[MD] Babylonian intellectuals

[david buchanan]

Arlo said:
... I guess I am saying that in their precessional calculations I see evidence of the latter emerging. And this is qualitatively different from the simple use of number signs to count sheep or slaves. ... My point was, to Bo, talking about the "appearance" of intellectual patterns with the Greeks is untenable argument. Talking about the "dominance" of intellectual patterns as during this time is something else, and a tenable argument.

dmb says:

I see what you mean. How about this; things as advanced as the precessional calculations would be something like the intellectual level as it existed within the womb of the social body, a growing potential that would soon emerge as a separate, distinguishable being. Then the Axial age is the time when this potential is actually born and achieves something like independence in Ancient Greece. Dominance, as Pirsig draws the line, didn't come until the post-WWI period, less than a century ago. 




 		 	   		  
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