[MD] Collective intelligence

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Arlo previously]
In this sense, "common knowledge" is the intellectual level not the social
level. Calculus, an intellectual pattern of value, is not a social level
pattern.

[Platt]
Calculus is hardly "common knowledge."

[Arlo]
So what makes something "intellectual" is how few people understand it? How
about mathematics? Is that "common knowledge"? Does that make math a social
pattern?

[Arlo previously]
Hardly, since Pirsig himself posits a "collective consciousness".

[Platt]
Where?

[Arlo]
In ZMM, which Pirsig calls the path to enlightenment.