[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[Steven Peterson]

Hi all,

Bo said:
> The intellectual level is either SOM or a mental vessel that contains ideas, concepts, modes of thinking with SOM one mode and the MOQ another, and such SOM's MIND. And if mind prevails then the MOQ turns into a somish idealist teaching. There is no compromise between these two positions and MOQ's future depends on all SOM's tentacles being cut.


Steve:
Bo is offering us a false choice. The intellectual is neither SOM (or
any particular type of metphysics or even all possible systems of
metaphysics) nor a "mental vessel."

The intellectual level is the collection of all patterns of thought or
habits of mind. Dividing experience into the categories subject and
object is just one of these habits.

Best,
Steve