[MD] What is SOM?

[MarshaV]

At 01:14 PM 12/21/2007, you wrote:

>Hi Marsha,
>
>You said:
> >Isn't SOM an Intellectual spov that describes the commonly
> >(intellectually & socially) held view (spov) that all patterns of
> >value are divided into two categories: subject (mind) and object
> >(matter)?  What am I missing?
>
>Steve:
>No, the SOM is the intellectual level itself. Just kidding.
>
>I don't think you are missing anything. But I don't think it makes 
>sense to say "the commonly
>(intellectually & socially) held view" because "views" in this sense 
>are only intellectual patterns not social patterns.

Steve:

Seems to me a view is a static pattern of value.  Why couldn't a 
pattern exist in both the social level and intellectual level?  One 
based on belief and habit (social), the other based on a patterns 
within science and a patterns within philosophy (intellectual).

Marsha