Re: The Ayn Rand World

On 9 Feb 2013, at 20:00, George Simpson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rand failed to understand that we are not self-constructed, but rather we
> construct our minds on the lattice of concepts that history provides us and
> others introduce us to.

This is unclear.

Other people introduce you to concepts? I should think that some particular individuals introduce you to concepts by talking to you or writing books or whatever.

> The individual can make a contribution to that lattice of concepts - what one might call the "conceptual field", but it is imbalanced to insist that the individual is all-important.


Is there anything other than an individual that makes a contribution to the "lattice of concepts"? 

Suppose you go into a meeting and a bunch of people are talking. Is there some system in the room that creates ideas that isn't a subsystem of the brain of some particular person?

Do you agree or disagree with the arguments at these links?

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/individualism.html

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/trader_principle.html

Alan