[MD] Regarding The Fundamental Nature of The Intellectual Level

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

> 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

Quite so. The more one thinks about it, the harder it becomes to find a 
clear Intellectual Patterns. What I find myself seeing is a few social 
patterns that have been moulded into fitting Intellectual development - by 
intellect presumably, but intellectual patterns yet eludes me. And if 
somebody says freedom I'll scream.

//Chris