[MD] Social Imposition ?

[Platt Holden]

> [Arlo]
> Your ongoing confusion is to try to paint "collective activity" as
> obedience to social authority. Collectivization occurs on ALL the MOQ
> levels, and is how evolutionary movement, from inorganic to intellectual
> patterns, is possible. 

Evolutionary movement is NOT made possible solely by collectivization 
and increasing complexity as you keep asserting. That's the scientific 
explanation, not the MOQ's. Pirsig clearly describes the MOQ's 
evolutionary principle in Lila, Chap. 24:

"Within this evolutionary relationship it is possible to see that 
intellect has functions that predate science and philosophy. The 
intellect's evolutionary purpose has never been to discover an ultimate 
meaning of the universe. That Is a relatively recent fad. Its 
historical purpose has been to help a society find food, detect danger, 
and defeat enemies. It can do this well or poorly, depending on the 
concepts it invents for this purpose.

"The cells Dynamically invented animals to preserve and improve their 
situation. The animals Dynamically invented societies, and societies 
Dynamically invented intellectual knowledge for the same reasons. 
Therefore, to the question, "What is the purpose of all this 
intellectual knowledge?" the Metaphysics of Quality answers, "The 
fundamental purpose of knowledge is to Dynamically improve and preserve 
society." Knowledge has grown away from this historic purpose and 
become an end in itself jus) as society has grown away from its 
original purpose of preserving physical human beings and become an end 
ir itself, and this growing away from original purposes toward greater 
Quality is a moral growth. But those original purposes are still there. 
And when things get lost and go adrift it is useful to remember that 
point of departure."
 
In short, evolution occurs through a process of "Dynamic invention," 
not some magical "emergence" from increasing collectivization.