[MD] Intellectual Level

[david buchanan]

Marsha's definition:
Within the MoQ, fourth level, the Intellectual Level, is comprised of intellectual static patterns of value. The way that these patterns function is as reified concepts and the rules for their rational analysis and manipulation. Reification decontextualizes. Intellectual patterns process from a subject/object conceptual framework creating false boundaries that give the illusion of independence as a “thing” or an “object of analysis.” The fourth level is a formalized subject/object level (SOM), where the paramount demand is for rational, objective knowledge, which is free from the taint of any subjectivity.


dmb's alternative:

According to the MOQ, the intellectual level includes all intellectual static patterns and all intellectual thought styles, such as classical and romantic for example. These patterns are derived from experience and their veracity depends on their ability to function in experience. The MOQ's reconceptualization of the intellect is predicated on a rejection of subject-object metaphysics, the conceptual framework that reifies subjects and objects. (The MOQ says subjects and objects are concepts, not entities.) Unlike SOM, where the paramount demand is for objectivity and disinterested observation, the MOQ's fourth level gives us an expanded form of rationality that includes feelings, passions, alternate modes of consciousness and all the other categories of experience formerly dismissed as "merely" subjective.