[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[Mary]

Hi John,

> 
> Ok Mary, I'll give it a try.  Its a really good question, "what should
> our
> intellectual patterns value?"
> 
> I don't have a ready answer, but I like the question and I've been
> pondering
> it so in a conversational way, I offer some tentative ideas:
> 
> First, every level sustains and perpetuates itself, right?  Like
> inorganic
> rocks keep on being rocks which demonstrates they "value" beingness
> enough
> to keep their molecular matrixes all in order.  Like wise, living
> beings
> want to keep on living, and social patterns try to persist through
> generations.
> 
> So also does knowing value more knowing.  We learn and conceptualize
> that we
> might have more powerful thought-patterns with which to know and
> conceptualize, infinitely.
> 
> But the purpose of intellect, also stabilizes the so called "lower
> levels"
> as well.  Like Marsha and a lot of people these days want to keep bees,
> because bees are in trouble.
> 
> Intellect attempts to embrace the all, and cares about everything in
> its
> view.  This is placing relative value upon everything it sees.  It is
> man's
> intellect that has evolved to its position, in order to think about
> everything else.
> 
> Since that is what it does, that must be its purpose.


[Mary Replies] 
What you describe is what the human intellect does, but what does the
Intellectual Level value?  A different question entirely.

> > The question was, what does the Intellectual Level value, not what
> values
> > have made the Intellectual Level possible.
>