DO: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the random

Feb. 13, 2006

Type: discussion

Agreed. Let's drop the matter at this last RE, and save it as a DO
differently.

dv

> —–Oorspronkelijk bericht—–
> Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Nad
> Verzonden: maandag 13 februari 2006 12:56
> Aan: [email protected]
> Onderwerp: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
> Re: the random
>
> Hi Dirk
>
> yes this is more or less what i meant. However I think its a
> big question, what the role of perception or more important
> the role of cognition is here in this context.
> I feel unable to comment sensefully on this in brief.
>
> or in very short, I really think that this is
> nontrivial: how come that we come up with such concepts like
> e.g. a CIRCLE? Why do we "find" this concept at all? Is it
> about us in our space-time environment?
>
> I dont know wether it makes sense to discuss this particular
> thing on the raw list. its very hard to keep track of threads
> and its very time consuming to sort out comments. one needs
> some redundancy for this kind of communication and may be i
> feel this is not suited for the subject. at least for me:
> redundancy can blur understanding sometimes.
>
>
> nad
>
> p.s. your definition of a circle supposes that you have the
> notion of a distance. You can still define a circle without
> having a distance, like in topology.
>
>
> Dirk Vekemans wrote:
>
>
> > Certainly, one needs to make the distinction, even in my
> very private
> > mess of things, where math is the first order coding process, or
> > better
> > still:
> > the Code itself, the core of knowledge that, if anything,
> stands out
> > as Kant's a priori body of knowledge. For,as you put it, us humans
> > just find the code, when we think of things like a circle
> or a line,
> > we indeed think of things that have been before us and will
> 'survive
> > us' in eternity.
> > In
> > fact, let's be clear about it, no irony whatsoever, so
> there can be no
> > misunderstanding later on: we think of them as outside of time,
> > circles don't change, they're on some divine plane of
> consistency that
> > for some reason unintelligable for humans, just is there,
> waiting for
> > us to unravel more of its splendour as we make progress, not by
> > invention but by discovery.
> >
> > A static system of truth. Unshakable. The only thing
> changing about it
> > is our perception of it, how much we have discovered, how many
> > mistakes we have made or are making, but those are
> irrelevant because
> > they don't change the things themselves.
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