[MD] What Bo Doesn't Get

[Krimel]

> [Steve]
> The intellectual level of evolution is the collection of all intellectual
> patterns of value.
>
> [Krimel]
> Exactly!

[Dan:]
Not exactly. Evolution isn't a level, is it? Evolution is what drives
the levels. Evolutionary history is what the levels have in common.

Now, what Steve might mean is, the evolution of the intellectual level
is a collection of all intellectual patterns of value. But doesn't
that go without saying?

[Krimel]
Evolution doesn't drive anything. It is a description of how patterns adapt
in response to change, flux, uncertainty; in other words dynamic quality.
Evolution is a reflexive process where the output of one cycle becomes the
input for the next.

But, if you remove the reference to evolution entirely from the statement,
perhaps it does go without saying that the intellectual level is the
collection of all intellectual patterns. A pattern is that which has
extension in time. It is the encoding of experience into concepts. In that
sense all patterns are intellectual.

That would be my point anyway. You would think it goes without saying but it
is hard to detect from Bo's ongoing mangling of history.