[MD] Consciousness a la Platt

[Ron Kulp]

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.

Ron:
Just to keep this understandable, how are you using the term discrete?
what do you take it to mean?