[John Carl] > In life we find three different types of society - Instinctive, imitative and codified. > Instinctive includes the ants and the bees, which have social structures hard-wired into their DNA. > Imitative sociability is that which we find amongst the wolves and the dolphins and all mammals (including > humans) to a greater or lesser extent > Codified, is that special realm of social patterning that is transmitted through oral or written rules that are > passed from generation to generation which seems to be the exclusive domain of humans.
Pirsig labelled the 3rd level 'social', but he could just as well have said 'institutional' or 'rule-governed'. IMHO the important point is this: everything third level is social, but not everything social is third level. >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
