I discovered something about logic that I never knew before. It is something that I have thought about for 40 years, but I never stopped to explore the application. Now, shouldn't this new insight give me greater understanding? Well, yeah, but it doesn't work that way. I have a new insight but I haven't got any use for it. So now I have to try to find some practical use for it. Well even though I don't have any use for it, I might pick up some street creds by telling other people about it right? Well no, not really. It is really a turn-the-crank kind of thing and the fact that I thought about it for so long without ever once examining its application is kind of embarrassing. So now, before I can talk about it I have to search for some way to use the idea effectively. If I found some utility for it then I could pick up some credit for it, but until then it is just going to make my work with logic more complicated.
The insight was a turn-the-crank kind of insight so it represented the application of a familiar idea onto another familiar idea in a way that was very familiar to me. The only thing I did different was to actually see how it worked in a few examples. When I did that I realized that the effects were not exactly what I expected. However, logic is an artificial field which is well formed so that other logic-based ideas, like something from mathematics, can sometimes be easily integrated into it. In real world examples of ideative projection, the analysis of turn-the-crank imagination cannot easily be achieved just by using other (integrated or related) methods of internal ideative projection. And as I just explained, simple correlation methods are not an easy substitute for insightful methods. Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
