[MD] Intellectual level of MOQ

[khaledsa at juno.com]

[John]
> Pirsig seems to maintain that there's no such thing as intellect 
> outside a social setting.  If I understand correctly, according to MOQ,

> intellect evolves from the social level, not from the biological.  He
seems to 
> be saying that we are born with a blank slate, and concepts get written

> on it entirely from our social interactions.  But I can't get it
through 
> my head that our brain would be no different from an ant's brain in
that in  respect:
> both blank, with nothing inherent in the biological architecture.  
> It seems to me there's a lot of "meat" in a human brain, and I can't 
> understand how there could be no hardware functionality in it at all.

[Khaled]

john

Here is my 2 cents worth to one of your questions. I think that like a
computer, there is such a thing as  software and firmware. Software that
we load and change, and firmware that is hardwired. Our brains pass on
from one generation to another some instructions that are hard wired into
out minds.
unlike some biological functions like breathing and suckling, these
values are passed in somehow. Transferred through DNA, nutrition and
other ways, and sometimes it takes a couple of generations for these
things to manifest themselves. Since a newborn child already has the blue
prints imbedded in them to pass on to the next generations, anything
values they learn will show up, Not in their children, but their
grandchildren.

Just a thought.

Khaled
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