Everyone knows that intellect belongs only to humans. That's not the
problem. The conflict is:
a) Maximize the number of humans (and thus the potential amount of
intellectual DQ) BUT at the cost of loss of DQ in the biological level of
other species--which has many consequences for humans, for example, less
beauty and vanished historical and scientific information on the
intellectual level (no wilderness, many extinct species), and weaker
societies (because there is no reservoir of biological DQ to help
agriculture). Maximizing the number of humans has negative intellectual and
social effects.
b) Control the number of humans in some way, and preserve existing
species's ability to be biologically dynamic. Can this be justified in
terms of "higher quality intellectual activity" than would exist in (a)?
I was thinking that MOQ is a human creation and really doesn't address the
RIGHT of other species to be preserved to achieve DQ in their own way. Do
we have the right to say that our intellect is more Dynamic than a
eucalyptus tree (I'm not advocating biocentrism, I'm asking only: Does MOQ
answer this question?).
Danila
Platt wrote:
>A basic requirement for intellect is extensive intellectual capacity,
>something which on this planet belongs exclusively to the human
>species.
>
>I agree with Roger's description of the intellectual level:
>
>"I believe the intellectual level refers to the systematic art of
>building and testing simplified intellectual models that allow us to
>identify, learn, test, categorize, record and apply our experience."
>
>Show me a dolphin with such capacity and I'll stop eating tuna fish
>sandwiches.
>
>PzEph wrote:
>
> > I don't normally indulge in inter-level conflicts but....
> >
> > It's Intellect which is supposed to be the morally higher level, not the
> > Human species. If you want to cure yourself of the confusion between the
> > two, hit town somewhere near rush hour.
> >
> > And since it's intellect, not humanity, which is morally more evolved than
> > society (which isn't a human preserve either) or biology, it follows that
> > the requirements of intellect (what ever they might be) come first, not the
> > survival, and certainly not the whim, of the human species.
>
> > Maybe what intellect requires for it's survival in the long term is
> that the
> > people who claim to possess it don't go around destroying the planet.
> >
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