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| babel, logos, theta and the meta search |
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: proslogion : los : logos : creation likened to an act of language
: eco: by
naming things god gave them 'ontological status' : babel : the emergence
of many european languages at the end of the fifth century was a babel-like
event, a 'metahistorical' event : hence a longing for the original
'adamic' language : consider the missing element in many factual observations
: the search for which constitutes a meta search : for example : pei:
'unless we choose to accept the doctrine of predestination, it is
chance that makes history' : seeing why this is not precisely true
by finding this missing element (meta) : the proof will necessarily
come in a roundabout way : the notion of coleridge
that a 'willing suspension of disbelief' is required : for example
in dante : must we brush aside any supposed literal intent in dante's
map and, as with scholarly convention, simply enjoy the lyrical and
storytelling aspects : or can one at once not believe the literal
intent and also believe that it is true : singleton:
that dante, in convivio 'recognizes two kinds of allegory': an 'allegory
of poets' and an 'allegory of theologians' : '... surely the allegory
of the Comedy is the allegory of poets in which the first
and literal sense is a fiction and the second or allegorical sense
is the true one.' : and later: 'when we read the Divine Comedy today,
does it matter, really, whether we take its first meaning to be historical
or fictive, since either case we must enter into that willing suspension
of disbelief required in the reading of any poem?' : these discussions
of allegory, as with pei:
'Unless we choose to accept the doctrine of predestination, it
is chance that makes history' : all presuppose that historical, or
literal, events described in poems as allegory and metaphorical truths
cannot be accepted as at once historically false and actually true
: at first, the presupposition appears reasonable : an old testament
literalist will regard the exodus as both literally true historically
and metaphorically true as a symbol of redemption : but can the exodus
be regarded as at once historically inaccurate, not-literal, but also
factually true : to do so, the question: 'did it actually happen'
is not the relevant question, or is not the same question as: 'is
it true' : so this implies that even a most fundamental axiom of logic
is flawed, indicating there is much happening on the meta level that
we are unable to perceive : meta ta physika : after the physics :
memory, and therefore time, plays a most important role : because
history is filtered through memory, time, the collapse of which would
eliminate inconsistencies and frauds that distract one from meta,
after the physics : framed in the absence of time these questions
become nonsense : without time (theta), historical fact is not relevant
: so aristotle's
evaluation of poetry and myth over history, which he declares trivial
: 'history entails what has happened, poetry what might happen : poetry
is more serious than history : poetry describes the universal, history
describes the particular' : this can be the basis for the important
collapse of time, theta : returning to eco's
account of the search for the original adamic language : karen
armstrong nicely describes the use of the word logos by philo
and in john's gospel : where eco
calls creation an act of language, because by naming things god gave
them 'ontological status' : this is emphasized by 'saying it was good'
: the question of who god was talking to : as with when he remarks
that adam is now 'one of us' : these expressions are spoken by god
in what language : so armstrong
describes philos' 'theory of the divine Logos' ... 'God had formed
a master plan (logos) of creation ...' : later she contrasts st. john's
gospel : 'In his prologue, he described the Word (logos) which had
been "with God from the beginning" and had been the agent
of creation' : and she further notes: 'In the Aramaic translations
of the Hebrew scriptures known as the targums, ..., the term
Memra (word) is used to describe God's activity in the world'
: but how then does the absence of theta, necessary to understand
the argument that neither chance nor predestiny determines history,
or that neither or both do in equal measure, apply to logos and the
ongoing search for the adamic language : consider first the paradox:
god, the first cause, primary mover, embodied in 'the word', the conception
of which implies communication, necessarily involving more than a
single being : the irony of this aspect of the logos must apply to
the meta search : so with the collapse of theta the logos must take
on another meaning, distinct from the connotation of discourse : perhaps
sound; the music of the spheres : evidently the circle, according
to the platonists, is best of all shapes in representing the immutability
of god because it expresses a line returning to its original path
: logos and spheres : meta ta physika : spheres for pythagoras and
spheres for dante : but still searching for an elegant and unifying
quantitative perspective : the interesting thing about pricing options
is that it provides a metaphor which is ideal for approaching this
question : the elimination of theta from the argument, which is necessary
to shift the perspective away from historical fact and inconsistencies
with literal truth : this is accessible and clearly illustrated by
dante's description of the metaphor of the poet : in which the literal
sense is a fiction and the invented sense is true : but taken further:
the description of the truth is more accurate when a fiction is employed
to express it : might this paradox result partly because the historical
and factual perspective, cumbersome in its expressive accuracy, is
removed in the device of the metaphor and thus the truth shines through
the allegory more brightly : so in an effort to employ an allegory
for the use of leaving theta out of consideration, it is appropriate
to turn to the vast experiment provided by a growing system of rules
and measures in which agents are incontrovertibly continuously acting
to maximize utility; in which ample controls are present; in which
exists a level of saturation of endeavor sufficient to ensure statistically
robust measurements; in which indeed accurate measurements are readily
and continuously available; and in which agents enjoy increasingly
available free flowing information : this closed system of continuously
evolving structures are all based on, or essentially reducible to
a basic unit : additionally, the universal mode of increasing complexity
in structures is by introducing the element of time: theta : every
complication within every instrument contained within the vast system
of structures is due to the presence of theta : presumably the elimination
of theta would reduce the entire system to a single value, or at least
the aggregate of multiple values determined by ownership, but in theory
easily measurable : so because of the serendipity of the experiment,
the quantitative solution to our question may be at hand, and may
merely be a matter of analysis : appro pos of the experiment is dante's
contrasting of plutus, the classical god of wealth, and the spenders
and hoarders with the goddess fortune in the fourth circle, canto
vii : those who hoarded or over spent their riches reside between
the gluttons and the wrathful and sullen : dante, via longfellow,
describes them as '... people, more than elsewhere, many. On one side
and the other, with great howls, Rolling weights forward by main force
of chest. They clashed together, and then at that point Each one turned
backward, rolling retrograde, Crying, "Why keepest?" and,
"Why sqaunderest thou?" Thus they returned along the lurid
circle On either hand unto the opposite point, shouting their shameful
metre evermore.' : the lurid circle and sisyphus path taken by the
spenders and hoarders is contrasted later in the canto with the sphere
of fortune, who, being blamed by those who object to her 'governance'
of treasure, which occurs 'Beyond resistance of all human wisdom',
is unaffected by the 'bad repute'; '... she is blissful, and she hears
it not' : Among the other primal creatures gladsome She turns her
sphere, and blissful she rejoices' : so the sphere of fortune, which
metes out wealth in a just fashion, is contrasted with the individual
spherical weights pushed along in the fashion of sisyphus by the spenders
and hoarders : so it is interesting that the sphere can presumably
be employed, in the experiment, either in justice or in incontinence
: because of this it is important to understand the nature of the
sphere during our search to reconcile the great paradoxes through
the elimination of theta : |
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