On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, glove wrote:
> Troy, i will continue to try and 'get your point' by asking you a few
> questions, and please, there is no reason for sadness here. why do you say
> the me-triangle doesnt exist in space? for it does (for the purpose of the
> thought experiment), and it is impossible for the me triangle to overlap
> with another, for a triangle exists only in 2 dimensional space. more
> properly, i should have used 3-D tetrahedrons to describe the thought
> experiment but i felt that is unnecessarily complicated and i believe
> triangles will serve the same purpose. for this experiment, we will simply
> be working in 2 dimensions instead of 3. can you see now that the triangles
> cannot possibly overlap? we dont want to mix apples and oranges here which i
> think you are doing inadvertantly.
maybe. i was just thinking about drawing a triangle on a piece of paper
and drawing another triangle outside the first triangle and not touching
it. this represents SOMland before we met.
turn the paper over and proceed to draw the first triangle. this time,
the second triangle overlaps the first triangle to look something like a
bowtie. that represents us in SOMland after we meet.
the reason the two triangles share awareness is because this 2-dimensional
model represents our lives, in their many dimensions. a 3-dimensional
model with tetrahedrons is the same way; since we are both aware of MOQ,
and we are both aware of eachothers awareness, our triangles overlap.
now, if you ever come to Washington and try to take up the same space as
me, it wouldn't work. but the awareness triangle as you described it, is
a model that is "unbound" by space.
likewise, awareness extends out from us and is unbound by space, which is
why you can dream up the triangle model. we can't physically take up the
same space but you can put me in a room with a stranger and before we have
parted i'll bet we share some of the same awareness...
although SOM thinking has dominated most of the thoughts that i have
experienced, it does not have the world on a leash. we can loosen the
bonds of SOM by choosing "the right words" to "deconstruct" current social
and intellectual patterns of value.
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