[MD] Regarding The Fundamental Nature of The Intellectual Level

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

Bodvar, a quick answer for now

[Chris]
>> Could this be it? That when social structures become so evolved that
>> distinct and separate *I's* are created that provides the vessel for the
>> intellectual level?

[Bodvar]
> It's a sin to pick nits, yet ....  Ancient people (before the intellectual
> level) surely had personalities, names, ancestry, property and
> everything we have (so have people in social-value-steeped cultures
> to-day) thus the personal 'I' isn't the vessel of intellect.

Bodvar. I will read your post more thoroughly later, but just for now -

I think the intellectual level emerged way before the Greeks if the 
intellectual level is constituted of this drive of "knowledge for knowledge's 
sake alone"  and quite early in human history - although it took time to 
evolve it: The Greeks and the SOM thinking is one manifestation of the 
intellectual level, but not THE. I tend to conclude.