[MD] Intellect's Symposium

[Andre Broersen]

Mary to Dave and Bodvar:
What I've been saying is that the Intellectual Level represents
basically the mindset of the scientific method, which serves its own
purposes rather than those of society or belief systems.

Andre:
This is my understanding of Bodvar's SOL argument precisely. Not only
does this scientific method serve its own purposes but in the process
argues that the basis upon which 'those of society or belief systems'
rest are subjective, therefore mere opinion therefore superfluous
therefore having no legitimate basis. They are figments of people's
imagination,,,mere ghosts.

But as Pirsig says,science is , in fact, not independent from society,
science and its products are ghosts as well. Should science respond to
this it would probably argue that its ghosts are more real than the
others. Ladidadida.

Boy from the Country (John Denver)

'Because he spoke to the fish in the creek. He tried to tell us that
the animals could speak.Who knows? Perhaps they do.
How do you know they don't just because they've never spoken to you?'

Well, scientists talk to data...photons, protons, quanta, one's and
zero's, molecules etc etc.

Difference between the Boy from the Country and the scientist? The MoQ
says they operate at different levels of evolution. The former in the
social and the latter in the intellectual.

But I stand corrected.

Cheers
Andre