[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[Gene M]

> > There is only one Reality. It encompasses all things. The MOQ and it's
> > levels are just a convenient way to describe and understand that
> Reality.
> > They are not the Reality itself, simply tools for interacting with it.
>
> So the MOQ isn't real. Interesting.
>
> Platt


Not quite. Interesting try though. The MOQ isn't Reality.

A hunk of blue cheese isn't Reality, but it's real. The MOQ isn't Reality.
But it's real. One is biological patterns of value the other is intellectual
patterns of value.

Ideas are a tool.


Exactly.  So why not acknowledge the self/other dichotomy as it is
> experienced instead of trying to "re-tool" it as levels?  It would
> certainly
> clear up the confusion and acrimony.
>

Because I don't believe in it. I'll admit it exists in people's minds, but I
don't believe it has any Reality. Not anymore than the levels do. Each idea
is useful in it's place. But to claim one is The Truth is of poor Quality.
S/O is great for explaining something, I'm sure. But the MOQ offers a much
more integrated and comprehensive method of understanding for me.

Ideas are just tools. Truth is silly.

-Gene