[MD] Consciousness a la Platt

[Krimel]

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?

[Krimel]
Divorced from one another, noncontinuous, independent, no overlap. Or as
Pirsig put it:

"This classification of patterns is not very original, but the Metaphysics
of Quality allows an assertion about them that is unusual. It says they are
not continuous. They are discreet. They have very little to do with one
another. Although each higher level is built on a lower one it is not an
extension of that lower level. Quite the contrary. The higher level can
often be seen to be in opposition to the lower level, dominating it,
controlling it where possible for its own purposes."

Is: present tense of the verb "to be."