[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[David M]

DMB

I think there might be a distinction where we stop
attributing created artifacts to gods or muses and start
claiming that we possess these creative powers as human beings.

DM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david buchanan" <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Distinguishing Levels


> 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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