[MD] (MD] Collective intelligence

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Platt]
As Horse says, there is common knowledge which we, as individuals, acquire as
we individually mature.

[Arlo]
I think Horse and I are fairly close in agreement, based on his latest post.  
But thanks again for reifying your S/O stance.

[Platt]
We, like Lila, individually consist of the four static levels of morality plus
the ability to respond to DQ.  Your "body plus collective" bit is the world
according to Arlo. 

[Arlo]
Not at all. Indeed, as I have said, as embodied beings we have a certain unique
experience that arises out of our biological embeddedness. We are also social
beings, engaging with others dialogically, and in doing so transform and are
transformed. A result of this collective activity (which is different from
"collective consciousness") is the emergence of socially-constructed
intellectual patterns. We then, in turn, assimilate these (along with our
ongoing appropriate of the collective consciousness). Of course, we are also
inorganic beings, but I think that the effect of our inorganic experience on
our selves is universal and rather fixed, so I don't mention it. Having said
this, you see, I certainly DO consider the "self" to be an emergent referential
point based on inorganic, biological, social and intellectual experience; with
the ability to respond "intellectual-dynamically" based on the fusion of our
(I'll add this for sheer clarity) inorganic-bodily-kinesthetic proprietary
experiences and the appropriate of the collective consciousness.

Pure MOQ. Not your S/O external "individual" interacting with patterns that are
forever apart from it. As Pirsig says, that's a "ridiculous little fiction".