[ExI] "increasingly"

[Jef Allbright]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> At 08:32 AM 9/25/2008 -0700, Jef wrote:
>
>> Can anyone here suggest a simple term meaning "increasingly coherent
>> over increasing context" ... I get a **lot** of email offlist from people
>> saying they
>> tend to get lost after about the second "increasingly" whenever I try
>> to express lexically, concepts better expressed mathematically.
>
> As a first cut: maybe make that "increasingly coherent
> over ever-broader context" (which turns it into an x and y graph).

Thanks Damien.  While acknowledging that effective prose exploits a
variety of terms by which to triangulate its intended meaning, It's
not clear to me how "ever-broader context" is superior to "increasing
context" when the intention is to convey the idea of an expanding
graph; and to my mind,  introducing a new term appears to imply a new
entity, when all I mean by "increasing" is movement along a given
axis.

Since in human affairs "context" already forms a graph within a
complex high-dimensional plane, I visualize its coherence as something
akin to *alignment* of magnetic monopoles within that n-plane, or
simpler, as *density* of the linked nodes within that n-plane, on the
basis that more aligned or more dense corresponds to more coherent in
effect.

"Of course", my intention these last several years has been to convey
the idea of this expanding plane of subjective context (within which
an agent interprets its world) orthogonal to an expanding plane of
objective scope of interaction (within which an agent perturbs its
world), necessarily evolving via selection through this matrix, and
how this picture represents a space of interaction naturally seen as
increasingly moral as it subtends an increasing volume of "self."

Clear?  ;-)

- Jef