Hi John, > > Ok Mary, I'll give it a try. Its a really good question, "what should > our > intellectual patterns value?" > > I don't have a ready answer, but I like the question and I've been > pondering > it so in a conversational way, I offer some tentative ideas: > > First, every level sustains and perpetuates itself, right? Like > inorganic > rocks keep on being rocks which demonstrates they "value" beingness > enough > to keep their molecular matrixes all in order. Like wise, living > beings > want to keep on living, and social patterns try to persist through > generations. > > So also does knowing value more knowing. We learn and conceptualize > that we > might have more powerful thought-patterns with which to know and > conceptualize, infinitely. > > But the purpose of intellect, also stabilizes the so called "lower > levels" > as well. Like Marsha and a lot of people these days want to keep bees, > because bees are in trouble. > > Intellect attempts to embrace the all, and cares about everything in > its > view. This is placing relative value upon everything it sees. It is > man's > intellect that has evolved to its position, in order to think about > everything else. > > Since that is what it does, that must be its purpose.
[Mary Replies] What you describe is what the human intellect does, but what does the Intellectual Level value? A different question entirely. > > The question was, what does the Intellectual Level value, not what > values > > have made the Intellectual Level possible. > 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
