[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet

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dear marsha, mati and anyone else,
maybe this is mutually agreeable...?

thinking is activity - experience, ie undivided. 

the subject and object are abstracted from experience, along with all other  intellectual patterns. 

subject and object are a bit like time and space i think...it *seems* obvious that they have an independent existence - fundamental, bedrock of reality, constant....but we know that even time and space have no independent existence. all maya.

what is the intellectual level about? fundamentally it is the *activity* of the intellect, its dynamic aspect. no SOM here, just thinking. thought and thinker are abstracted after the fact.

 but for what *purpose*? isn't that they key question? (...for an investigation into values/morals). and the purpose must be quality...good ideas. another way of saying 'truth'.

but this is not an absolute truth...that is the ideologisation of truth, which is a social value. absolute truth means collective truth.

no. the truth that beckons the individual is existential truth - what is true (good) for them. it is the examined life leading to the life worth living. this is the purpose and measure of intellect.

so the individual *chooses* which social patterns are good for them. the intellect chooses those social patterns which support it best - this is moral. when social patterns try to do this to intellectual patterns it is immoral.

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what does the intellectual level contain? 
intellectual static patterns of value, one of which is SOM.







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