[MD] Regarding The Fundamental Nature of The Intellectual Level

[Heather Perella]

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

Chris:
> 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.


SA:  This is probably why I'm still contemplating.


art of wild flowers,
SA