[MD] The Greeks?

[Krimel]

[Mary] 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my sense is that you are in the DMB, et al,
camp where the Intellectual Level is defined as symbol manipulation.  The
more I think about it the further I get from that camp.  The distance
increases daily and this honestly puzzles me.

[Krimel]
Try sticking this piece into puzzle. You are a code jockey. The intellectual
level is composed of ideas, patterns of thought. Ideas are encoded in
wetware in binary that is platform specific to each individual human.
Symbols are second order languages that can be manipulated across platforms.
The intellectual level is virtual storage that holds all of the second order
code.

Pirsig talks about SOM not because it is not some universal assembly
language that metaphysically runs on Intel and Motorola chips but because it
is Basic or maybe C++. He hopes the MoQ will be like Java.

BTW, when you watched the DVD did you find yourself wondering why Ant didn't
just green screen Dave or why it wasn't at least shot at 720 dpi. I thought
maybe it was a metaphor for the resolution of the ideas Dave expressed.