Hi Mel: Mel in response to dmb:
It is a trap, a cage, and the question is; who is on the inside looking out and who is outside looking in? Andre: We are. Mel: While it has been put forth that SOM is only one possible tool in the intellectual level. It seems to be a failed analogy to some. Maybe a better way to look at SOM is as a system within the intellect. It has as its best function the reductionist, the granular, the take-it-apart-and-look-under-the-hood/bonnet approach. Andre: Agreed Mel, it depends on what you are investigating...trying to make sense of... Mel: I briefly mentioned the distinction earlier of different orders of infinity, which I think (per Stuart Kauffman's writings), a perfect analogy to steal. SOM is like a first order infinity in how it deals with the world...it will get you close. Like knowing all the integers in the the infinite number line will allow you to always be able to bracket anything between two integers. No matter how big or small a number you can know what it is between--that's a pretty close understanding of the universe. Andre: Not sure what you are getting at Mel. Is it like the development of single word concepts meaning loads of things? (sort of a summary which is argued for, accepted and then integrated at the social level and then in its turn gets elevated to the intellectual level? That is: taking on complete analogies? For example: the word: capitalism evoking an entire way of organising/looking at the economic activities? Obama: evoking an entire set of emotions plus analogies plus repressed feelings plus anything you want to add? SOM promotes this sort of reasoning. I am not sure if it gets you close, I think it gets you further away. Maybe I have misunderstood what you are trying to say. Andre Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
