Hi Arlo,
On Behalf Of Arlo Bensinger > Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:06 AM > [Bo] > ... but nowhere on this earth - can't speak of cultures extinct - had > the intellectual level been reached in Mesopotamian times... > Intellect in the Western > Culture arrived with what we - moqists - know as SOM in Greece... > > [Arlo] > Would you say the mathematics of the Babylonians and Egyptians were > "social patterns"? [Mary replies] Yes. Most likely. Do you think modern mathematics is a "social > pattern"? [Mary replies] Not sure. Depends on what it 'values'. Can you point to the differentiating features of these > mathematics that would indicate one being "social" and the other > being "intellectual"? [Mary replies] Yes. Also, there is evidence that several ancient > (pre-Greek) cultures were able to mathematically and astronomically > predict and describe precession. Would you say these precessional > calculations and modellings were "social patterns"? > [Mary replies] If they did not value Quality, then yes. > Lastly, if "intellect" didn't arrive until "SOM", do you mean > actually "arrive" or do you mean "dominate"? [Mary replies] I would mean arrive. If there was no > intellect prior to the Greeks, and intellect appears with/as SOM, > that explain your earlier comment that "SOM is SOL run amok" (my > paraphrase). Shouldn't SOL, in your formulation, have predated the > "amokness" of SOM? > [Mary replies] Yes. Certainly. 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
