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RE: Re: Inconsistent models, mapping, interoperability, and the SUO

> To comprehend the universal one needs to go past the level of
linguistics
> and on into the depths of our species that seeds linguistics -
supplies

I was first intrigued by your use of the neuron analogy to describe the
deficits of Zoroastrian thinking, but I hope we're not straying toward
the classic mistake of confusing an analogy with a law.

Trying to use the smallest part to describe the whole is a classic
mistake, and describing consciousness in neuronal terms (as anything
more than an analogy) is hardly different from describing human
reproduction using the homunculus.  Chaos theory has proven many times
over that large-scale phenomenon in a complex systems (such as weather)
are not usefully described or manipulated in terms of their smallest
parts.  Describing human consciousness this way is like describing
weather by saying that "hot/cold causes the density of air particles to
change and displace one another, causing wind.  Thus, winter is a mass
which displaces summer, and summer is a mass which displaces winter."