[MD] Intellect Worship

[Steven Peterson]

Hi John,

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's another quibble for you.  Art is intellectual.   The best argument I
> can offer for this view is Leonard Shlain's Art and Physics.   There's a
> certain kind of intellect which "thinks" its just all that, all this, but
> it's fooling itself.
> I don't think intellect is bad, it just needs to be kept in its proper place
> and relation to the whole.

I'm going to quibble back at you and say that intellect is art rather
than the other way around.

Also, I'm not trying to dis intellect. I'm dissing the idea that what
I am saying is somehow dissing intellect. I'm dissing the idea that
there are intellectual level people, social level people, and
biological level people since people are always collections of all
types of patterns. I'm dissing Platt's idea that to lend "the
individual" reverence in the MOQ, we need to make the intellectual
level into the individual level. And I'm dissing Bo's idea that to
lend the MOQ itself the sort of reverence currently afforded to
intellect, that the MOQ must be placed above intellect in a new level.

Best,
Steve