[MD] What's missing

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:


> Pirsig says this quite directly in LILA. "Our intellectual 
> description of nature is always culturally derived. The intellectual 
> level of patterns, in the historic process of freeing itself from its 
> parent social level, namely the church, has tended to invent a myth 
> of independence from the social level for its own benefit. Science 
> and reason, this myth goes, come only from the objective world, never 
> from the social world. The world of objects imposes itself upon the 
> mind with no social mediation whatsoever. It is easy to see the 
> historic reasons for this myth of independence. Science might never 
> have survived without it. But a close examination shows it isn't so." (LILA)

Neither Kevin nor I claim that individuals who comprise the intellectual
level are independent of the social level. We're simply saying they dominant
the intellectual level, just as the collectives of church and state dominant
the social level. Intellect is not a collective process; it is an attribute of 
an individual.  



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