[MD] Bo's right! For all the wrong reasons? (Part2)

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On 2 Aug 2010 at 16:01, David Thomas wrote:

Then when, historically, did people first find not the need, but the
physiological and particularly the mental where-with-all to actually change
their behavior and environment to do something meaningful about fulfilling
these needs? This certainly was thousand if not hundreds of thousands of
years before Classic Greeks. So if the biological level emerged with the
first twinkle of life, how is it that the intellect emerged and somehow
existed without a level to occupy for thousand of years? It didn't.

Hence my conclusion that it is highly probable that evolution of the brain
in humans reached a point such that what separates animal social behavior or
values from human social behavior or values is what we now commonly call the
intellect. Therefore Pirsig's claim that the intellectual level emerged out
of human society is wrong. The a minimum they emerged and evolved in
parallel. Which means the whole MoQ level structure and moral relationship
are also wrong.

Hi Dave,

Another way to look at the evolution of levels is to presume the inorganic 
level possessed the seeds of life which blossomed into dominance of that level. 
Likewise, human societies contained the seeds of intellect which grew to 
dominate that level. So, I wouldn't be too quick to throw the baby out with the 
bathwater. 

Platt