Mfer's, Marco, all
(technology)
> Only recently technology (as Information Technology) has become to support also our
>intellectual
> activities (as help for memory and communication), but the social goal is however
>predominant.
Less recently but still recent, Umberto Eco in "The Return of the Middle Ages"
suggested:
"We are still living under the banner of medieval technology. For instance, eyeglasses
were a
medieval invention... At that time, an intellectual who became farsighted at the age
of forty (bear
in mind the difficulty of reading unreadable manuscripts by torchlight in dark rooms
beneath shadowy
vaults) was unable to produce actively after the age of fifty. With the introduction
of eyeglasses
intellectual productivety increased enormously and the following centuries could
better exploit
these human resources."
hmmm ... Is it time to get the mace out of the closet and mow the lists?
(soplipism)
Marco asked,
> 3WD: Patternmaker.... isn't it a little solipsistic?
Yes, a little. It's been argued before that Pirsig pushes that line, too . My most
recent post to
"ram" or "miv" or decendents thereof may help clarify. Or muddle, Who knows?
On your cat being an intellectual pattern.
This depends, you see
on whether it has a petdegree.
Hopefully a PhD.
Then it will
surely be
intellechewly.
Dr Souse
I do not suggest that "all patterns are intellectual patterns" or that nothing exists
or is real but
intellectual patterns. But, without the intellect to:
"arrange, define, duplicate, label, list, memorize, name, order, recognize, relate,
recall, repeat,
reproduce, state, classify, describe, discuss,explain, express, identify, indicate,
locate,
recognize, report, restate, review, select, translate, apply, choose, demonstrate,
dramatize,
employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write,
analyze,
appraise, calculate, categorize,compare, contrast, criticize,differentiate,
discriminate,
distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test,arrange, assemble, collect,
compose,construct,
create, design, develop,formulate, manage, organize, plan, prepare, propose, set up,
write,
appraise, argue, assess, attach, choose, compare, defend, estimate, judge,predict,
rate, core,
select, support, value, evaluate"
no "pattern" for those values that you call "cat " exists, even though your cat
can, and quite nicely
will, live on without all these distinctions. That is until it's intellect develops
sufficently to
properly conjugate verbs and such, but that's way off the subject.
3WD
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