[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[ian glendinning]

Gene said [and Arlo nodded]
"Intellectual Patterns are Not our creation, they are Quality! We are
partly Their creation. We don't own them, they own Us!"

Cracked record time .... this is the meme view of mind and mental
evolution. "The bitch is in the driving seat." Get used to it.

When Platt asked
"Where in society does an idea reside before an individual discovers it?"

I was about to reply,
"In pieces strewn across intellectual and social debris in other
inter-communicating minds in that society. And those interconnections
are not controlled by the mental effort / free-will of any one
individual."

And then make my usual meme point :-)
Meme = just shorthand for "communicable intellectual pattern"

Ian