[MD] Capitalism: my experience

[plattholden at gmail.com]

Hey John C, 


Thinking about thinking is just the beginning of a limitless trip to infinity 
and beyond. In reading your post I started thinking about thinking about 
thinking. And as I write this I'm thinking about the statement "thinking  
about thinking about thinking." It just keeps expanding ad infinitum, 
spilling out of the intellectual level into an abyss of vacuity.

Not a happy place to be. 

Platt     


On 28 Feb 2010 at 20:53, John Carl wrote:

Let me clarify Platt,

Again you're confusing the intellectual level (a value level) with
> "thinking" -- a critical difference that has been discussed "a hundred
> times in a hundred ways" to quote one of my favorite contributors.
>
>

I'm not confusing the intellectual level with thinking.  It'd be closer to
say I'm  confusing the intellectual level with thinking about thinking, but
that's not the whole thing either.  Merely thinking about thinking is an
intellectual activity, but an intellectual pattern must be "sq'ed" somehow.

Thinking about thinking is the first step in formulating a theory about
thinking, and writing it down or making a song and passing it along to 
your
children and others.  When the thoughts about thoughts have been 
formalized
into a persistent and transferrable pattern, we have a 4th level pattern
phenomena.  That's what I'd call, "intellectual".   But as I've said before,
I think the 4th level would be easier to pin down and less confusing for
newbies if we called it the "philosophical level".

And now we've discussed the obvious (to me anyway) for the one 
hundred and
FIRST time.

Yay us.


John
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