[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Steve Peterson]

Hi Platt,

You said to me, "As you stated above, the levels are
interdependent and include one 
another to one degree or another."

That is definitely not what I meant. The levels can't
include other levels. They are discrete.

Platt continues, "Thus some individuals are dominated 
by biological values (terrorists), some by social
values (socialists) 
and some by intellectual values (rational
empiricists). I identify the 
levels like Pirsig does, by their dominance or
subservience to levels 
below and above."

Me:I agree that it can be useful to think about
whether a person seems to be more or less influenced
by a certain level's patterns as compared to another
person, but I can't see how that defines the levels
themselves.

"Thus the individual level is dominated by rational 
empiricists who refuse to let social values determine
their reality but 
rely instead in large part on personal experience and
independent  
judgments. These are the "show me" contrarians who
demand freedom from 
what "everybody thinks"and thus are the catalytic
agents for 
evolutionary change -- like the brujo.

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