[MD] Achtung MOQers!

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Khaled]
So where does that squirrel fit in the scheme of things? Is preening, 
nesting, and storing goods for winter a biological pattern or a social one?

[Arlo]
Pirsig reserves the social and intellectual levels for "man", so a 
strict MOQ answer would be that these are biological patterns.

Personally, I think such an exclusion hurts the MOQ's explanatory 
power, and I do allow "non-man" creatures into my understanding of 
social and intellectual patterns. To the examples you provide, my 
inclination is to answer "if the behavior is learned, then it is 
likely a social pattern. if even a lone squirrel who never encounters 
another squirrel would do this, then it is likely biological".

(Great, this is now when then Man-Glorious-Man crowed is cued to 
begin their expected assault...)