I think the idea is that there is a lot going on in the unconscious that appears through the analytical faculty as the propensity to count and measure, coupled with memory and the desire to plan (for which counting, calculating is really important)
Now if we take that cognitive action, we have an actual movement in a kind of pre-manifest sense, something genuine.
Yet if we are going to apply it, we have to set necessarily arbitrary limitations, which work as long as they are referenced to the object being measured. This says that the unit of measure can be anything, which we find to be true.
So its the action, rather than the measure where we find the reality. Because, if it were number, math that was the reality, we would discover that number would suggest ever more about itself. It wouldn't stop at placeholding.
"And so, (I say) valuing life, protecting life, ameliorating the suffering in life (or at least not adding to it) is or should be a basic imperative before all other notions and ideologies can be given evaluation as to their relative and potential benefit."
Interesting theory, that math derived from repetitive action.
I actually kind of like it, but I can't make it work. Keep getting put in a cognitive loop, a chicken or egg context.
I'm still placed in a context of imaginary number, of references and arbitrary counting that cannot explain itself.
I think the idea is that there is a lot going on in the unconscious that appears through the analytical faculty as the propensity to count and measure, coupled with memory and the desire to plan (for which counting, calculating is really important)
Understood. And I think that is valid.
Now if we take that cognitive action, we have an actual movement in a kind of pre-manifest sense, something genuine.
Yet if we are going to apply it, we have to set necessarily arbitrary limitations, which work as long as they are referenced to the object being measured. This says that the unit of measure can be anything, which we find to be true.
So its the action, rather than the measure where we find the reality. Because, if it were number, math that was the reality, we would discover that number would suggest ever more about itself. It wouldn't stop at placeholding.
Regardless, thanks for the challenging essay.
Excellent insight
"And so, (I say) valuing life, protecting life, ameliorating the suffering in life (or at least not adding to it) is or should be a basic imperative before all other notions and ideologies can be given evaluation as to their relative and potential benefit."
Thank you Ross 🪷💚
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🏵️❤️