[MD] e: Reading & Comprehension

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
You tell me.  Are there any intellectual patterns that may be loosing 
their usefulness?

[Arlo]
Certainly, the ones that are rooted in SOM.

[Marsha]
I think the lamenting has to do with head without heart.  Would have, 
could have, should have been different.  The body could have evolved 
with ten toes.  It didn't.

[Arlo]
If ALL intellect is SOM, HOW could things have been any different??? 
How could intellect have evolved any differently? It is SOM by your 
definition, it could never have been otherwise.

[Marsha]
Let's please remember that evolution is an intellectual static 
pattern of value.   Otherwise harmonious?  I don't buy that assumption.

[Arlo]
If ALL intellect is SOM, and SOM is a blinder to Quality, then the 
intellectual level itself becomes the anomolous "problem" in the 
hierarchy. Rather than the other levels which are to be embraced, 
"intellect" becomes nothing more than an obstacle.