[Dan] > If social patterns are not intellectual, > how do we discriminate them from other patterns? > Are they hard-wired into our nature?
No, if they were hard-wired they would, of course, be biological. IMHO social patterns must be learned & there is a "right vs. wrong" aspect to them (this last is the subjective aspect, but see below). If you itch, it is not right or wrong to scratch, it just is a biological response. But if following a social ritual, there is a right or wrong wrong way to do it. If in addition, there is a reason for doing it a certain way (other than, "that's just the way the ritual goes"), then we are in the intellectual realm. Craig 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
