[Marsha] 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? [Krimel] I think duration is a more salient feature of "pattern" that breadth or depth. I also think that "pattern" as a concept is the product or our interaction with the world not a necessary feature of the world. We are biologically programmed to detect patterns. There are features of the retina for example that pick out edges and line. Or as another example we detect motion via the "patterns" of neural firing as light excites neural along a trajectory in sequence. All of our sense are tuned to do something like this in one form or another. But I see those "patterns" as Tits. The particular arrangements of primal stuff may be out their but it is our perception and use of them that makes them into patterns. I am not so sure about the no single mind can contain a fully formed concept though. Mine contains lots of them. But if you mean something like it is impossible to transfer them in their completeness for one mind to another, then sure. 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
