[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Platt Holden]

> Platt said:
> Terror, violence and gang death are actions of individuals and thus 
> people acting on the biological level.
 
[Gene] 
> So biology is also the individual level?
> 
> The problem is, I could define Any level as the Individual level and
> make an argument for it. Since an individual is created by the levels.
> Only individual human beings behave socially. Why not call that the
> Individual level? It makes no sense. The individual can not be placed on
> a single level, Because it is made of all of them.

Unlike the intellectual level, the inorganic, biological social levels 
are not dominated by human individuals. The inorganic level is 
dominated by particles, atoms and physical laws, the biological level 
by DNA, cells and the law of the jungle, the social level by the 
"Giant, conformity and the law, the intellectual level by human  
individuals, reasoning and  responding to DQ.

Calling the intellectual level the individual level reflects what is 
most significant about the levels, their dominant or subservient 
relationship to the other levels in terms of their higher or lower 
morality. 

What makes the MOQ better than other metaphysics? IMO the answer is 
summed up in this passage from Lila:

"Taken by itself that seems obvious enough. But what's not so obvious 
is that, given a value-centered Metaphysics of Quality, it is 
absolutely, scientifically moral for a doctor to prefer the patient. 
This is not just an arbitrary social convention that should apply to 
some doctors but not to all doctors, or to some cultures but not all 
cultures. It's true for all people at all times, now and forever, a 
moral pattern of reality as real as H20. WE'RE AT LAST DEALING WITH 
MORALS ON THE BASIS OF REASON.  We can now deduce codes BASED
ON EVOLUTION that analyze moral arguments with greater precision than 
before."  (Emphasis added)

That's why I define the levels by their evolutionary moral 
relationships. It is more moral to be a free-thinking individual than a 
tradition-bound, mind-numbed robot (social level) , or a bomb-throwing, 
throat-cutting  terrorist (biological level). 

Platt