Greetings Andre,<snip>
> 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. > > mel: Thanks for the response. It shows that indeed I may have tried to stretch too far in finding an analogy in trying to distinguish between SOM and intellect in MOQ, as not an identity... Probably should have left the whole infinity thing out. I was trying to distinguish between the 'apparent' power of SOM and the holes in reality that it doesn't see...even on it's own turf. thanks again for the help. thanks--mel 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/
