[MD] The Individual Level

[Case]

[Platt]
In that sense, all patterns exist as symbolic representations of 
experience in the individual brain.

> As with notions of honor, thrift etc, the only place a
> "collective" mind possibly doesn't exist in a brain (or, at least, is of
> no value) is a person stranded by themselves on a desert island.

"You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no 
morality on a desert island -- it is on a desert island that he would 
need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay 
for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will 
drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a 
harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today -- and reality will 
wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a 
value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to 
buy it." Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged."

[Case]
Thanks for sharing this! If this is an example of your mentor's skills at
reason, it explains a lot about how you go on. I suggest that you would
enjoy immensely anything by Josh McDowell.