> -----Original Message----- > From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Geoffrey Marnell > Sent: Sunday, 22 November 2009 5:55 PM > To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: atw: Re: Let's calm down, apologies, and other things > > Chris, > > Can you give me "The Idiots Guide to ..." version. You lost > me at the first paragraph, and later had me wondering if I > was a hermaphrodite, or someone in need of gender > realignment. (Maybe that would improve my technical > writing?) > > For a moment I thought your book on I Ching was subtitled > "Vague Language" > rather than "The Language of the Vague". Still, your posting > prompts me to > ask: Were I to buy your book, would I understand it? I have a > PhD from the 1980s, when precision was all the rage; so I may > have trouble with your post-modernistic, gender-drenched > abstractionism. Would a Bertrand-Russell-Alfred-Ayer mindset > like mine get to within a cooee of your juicy continental truths? > The Emotional I Ching text is focused on the I Ching and the identification of its language nature, based on detailed analysis of the properties of recursion used in our brains - as covered in the IDM work (http://www.emotionaliching.com/AbstractD.html ). The focus brings out some 'truth' behind the 'madness' of divination etc - there is no magic or randomness involved, it is all about the ONE method we use as a species to derive meaning and the many specialist perspectives we have derived from such (due to ignorance of the method until recent times where neuroscience has revealed what is going on) If your interested in the neurological roots of meaning, and that includes the basic categories used in specialisations such as categories of numbers we use in Mathematics and the foundations of logic etc then IDM can be of interest to someone grounded in Analytical Philosophy/positivism - although it can be a touch upsetting to some. The current edition of the Emotional I Ching text is 510 pages with the first 50+ pages available as a .pdf file on the website to familiarise the reader with the book content. Since the text is derived from considerations of the traditional, divinational, perspective, there is a link on the website that covers such material - but to USE the EIC such material is not really necessary - there is no dependency on ancient Chinese etc etc etc (see the 50 page introduction) but identifying the etymology can aid in understanding the development of consciousness from a 'vague', mythic, form into the detailed mediations skills developed today. If you are not interested in reading or in tracking down references etc, then try-out the simple application on the website (page down the home page) - it is vague but is found to generate a resonance between what one assesses and the derived I Ching representation. As I pointed out in a previous post covering assessments of audiences, the questions can be changed as long as the generic form is retained - asymmetric dichotomies layered general to particular. There is a reference list in the book (as is the IDM abstract as an appendix) or if you need more then see the raw, pre-EIC material, drafts covering such as "Categories of Mediation": http://www.emotionaliching.com/myweb/categoriesTheory.pdf (included defs of terms and tie to the logic operators of XOR, EQV, and IMP where such are encoded into our brains and cover anti-symmetry, symmetry, and asymmetry) http://www.emotionaliching.com/myweb/categoriesPractice.pdf (covers fight/flight and yang/yin and the development of the EIC) or see the earlier draft "Language of the Vague": http://www.emotionaliching.com/myweb/Vague.pdf or the original IDM web pages: http://www.emotionaliching.com/myweb/idm001.html > Anyway I would probably be irreversibly distracted by the > sort of thinking > -- symmetric, asymmetric, parasymmetric or whatever -- that > has me realigning my education to accept that bosons and > fermions (once considered classes of sub-atomic particles) > were really statistics. > But then again you probably assumed > that the austechwriter audience, being masters of quantum > physics, would know that you were really talking about the > statistics EXHIBITED BY bosons and fermions, and not the > bosons and fermions themselves ... > LOL! The realm of BOSONS utilises Bose-Einstein statistics as does the realm of FERMIONS utilise Dirac-Fermi statistics. The properties and characteristics of such conform to a more generic focus on patterns of anti-symmetry (differentiating, pulse-like) vs patterns of symmetry (integrating, wave-like). The IDM material covers the brain structure dynamics of (a) aspects analysis (anti-symmetry, use of XOR), (b) wholes analysis (symmetry, use of EQV) and (c) mediation (asymmetry, language creation and use of IMP (implies) - this being the only asymmetric logic operator and it allows us to reason backwards) IOW no matter what scale we operate from we will discover the SAME patterns; labels aid in differentiating the contexts in which the patterns occur. See the diagram in the EIC intro or IDM summary. The patterns cover ALL of our categorisations such that I can apply recursion to a dichotomy such as fight/flight and to yang/yin and then map meanings from one to the other. We see here the foundations of analogy/metaphor and the emergence of abstraction from the single context, sensory-system-grounded, concrete nature of our neurology (See diagrams in the EIC or IDM material). In the context of persona categorisations, the MBTI and Jung's original work (as is the Big-5 etc) are all grounded in layering of dichotomies and the isomorphism present means the EIC questions can be used to identify classes of consciousness that correlate well with MBTI categories (and in fact transcend such). From a writer's perspective, understanding the classes of consciousness and their make-up can aid in dealing with those classes - some assumptions can be made such that only unique differences then need be understood. <snip> > > Analyse me, Dr Lofting. Let's leave Christine alone for a while. > who? 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