[MD] reifying carrots

[Ian Glendinning]

DMB says
(in response to Marsha reminding us - yet again, for some reason - of
the limits of intellectual concepts ...)
"That is profoundly anti-intellectual. If conceptualization is equated
with reification, then ALL static patterns are wrong and intellect can
never escape from SOM."

Weird - but I just see the two of you violently agreeing again.

It doesn't say "intellect" is necessarily bound by SOMism it says
intellectual patterns (of reified concepts) are bounded by SOM.

This seems to be a MoQish truism to me. In fact it's that sticking
point with Bo's SOLAQI that I could never get through to him (or you).
We're just arguing about what definition of intellect we're using.

We can choose to define an evolving MoQish intellect as more than the
sum of its static intellectual conceptual patterns - indeed we must.
(ie it includes all those Jamesian radical empirical processes too.)

It's OK to be anti-SOMish-intellect.
It's not OK to be anti-a-more-enlightened-MoQish-intellect.
(whether you / we call it intellect or not.)
Ian