[MD] Intellectual and Social

[Krimel]

[Krimel]
Seriously, can you believe this shit?

[Arlo]
With John, I don't know, he admits to being ignorant about theories 
of emergence, but this does not seemingly stop him from (at the very 
least) supporting Platt's sophomoric mischaracterization. I've tried 
to explain before that "creation" occurs as a "response to Quality", 
it is not puppeteered nor orchestrated by some supra-agent. Creation 
occurs as the result of interwoven, interrelated patterns each 
responding to Quality within their own agenic bounds. Atoms had no 
"intent" to create amoebas, nor were atoms "coerced" into doing what 
they did by a Qualigod who was willfully staging the cosmos for 
"man". We look back after-the-fact and see what appears to be 
certainty, but this is because what we do NOT see are the inexistence 
potential other outcomes. This illusion may make us feel all warm and 
fuzzy, but that's about it.

[Krimel]
The part that really puzzles me is that not just Platt and John but Ham and
Bo seem to take a certain amount of pride in their ignorance. How did it
become a virtue? I know the use of intellectual tools can be difficult. It
does take practice and effort but sheeesh...