[MD] Patterns

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Arlo previously]
No, it was most certainly beings, plural. It came from the shared dialogue of
individuals-in-social-activity. One derives power from many, no voice
existapart from the others. 

[Platt]
I guess this means no one in the history of man ever had an original idea. 

[Arlo]
I guess it means just what it says. "Original thoughts" do not pop out of the
brain of some Miraculous Lone Individual, but emerge only from
individuals-in-social-activity. Moreso, the "individual" is herself a
confluence between an assimilated shared dialogue and the unique experience of
her as a bounded organism. Even moreso still, of course, we must remember that
the "self" (if this is what you mean by "individual") is an idea, or rather a
collection of ideas.