[MD] Intellectual Level

[John Carl]

crap.  I sent this accidentally, right in the middle of typing it.  That was
weird.  Musta just hit the right combinations of buttons... lessee where it
went wrong... I was right in the middle of some correction.

Ahh... here it is.


>
> What makes the intellectual or 4th level of evolutionary being, interesting
> in my book, is that when it comes down to it, it's driving forces are pretty
> much the same as the third-level social drives.  Intellect wants acceptance
> and congruence - social things! and values consensus or agreement more than
> "truth" - in fact defines truth by social acceptance.
>
>

I was in the middle of correcting that last statement.  Pragmatism defines
truth by social experience.  Not intellect.


Was what I meant to say.

All the rest, I'll let rest.

J