Hi all,
Just sharing some of my artwork that relates a bit :)
"Sizing the Infinite, Seeking Eternity," about Georg Cantor was done in collaboration with E. Theta Brown, Associate Professor of Math
Cover and pp. 11 – 16. (Photographs and essay.)
https://kapsula.ca/releases/KAPSULA_GOODMEASURE_3of3.pdf
Corinne
PS I have artwork about Gregg's ideas from some years ago that got buried somewhere in my studio after a move-- when I unearth it I will share!
Corinne Diop
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From: tree of knowledge system discussion [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Mark Stahlman [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 10:13 AM
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Subject: New Paradigms
John/Joe/Gregg &al:
What Gregg has done here may be the *first* time this has ever been accomplished (or perhaps even attempted). While many have "philosophized" over all this, Gregg has actually assembled a group of experts (which decades of detailed knowledge as well as experience arguing with their domain-expert colleagues.) Hurray . . . !!
Tree of Knowledge Stack
Culture :: Sociology (Joe)
Mind :: Psychology (Gregg)
Life :: Biology (John)
Matter :: Physics (???)
Does the "lower" define the "upper" or are there new *principles* that must be added at each level (or what Gregg calls "dimensions of complexity") . . . ??
In the 19th-century, during what was a very different paradigm from the one in which we live Bernhard Reimann suggested what some call the "hypothesis of the higher hypothesis" and Georg Cantor generated his Transfinite schema in attempts to *rigorously* tackle this conundrum. Both of them have largely been forgotten today and this was replaced with the notion of a "Theory of Everything" (ToE) and "Unity of Science" (as per Carnap &al) in the 20th-century -- as a result of the new paradigm in which those scientists lived (but not the same one as ours).
"Quantum" physics caught many people's attention and, for a while, seemed to be the answer -- but then it failed to produce a ToE and dissolved into a group of rival splinters until it was revived by some "hippies" who were living under yet-another paradigm (yes, as it turns out, I know Jack Sarfatti and he is an entertaining sorta guy, whose ideas were enhanced by both some LSD and some "conspiracies" that he imagines he was a part of) . . . <g>
https://www.amazon.com/How-Hippies-Saved-Physics-Counterculture/dp/039334231X
So much for physics -- but wait there is more! The US *military* decided it wanted to take some Los Alamos bomb-desingers and shuffle them across-the-street to a new place that was called the Santa Fe Institute, to see if the physics of nuclear weapons (i.e. mini-stars) could be applied to society. The Department of Energy (which owns the US arsenal, not the service branches) initially funded them 100% (and now it's 30% with another 30% coming from Pierre Omidyar).
https://www.santafe.edu/
The result was "complexity science" -- re-branding "chaos," since that frightens the children -- and its elaborate models of "emergence." Some of us from the Center spent last Spring with these folks (in particular, Jim Rutt, long-time chairman and now trustee at Santa Fe) and I can tell you they don't have a clue (and are unlikely to ever get one.)
So, Physics as failed (multiple times). How about Biology or Psychology or Sociology? As John tells us, biology is broken. As, Gregg tells us, psychology is broken. As Joe tells us, sociology is broken. So, what are we going to do . . . ??
My suggestion is that we take a look at *paradigms* behind these approaches and their causes/effects. This is the study of the "structure of scientific revolutions" (as per Thomas Kuhn, although he never explained either the causes or effects) and, to accomplish that task, we will need Marshall McLuhan -- which we will do when Gregg returns.
https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-50th-Anniversary/dp/0226458121
To do this, we will have to do something that has been "forgotten" for 400+ years -- understand *formal* cause. Fortunately, Aristotle is there to help us (since he's the one who came up with this idea in the first place, 2500 years ago) and, even more fortuitously, we are now in a new paradigm (otherwise, we wouldn't be having this conversation).
Mark
P.S. The previous paradigm was characterized by "globalism" and what was called the "new world order" (i.e. the one that Kuhn was plumping for, as funded by the Ford Foundation) and it has now collapsed. Yes, this is what keeps Henry Kissinger awake at night. This is why Trump was elected, Briexit occured and the 5 Star Movement now runs Italy &c. This is also why we are now in another "counter-culture" (parallel to the 60s), since that's what happens to *culture* when paradigms shift (over-and-over, making its explanation a top priority for a "pure" sociology). This is the focus of my Center (and,, yes, I also know John Ralston Saul).
https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Globalism-J-R-Saul/dp/1786494485
P.P.S. The "cheerio conspiracy" in all this is that the *center* of maintaining that now obsolete paradigm was the Government Communications Head-Quarters (GCHQ) which is the foundation of what some now call the "Deep State." Edward Snowden had a lot to say about them in terms of their acronym, "Five Eyes," making Trump's upcoming meeting with the Queen very interesting -- since the "Deep State" actually reports to her (yes, making Canada an actual national security threat) . . . !!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
P.P.P.S. Since our confusion about all this has been going on for a long-time, we will have to "drop back" and try to recover what previous paradigms -- such as the "Enlightenment" &c -- have destroyed. That is the origin of the "motto" on the Center website that "Digital *retrieves* the Medieval" and, from ISIS reviving *medieval* Jihad, to the Chinese reviving the *medieval* "Silk Road," it is already the world in which we live. As Marty McKly put it, "Doc, it's time to go back to the future" . . . <g>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future
P.P.P.P.S. What we have to try to avoid, as difficult as it may be, is to not behave "like a drunk looking for our carkeys underneath the streetlamp, because that's where the light is." The recently past paradigms have seriously screwed us up. This is why we are in such terrible condition -- which, btw, is not the situation in China, where its historic civilization is now the focus of study at the Central Party School (where CPC cadre are trained in Beijing) -- and *all* of our attempts at "coherence" have failed. But, we're in luck, Aristotle is there to help us (which is why Summer School at the Center is teaching his 4th-century BC "On the Soul".)
https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Memory-Recollection-Aristotle/dp/1888009179
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