[Magnus] But why would the intellectual level be so much less dependent on lower levels than all other levels are? And especially since we *can* find a better dependency.
[Arlo] I don't think that it is. Intellect rests upon a foundation of inter-nodal neural nets (pardon the redundancy). You are removing one node from all the others, and expecting it to die immediately. Even if I sever my hand from my body, the flesh and muscles and blood and cells in my hand continue to live for quite some time. In your analogy, you are imagining you are removing social patterns completely, you are not, you are removing a node from the network. Of course residual patterning will continue (albeit in decay) as the node dies. In other words, you are not eliminate social patterns immediately when you transport a man to the moon. Since the node on the moon was social, it will transport that with it, in the same way the fish will transport biologicity with it when it is removed from water. This is why in my example you ARE removing (well, preventing) the node from ever being part of a social network. In this case you can see that no sociality means no intellectuality, period. The node was never social, therefore it can never function intellectually. Consider it this way. You can hold your breath for a short time without dying, although your cells will very quickly enter a state of degeneration. However, in an oxygen free environment human life would never have appeared. 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
