[MD] subject/object: pragmatism

[Platt Holden]

Hi Ron, Krim, Bo and All:
 
> Gosh Krim, the more I toy with this the more I see intellectual coming
> BEFORE social. Intellectual was the domain of priests shaman and chiefs
> Before the age of universities and an educated citizenry! I keep trying to
> save the hierarchy but it keeps collapsing like A house of cards where
> intellect is concerned.

I don't discern any intellectual patterns in the biological kingdom, but as 
Bo reminded us recently, intellectual patterns rebelled from their servant 
role in human society to provide food, shelter and clothing and took off on 
purposes of their own. Today it dominates social patterns and fights off 
demands for compliance. 

In my mind the value of the intellectual level is S/O conceptual linearity 
measured by coherence. The higher level from which we see the value of the 
intellectual level is characterized by the value of spontaneous luminosity 
measured by intensity of the light. 

Regards,
Platt