[MD] The clarity of Quotes

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Bodvar,
After searching all through "Lila's child", I could not find the quote you claim RMP
to have said:""... I fully agree with Bo's insight that the SOM and the 
intellectual level are one and the same. To support it , to protect it, to 
avoid losing it and sinking back to "anything goes" irrationalism or a 
"because God says so" mentality ...and ends with saying "..To that 
end the MOQ is the best S/O answer I've found yet." 
 
you say it lies in (page 396 in Lila's Child) 
 
what I have found:

 
The MOQ does not deny the traditional scientific view of reality as composed of material
substance and independent of us. It says it is an extremely high quality idea. We should
follow it whenever it is practical to do so. But the MOQ, like philosophic idealism, says
this scientific view of reality is still an idea. If it were not an idea, then that “independent
scientific material reality” would not be able to change as new scientific discoveries
come in.
 RMP Annotation 25This is okay. In 
who is up to reading 
MOQ precision, let’s say that the intellectual level is the same as mind. It is the collection
and manipulation of symbols, created in the brain, that stand for patterns of experience.
 
 RMP:Anders is slipping into the materialist assumption that there is a huge world out there that
has nothing to do with people. The MOQ says that is a high quality assumption, within
limits. One of its limits is that without humans to make it that assumption cannot be
made. It is a human specific assumption. Strictly speaking, Anders has never heard of or
ever will hear of anything that isn’t human specific.DG:So I take it philosophic idealism is a higher quality intellectual idea in this situation vs.
the physicist working in the lab who would find materialism to be of higher value?RMP:That sounds right, although modern physics has produced laboratory paradoxes for
materialists that do not exist for idealists. I think it is best to understand both systems, and
shift from one to another as it becomes valuable to do so.
 RMP Annotation 86Since in the MOQ all divisions of Quality are static, it follows that high and low are
subdivisions of static quality. “Static” and “Dynamic” are also subdivisions of static
quality, since the MOQ is itself a static intellectual pattern of Quality.
 RMP Annotation 97Within the MOQ, the 
considered to be a good 
MOQ, like science, starts with human experience. Remember the early talk in ZMM
about Newton’s Law of Gravity? Scientific laws without people to write them are a
scientific impossibility.
 RMP:In the late 1800’s the chicken-and-egg argument about whether ideas precede inorganic
nature or inorganic nature precedes ideas was considered philosophically important. No
one to my knowledge has ever shown that the idealists who considered ideas to come first
have been wrong. The discussion has since died away.
It is important for an understanding of the MOQ to see that although “common sense”
dictates that inorganic nature came first, actually “common sense” which is a set of ideas,
has to come first. This “common sense” is arrived at through a huge web of socially
approved evaluations of various alternatives. The key term here is “evaluation,” i.e.,
quality decisions. The fundamental reality is not the common sense or the objects and
laws approved of by common sense but the approval itself and the quality that leads to it.
 RMP Annotation 132It employs SOM reasoning the way SOM reasoning employs social structures such as
courts and journals and learned societies to make itself known. SOM reasoning is not
subordinate to these social structures, and the MOQ is not subordinate to the SOM
structures it employs. Remember that the central reality of the MOQ is not an object or a
subject or anything else. It is understood by direct experience only and not by reasoning
of any kind. Therefore to say that the MOQ is based on SOM reasoning is as useful as
saying that the Ten Commandments are based on SOM reasoning. It doesn’t tell us
anything about the essence of the Ten Commandments and it doesn’t tell us anything
about the essence of the MOQ.
 95. I don’t remember not responding, so it must have been an oversight. I don’t think the
subject-object level is identical with intellect. Intellect is simply thinking, and one can
think without involving the subject-object relationship. Computer language is not
primarily structured into subjects and objects. Algebra has no subjects and objects.idea that static patterns of value start with the inorganic level isidea. But the MOQ itself doesn’t start before sentience. TheLila, I never defined the intellectual level of the MOQ, since everyoneLila already knows what “intellectual” means. For purposes of