[MD] irony and socrates

[Marsha]

Steve,

Love, good, and infinity can be objectified and manipulated; that is  
exactly what you did in your paragraphs below.

The Intellect Level is comprised of patterns that represent the  
process of objectfying and manipulating abstract symbols:   
"Objectificationt is the process by which abstract concepts are  
treated as of they were concrete things or physical objects.  In this  
sense the term is synonym to reification."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectification


Marsha


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>
> Hi Marsha,
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Marsha <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>>
>> If the question is whether the patterns in the Intellectual Level are
>> subject/object in nature, I still agree with you Bo.
>>
>> Marsha
>>
>
>
> I'm not sure what you could mean when you say this. If your point is
> that all patterns can be thought of as either subjects or objects,
> even if I grant that that is true (which I don't since I think
> concepts like good and love and infinity and experience among others
> will give us trouble here), that still leaves the question of whether
> they are *best* thought of that way. Also, the habit of mind of
> distinguishing between subjects and objects is just one among a
> multitude of intellectual patterns such as preferring simpler over
> more complicated explanations (when all else is equal) and preferring
> explanations that describe a wide range of experience over ones which
> describe only a particular narrow set of experiences and preferring
> explanations that cohere with other explanations that we have already
> selected.
>
> Best,
> Steve
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