SUO: Re: Transformations Of Discourse
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Epistle to the EPISTLE-Pascalians?
To Doug & Matthew especially ...
I would like to take a moment's rest from that
long litany of "te deums" that will need to be
canted and dinned and droned and intoned on my
present theme, before the time can arrive when
a poor creature such as I, so finitely endowed
with any capacities for control or information,
can approach to anything like doing it justice,
and I would like to point to a couple of links
that this topic has with matters that you have
of late raised here on several of your threads.
Let me then try to forge for you here an image
of the pattern of connections that I see among
these three questions:
1. The number of dimensions that we need to think about.
2. The character of the coordinate systems that we need.
3. All of this stuff about transformations of discourse.
Consider a type of system, prospectively having some bearing on the issue
of whether any systen can have both dynamics and intelligence all at once,
that is commonly described, at least by me, as a "brain in a cube" (BIAC),
whose life traverses a "discrete approximation to a brain state" (DATABS)
at each and every moment of its surprisingly variegated life, for a' that.
Each DATABS x is a bit-string or a bit-vector whose type may be specified
in the form x : B^N, inasmuch writing that x is a member of the space B^N,
and where N is somewhere in the vicinity of 10^10 the last time I checked.
Now this brain of which we speak resides in 3-space and develops over time,
at least for a time, or that is what I think that I may safely assume that
the likes of us brands of thinkers will agree on here, for the sake of the
present argument, at any rate. And so, yes, we 'could', if we insisted on
doing so, index every "discrete approximation to a neuron" (DATAN) in some
form of "prospective geometry" (PG), say, by addressing each and every one
according to its location in relation to some suitably distinguished point,
say, the center of levity in the "pineal gland" (PG), and that would maybe
suffice to relate what is going on in this amazingly complex system to our
familiar manners of assigning "a local habitation and a name" to the stuff
that dreams are made on, but I just think that it ought to be rather clear
how artificial is the aspect of simplicity that is thereby pulled over all.
More, Later,
Jon Awbrey
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