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Hi Dan and others who happen to like Kurt Vonnegut.

After about 40 years I found a copy of "Between Time and Timbuktu" here: 
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/qPXM6SDPlPE

What it has to do with MOQ and the MD? Well, make your own thoughts about it at 
the end of the story.

Jan-Anders


8 jun 2014 x kl. 22.24 skrev Dan Glover:

> All,
> 
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 2:17 PM, david <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Ant McWatt comments:
>> ...Dave Buchanan and John Carl are talking past each other.  They are 
>> talking about different things with the same name and is an error observed 
>> by Northrop in his "Logic of the Sciences & Humanities" book from 1948. 
>> Anyway, Dave is using the MOQ definition of "intellect" (i.e. the symbolic 
>> manipulation of symbols that we find in mathematics, the English language 
>> etc.) while John is using the SOM traditional definition of "intellect" as 
>> we find in US conservative radio chat shows etc.
>> 
>> 
>> dmb says:
>> Yes, John is using the SOM definition of "intellect", as opposed to the 
>> MOQ's construction of it. This is what Arlo calls the "problem space" and 
>> the "solution space" respectively. This is also what I often refer to as the 
>> disease and the cure or some other medical metaphor, following Pirsig's 
>> metaphors in ZAMM.
>> While anti-intellectualism is very popular in the right-wing media, it seems 
>> that John is merely relying on the ordinary dictionary definition of 
>> "intellect," making a special point to include the idea of objectivity in 
>> that ordinary definition. But of course dictionaries aren't a very good 
>> source for the purposes of metaphysicians or ontologists. I tried to correct 
>> John about this already, about a week ago, but apparently he just doesn't 
>> care. Here's that part of the exchange, from May 30:
>> 
> 
> Dan comments:
> I happened to come across a series of Kurt Vonnegut interviews done
> back in the 90's about anti-intellectualism and art, television and
> reading and writing, and lots of other ideas that seem pertinent to
> this discussion. This is the link to the first interview if you feel
> like checking it out:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojMAgsfgPjA
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
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