[MD] Oneness, Dualism & Intellect

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Hi Matti,
Thanks for a stimulating post.
 
When the, 'problem' of intellect is mentioned, my initial reaction is,  
'Problem? What problem?'
 
The intellectual level has always seemed so very simple to me.
May i explain please?
 
Imagine a time in the course of value evolution when there is no  
intellectual level?
Evolution is dominated by social patterns, and these patterns are those of  
imitated behaviour and the celebrity. The celebrity is the best human - those  
with arte.
 
The arte humans are the ones who get to choose what language is transmitted  
from one generation to the next. For them, the Good is Arte, and language  
reflects this.
 
Duality already exists at this time: Duality between those who are arte,  and 
those who are not. A better term may be, 'differentiation;' those with arte  
are differentiated from those of no or little arte.
 
At some unspecified time, geometric patterns are described for the first  
time in language.
Geometric patterns are perfect examples of the Truth.
If you want to build a Good wall, that wall will be the best if True to  
Geometry.
This challenges arte, because Truth is so regardless of how little arte  
anyone has.
 
What good is it to have all that social arte when an ugly, weak little  
bastard can build a wall in accordance with geometry which protects everyone -  
even those without social arte - from the enemy?
 
Once the concept of truth is worshiped in its own right language isn't  
dominated by social arte privilages anymore, and so the intellectual level  begins 
to break free from the social level: Abstract symbolic  manipulation.
Structures of all kinds from music to poetry now have a new dimmension -  new 
differentiations which begin to replace the old social differentiations of  
the Good.
 
There is no SOM basis for the intellectual level, only  differentiations.
Love,
Mark