[MD] Dawkins quotes RMP on religion.

[Krimel]

[Platt]
The levels are in constant battle with one another. But, it is immoral 
moral for a higher level to completely destroy a lower level on which it 
depends for its survival. That's suicide.  "Just as a society that weakens 
its people's physical health endangers its own stability, so does an 
intellectual pattern that weakens and destroys the health of its social 
base also endanger its own stability." (Lila, 13).  But, as you know, 
evidence that we are destroying the planet is far from conclusive. Is it
still snowing where you are?

[Krimel]
What good is a system of morals based on levels when hierarchy of levels
provides no guidance as to which level has moral priority? I thought that
was your point over and over with the Doctor and the Germ. But if it is
immoral for the higher level society to kill the lower level trees then what
does the MoQ have to tell us about morality?

[Platt]
Thanks. That makes Pirsig a Bright. "The MOQ gives a purely naturalistic 
and genetic explanation of the phenomena of the moral life." (Pirsig's 
notes, Copleston Papers)

[Platt]
I agree. It (pre-intellectual) means sensation prior to concepts. Thought is
a secondary, derivative effect from physical sense date.  

[Krimel]
Are you willing to go further and say that what we experience
pre-intellectually is a function of our biology. It is the memory of our
ancestors encoded in our genes?