns within one level, the intellectual level are not at the mercy of each other - they are co-evolving. What you had actually accused others here, was putting MoQ "at the mercy of" SOMist intellect .... completely the opposite to what people (like me) have been saying to you in fact.
Ian On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:21 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian, what did I do to deserve this? > >> all your points are rhetoric against people - very low quality >> arguments from you. eg No one has ever said "and thus is at its mercy". >> You made that up as a straw man. And your choice of the word mercy - or >> maybe just a stock English phrase ? - suggests to me you have a very >> primitive view of evolution. > > You had after all written: > > Almost, but not quite. The newly (more dynamic) MOQ level is > allowed to dominate new "intelectual" patterns arising from the > (static) intellectual level,..... > > If the MOQ dominates intellect, then intellect is "at its mercy" (or "at its > disposal") like society is at intellect's disposal and so on downwards. > > About "primitive view of evolution". IMO, after a new level had been > established its "building block" became the ultimate pattern of the > lower level. After the social level took control over biology "Homo > Sapiens" became biology's last word. Where intellect has established > its hegemony democracy is the final social form. And my safe bet is > that MOQ's "building block" - the Quality Idea - will be intellect's last > word when the MOQ has achieved "levelhood" (Mary's eminent term). > > If this is what you mean by the "... the new MOQ level is allowed to > dominate new intellectual patterns" - we agree. > >> And yes I am still resident in Norway, but I didn't really notice what >> the furore over Hjernevask was about. (I will still be working for a >> Norwegian company, but UK resident again from June) I never managed to >> get past the Janteloven ;-) > > I see, is it worse here than elsewhere? > > Bodvar > > > > > > > > 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
