[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[david buchanan]

DM asked:
So where do you identify/distinguish the signs/cultural-products that 
indicate the birth if intellect out of myth/religion? -i.e. where they are 
not mythos-religious artifacts or ideas.

dmb says:
Not sure if I understand your question. But I think the answer is no. The 
distinction between religion and intellect is not based on tradition. Its 
based on philosophy, history, sociology, developmental psychology and stuff 
like that.

If you're asking about the Pirsig quote where he points out that the 
intellect invented a myth of indepedence from the social level, I think the 
point there is simply that intellect has an evolutionary relationship with 
the mythos, depends on the mythos, is the offspring of the mythos. You know, 
Descrates can only think because French culture exists. He's attacking the 
notion that intellectual was born without parents or that it can 
assassignate its parent. You know, discrete but not independant just like 
society is distinctly different that the human organisms within it and yet 
could never exist without them. This assertion is part of fixing all the 
levels into a matter-of-fact evolutionary relationship.

Hope my guess about your question was good enough. If not, feel free to pose 
it again.

dmb

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