[MD] Social Intellectual

[david buchanan]

"A conventional subject-object metaphysics uses the same four static patterns as the MOW, dividing them into two groups of two: inorganic-biological patterns called 'matter', and social-intellectual patterns called 'mind'. But this division is the source of the problem. When a subject-object metaphysics regards matter and mind as eternally separate and eternally unalike, it creates a platypus bigger than the solar system." (Lila 153)

"Then, having made this arbitrary division based on 'substance', conventional metaphysics then asks, 'What is the relationship between mind and matter, between subjects and objects?'  ... Our language is so organized around them and they are so convenient to use it is impossible to get rid of them. There is really no need to. Like 'substance' they can be used as long as it it remember that they're terms for collections of patterns and not some independent primary reality all their own." (Lila 154)


"In a value-centered MOQ the four set of static patterns are not isolated into separate compartments of mind and matter. Matter is just a name for certain inorganic value patterns. Biological patterns, social patterns, and intellectual patterns are supported by this patterns of matter bvut are independent of it. Thye have rules and lawws of their own that are not deribbable from the frules or laws of substance." (Lila 154)


"The mind-matter paradoxes seem to exist because the connecting links between these two levels of value patterns have been disregarded. Two terms are missing; biology and society. Mental patterns do not originate our of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of biology which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so well, what a mind thinks is as dominated b y social patterns as social patterns are dominated by inorganic patterns. There is no direct scientific connection between mind and matter. As the atomic physicist, Niels Bohr, said, 'We are suspended in language'. Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived." (Lila 155)


"This may sound as though a purpose of the MOQ is to trash all subject-object thought but that not true. Unlike SOM the MOQ does not insist on a single exclusive truth. If subjects and objects are held to be the ultimate reality then were permitted only one construction of things - that which corresponds to the 'objective' world - and all other constructions are unreal. But if Quality or excellence is seen as the ultimate reality then it becomes possible for more than one set of truths to exist.  ...There are many sets of intellectual reality in existence and we can perceive some to have more quality than others,..  ... Both are simply intellectual patterns for interpreting reality and one can only say that in some circumstances rectangular coordinates provide a better, simpler explanation." (Lila 100)

 		 	   		  
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