Define Your Rational Self-Interest
Decisioning, But Maybe Not in a Way Rand Would?
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.
Problems with the answers.
Aspect.
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
Configuration
Friday, January 17, 2025
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Incongruence Asemic / EZE, 2025
The Difference Found
Narrative Incongruence
When the cycle time for how a community at large knows to do something and the return of the thing to be done is out of sync.
Forgetfulness
Elitely?
Directly?
Monday, January 13, 2025
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Signal as Noise / EZE, 2025
Asemic Translation as a Noise Theory
What happens when a technology loses its analogue?
Claude Shannon: Miscellaneous Writings
Notes:
David J.C. MacKay: Information Theory
Noise Politics / EZE, 2025
Noise Politics
Asemics concerns noise, but it sees noise as such, and it often promulgates noise, even in its silence, as its response.
Politics concerns noise, and it often promulgates noise, even in its silence, i.e., in its lack of response, as its response.
What is the difference?
Politics is still very much engaged in a discourse of the meaningful, but it has also to acknowledge the way it silences discourse. What occasionally becomes obvious is that silence leaks secrets.
Cover-up and overexposure serve to preserve meaningful discourse, but asemics often refuses discourse, especially of the meaningful sort.
Politics desires a basis for action as well as for non-action, but it does not yet acknowledge its own asemics as politics tends to ground action in discourse.
How so?
Discourse analysis tends to pursue the following types of dialectic:
1) Truth and truth, lie and lie, truth and lie,
1a) Fact and fact, fiction and fiction, fact and fiction ... ,
2) Narrative and narrative,
3) Intelligence and intelligence,
and so forth.
For example, cognitive dissonance is one of the latest diagnoses, as dissonance concerns noise, for the politics of noise, but noise, though it can often be volume controlled, ..., is not curable.
What is the difference?
Asemics is in all politics, and it makes no claim as to its coherence.
Politics risks coherence to maintain discourse. Its ability to acknowledge its asemics is yet to be.
Noise Samples
And Noisy Politics
Appendix
One clue that noise politics is enacted:
Person covers ears and repeats loudly, "La la la la."
Signs of noise politics:
Between "I mean it" and "I'm just kidding" is noise.
...
Some notes on noise politics:
Noise attenuates discourse.
Noise cancels conversation.
