On Sep 21, 3:04 am, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote: >1000000000000000000000000100000000000000000 >1000000000000000000000001000000000000000000 >1000000000000000000000010000000000000000000 >1000000000000000000000100000000000000000000 >1000000000000000000001000000000000000000000 >The "1" digit could be said to be moving through the number.
100000000000000000000000 :o) 000000000000000000 The ) could also be said to be smiling at you. It isn't though. Not objectively. The patterns that we perceive belong to our ability to recognize and make sense of them. I think that attempts to reconcile all phenomena to quantitative logical propositions are incomplete in that they stop short of acknowledging deeper sensorimotive primitives. To say that 0 = 0 presupposes a concept of equality. What is equality? Where does it come from? What is it made of? It is certainly not logical to say that in some way one thing is a different thing. Every event, every particle or pattern is unique in some way, otherwise we could not reference it as a discrete instance. The proposition of equality then, is a second order inference; a comparison of qualities among separated and unique incidences. That second order inference is undeniably subject to interpretation. To say that one thing is equal to another is to triangulate that equality from the perspective of a third entity (or con-sens-us of entities). If I look at two 'little brown mushrooms' I may say that they are equal, but an expert mycologist will be able to tell that they are not at all equal. It is very seductive to equate arithmetic equalities with universal truths, but for purposes of understanding First Cause and consciousness, we must probe that presumption of primacy more deeply. Equality is an intellectual concept that arises, in entities capable of symbolic cognition (but nothing else), from perception or detection. It is an experience of detecting a pattern within a pattern. An experience feels 'like' another experience from memory. An image 'looks like' another image or reminds you of experiences through another channel of sense. Arithmetic truths work to program semiconductors because they have certain qualities which we share (and many others that we do not). You can't program clouds of steam to compute in the same way. By selecting a particular type of substance which reflects back to us our own certainties about primitive logic, we reify the part of our nature which is most solid, crystalline, and mechanical. These are the polar opposite from the qualities which are responsible for being able to imagine the moving 1 through the matrix of 0s, or the emoticon smiling. As discrete and predictably stable as the binary logic is, with it's absolute literal equalities, the psyche is utterly fluid, ephemeral, and wild. Not that it doesn't have it's own 'rules' - it does, but they are figurative rules of thumb - themes, such as attention and distraction, high and low significance, etc. Equivalences and associative leaps can be fuzzy or tenuous. The psyche reads between the lines, fills in the gaps between each step. It's hard to get a glimpse of this, because this is actually what we are 'made of', but we can deduce it. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
