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<DIV>In a message dated 9/3/2005 1:04:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
isaacsonj@hotmail.com writes:</DIV>
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size=2><BR>Yes. In my process the opposites are termed generically
"quids" and <BR>"quods".<BR>In one-dimension, quids are broken lines and quods
are continuous lines;<BR>very much like generalized yin and yang.
And the whole process may be<BR>viewed as a generalized yin/yang
system.<BR><BR>One subtle thing to be kept in mind. Quid/quod (or
separation/aggregation)<BR>are derived (or emergent) attributes from more
primitive activities that <BR>involve local<BR>distinction-making.
So, ultimately (recursive) distinction-making is the <BR>engine<BR>of all
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<DIV>hb: this is hearty meat for thought. What is reponsible for the
distinction-making process? What is its origin? Is time the
maker of distinctions and of aggregations? Is time some sort of algorithm,
a basic rule, for the extraction of new distinctions and aggregations from the
data of the previous recursion, extracting implications from the previous
instant of Planck time?</DIV>
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<DIV>Or, to put it differently, does time follow rules? Are those rules
more complex than just "take the next step"? How does time extract the
implicit and make it explicit? How does it translate what was into what
is? Then how does it do it all over again? Is time a process, a
mechanism? Is it something we can't comprehend with our current tool kit
of metaphors?</DIV>
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<DIV>This is really a quesion the paper Pavel Kurakin and I have written moves
toward answering in a very primitive and speculative way: <SPAN
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href="http://arxiv.org/ftp/quant-ph/papers/0504/0504088.pdf">http://arxiv.org/ftp/quant-ph/papers/0504/0504088.pdf</A> .
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PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A
Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution
of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Recent Visiting
Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Core Faculty
Member, The Graduate
Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder:
International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution
Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big Bang Tango
Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political
Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human
Ethology; advisory board member: Institute for Accelerating Change ; executive
editor -- New Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International
Paleopsychology Project, see: www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from
<BR>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History,
see www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The
Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see
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