[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Platt Holden]

Hi Steve, 
> 
> 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.

Didn't you say that government isn't strictly a social level value 
since government includes thinking which is an intellectual level 
value?

> 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.

Pirsig makes it clear that the social and intellectual levels are human-
centric. Thus, to define the levels in human terms seems to me 
appropriate. 

Platt