[MD] Step two

[Jan Anders Andersson]

Arlo and all

This time I have to answer myself. The question about the mysterious 5th biological level has to be solved.

17 aug 2014 x kl. 22:09 Jan Anders Andersson <jananderses at telia.com> wrote:

> Arlo
> 
> I don’t think social patterns must consist of humans. Most animals and herbs are using sexual strategies to breed.
> 
> "Celebrity is to social patterns as sex is to biological patterns. Now he was getting it. This celebrity is Dynamic Quality within a static social level of evolution. It looks and feels like pure Dynamic Quality for a while, but it isn't. Sexual desire is the Dynamic Quality that primitive biological patterns once used to organize themselves. Celebrity is the Dynamic Quality that primitive social patterns once used to organize themselves. That gives celebrity a new importance.” 
> Lila 
> 
> The term biological vs organic is confusing me here. I see the 2nd level as the organic level which is basically founded on reproduction as the step where organic molecules benefit from using the inorganic matter but for its own purpose. The use of biological level implies a need for a 5th level between the organic and the social.
> 
> The third step for social patterns, where they are using organic patterns for their own good and still dependant of the organic are where they share a common purpose, a shared intention, to gain from the situation. The main divider seem to be the shift from mitosis to meiosis according to RMP.
> 
> "the shift in cell reproduction from mitosis to meiosis to permit sexual choice and allow huge DNA diversification is a Dynamic advance. So is the collective 
> organization of cells into metazoan societies called plants and animals. So are sexual 
> choice, symbiosis, death and regeneration, communality, communication, 
> speculative thought, curiosity and art. Most of these, when viewed in a 
> substance-centered evolutionary way are thought of as mere incidental
> ?properties of the molecular machine. But in a value-centered explanation 
> of evolution they are close to the Dynamic process itself, pulling the pattern 
> of life forward to greater levels of versatility and freedom.”
> Lila.
> 
> Jan-Anders

It now appears to me that this "Celebrity is to social patterns as sex is to biological patterns.” must be a formal flaw in Lila. RMP was right when he said the Victorian social pattern were supressing sex as sex was a representative for the lower organic level. Sexual activities and erotic patterns were banned because it led to undesireable organic reproduction.. 

But that was at the time before contraceptives. Still, sex is severly supressed by the western culture social pattern. We can se that it is a strong urge from all the literature about sex that does sell. Even the teaser for the film based on the book ”50 shades of Grey” made a record. 

Sexually social patterns appear now to belong to the social level as they are acts of shared intention and attention, depending upon and using organic patterns for their own benefit and purpose, increasing the rate of mutations per generation into a superior number in an exponential figure. 

If the treshold was placed above sex earlier, with the introduction of preservatives against undesired pregnancy, the treshold today for human social patterns, will be lowered and placed between acts of sexual nature and the possibilities for reproduction. We must remember that our own cells are reproducing themselves continously and mostly out of our control. Bodybuilders and cancer patients excluded. Sexual activities that aren’t aimed for reproduction but just for shared fun aren’t perverted any longer, they’re just a kind of socializing. Beware of the return of the morally dead, relics and monsters from the old time though!

Henry Millers famous mistress, Anaïs Nin, used a moral filter for her litterature while she lived. Without mentioning it in her official diaries, she had a lot of love affairs and many of them quite sociallly impassable. Being rich and with no other daily duties but taking care of herself she was able to inquire anything about social and sexual patterns. In spite that she thought herself infertile she got pregnant and had an abortion in 1934. The real story was revealed after her husbands death in 1985. 

I think the writings of Anaïs Nin made a major impact on what is called the moral or sexual revolution in the 1960’s but the outcome is difeering between the european and the american continent. The catholic church, too, plays a role in this drama. We also know that Ayn Rand had her own opinion about sex, as a social pattern WITHOUT shared intentions. Poor lady. Today, activities of sexual nature are treated mostly in the same way as other health issues in many social channels, TV, dinner, by the pool. In some retarded areas however, you can be arrested for uttering ”naughty words” or wearing swim shorts on the street.

This means that according to the lowering of the treshold for step two, I think we have something important to tell the audience.


Jan-Anders

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> 17 aug 2014 x kl. 16:56 ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
>> snip
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>> Whatever you're proposing as the catalyzing agent, the carbon atom, that seeded the emergence of the social level out of the biological, has to have its roots in the biological (as the carbon atom has its roots in the inorganic), and has 'something' that the "dynamic forces" can sieze.
>> 
>> This: "Biological evolution can be seen as a process by which weak Dynamic forces at a subatomic level discover stratagems for overcoming huge static inorganic forces at a superatomic level." (LILA)
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>> Becomes this: "Social evolution can be seen as a process by which weak Dynamic forces at a subcellular level discover stratagems for overcoming huge static biological forces at a supercellular level."
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>> And "shared attention", a "strategem" rooted in subcellular neurology fits this process precisely. 
>> 
>> As for a 'lens' we can use to see social patterns, 'activity' (mediated, purposeful, semiotic) sees them all. In your proposal of "religion", you are confusing one pattern with the level of patterns. It's akin to saying the biological level is the 'neural' level. Certainly, the brain is a biological pattern, but it is not the only biological pattern. 
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