[MD] What's missing

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Intellect is not a collective process; it is an attribute of an individual.

[Arlo]
Intellectual patterns are, indeed, the result of a collective 
process. No one "thinks" in isolation. Our thoughts are always 
dialogic. "Individuals", as I've said, are a social-level construct. 
Their interactivity is what defines the social level.

Kevin is correct to wonder about what the MOQ says about 
individual-society interactions. And he is right to say, " I've also 
come to see that these practices are meaningless without a 
complementary active involvment in personal relationships, community, 
the world, etc." Indeed, one of the stong points of ZMM is that it 
points to a Quality "being part of the world". Abstracting the 
"individual" out to a "level above society" is simply a retrenching 
of old S/O metaphysics.

The "individual" and "society" are a dialogically-engaged, 
inseparable Yin-Yang. The intellectual level grows out of this pool 
of social-individual interactivity. Bo may or may not be right about 
S/O logic being the defining trait of intellectual patterns, but 
these patterns are still the result of collective social activity, 
not of One Great Man leading the poor stupid wretched hordes through history.

But I've already violated my decision to stay out of this. I'll try 
to do better about that.