[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting craigerb at comcast.net:

> Aside from cases where ideas exists in books, there are cases like when the Senate
> Labor Committee thinks the minimum wage should be $10/hr., even though no
> individual thinks the minimum wage should be that.

There's no way to tell what's inside a book until an individual looks and her mind
translates and interprets the marks therein. Committees, societies or groups of any
kind don't think. Only individuals think.

> (Half the committee
> [Democrats] think it should be $11/hr. & the other half [Republicans] think it
> should be $9/hr.)

Simply a tabulation of what the individuals on the committe think. 

> Also we can't rule out a priori that someday humans will be capable of mental
> telepathy--perhaps using brain waves--& that we will think simultaneously with
> others in a kind of parallel processing.

Pure speculation. Of course, nothing can be ruled out a priori. 

Platt



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