[MD] Intellect's Symposium

[David Thomas]

John

> I say it just the opposite of you.  The social is THE integral part of
> intellectual emergence.

I am not proposing social is not an integral part of intellectual emergence
just the opposite. I'm proposing the intellect (individual power and
capability for knowledge and reason in the broadest sense) grows over time
through group interaction (it may also evolve, progress, get better.) The
knowledge acquired in this process is shared and builds up in groups both by
oral tradition, old teach young, and artifacts until finally it is
sufficient to tip over the edge into the intellectual level. This probably
doesn't occur until a society has a written language and math. Further more
who and what rises to the intellectual level is subject to some sort of a
group selection process.

Dave