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> From: owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of PzEph
> Sent: Friday, 15 December 2000 9:00
> To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Subject: Re: MD EITHER/OR, BOTH/AND
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>
> CHRIS WROTE:
> Your bookshelf looks more like identity seeking, you seek value over
> facts?
>
> ELEPHANT:
> Suspicious of an insult in the first clause, but re second: you got it, I
> think that's why I fetched up at moq.org ...
>
> And excuse me if I don't select a personality type.
>
>
understandable -- confirms the type -- to seek identity means to reject
categorisation since the emphasis on relational processes favours 'there is
alway something else'. The world of differences. The world of sameness
favours categorisation since it is used in the feedback processes in that
from a neurological perspective we habituate to sameness thus once a
categorisation becomes habit so we can focus on differences :-) IOW from a
neurological perspective we are biased to detecting difference. However
these differences are in the form of EXPRESSIONS and the emphasis is to
identify what is BEHIND those expressions and that means SAMENESS.
What all of this 'says' is that BOTH sameness AND difference distinctions
operate at the same time and we process this information dynamically by
converting to EITHER/OR and back.
Thus ALL categorisations systems DO say something GENERAL about an
individual since all individual are part of the ONE species; an individual
is a variation on a theme and general psychological categorisations are
useful.
The patterns in sameness are the patterns we use to predict expressions.
That is the path of the Scientist. The path of the innovative artist is to
initially be unpredictable, to be unique. Different. Set/assert their OWN
context. The path of the adaptive artist is to be aspectual, to bring out an
aspect of a context set by somebodyelse (e.g. Plato, Mozart etc)
IMHO you need to review recursive dichotomisations and include the
sameness/difference dichotomy in this study.
Re your comments on Peirce etc you miss the point re my interest, your
attempt to categorise failed :-(
best regards,
Chris.
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