[MD] Consciousness a la Platt

[Krimel]

Ron:
I dunno Krimel the shit sure does get swallowed up fast here,
to be more specific, I do not use high/lo as a good/bad. I use it in
a MoQ context as lo social values being high biological values
and high social values as lo intellectual values. 
As you justly stated above. 

[Krimel]
I see. But doesn't that rather highlight my ongoing criticism that the
levels are not discrete? 

Ron:
The levels are a description of experience.

Discrete is a difficult term to apply to the levels, they certainly have
no definitive boundaries, they overlap, lo level values will tend to
accumulate
to form differing patterns of higher value, HIV a biological value,
 discretely changed social level values and intellectual values.
as the biological epidemic grew the social level paranoia spread
about homosexuality and changed thoughts and attitudes about sexuality
as a whole.

[Krimel]
Just so you know that denying that the levels are absolutely discrete
amounts in some quarters to MoQ heresy. I would continue to argue that this
is what makes them a secondary issue, unrelated to the metaphysical aspects
of the MoQ. I am almost certain that Pirsig would disagree.