[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[david buchanan]

Steve said to Platt:
The dependent aspect of the levels is that the intellectual level can not 
exist without social patterns which can not exist without biololgical 
patterns, etc.  But the levels do not contain other levels like Wilbur's 
holons. Pirisig's levels are discrete as he often says.

dmb says:
Bingo! Each of Wilber's holons are said to transcend and include all 
previous holons. That's just another way of saying that each level depends 
on the ones below it and yet has a purpose and direction of its own.

Ha! The similarity between them can be found in the very description you've 
used to deny a similarity. That's beautiful AND amusing.

Thanks.

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