Hi Krimel,
This is my favorite thing to think about. A pattern, to my understanding, is held only in bits and pieces in a single individual, making it definitely relative. A pattern has breadth and depth, as in its past existence and across many, many individuals. It does not exist in its entirety within one mind as a fully formed concept, but is, indeed, a collective, pattern of value. What do you think about this assessment? Marsha On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Krimel wrote: > Marsha: > Just for the record, is a pattern a definition, or compilation of > definitions, or something else? > > [Krimel] > Bertrand Russell once claimed that the only label he had ever applied to > himself was "philosophical atomist". He thought that philosophers argued > about the meaning of terms until they got to a point where argument could > not provide an answer. The points that elude definition and agreement are > philosophical atoms. > > I think that "pattern" is an "atom" for you the way I fear "meaning" is an > atom for me. It is a concept so fundamental it becomes one of those > transparent assumptions that we live by but can't adequately account for. > > In my world "pattern," of necessity, involves some kind of persistent > temporal relationship. At pattern can be "constant" in time, like celestial > orbits, or repeated in time like thunder storms, or replicated or iterated > in time, like DNA. > > Psychologically speaking, (what else did you expect?) life is a system of > pattern recognition. All life proceeds by using patterns to maximize > meaning. All living things in some sense are engines of pattern recognition. > We are designed to know good from bad and how to approach or avoid. > > It is that fundamental, irreducible, philosophical atom: the valence of plus > and minus, good and bad; that drive life and the evolution of life. > > Pattern recognition, the ability to detect similarity are well as > difference, allows us to reduce the uncertainty of DQ and create meaning or > SQ. > > > > 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/md/archives.html ___ 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/md/archives.html
