RE: Philosophy of Technology

From: Chris Lofting (ddiamond@ozemail.com.au)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 19:58:10 BST

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
    > Of Vincent Campbell
    > Sent: Tuesday, 11 July 2000 9:16
    > To: 'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'
    > Subject: RE: Philosophy of Technology
    >
    <snip>
    > That's not what you've provided, despite the length of your
    > posts. Despite
    > all your previous posts I cannot see any way in which the statements that
    > astrology and astronomy make us feel the same, Lamarck and Darwin are the
    > same, or that mammals came from rocks, could be correct except in a
    > relativistic sense.
    >

    Here is where you miss the point in that your emphasis, you concentrate on
    expression. You have linked what I am saying to 'astrology and astronomy
    make us feel the same' WRONG. You miss the point big time; my problem of
    course but a surprise, I though I had made myself reasonably clear in that
    the structures of the expressions, the meanings behind them are invarient.
    Thus Astrology, what you see and hear, is at a conscious level obviously
    different to Astronomy but underneath that is a shared level.

    At the expression levels disciplines/concepts appear DIFFERENT, and need to
    be to particularise perceptions where we need difference, but these
    disciplines are NOT semantically, neurologically *independent* of each
    other, there is no hard-wired 'Astrology' section in your brain or a
    hard-wired 'Lamarckian' section since the neurology is efficient and shares
    neurons but to do this requires to cut back on differences, thus the SAME
    patterns can point to different words.

    This means that people operating within the disciplines, within a particular
    context, experience the discipline as 'fact' not because it is but because
    the METHOD in creating the disciplines is the SAME and so all the meanings
    you find in particular disciplines are common to all. MEANING is not in the
    disciplines it is in the METHOD such that the same senses of 'truth' you can
    get, or sense of 'beauty' you can get, from mathematics is experienced in
    Astrology.

    The method is 'in here', there is NO tie of 'in here' to 'out there' other
    than resonance such that you set a particular context and apply labels to
    invarient feelings such that you experience difference but it is to some
    degree illusion.

    When we create a map, and that is what these disciplines are, they are
    encapsulated and you get a 'copy' of all possible meanings permissable *by
    the method of analysis* and this includes feelings we experience as 'truth'
    etc. When you make the map you then test it by getting resonance with 'out
    there' but this resonance is at the 'hidden' layer where the invarient
    emotions create the meaning, not the expressive aspects of the discipline
    (i.e. the words which you seem to be concentrating upon). Drop a level, go
    BEHIND the expression and you will find generally invarient patterns that
    are applicable in ALL disciplines since they are all metaphors for
    describing object/relationship patterns through the use of recursive
    dichotomisations.

    This allows for people to 'fight to the death' for their belief in
    Astrology, Tarot etc etc since underneath does not make the differences
    distinctions, it favours sameness as in object/relationship patterns. We are
    tied to our biology but try to ignore it.

    Thus all these 'different' disciplines are metaphors and as such have an
    underlying sameness that you can use on one discipline to 'flesh-out' the
    other(s) or else 'go deep' in one you are not too familar.

    This is how it is possible to make analogies etc. Problems come when I take
    this internal representation, interpretation, literally. Darwinism,
    Lamarckianism, Astrology, Astronomy are all maps using the SAME set of
    possible meanings but these are made different through adding a sound, a
    word. It is not Astrology or Astronomy that make us feel the same, it is the
    level BEHIND these expressions that does that and that level is linked to
    what I have set out as the blend, bond, bound, bind distinctions and their
    more complex forms.

    Understand this level and it makes understanding the difference level a lot
    easier.

    > I apologise if this seems deliberately obtuse or obstreperous, that is not
    > my intention- understanding is my intention.
    >

    mine too so at least we have one thing in common.

    Chris.

    >
    >

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