CRAIG: Cool Roger, 

It mostly makes sense to me, except I don't understand why I. is associated 
with objects and substance when it is feeling, perception, and first person 
quale. 

ROGER: It is not uncommon to find such objective/subjective dyslexia in the 
literature. 
    This stuff is hard to get a hold of.

CRAIG: To me, thinking is just as much first person as feeling, and they both 
are subjective qualia. 
    Thinking is a meta-quale of feeling (which is a meta-quale of 
awareness>perception>sensation>sense) 

ROGER: Actually I have yet to find a clear or useful definition of thinking 
(how it works). 
    In fact Wittgenstein at one point said that he does not know what thinking 
is (!).
    But I believe you have to think if you compare objects across an equals 
sign,
    so comparison (a dyad) seems to me to be a basic type of thinking.

CRAIG: That puts the whole subjective enchilada as Firstness and leaves objects 
and 
    substance to Secondness. This is Self-Body distinction. What you have is 
like 
    Lower-Self/Higher- Self distinction but with objects kind of shoehorned in 
there. 
    Once you see matter as a public extension and self as a private intention, 
then 
    Thirdness arises as the spatiotemporal interaction of formation and 
information. 

ROGER: Yes, distinction is another form of basic thought. But that requires the 
ability to compare.

CRAIG: That outlines one way of slicing the pizza. I don't know if you can see 
this but here: 

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Xz8OmKGPEjE/UIL6EtVeBEI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/iBhuMxBj9oU/s1600/trio_sml_entropy.jpg
 

That gives a better idea of the syzygy effect of the big picture, how they 
overlap in different ways and set each other off in a multi-sense way. 

The Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness relate respectively to the respective 
trios: 

I. Sense, Motive 
II. Matter, Energy, 
III. Space, Time 

ROGER: I could see it, but couldn't see how to interpret it, but's thats OK.
    The categories, like Hegel's dialectic, seem to be a basic take on 
existence,
    So no doubt there are many approaches to defining them, yours included. 

CRAIG: to get to morality, you have to look at the black and white: 

IV. Signal (escalating significance), Entropy aka Ent ntr rop opy (attenuating 
significance...
    fragmentation and redundancy obstructs discernment capacities...
    information entropy generates thermodynamic entropy through sense 
participation) 

    I did a post on this today, but it's pretty intense: 
http://s33light.org/post/33951454539 

ROGER: I welcome your thoughts on this. But as for myself, I try to keep things 
as simple as possible.
    The truth is that actually  I had a serior moment when I wrote "morality".
    I should have recalled a better term, Ethics. That has to do with 
    law and doing, both typical of III.    


CRAIG: Craig 


On Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:18:50 PM UTC-4, rclough wrote: 

Hi Craig 

Thanks very much for your comments Craig. I still need to digest them. 
Meanwhile, a flood of new ideas came to me and I just want to set them down. 
There are no doubt mistakes, esp. with regard to subjective/objective. 


The Peirce-Leibniz triads Ver.2 

I Firstness object substance perception (quale) aesthetics beauty 1st person 
feeling subjective 

II Secondness sign monad thought logic truth 2nd person thinking subj/obj 
         
III Thirdness interprant supreme monad expression morality goodness 3rd person 
doing objective 








It appears that Peirce's three categories match the Leibniz monadic structures 

as follows: 

I. = object = Leibniz substance = quale 

II. Secondness = sign = monad representing that substance. 
    In Peirce, the sign is a word for the experience of that object . 
    In Leibniz, the monads are mental, which I think means subjective. 

III. Thirdness = interprant (meaning of I and II ) = by the monad of monads. 

In addition to this, Peirce says that his categories are "predicates of 
predicates", 
where the first predicate (dog) is extensive and the second predicate (brown) 
is intensive. 
then the overall object might be animal-->dog-->brown. 
Leibniz says that a monad is a complete concept, meaning all of the possible 
predicates. 

I suggest that the first or extensive predicate (dog) is objective 
and the second predicate (brown) is qualitative or subjective. 
So that the object as per ceived is a quale or Firstness. 



Roger Clough, rcl...@verizon.net 
10/18/2012 
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen 

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