[MD] MOQ/BOC

[John Carl]

Greetings Dan,

Thanks for sharing your insights concerning the Book of Changes.  You wrote
something though that didn't quite make sense, and I believe it was a simple
transposition mistake, but I'd like to make sure you don't really mean it:



Dan:

"Looking to the four levels of the MOQ, it seems that as we move from
the lower levels to the upper we move from the general to the
particular. Just as every biological pattern of value is also an
inorganic pattern but not all inorganic patterns are biological, every
social pattern is an intellectual pattern but not all intellectual
patterns are social."

John:

Surely you meant to say the opposite.  All intellectual patterns are
necessarily social, but not all social patterns are intellectual.  Just as
all social patterns are also biological, but not all biological patterns are
social in the way we mean social.

I believe we mean social to pertain to the consciousness of self and other.
This self-realization doesn't pertain to life forms simpler than mammalian,
in my view.  Pirsig postulates that it doesn't pertain to animals simpler
than human, but that's an ongoing debate.


Take care,

john