[MD] sq social - sq intellectual

[MarshaV]

At 10:09 PM 8/13/2006, it was written:

>Ian:
>Now that is interesting ... I continually talk of the
>socio-intellectual level ... ie I have great difficulty making any
>clear distinction between what look like two aspects of culture to me
>- social and intellectual ...
>
>I'm forming the view that the missing axis is individual vs collective
>... but it's not a well formed view yet. Either way, I see a great
>deal of cutural (social) conditioning of what we (individually or
>collectively) see as "intellectual".
>
>
> >
> > Mark:
> > But we have to differentiate between sq social memes and sq intellectual
> > memes. I don't think the memeticists have realised this yet?
> >


Ian & Mark,

This is a very interesting topic.  I agree with Platt that the 
Intellectual Level is an individual process, but I cannot find a 
clear differentiation between the two levels as thought.  I cannot 
find a way to frame the question  that makes sense.

I have two primary, underlying premises:  1. Everything is connected 
to everything.  2.  Everything is in a constant state of change.   I 
take this to be the influence of DQ.

Is it that at the Social Level the sq is manipulating groups, and at 
the Intellectual Level the individual is manipulating sq, including 
social sq, as abstract symbols?


Marsha