[MD] Valuing Bodvar's SIM (BSIM)

[skutvik at online.no]

Hi Andy, welcome to the lunatic bin.

12 July you wrote:

> Bo, I am not even a little bit prepared to talk about the guts of your
> interpretation or any opposing view. Thus I can't enter that thread.
> But the pragmatist in me still wants to know what you can do with BSIM
> that you can't do without it. Independent of its truth to you, what
> makes it good? I hope you can expound on the moral value of your
> interpretation in practical terms.

Thanks for you concise question, but I don't know if I'm allowed to 
answer it, I've been accused of "attacking" newcomers with my SOL 
(now SIM)) - something akin to Socrates' "seducing the youth" ;-) - but 
you seem a mature person.

IMO the MOQ IS the strong interpretation, the weak one is lame, tame 
and good for nothing.. And all is about the intellectual level: The "weak 
interpretation" (WIM) says it corresponds to the mental compartment 
(that SOM calls) "mind",  while the "strong interpretation" (SIM) says it 
corresponds to the former SOM (i.e SOM stripped of the "M") so you 
will see that the WIM postulates a smooth transition from SOM - an 
expansion of rationality - while the SIM postulates a total break with 
SOM - and expansion of reality.          

Now to your question: The MOQ by SIM explains just about everything 
it is directed at, most impressive is its dissolution of the MIND/ 
MATTER paradox (you know M/M is an offspring of the S/O) but more 
pressing is its harmonizing of MOQ's internal paradoxes. See, the 4th. 
is a static level and the levels are supposed to "control" its parent level, 
and by no stretch of imagination can the "mind"-intellect be seen to 
rise above the social level (people of old did think too ..no?) while 
intellect-as-SOM meet all these criterias.      

A more sensitive issue is the "political" - anathema to this forum - but 
intellect as SOM has now "won the West" and - as is the level's wont - 
will turn to the part of the world still social-value-run and that's clearly 
the Muslim Middle East and hence the Islam vs West conflict. No 
small feat to resolve an enigma this size. I don't know if the MOQ does 
anything good, it is very much like Quantum Physics, it just explains 
and predicts everything faultlessly, but does not really advice WHAT to 
do. Yet, that goes a long way with me - a credible explanation is 
everything - when I read ZAMM in its time - and understood what the 
SOM was in a Q context - its power was broken and I was free. 

OK, enough for now.

Bodvar