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RE: Idealism vs Materialism: universal formal ontology



Title: Idealism vs Materialism : Idealism and the Differentiating Element
Azamat, you wrote:
 
"As I have noticed in my communication with Chris, dual thinking, the tendency to classify things into two opposed classes, the damnation of all metaphysical argumentation, makes all the confusion here again."
 
No. There are TWO perspectives operating. ONE is based on exaggerations from a base, what I have labeled as "asymmetric" dichotomies. These focus on identifying SAMENESS across DIFFERENCES. These will give you a spectrum format in expression - power law stuff. The passage 'along' the dimension that develops from this is a passage from vague to crisp, local to universal. Each point in this hierarchy is a point for analyisis of DIFFERENCE from SAMENESS and as such we use opposition to analyse - this gives us Gaussian distributions, the dynamics of +1/-1 as compared to those of worthless/priceless.
 
Due to the PRECISION focus of our brains, so as we differentiate we move into perspectives that are 'opposites' oriented, we are focusing on a particular point on the spectrum derived from asymmetric perspectives. Our brains do this 'naturally'.
 
The price of high precision thinking is the pushing away of 'others' to make things 'clear' - this clarity is PARTS oriented when seen from the position of our species... gets into what I have pointed out before re XOR/AND dynamics - and is experienced in such areas as basic sensory paradox processing.
 
Understand these dynamics and out pops the properties and methods of all categorisations where the universals created then need local context to give them some colour.
 
As a dichotomy is recursed so it develops into a continuum where we can no longer detect 'difference'. THAT becomes the background upon which we then try to impose structures - that background is not a 'tabular rasa', it has the structure of patterns of differentiating/integrating such that the labels we create will reflect what is beneath them: meaning in the form of vague 'feelings' of 'something' where the precision is in the label that links the universals to a local context, and in doing so causes the generation of a lexicon.
 
The differentiation element of the differentiating/integrating dichotomy is the 'discrete' end of the process and will focus on objects, wholes and parts. The integrating element is the 'continuous' end of the process and will focus on relationships.
 
The asymmetric nature of the dichotomy shows objects being derived from relationships (or the 'space inbetween' objects - as fermions are derived from bosons). Focus on the objects and out will pop 'opposites' in the form of DIFFERENCE from SAMENESS (fermionic perspectives - electron/positron pair where the difference is in the charge).
 
If we focus on the 'boson' end of things, so the focus on differences in energy levels reflected in differences in temperature give us the 'hierarchy' we see emerge from a BEC where the BEC is representitive of the 'integrated whole', no distinctions possible, and as we raise temperature so fragmentation occurs, allowing for identifying SAMENESS from DIFFERENCES. This SAME *dynamic*  operates in our brains and reflects the overall dynamics of differentiating/integrating - same patterns across all scales of analysis.
 
(for some maths re representation of all of this at the abstract level of 'differentiating/integrating' see http://www.iimetro.com.au/~lofting/myweb/symmetry.html)
 
 
Chris.