Universe and University (cont.)
Universe and University (cont.)
S*1: (stipulation) As the universe is the morphic field of the body,
So the university is the morphic field of the mind.
Body awareness is perception.
Mental awareness is consciousness (conscious awareness)
On Signs and communication
Communication of awareness from one individual to others is by means of signs (language and pictures) whose appearance as tokens have been internally linked to perceived qualitative configurations (perception of a block with letters, for example).
If shown a block such as children play with stamped with “A”, “B”, etc., whoever has been raised on English will recognize and be able to pronounce the letter names. It is associated early in learning with the ‘special’ class of objects called signs by learning it in sequences that spell words. Alphabetic writing itself, in fact, was a point of historical departure in Tokenspace of great significance just because it established this loop-route through the psychic processing apparatus, as the more efficient sign-use technology replaced cuneiform and hieroglyphics (Sumer and Egypt, respectively).
When taken as standing for something other than itself, a sign is communicating its text.: its meaning qua cognitive. When taken as an object in the sensory field itself (uttered, written or hand signaled words, etc.) it may be said to be a “Token”: of its meaning as text; of fungible chad-like entity-hood per se. The distinction between text and token as two sides, aspects or essential features of things used by people to communicate, although recognized and of course omni-ambient throughout the history of civilization, has not before now, with this system (psychosemiotics), been made the metaphysical hinge-point of analysis.
As title of the field of shared faculty-student-administration-staff communications, the university is a token of their unity. Whoever predicates on it as a single entity, as only its President is officially entitled to do, makes an attribution to something that links all those who participate in its communications, at all levels of function (maintainance, instruction) wherever classes assemble, paychecks are disbursed, dining halls are filled with people eating, etc. – to its common atmosphere. Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic field hypothesis takes this as pre-existing, real, metaphysically ultimate category of analysis, explaining macro-dynamic currents.
Separate, distinct loops in intra-organic processing may be posited, corresponding to text and token. This is succinctly demonstrated by cartoons and sight-gags. Human words tagged as emerging from an animal’s mouth, like Snoopy, require cross-over routing in order to re-fit what the mind remembers with what the picture shows. A student of mine once related he had become freaked out by seeing the sign “ABSTRACT SIGN” in a window passed by his traincoach. That psychosemiotic ‘shock’ effect , according to the two-track memory loop hypothesis, is due to interrupting a stream of habitual perception – sign-using process, and an ‘unscrabling’, or ‘de-linking” text from token, meaning from quality. It is a momentary “not knowing which way to go” until both sides of the picture – what its (S*) meaning is and why a token of it is appearing in my field of consciousness. Once these are de-linked, analysis of content may proceed without any imposition they import; that is, in pure consciousness in presence to itself before formed by sign-uses.
S*2 (By use of the principle of completing totalities ..”pcts”) WHY SOCIETIES EXIST -
Deduced from their supra-ordinate function with respect to individuals (or: why people aren’t termites). For individual humans, they exist as fields of interaction through communication which are required by the structure and dynamics of space-time-gravity loops containing their body.
HUMAN UNITS (Persons), at any given phase of their existence, are bodily-physical totalities completing and reproducing themselves during a specific sign-use process history unique to each as individual. Their bodies act out the text of their life’s narrative as its tokens. The narrative is the completion of its inner duration, in time. Time is the morphic field of the completion of consciousness.
The University in Society
- Function: to integrate, facilitate, disseminate
communications required and useful for completing totalities (beginning with student, faculty, classroom, dormitory resonance, through athletic activities, administration, and security.)
Responsibility: Optimal binding of time.
In the philosophy of completing totalities, what is measured as time is the extension of objects in the dimension of growth-process, which is a metaphysical ultimate. Thus, time comes is waves, and passes through each point in space.
Time, as a wave, goes with light as a wave (and sound – at a lower scale of resonance). Each carries information from a ‘past’ into someone’s ‘present’, as light does from distant stars, some of which are ‘long’ extinct by the time information about it arrives here. Time, on this view, is a morphic field several magnitudes more subtle than light; the light of light, or light^2.
Proper (completing) Sign-uses bind time by creating memory-waves in its morphic field. Sign-uses are proper when they cathect present neurons in patterns that complete the totality of their bearer (individual person). If Sheldarake’s hypothesis of interactive, morphic fields, evolving in/as a result of them are shaped by individual person’s processes as in a dynamic creative field.
- Required for:
- The individuals to complete themselves >(maximally)
- The social/cultural group-container to be nourished from by its expertise,
services
S*1: (stipulation) As the universe is the morphic field of the body,
So the university is the morphic field of the mind.
Body awareness is perception.
Mental awareness is consciousness (conscious awareness)
On Signs and communication
Communication of awareness from one individual to others is by means of signs (language and pictures) whose appearance as tokens have been internally linked to perceived qualitative configurations (perception of a block with letters, for example).
If shown a block such as children play with stamped with “A”, “B”, etc., whoever has been raised on English will recognize and be able to pronounce the letter names. It is associated early in learning with the ‘special’ class of objects called signs by learning it in sequences that spell words. Alphabetic writing itself, in fact, was a point of historical departure in Tokenspace of great significance just because it established this loop-route through the psychic processing apparatus, as the more efficient sign-use technology replaced cuneiform and hieroglyphics (Sumer and Egypt, respectively).
When taken as standing for something other than itself, a sign is communicating its text.: its meaning qua cognitive. When taken as an object in the sensory field itself (uttered, written or hand signaled words, etc.) it may be said to be a “Token”: of its meaning as text; of fungible chad-like entity-hood per se. The distinction between text and token as two sides, aspects or essential features of things used by people to communicate, although recognized and of course omni-ambient throughout the history of civilization, has not before now, with this system (psychosemiotics), been made the metaphysical hinge-point of analysis.
As title of the field of shared faculty-student-administration-staff communications, the university is a token of their unity. Whoever predicates on it as a single entity, as only its President is officially entitled to do, makes an attribution to something that links all those who participate in its communications, at all levels of function (maintainance, instruction) wherever classes assemble, paychecks are disbursed, dining halls are filled with people eating, etc. – to its common atmosphere. Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic field hypothesis takes this as pre-existing, real, metaphysically ultimate category of analysis, explaining macro-dynamic currents.
Separate, distinct loops in intra-organic processing may be posited, corresponding to text and token. This is succinctly demonstrated by cartoons and sight-gags. Human words tagged as emerging from an animal’s mouth, like Snoopy, require cross-over routing in order to re-fit what the mind remembers with what the picture shows. A student of mine once related he had become freaked out by seeing the sign “ABSTRACT SIGN” in a window passed by his traincoach. That psychosemiotic ‘shock’ effect , according to the two-track memory loop hypothesis, is due to interrupting a stream of habitual perception – sign-using process, and an ‘unscrabling’, or ‘de-linking” text from token, meaning from quality. It is a momentary “not knowing which way to go” until both sides of the picture – what its (S*) meaning is and why a token of it is appearing in my field of consciousness. Once these are de-linked, analysis of content may proceed without any imposition they import; that is, in pure consciousness in presence to itself before formed by sign-uses.
S*2 (By use of the principle of completing totalities ..”pcts”) WHY SOCIETIES EXIST -
Deduced from their supra-ordinate function with respect to individuals (or: why people aren’t termites). For individual humans, they exist as fields of interaction through communication which are required by the structure and dynamics of space-time-gravity loops containing their body.
HUMAN UNITS (Persons), at any given phase of their existence, are bodily-physical totalities completing and reproducing themselves during a specific sign-use process history unique to each as individual. Their bodies act out the text of their life’s narrative as its tokens. The narrative is the completion of its inner duration, in time. Time is the morphic field of the completion of consciousness.
The University in Society
- Function: to integrate, facilitate, disseminate
communications required and useful for completing totalities (beginning with student, faculty, classroom, dormitory resonance, through athletic activities, administration, and security.)
Responsibility: Optimal binding of time.
In the philosophy of completing totalities, what is measured as time is the extension of objects in the dimension of growth-process, which is a metaphysical ultimate. Thus, time comes is waves, and passes through each point in space.
Time, as a wave, goes with light as a wave (and sound – at a lower scale of resonance). Each carries information from a ‘past’ into someone’s ‘present’, as light does from distant stars, some of which are ‘long’ extinct by the time information about it arrives here. Time, on this view, is a morphic field several magnitudes more subtle than light; the light of light, or light^2.
Proper (completing) Sign-uses bind time by creating memory-waves in its morphic field. Sign-uses are proper when they cathect present neurons in patterns that complete the totality of their bearer (individual person). If Sheldarake’s hypothesis of interactive, morphic fields, evolving in/as a result of them are shaped by individual person’s processes as in a dynamic creative field.
- Required for:
- The individuals to complete themselves >(maximally)
- The social/cultural group-container to be nourished from by its expertise,
services
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