[MD] now it comes

[MarshaV]

Hi Krimel,


This is my favorite thing to think about.  A pattern, to my understanding, is held 
only in bits and pieces in a single individual, making it definitely relative.  A 
pattern has breadth and depth, as in its past existence and across many, many 
individuals.  It does not exist in its entirety within one mind as a fully formed 
concept, but is, indeed, a collective, pattern of value. 

What do you think about this assessment? 


Marsha




On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Krimel wrote:

> Marsha:
> Just for the record, is a pattern a definition, or compilation of 
> definitions, or something else?   
> 
> [Krimel]
> Bertrand Russell once claimed that the only label he had ever applied to
> himself was "philosophical atomist". He thought that philosophers argued
> about the meaning of terms until they got to a point where argument could
> not provide an answer. The points that elude definition and agreement are
> philosophical atoms.
> 
> I think that "pattern" is an "atom" for you the way I fear "meaning" is an
> atom for me. It is a concept so fundamental it becomes one of those
> transparent assumptions that we live by but can't adequately account for.
> 
> In my world "pattern," of necessity, involves some kind of persistent
> temporal relationship. At pattern can be "constant" in time, like celestial
> orbits, or repeated in time like thunder storms, or replicated or iterated
> in time, like DNA.
> 
> Psychologically speaking, (what else did you expect?) life is a system of
> pattern recognition. All life proceeds by using patterns to maximize
> meaning. All living things in some sense are engines of pattern recognition.
> We are designed to know good from bad and how to approach or avoid.
> 
> It is that fundamental, irreducible, philosophical atom: the valence of plus
> and minus, good and bad; that drive life and the evolution of life.
> 
> Pattern recognition, the ability to detect similarity are well as
> difference, allows us to reduce the uncertainty of DQ and create meaning or
> SQ.
> 
> 
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