Greetings Dan, Thanks for sharing your insights concerning the Book of Changes. You wrote something though that didn't quite make sense, and I believe it was a simple transposition mistake, but I'd like to make sure you don't really mean it:
Dan: "Looking to the four levels of the MOQ, it seems that as we move from the lower levels to the upper we move from the general to the particular. Just as every biological pattern of value is also an inorganic pattern but not all inorganic patterns are biological, every social pattern is an intellectual pattern but not all intellectual patterns are social." John: Surely you meant to say the opposite. All intellectual patterns are necessarily social, but not all social patterns are intellectual. Just as all social patterns are also biological, but not all biological patterns are social in the way we mean social. I believe we mean social to pertain to the consciousness of self and other. This self-realization doesn't pertain to life forms simpler than mammalian, in my view. Pirsig postulates that it doesn't pertain to animals simpler than human, but that's an ongoing debate. Take care, john 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
