[MD] Collective intelligence

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [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?

Arithmetic is common knowledge. Topology is not.


> 
> [Arlo previously]
> Hardly, since Pirsig himself posits a "collective consciousness".
> 
> [Platt]
> Where?
> 
> [Arlo]
> In ZMM, which Pirsig calls the path to enlightenment. 

Have you the exact quote? 



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