Filtering and Analog Digital Reworked from a 1978 Toronto Notebook, "On the successive eliminations of the entity in transformations" or rather all that is necessary from the diagrams a -> a' -> a'' f' f The function f moves a to a'; f' moves a' to a'' and of course there is a composition f'f(a) -> a" or some such. a' disappears as an entity, and on might generalize, considering a series of functions f, f', f", f"' ... such that (f'''f''f'f(z)) is a filter over z. In the lifeworld, f^n extends in either direction, i.e. n ranges over the integers at the least. In reality, n ranges over the continuum. Every entity z carries its filter and a filter is non-existent without an entity. The continuous transform- ation of the entity is defined by the filter and vice-versa. Since z may split in the process, the filter may split. The series f... need not define any particular entity, but may be considered split from a previous series, i.e. one out of an almost infinite number of processes, infinite in relation to the continuum. In this fashion, the worlding process is visible, the entity disappears, as entities do. Entities are named in any case in relation to space-time; too great a dispersion, and "entity" disappears qua entity; the background microwave radiation of the universe is an example. Too small a dispersion, virtual particles for example, and "entity" is ontologically problematic. Within everyday life, water and other liquids, as well as gases, are not considered entities, while glass, also liquid, is. It's a question of a family of usages in relation to viscosity for example. There is also a notion of intrinsic identity based on communality and communication; humans are entities, although rapidly undergoing decomposition. Reichenbach's genidentity is useful here; it references the actual material substrate of a coherent object, held gene- alogically together over a substantial period of time, and undergoing change qua object. Such an object brings human phenomenology with it; objects out-gas, wear, wear-out, dissolve, split, from what might tempor- arily be considered an origin, their inhering to a presumably created form. All origins and all endpoints are subject to filtering, which dissolves them as such. One is left with continuous birthing, continuous languaging and worlding, processes related to Bohm's implicate order on one hand and maya on the other. Of course the filtering itself is filtered, there is no end to it. To be human is to attempt to halt such, impede what is identified as dissolution, death, permanent impediment. Ownership arises out of this, as does the urge to collect, related to the urge to hunt, to permanently annihilate, absorb, be reborn in the blood of the other. To stay with the filter is to remain analogic, deeply human, chthonic; to impede is to construct the digital, build, aerate, delude. The digital is always already inauthentic, Vaihinger's as-if which resides for and in the moment. Culture veers among the various orders, as if the world and its history is ordered and orderly; it is the sympathetic, not empathetic, magic of this that allows us to survive. history (site still operating): http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt/ waters: http://www.asondheim.org/waters.wma anyone using http://www.activeworlds.com/ ? _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour