[MD] Regarding The Fundamental Nature of The Intellectual Level

[MarshaV]

RMP:

"The intellectual level of patterns, in the historic process of freeing 
itself from its parent social level, namely the church, has tended to invent 
a myth of independence from the social level for its own benefit. Science 
and reason, this myth goes, come only from the objective world, never from 
the social world. The world of objects imposes itself upon the mind with no 
social mediation whatsoever. It is easy to see the historic reasons for this 
myth of independence. Science might never have survived without it. But a 
close examination shows it isn't so."
(LILA, Chapter 12)

Sounds to me like science and reason (EVEN of the S/O kind) are social 
systems.


Marsha