Thursday, January 23, 2025

Saturday, January 18, 2025

robust / EZE, 2025

 


Continuance / EZE, 2025

Aufhebung

Hegel

Technology

Parmenides


Ship of Theseus

Answers before the problem.

Aristotle

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.

The Ship of Theseus

The Ship of Theseus

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 ... .

Theory of Composition




Continuance,
an irony

Jacob and Esau


Continuance,

an irony

Rudyard Kipling

Lin-Manual Miranda


Continuance as Thrown

Tense and Aspect


Modal Aspects of Being

Dooyeweerd

Stevens


Aspect Continuance

Aspect = Community, Continuance = Survival

Planned Obsolescence


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).

Identity by Forecast

Face Age Progression

Heraclitus

Re-


An Ecology of Species ~ An Ecology of Function


Entropy and Diversity

robus / EZE, 2025

 


Thursday, January 16, 2025

Incongruence Asemic / EZE, 2025

The Difference Found

 Model and Process

Sequence Error

Expectation and Surprise

Integrity

Accounting for Difference

~With~ Awareness

Test

Narrative Incongruence

Wildfire

Risk

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 

Theseus

Elitely?

What to Say

Directly?

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