Entropy LO23197

J.C. Lelie (janlelie@wxs.nl)
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:01:42 +0100

Replying to LO23177 --

Dear At,

thank you for your post, so passionately written, accurate and general.
As a coincedence - or not - i was reading a passage in Steven Pinker's
"how the mind works" when your mail triggered my attention. Pinker writes
on why people think that they differ. He traces it back to two things: our
language and our opinions.

For one, our language is too crude for words, incapable to express "the
tones and colours of our soul". And then our opinions, the opinions we
have of ourselves to start with. The opinions, my opinion on opinions,
designed to survive in the better parts of Africa, act like dynamically
adapting filters, changing what we experience (feel and think) in order to
reinforce our opinions on how to survive (plan and act) in Africa. But
most of us do not plan and act like hunters/gatherers any more, so our
opinions are a little out of tune, somewhat distorting.

In your post you not only showed how this seems to be true on the
relatively simple idea of entropying - the essence of entropy is creating
and nothing else - and on your own quaeste, acting like a strange
attractor (if you do not like to be called guru, you are strange - to me)
but also on the evolution of wisdom.

Combining our reasoning like mirrors, mirrors reflecting ideas, creating
third order learning. By the way, Rick, you're a LASER: Learning
Amplification by Stimulating Emission of Re:

Thank you too,

Jan

> What do we have now? People from all over the world speaking HONESTLY in
> close successions of time (the very nature of a dialogue) on the same
> thing, some saying "I cannot know it", others saying "I know it". Some
> call it "entropy production" and other calls it "entropy". Others pull out
> seemingly different cards to play the game which I call the "evolution of
> knowledge". It all happens on this list which our host Rick maintains so
> dilligently. Now if this does not describe the emergence of authentic
> learning, then I better resign my job at the university and rather begin
> operating a till at a supermarket.

-- 
With kind regards - met vriendelijke groeten,

Jan Lelie

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