Bo, Perhaps I do not understand the genesis of this argument. You called for thoughts about The origin of intellect. You poo-pooed the large majority of the responses on basis of "Mystic rubbish". Pirsig divides reality into 4 levels inorganic, biological, social and intellectual. All of which work on the concept of "value". You seem to be making the argument that Intellect came before social and that social is a result of intellect that it was reasoned That gathering in societies was valued more than individual survival. The question being Then is: are human beings social creatures by instinct or by intellect? When pavlovs dog Begins to salivate at the sound of a bell is the dog intellectualizing on the biological level? Is adaptation, biological intellect? Hell, Pirsig eludes to intellect when he makes the statement That molecules "prefer" the patterns they assume suggesting that intellect of some sort exists even at The inorganic level. One may even go as far as equating value with intellect in this regard. So what is your take on this Bo, at the risk of you handing my head back to me on a platter.
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