Hi Angus and Platt,
PLATT: So when you made in a previous
post a distinction between spatial and temporal logic, I thought, "Isn't
causation an essential part of logic, and isn't causation time-
dependent?" In other words, logic is so wrapped up in the Kantian
categories of time and space that to separate them is to violate the
meaning of logic.
ERIN: It seems analogous to the left/right hemisphere processing.
Can you process logic in more then one way?
It is intersting that you can hold the gist of a story in mind but you can't
think about the gist of a story and individual events simultaneously. I
wonder how a "story gist" is related to a logic "gist".
To me thinking about a story gist (or logic gist) sounds analogous to a
spatial (processing/logic) and thinking about the events of a story (or
elements of logic equation) sounds analagous to temporal (processing/logic).
PIRSIG: I had always assumed that this blockage of direct quality perception
was social, but in Mexico a few years ago I talked to a neurologist who argued
that it was physiological. She said that recent experiments are showing that
the right side of the brain, the "artistic" side, filters all experience
before it reaches the left "rational" side of the brain. this would concur
with the MOQ assertion that value precedes concepts in human understanding. I
have read elsewhere that the left rational side of the brain can never
perceive the right brain as an object, but only receive messages from it. This
would explain why everyone knows that something is better than other things
but no one can define what this betterness is. All they get are the quality
messages but they don't know where the quality messages are coming from. This
is not to say that the right brain creates the quality, only that it filters
it before passing it along to the left brain for conceptualizing.
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