[MD] Intellect's Symposium

[Krimel]

[Dave]
A brief comment, hopefully, on levels in general.
Dawkins, who I happen to be reading now, introduced me to a concept that I
hadn't heard before. The problem of the "discontinuous mind". As we divide
things up to help in our understanding of complicated things like evolution
or genetics or life we automatic introduce the this problem at all the
division points. Because life, genetics, and evolution is all a continuous
flow. No matter how we divided it into one tiny little event after another
we still are wrong. But it is the best that we can do.

[Krimel]
This problem of continuous and discontinuous is a major big deal. James
handles it very well in "Some Problems of Philosophy" where he makes a
distinction between perception which is continuous and conception which is
discrete. The distinction is an important one and much confusion results
when we don't acknowledge it. Which, by the way, many here don't and their
confusion is plain to see.