Actually the Vedas used many number bases, Sumerian used the 3 x 4 x 5 base twelve. I've not been able to wrap my mind around the Aztec system Before numbers got their own squiggles letters did the job and around that the Hebrews used that as a way to make up creative and symbolic associations. I forget the label for it. But it survives in numerology. I am not quite sure how and when our decimal system got to dominate. It could be via Egyptian as they had a ten day week. Egyptology is not much into number history. IT sure was not our soul that did it, soul is radically different from mind. Since I've not read Amadea I can only guess on that, but mind has access to the soul, synonyms for the life principle. Soul does not think. The RGVeda has a hymn about two birds, one eats all the time the other one just looks on, called jiva and jivatma as I recollect. Jivatma is akin to Brahm and that's what soul does. It does not interfere with our earthly muddlings, just as well or it'd be an instinct.
As to intuition in a Brain.exe, using that silly Gazzaniga left right brain gimmick, I score 48/52 for intellect and intuition, which is switchable. We use it in dreams too. Apart from the factoid that our social system is heavily into intellect as verbally dominant intuition is still rather common today, except not for academia. If people decide to have a go a intuition it will need a departure from standard psychology. Pythagoras actually originated what became number theory and all that. I don't know of him being known for the world able to be modelled with numbers. My memory suggests it was Arsitottle as I call him. ANd, haha, if you go in for intuition you'll have to do without the justification. The way I use it is in balance with intellect although I most definitely don't think in or with words or any other sensory mode. It does not get into words until it comes out of my mouth. I dream in words, sometimes. A friend, who is a computer geek, does his programming that way. He goes lies down on bed and stays there until he is finished at which he starts high speed thumping on his keyboard. Although he does a post check on the machine he's not interested as he already knows its bug free. Tesla was intuitive. One thing intuitives are good at is jumping around all over the place which annoys linear intellect mongers. I suspect Fred Hoyle is an intuitive as he coined the idea of examining things from all aspects and contexts. ""I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible." Fred Hoyle That's intuitive, they cannot help but do it. Mark Twain ditto " Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head. Mark Twain That's typical. Hence they tend to be curious, just to keep themselves in exercise. I'm not yet settled about whether it may make them creative? I am, but that's not enough to pile a generalisation on. Actually if you care to read Alfred de Grazia's quantavolution, rather lengthy, a followup of Velikowsky you'll find there was indeed a civilisation in pre-history, which like the claim for Atlantis, was way ahead of ours. http://www.arattagar.co.uk/Aratta/Trypillia/Trypillia.html amplifies this further with evidence that during the global disaster, commonly reckoned to be the flood, man retreated to Siberia and the Pole, warm climate at the time, and repopulated earth later. Ooparts suggests that too, but that's a bit aerie faerie, not nailed down to a location, hence no time scale, but then dating is a very vexed issue. adrian amoram wrote: > The power of the intuition was fantastic in all the ancient > philosophers! The atomic idea, the numbers to build the world, etc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
