[MD] Intellectual Level

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Mark]
Before I can address this, could you please explain what in 
particular you are presenting by the phrase "what Pirsig has offered"?

[Arlo]
How is this confusing, it simply means what Pirsig himself wrote 
about (in this case) the intellectual level.

In this case, Pirsig wrote, ".. .the greatest meaning can be given to 
the intellectual elvel if it is confined to the skilled manipulation 
of abstract symbols that have no corresponding particular experience 
and which behave according to rules of their own".

[Mark]
At the same time what is your interpretation of Pirsig's Intellectual level?

[Arlo]
I am in agreement with Pirsig.

[Marsha]
Marsha presented hers.

[Arlo]
Yes, she did. And she has every right to argue why her idea that 
Intellect=SOM is better than Pirsig's. What explanatory power do you 
think this view offers, since you seem to support it, that is better 
than the Intellect!=SOM idea offered by Pirsig?