[MD] e: Reading & Comprehension

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
I think viewed from a new perspective, most can retain their 
usefulness by an understanding that:

[Arlo]
Why should a level have to be viewed from a new perspective to retain 
its usefulness? Seen this way, "intellect" is an evolutionary problem 
until something evolves beyond it. No other levels are this way.

[Marsha]
How could intellect the have evolved any differently is not a 
practical question because they are what they are.

[Arlo]
What you are saying is that they could never have been anything else. 
"Intellect" is by your definition "SOM". So, again, what is the 
lament of ZMM? What is it Aristotle did to the teachings of the 
Sophists that is a problem? If ALL intellect is SOM, and Aristotle is 
the grandfather of SOM, then ZMM should champion his cause, not 
bemoan it. But ultimately it wouldn't matter unless the Sophists were 
teaching "social dominance", since Aristotle's victory for 
SOM/Intellect could not have been anything if the Sophists were also 
peddling SOM/Intellect.

[Marsha]
Just like the social level was altered by a broader perspective, so 
the intellectual level can be transcended by a higher point-of-view.

[Arlo]
How was the social level altered by a broader perspective? You mean 
"intellect"? I though intellect's meddling with society was a symptom 
of its SOM underpinnings.

I won't comment on your switching from "altered" to "transcended" 
just yet, but its another one of those "ugly" things that happens 
when you try to condemn intellect to be "just SOM".