On 8/29/2012 11:12 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:14:38 AM UTC-4, Stephen Paul King wrote:
Right! That is how naming occurs.
Nice!
I was thinking of this:
If we recorded every commercial transaction by name, we could produce
a fingerprint signature for any given commodity sold by plotting out a
function of price vs location. If we wanted to quantify a Hershey with
Almonds bar, we could come up with a unique set of datapoints for
every store in every city that corresponds to those sales and reverse
engineer a wavefunction that we could associate uniquely with the HwA
bar.
Still we have said nothing about the chocolate or the consumers,
buyers, or sellers. We can't ever get to the quality of what is being
sole even though we have a convincing way of articulating the
quantitative nature and topological distribution of the sales
transactions.
I think this it the critical fault of all possible systems which seek
to approach consciousness as a secondary effect. Whether materialist
or idealist, all quant-based approaches are doomed to mistake the
interstitial relation for that which is relating.
Craig
Hi Craig,
Nice idea but it would wreck the fungibility requirement that
modern economies require. The fact that the physical object Mars Bar is
equivalent to any other Mars Bar is how quality is maintained for a
brand. The same goes for the value of a Dollar bill. It the value where
history dependent then it would make all physical object unique and thus
not fungible. The cost of tracking the differences of commodities would
be HUGE and swamp everything else. We see a toy model of the case where
fungibility vanishes (ideally as copies are forgeries!) in the art market.
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Onward!
Stephen
http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html
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