[ExI] Personal conclusions

Aware aware at awareresearch.com
Thu Feb 4 18:30:39 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Aware <aware at awareresearch.com> wrote:
> It's simply and necessarily how any system refers to references to
> itself.  Yes, it's recursive, and therefore unfamiliar and unsupported
> by a language and culture that evolved to deal with relatively shallow
> context and linear relationships of cause and effect.  Meaning is not
> as perceived by the observer, but in the response of the observer,
> determined by its nature within a particular context.

I left out a key word, sorry.  Should have been:

> It's simply and necessarily how any system refers to references to
> itself.  Yes, it's recursive, and therefore unfamiliar and unsupported
> by a language and culture that evolved to deal with relatively shallow
> context and linear relationships of cause and effect.  Meaning is not
> as perceived by the observer, but in the observed response of the observer,
> determined by its nature within a particular context.

- Jef



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