[MD] Regarding The Fundamental Nature of The Intellectual Level

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Unlike the other levels, the intellectual level regards the human 
individual as a voluntary end to herself, not as an involuntary means 
to the ends of others.

[Arlo]
All the MOQ levels are about the expression of agency of the 
"individual" on that level. No level is about "an involuntary means 
to the ends of others". That's just rubbish. As I said, all the MOQ's 
levels evidence "individuals in collective activity", from the 
inorganic all the way to the intellectual. The intellectual level 
widens the repertoire of agency afforded to the "human individual", 
but the rest of what you say is nonsense.