[MD] subject/object: pragmatism

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au>:

> heya,
> on the issue of intellect and animals.....
> animals do not have intellect but they are intelligent. everything is
> intelligent.
> i am mistaken here? it seems to me that this simple distinction -
> intellect/intelligence - clears up a lot of confusion.

[Platt}
Right you are, Gav, supported by Pirsig in Lila:

“If that's what it was, the cells had won. Probably they had bled enough to throw
off infection, then swelled to slow down the bleeding, clotted, and then slowly,
with the special INTELLIGENCE of their own that had nothing to do with Lila's mind,
they remembered how they had been before she had cut them apart and they carefully
joined themselves back together again. They had a mind and will of their own. The
mental Lila had tried to die but the cellular Lila had wanted to live.” (Lila, 15)




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