[MD] Social Intellectual

[david buchanan]

Marsha asked Ian:
Will the Social Level expand and evolve into something different than the social level?

dmb says:

It already did. It's called the intellectual level. Or rather it's better to think of the social level as the parent of the intellectual level because it became independent with it's own rules and purposes.
   

Marsha said:
None demonstrate anything like an expanded intellectual pattern. 



dmb says:
Are you saying that there are no parallels on the social level that compare to the MOQ's expansion of rationality? Are you saying that evolutionary developments do not occur within levels? That seems quite obviously wrong. Consider the difference between ferns and eagles. They're both biological and yet the latter is clearly more evolved than the former. Consider the difference between the chief of a tribe of hunter-gatherers and the mayor of New York City. They're both leaders at the social level and yet the former is clearly more evolved than the latter. (That was a joke.) 

To say that intellect = SOM is like saying biology = reptiles. SOM is an intellectual description of reality, not the capacity to create intellectual descriptions. Big difference.  		 	   		  
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