[MD] a view

[John Carl]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> [Bo]
>
> Because the 4th. level is both the springboard and the barrier to the MOQ.
>
> [Arlo]
> In the same way the social level is springboard and barrier to intellect?
> Or the biological level is springboard and barrier to social patterns?
>
>

Hey, I like that you guys.  It is, of course, a restatement of the
dynamic/static push/pull that occurs across levels, but "in the same way"
points to the great usefulness of the levels in doing analogistic analysis.


The one place this breaks down, imo, is the 4th level having no known upper
boundary.  Intellect can theoretically pattern itself infinitely, which to
my mind supports a spinozaist view of the cosmos where infinite mind
transcends human experience, while being concurrently part and parcel of
human experience.

This is also the only way it makes sense to "Kill all intellectual
patterns".  That statement would be pure nihilism if it wasn't made in the
faith of higher consciousness resurrecting new (and better)  intellectual
patterns in the vaccum left.

Which must themselves be killed, and so on, in an infinite process of
becoming.

There.  I think that is all that needs to be said.

John