[MD] Is the intellectual level individual?

[Joseph Bromley]

Hello Platt and all, of the few posts that I have read over the past month, 
I keep running into the valuation that people view the intellectual level, 
as individualistic. (Have I jumped the gun here as per usual?)

If you take the coperician revolution, at first the new value has held by 
Copernicus alone, but he put forth his new intellectual pattern of value, 
was branded and killed by the predominant social patterns of value, but the 
values he created lived on and grew after his death. Now, the sun is viewed 
as the center of our solar system, it has become an established intellectual 
pattern of value. Is this an individual  intellectual pattern of value, held 
by many, or a more generalised intellectual pattern of value. (Leaning 
towards a Platonic, intellectual in itself here. But with the beauty of an 
undefined source of all, Quality, as such, there are no things in 
themselves. (Praise be Pirsig.) Though the ego of every being will argue 
otherwise, "I am an individual." -This is me, this is mine, I want this, you 
do that, etc.

1+1=2 is an old intellectual pattern of value, which when taught, raises all 
involved to the intellectual level. Now are people who use 1+1=2, being just 
individuals, or are they a complex pattern of values, inroganic and up, 
perpetuating static patterns of value, or mu?

When on the rare occassion I find myself being intellectual, the intelectual 
activity is very consuming and the other levels loose importance, as if 
sinking deeper. In conversation I stop focusing on the person I am trying to 
connect to and intellectually hold the object I am talking about. I do not 
view this as individual nor non individual, more of a MU. The intellectual 
activity still requires all the other levels to be functioning, just 
relegated in my conscious awareness.

All the levels want to grow, all the levels have to fight for their own self 
interest, all higher levels depend on those below, as such the higher up the 
ladder the less individualistic, in a sense. On the other hand there is a 
greater use of energy the higher up the evolutionary ladder you go. It 
becomes rarer and thus stands out more, so can be discerned more, thus being 
labeled and experienced as a kind of individuality. Without discernment 
there would be no individual things.

Is expressing intellectual thought any more individual then expressing a 
biological desire, or a social conviction?

Does the holder of intellectual valuations not want to spread those 
valuations. This can be described as egoic or alturistic. Egocic in that it 
has a source, the mind of the thinker, and the sensation of power when the 
ego attaches itself to when the intellectual pattern of value held in the 
mind is understood by the mind of another. Equally, alturistic, in that if 
the valuation has  quality to whatever extent, it raises and shares out the 
quality to those who adopt the value.

As such I disagree with the intellectual level, as with any level, being 
labeled individual.

Yours sincerly J C B.

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