Saturday, March 8, 2025
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Sunday, March 2, 2025
An Asemics of Science / EZE, 2025
Science for the Public
History of Science
Happy Accidents
Asemics
Limitations
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
Asemics as the Value of Sacrifice and of Sentiment / EZE, 2025
Asemics as the Value of Sacrifice and of Sentiment
1) The first principle of a rationalist theory of value currently in play follows Ayn Rand and Objectivist philosophy, and it is fundamental to creating asemics: Deny sacrifice, especially, self-sacrifice, as meaningful. Note that meaning here plays to a context of rationality. The self-sacrifice, this irrational act, becomes the asemic.
2) Enact a business model to interpret human behavior as rational or not. For example, enact a business model to manage the legal system. Everything thereby tends to become negotiable whether it is or not. The not becomes the asemic. Rule of law passes to the bid. Justice passes to the aggressor.
3) Develop a categorical imperative that divides the world into winners and losers. Losers are those people who have sacrificed themselves for a claim of a good of some sort. Servants are losers who work for the common good. Winners are those people who serve their self-interest, i.e., their own ends. The losers are the asemic, and the winners have meaning, at least of the photo opportunity sort.
4) In contradistinction to Ayn Rand, who was atheist, re-make religion, especially Christianity, as a means to a different end. For example, re-make Christianity as a Prosperity Gospel as the end desired of this religion is something other than self-sacrifice. Such a re-make, of course, also destroys the religion.
5) Consider loss and the like as something akin to an insurance claim where insurance has no value for sentiment, which thereby becomes asemic, and the pay-out for the claim is replacement value, asemic value excluded. But what potential does this asemic value then acquire? politically, socially, ... otherwise?
6) Preserve the asemic in emojis, but look to the icon of the negotiation table as that which remains of shared meaning among communities otherwise a-communal.
Links
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
An Asemics of Steven Pinker / EZE, 2025
Language as an Experience of Sense and of Affect
- Imagine Language as an Experience of Language
- Imagine Language on the Way to Meaning ~ Imagine Language on the Way to a Question of Language
- As [__________] Called into Question, imagine Asemics as a Question of Affect (or Lack Thereof) in Relation to a Sense of [*]
Pinker
Other than Pinker
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Monday, February 24, 2025
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Asemic Hermeneutics / EZE, 2025
Toward Defining Hermeneutics
Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning
Ontology
Circle
Asemics
Assemblage
A re-situation of meaning
Often, devoid of context
Ahistorical disjunction, for instance
Value here is not value there
Value is not necessarily emergent
Circle of Meaning
Disconnect
Conjecture
De-reference
Meaning almost anything
Meaning near to nothing
Method
Inconsistent
Unstable
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Sunday, February 16, 2025
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Fake Conflict Asemics? / EZE, 2025
A Fake Conflict for Galileo?
Science and Religion for the Catholic Church
Beyond Catholicism?
The Geocentric Milton in Paradise Lost
Of Two Cultures?
American Protestantism
A Sociology for a Fake Conflict?
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Monday, January 27, 2025
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Maps in Place of Proofs? / EZE, 2025
Map That Which Is Not Represented by Math, One Take
Take Two, an Example Other Than an Irrational Number
More from Terence Tao and Friends
Analytic Number Theory Exponent Database
Map That Which Math Cannot Represent
Parameterization as a Means of Limiting Applicability Rather than Demonstrating Error
Mechanical Mind / EZE, 2025
Model Definitions
Anti-Mechanistic Computation: Computers Don't Compute
The Definition of Intelligence
On Relation
A Digression on Mechanism versus Function
Ecosystem Mind
Commentary
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Friday, January 24, 2025
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Monday, January 20, 2025
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Continuance / EZE, 2025
Aufhebung
Ship of Theseus
Answers before the problem.
Aristotle's Four Causes as Three Aspects of Being:
Material (Material), Form (Form), Function (Efficient, Final)
Note that efficient cause (how) and final cause (why) are combined in the definition of function so as to make the definition of function more elastic.
1) Material change does not necessarily change the form nor does it necessarily change the function of something.
2) Formal change does not necessarily require material change nor does it necessarily require functional change.
3) Functional change does not necessarily require material change nor does it necessarily require formal change.
As roles are often an encapsulation of function, here is one approach to change(s) in material condition(s):
A cargo cult and a sculptor and a baker and a shipbuilder and an engineer ... may give form to something, but the materiality of that form often determines its possible function.
A cargo cult and a sculptor and a baker and a shipbuilder and an engineer ... may have a sense of function as such, but the material conditions of an enacted function often determine its effectiveness.
With this approach, one answer to the problem posed by the Ship of Theseus starts with the answer to this question: which aspect(s) of the being of the ship are allowed to change before we consider the ship changed?
Indeed, which aspect(s) of the being are allowed to change before we consider being itself changed?
Note on Aspects of Figuration: For additional analysis, we might want to consider the space the ship occupies, whether that space be a virtual space or a non-virtual space, as this space impacts our consideration of the being of the ship. Of course, time matters too. See Locke and Kant and Husserl ... .
Continuance,
an irony
Continuance,
an irony
Continuance as Thrown
Modal Aspects of Being
Aspect Continuance
Aspect = Community, Continuance = Survival
Forecasting This ...
Ecology helps us understand the material relation of being to its environment, but it generally concerns living being.
Though we do not always consider ~inanimate~ beings such as ships as part of an ecology (i.e., as being with ecological aspect(s)), perhaps we should as outside of construction ... , we tend not to see growth in such beings, but as time passes, we often see repair and decomposition and coral reefs visit such beings ... .
... An Interesting Word for a Certain Kind of Change
Yet we do not, of course, require ecology in order to forecast changes in being cyclically; after all, we do have the concept of life cycle, which applies to change both animate and inanimate (by analogy, as in Software Development Life Cycle).
An Ecology of Species ~ An Ecology of Function
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