[Ian] If you saw it as the whole world with nothing / no-one beyond the horizons, even then I suspect it would / could.
[Arlo] MRB's initial question was "would it occur to me on a desert island?", and the answer is "no". According to the MOQ, intellectual patterns of value do not spontaneously arise from the biological level. They emerge from the social level. "Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of biology which originates out of inorganic nature." (LILA) In this case, MRB would have the range of agency opened up to him on the biological level, but he would not have access to social or intellectual patterns, in other words, no social or intellectual activity. And if you are talking not about "occurring to", but something witnessed by some hidden observer, then this observer would see MRB exhibiting about the same range of "free will" as an unsocialized ape. (The ape would be seen "choosing" to eat a banana, and so would MRB, but neither would be able to "choose" any behavior endemic to the social or intellectual levels.) 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
