[MD] Collective intelligence

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

>      [Platt]
> > Each pursuing her own interests in a marketplace of
> > ideas, jobs, products
> > and services without resorting to biological level
> > physical force is the ideal
> > of freedom to pursue DQ that Pirsig champions as the
> > road to better things. 
> > "Compromise" is such a system is called "bargaining"
> > with each trader benefiting
> > from the free exchange.
> 
> 
>      See Platt, you mention a system involved with
> free exchange called compromise and bargaining.  This
> is what Ron, I believe, was saying.  You, Platt, are
> talking about a society, exchanging ideas, in a
> marketplace, where a society exchanges and comes to
> intellectual conclusions thrived upon via dq.  Platt
> you are talking about what Arlo is talking about, yet,
> as Ron said, people are talking past each other and
> not really thinking about what the other person is
> truly saying.

I doubt if Arlo would agree that he is talking about what
I am talking about. 

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