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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Jason,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">I’m having some difficulty understanding the message conveyed through the pictures you’ve shared.
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</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">For instance, the images representing EU countries depict flames coming from burning cars.
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</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">However, Europe is vast and diverse, and such scenes can be found
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">all over</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif"> the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">It would be helpful if you could clarify your intention in plain English, so I can better grasp the context and meaning behind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">Additionally, the last
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</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">address issues concerning humanity on a global scale.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">Extraterrestrials I don’t know where to place conceptually.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Gordana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Sunday, 19 January 2025 at 19:11<br>
<b>To: </b>Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic <gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdu.se><br>
<b>Cc: </b>fis <fis@listas.unizar.es><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Fis] "Percepts" and self-reference and meaning - [chaotic issues]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Dear Gordana, these roughly illustrate what I meant for the question you asked, maybe you're not aware of. I hope each of these images is clear enough. If not, please let me know. Best - Jason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 9:43<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic <<a href="mailto:gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdu.se">gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdu.se</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">Dear Jason,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">You say: ”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">the chaotic
social issues in the U.K. and the Europ</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">e”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">I wonder which countries are you referring to with “</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">the
chaotic social issues</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif">”?</span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Fis <<a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>> on behalf of Jason Hu <<a href="mailto:jasonthegoodman@gmail.com" target="_blank">jasonthegoodman@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, 19 January 2025 at 16:01<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a>" <<a href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Pedro C. Marijuán" <<a href="mailto:pedroc.marijuan@gmail.com" target="_blank">pedroc.marijuan@gmail.com</a>>, Jerry Swatez <<a href="mailto:swatez@mac.com" target="_blank">swatez@mac.com</a>>, fis <<a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Fis] "Percepts" and self-reference and meaning</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">I used to be a fan of Hofstadter's "Gedel, Escher, Bach" in my younger years, but gradually started realizing that type of thoughts might be an intellectual
trap - an endless rabbit hole that leads to just self-entertainment or self-glory but no useful actions, no tools for handyman to do everyday work to benefit normal people.</span></p>
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<b>"</b></span><b>I have just written may not be completely correct (what is?)</b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">"
</span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">so I welcome any of you to prove me wrong or even change my mind, by offering some solid example of how GSB thinking has been beneficial to solve/resolve/dissolve the huge conflicts going on in the Middle East, or the
deep divide among the Americans between Trump supporters and Trump haters, or the chaotic social issues in the U.K. and the Europe. If no such examples exist so far, at least point out to me how it could be, under what conditions?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 3:29<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM <<a href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Just some comments to explain my resistence to GSB and much of Lou's otherwise essential work: the diagrams used do not nove; they are "eternal". They accurately reflect
<em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">only epistemic self-reference</span></em> and not recursion or ontic hetero-reference. Therefore, they are a possibly misleading way of describing natural physical processes, including and especially cognition.
Information applies to the content of the diagram below, but the mental "movement" from figure to ground and back, and its logic, is at a low level of complexity. Information more broadly. however, is easily seen as a dynamic phenomenon, embodying and describing <em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">change.</span></em>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I submit that what I have just written may not be completely correct (what is?), but that it has received insufficient serious attention.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dear Karl,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">And in starting with the idea of a distinction one needs to have an unfettered notion of background.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The empty set is placed against a background of non-membership and it has no members.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">(the first distinction, if you will.)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thus the curly brackets of the representation of the empty set, { }, are not necessary for the concept. And the right angle bracket is not necessary for the mark.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We sometimes use < > for the mark as it is useful in typing, but execrable as an icon since < > is two characters representing one distinction. And so it goes.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">It is in fact very powerful to understand the backgrounds that are appropriate for discourse and keep them as minimal as possible.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">In LOF, GSB uses the notational plane as a background, not the line.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This has some eplstemological advantages and some drawbacks.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Mathematical advances and scientific advances have resulted from such scrutiny.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">It depends on how you look at it.
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In Mathematics, all forms are brought forth from emptiness. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">What is not indicated is not marked.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Very best,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Jan 18, 2025, at 3:05 PM, Pedro C. Marijuán <<a href="mailto:pedroc.marijuan@gmail.com" target="_blank">pedroc.marijuan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks to you (and Eric) for the thought-provoking exchange. Along it, I was reminded of a maverick approach to distinctions I read long ago. It was pointing to a set with N elements
carrying multiple "signs" or "marks". The distinctions between these elements carrying heterogeneous signs within the set were expressed by means of partitions, actually multidimensional partitions. Other related authors tried to systematically obtain and
compile those multidimensional partitions via a few 'logical' principles (economy, parsimony, symmetry) applied to the pruning of redundant signs, and subsequently the 'canonical' multid.partitions could be obtained 'almost' algorithmically (at least for small
N)... etc. etc. At least, in my non-mathematical mind I could make some practical sense of this distinctional stuff (in which I was interested regarding cellular signaling systems and the way receptors combinations were occupied by different signaling molecules).
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IMO it is a Barón of Münchhausen's type of statement. Maths as I pointed days ago inherit the inner dynamics of our sensorimotor transformations from which language developed. Maths, as it has often been recognized, is a particular form of collective language.
It partakes of an enormous historical accumulation of thought-experimentation and pruning, particularly trying to capture the transformations of the external world. The implicit subject is always "us", the writer plus the concerned learned community of 'practitioners'
of that particular math 'dialect'. And concerning distinctions, it obviously includes the possibility of entering into the scheme of other subjects (as Eric points) endowed with genuine distinctional capability--from living cells to...
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Anyhow, in spite of the disagreement, your message was a great reading. Thanks for those GSB quotations.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Concerning Kate's recent emphasis on E. coli's two component system in charge of motion control, the discoveries on prokaryotic signaling during last two decades have left a richer
panorama. For instance, E. coli counts with about 100 one-component-systems (1CSs), 28 of the 2 CSs class, and just two of the 3 CSs (actually one of them is the motion control). The 1CSs are more simple and primitive (evolutionarily), and slower, with respect
to the faster, more specific, and more evolved 2CSs, which in their turn are less complex and sophisticate than 3CSs, which are applied to the treatment of very important signals than need a further layer of intervening processes. It always depend on the whole
advancement of the cell cycle, or life history, which endowment the bacterium will contain... Anyhow, the whole signaling panorama of 'primitive' cells is fascinating--it is indeed the beginning of biological sensing & communication.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">By the way, Jason, thanks for that amazing report on the proton innards.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">El 17/01/2025 a las 21:57, Louis Kauffman escribió:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">There is a confusion here that is quite natural.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">LOF is a book of mathematics and philosophy. It discusses the idea of a distinction.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">explore outward into complexity. LOF dwells on the possibility of one distinction throughout the whole book.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">and we feel that some representations will help and some ways to use signs and symbols will help.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">But you can investigate this if you are not annoyed by it.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">as we have systematically shown
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Wittgenstein pointed out the ontological consequences of the limitations of language.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">THE FORM WE TAKE TO EXIST ARISES FROM FRAMING NOTHING.
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<p>Dear Lou,</p>
<p>To point 4. Yes, I admit it was sarcasm. To me a distinction requires a subject. And that subject's neuro-hardware or firmware or software limits the distinctions that that subject can make. For example, the distinctions made by an ant, a frog, a cat or
a human may be quite different. </p>
<p>I realize you are probably the world top expert on Spencer Brown so you probably have a reply. But my instinct is that GSB is claiming too much by using 'distinction' as an ONTOLOGICAL or metaphysical foundation for what requires a subjective capacity. OK,
this last sentence is not fully clear, but I think GSB is confusing subject and being.</p>
<p>As for the sarcasm, it is a more personal emotional reaction having little to do with you. Although you may unknowingly have had a role in the matter through your publications. I have friends who study early Wittgenstein and GSB as if their texts were biblical
texts. Going to the library every day to read the Tractatus and LOF like a disciple doing his or her religious studies. </p>
<p>At the onset of puberty and the ability to consciously reason, my mother took each of us into the kitchen and taught us to be critical of the bible, both the old and new testament. We were raised Christian but there were also Jews in my mother's ancestry.
Who knows why, but I have maintained my religious skepticism and hence my perhaps inappropriate reaction when I smell religiosity. Apologies dear Lou.</p>
<p>In spite of my critical attitude, I do believe there is more to the universe. There may be a God or Gods and angels. There may be life after death. Life is always surprising. So, I am open to that.</p>
<p>-Eric</p>
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