[MD] Reading & Comprehension

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Platt, Horse, Group.

 29 Apr.Platt said to Horse:

> Your wish is my command. Again, you conflate intellectual patterns of
> value with the intellectual level. The two are separate concepts
> (thoughts, ideas).  Intellectual patterns of value is a broad concept
> that includes all sorts of ideas other than SOM that were used to find
> food, detect danger and defeat enemies, most of them having to with
> the activities of various Gods and spirits. So intellectual (thought)
> patterns certainly did exist prior to SOM which wasn't a prominent
> concept until the ancient Greeks came up with the idea.

Great show Platt, this and your previous posts, I must limit myself and 
have been busy with DMB and his "bulldog" Andre, but you made my 
day. The MOQ must sooner or later get out of "intellect's" grip i.e. that 
of conflating thinking - intelligence - with the 4th. level - but from the 
intense "flak" it will probably be later..   

> As for your final question, SOM didn't create the intellectual level.
> A man named Pirsig did. Before him there was no "intellectual level"
> as such.

I'll have to study Horse's argument to comment this. The MOQ is a 
new reality and it's not easy to sort out the steps toward it. There is the 
Phaedrus of ZAMM view and there is the author of ZAMM's view, then 
there is the horse-MOQ (horse-latin) view and finally the MOQ's view 
that you promote.


Bodvar