[Marsha] I really would like to explore this. Patterns, for me, are conventional truth. Patterns are also affected by their relationship to other patterns. I suppose here I would agree with Platt about the significance of the individual, but it not clear to me. We once had a discussion about pattern:guitar, and as I remember it our guitar patterns were very different.
[Krimel] To add to what I just now responded: Humans have two great superpowers that help us reduce uncertainty and create meaning. One is discrimination, the ability to see differences in similar things. The other is generalization, the ability to see similarity in different things. The first helps us take things apart the second helps us put them together. Discrimination isolates. Generalization is metaphor. When we talk about guitars what makes communication possible is not the differences in our respective histories with guitars; it is the similarities. If our mutual experiences are sufficiently similar we can reach a conventional shared understanding. We can make meaning by reducing the uncertainty in our mutual understanding. If not we just talk to each other's hands. 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/
