[MD] Intellectual Level

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Platt]
> The SOM premise is self-evident and thus invisible to the
> intellectual level of patterns.

[Craig, previously]
> I don't think this is possible. "Self-evident" means "easily seen"
> & "invisible" means "cannot be seen". They are contradictory.



[Platt]
> "Self-evident" points to a preconscious assumption, thus invisible. It's an
> assumption accepted without thought, without question. For example, it is
> self-evident to science that an order exists in the universe to be
> discovered.

Nope. I can't even say "Nice try".
Such regularity as we see in nature is not "pre-conscious",
but is a result of comparing (analogy) current experience with previous.

[Platt]
> Similarly, SOM that in Pirsig's static value hierarchy
> infuses the intellectual level.


SOM only infuses the intellectual level if one has an SOM metaphysics,
which some on the MD cling to. For the rest of us MoQ infuses
the intellectual level.
Craig