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A Dose of Linguistics: An Ordering of Complex Ideas.A few Observations Concerning the Role of Language Itself in reference to the Scientific Method: Note: To some extent this brief essay deals with "that which itself might tend to make the faculty of language a resource to convey inherent meaningfulness." Now, this is, some might say, like talking about talking about making sense. So the reader should be warned to bear with the flow of ideas. Some preliminary ideas.
Prerequisite concepts.
This sensory input is always in the form of electrical-magnetic energy. Science proposes that energy can be "converted" from one form to another. There are therefore various manifestations of energy (the ability to do work). We can speak of the energy manifested as motion, heat, friction, and so on. In some views, energy which is defined as "electromagnetic" is quite sub-suming for all other possibilities. In fact, if there could be a way to somehow explain both gravitaion and electro-magnetism energy in one consistent theory, nothing would or could be more all inclusive as far as "explaining" the energy manifestations of the Universe.
Knowledge of our own wakefulness and consciousness is also a function of energy-accounting.
A great deal of the human experience is attributable to the role of the sense of vision (also greatly electro-magnetic).
We are required in this activity to simply be able to scan or read and interpret the input in certain learned and structured ways. Where the individual is not able to do this and is "illiterate," the alpha-numericisms are indeed just like any other visually scanned object in the environment (they are, however, generally "known" as something human-made versus "natural"). There is nothing magical in this and no great "Theory of Knowledge" is here implicated. We recognize it as electro-magnetic neural input of a category, something physiological. Yet we are aware of the technical difficulties to fully elaborate the process (i.e. to define a biophysics of consciousness whence all perceptioning is founded),...ergo Systems Biophysics.
A tentative taxonomy of all conceivable alpha-numeric set resolutions is:
Objects in Nature which may "mimic" alpha-numeric sets are not considered here as valid alpha-numericisms. To be valid, an alpha-numeric set must be human synthesized. Cloud formations which appear to spell out something to some interpretors, or "signs from God" and the like, of natural origin are excluded from the definition here for qualifying as elements of any and all {A,N}. Note that an air-plane pilot "sky-writing" among the clouds is indeed generating a valid alpha-numeric set.
The Alpha-Numeric Sets Account for All Scientific Perceptions and Theorizing. __Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
Brain plus Language Partitions Universe. The informative (and not so informative) "data-sets" which humans convey under any and all circumstances from chit-chat to Mensa Seminars are here identified as "{A,N} resolutions = Alpha-numericisms."
All neural-linguistic in-put to brain (conscious and un-conscious) is, from a first-ordered consideration, a form of electro-magnetic energy,... and secondly,...a manifestation of an alpha-numeric set resolution. If not, it is simply another "visual-sensory" processing energy-event which is less "socio-culturally linguistic" by any conceivable analysis. Here, such "less in magnitude or measure" alpha-numeric resolutions are generally considered to be simple or elementary observations of non-synthetic environment ("Nature-proper" or pure "scenery input-facts"). If not alpha-numeric, Natural or mundane-scenic, we find the sensory splay may implicate perceptions of various human-made art-entertainment synthesis sets. This, to some extent, is simply an artful or "talented" extention of alpha-numericism as a semantic and meaning may still be conveyed. A "Theory" is an alpha-numeric set resolution. A set of solutions to a differential equation is also a category of {A,N}. The evening "weather report" is also such. These are models and "maps" or charts of phenomena being studied. "The Map is not the Territory! A properly devised paradigm or alpha-numericism can explain much about a phenomenon or help to measure something about it, but it cannot itself be identified as the "object" (especially eusystemic object) itself. This (fault in naming scientific energy-events) just simply defies logic and the definitions Science has carefully inherited from a long and arduous history towards exactness. Still, one will find a tendency to make alpha-numeric sets something extensional (other than the paradigms they are). This is because so much is simply beyond any direct sensorial appreciation that the ephemeral sets seem sufficient, especially if they compute something usable. If a Scientist "appreciates" the equations and the alpha-numericisms,...it is enough (or so some might think) to consider the alpha-numericisms as "the real-thing." A "bundle of vectors" fills the bill, and so some physicists are satisfied. We especially like it when our paradigms made conveyable via our alpha-numericisms contribute to the economic prosperity scenario and therefore generate "Pure and Applied Science." Research and development make us wealthier and wiser and it is a good thing. We like the Gizmos and Gadgetries (in spite of the atom-splitting phase). When the alpha-numercisms and paradigms seem more like exercises in mental onanism and a "Go To" circuitry seems to get us no where, we have to doubt and doubting is not something our best alpha-numericism is supposed to be about. It can be all too easy for one scientist to say to another simply "I do not understand your abstractions." It can and does get chaotic and crazy. There should be "anchors" in the theories and a line of logic to follow,...a patentable gizmo always appeases us. "Music" seems to define an intermediate category of neural input (since one can actually "read" music or visualize it as such a model even while hearing it). Anyone who "reads" or watches a CRT-PC monitor is essentially "of a greater magnitude" relation with alpha-numeric set resolutions than the fellow sitting on the front porch staring at the scenery (assuming he is not in deep technical meditation perhaps). A great deal of intensional (i.e. mental and "auto-input") thinking also implicates alpha-numeric set resolutions. Most people who are aware of their own thought processes, are aware of a stream of words and language elements. More about intensional alpha-numeric compounding or "thninking" and memory is discussed elsewhere. In Systems Biophysics we seek any and all Natural Universal Laws of Information Conveyance which may be bio-molecularly relevant to the comprehension of ourselves and the Universe. Information can be variously "abstractly" comprehended,... from Dr. Gooch's model of a differential equation "data-quantum" resolution-paradigm,... to the mating calls of the yellow-bellied bandicoot. An Inter-eusystemically defined matrix of data pulsed and varied relays is identified as "Biosphere." Biosphere is identified as a local evolving varied-in-components information processing energy-event boundary set. Biosphere = "Earth" is "bounded" by geologic and astrophysical elements, generally the non-biologically implicate elements. Yet we also realize a dilemma:...who is to say emphatically that the mind's contemplatiion of the farthest (non-biosphere) aspects of the Univeree are not somehow also biologically relevant? Perhaps concept "Biosphere" must include what brain can include by analysis as well as via imagination or via technical access ploys. Here, however, the term "biosphere" is less complicatedly identified as "Space-Ship Earth" proper,.. a limited shell-like domain of a single planet zooming through the Galaxy. It is the "Biophysics R Us" scenario-set.
The Archetype of Self-Otherness.
Language In this activity of naming things experienced or "sensed," the evolving mind learns to comprehend non-self eusystemically determind Universe. We civilized citizens of the world take all this action as rather obvious and trivial;... but it is not so. Memory is used and awareness of memory results. It is neuro-biophysically very complex and complictaed by issues of psycho-pathology and socio-cultural issues. As "ontogeny recapitualtes phylogeny" in regards to the soma = body;... so too, is there a recapitulation of our neuro-linguistic ontogenic set, ...the "engramatical genesis" of data processing functions. And in relation-association to this there exists the individual's maturing intensionalism and an internalised psychical ecology indentified as "mind-intellect." A mature well adjusted world citizen results with a more or less appropriate "World-View." This should be something that "helps" the Collective and the species human. There can be pathology. There are "sick minds," psycho-sociopaths and terrorist-barbarians. Much can and does go wrong, hence, this ontogeny is not all so elementary as some might suppose. The quasi-science of Psychology-Psychoanalysis is humanity's second-ordered effort to explore these ideas in any detail. A first-ordered scenario, might be identified as the ecclesiastically complexed and theocratic efforts of the "Great Counselor, Wise-men, and the Great White Hope Archetype." There appears to be no general consensus as to what is or should constitute the optimized collective healthy intensionalism. This alone might be reason enough to conserve any and all proper and careful "eusystemizationalism." No one would choose to have to re-live the Dark Ages if History should have to repeat itself through some fault of a laxed scientific assessment process that labels abstractions as simply "real-enough" or worse,...real-enough until the next round of grant-funding. The American Psychiatric Association is doing well to have a somewhat researched and formulated list of "mental syndromes" and information about the diagnosis and definition of the intensionally "compromised." This "list' we note has not been all so easily obtained. Knowledge about the "mind" (healthy or sick) will, I believe, tend to properly accrue as knowledge of the brain itself prospers...the alpha-numericisms of a molecularly dynamic neuro-physiology. Brain processes electro-magnetic sensory input while mind-memory processes the intensional combinagoric identified as "thought-thinking." Engram and Ideation had an origin relative with respect to a en-speciational ontogeny. And with this gamut of changes,...that which is "psychical" can permutate memory (Jung's Collective Unconsciousness)...identified as the human-animal's luxury of "thinking,"... an energy-event not greatly shared with certain other species. Self recognizes "initial conditions, previous-conditions, good-better-best conditions,"...and memory therefore contributes to or generates "values" as mind-brain evolved relative with respect to cranial capacity, personal and familial successes, and failures-set backs. The first-ordered sensorium of values generate an eventual socio-economics and culture. The "thinking group" grows in size. They learn to shuffle the alpha-numericisms of their times. Eventually, it becomes an easy matter it seems for almost anyone (un-censored) to more or less access the compendia of the a planet's available alpha-numericism resources. On the verge of becoming an awesome ten-billion throng from a scant few with a "Pre-History" to imagine,...we value and like the free exchange of information-knowledge. With it we can become actualized. Still, proverty and prejudices prevents a free flow of thinking progress;...sadly, a Ramanujan or another Dirac or Goethe may exist held hostage to poverty and oppression somewhere. The Self-Otherness Principle Evolves to Alternative Levels With Language Development.
The Principle of Hexametry in Omni-Conveyance. In virtually all Earth languages studied, there is at least the syntactical grammatical (indicative) person "divisions" of reflective otherness defined as the verb conjugation systems-sets. For an example in the English-Germanic, Slavic and Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and others):
The SINGULAR identities of personification are as follows:
Via Language Structure We Comprehend An Antithesis of all that is Psychical-Intensional. In China there was the work of the ancient Taoists, Confucianists, Buddhists and others. Of particular interests are the Taoists (often called the First Scientists in China) with their obsession to define, if not master-control-harness, "Natural Order" in the pradigmation ploy of the "Tao Te-Ching" (or "I Ching") ancient divination texts.
Here and elswhere, we explore the potential fact that Is the information conveyance ploy of Hexametry inherently biophysically,...i.e. bio-molecularly and genetically defined? Elsewhere in the work Systems Biophysics, the notion of the "universality" of a biophysically defined Hexametry Principle is explored in greater detail. It is entirely possible that for any conceivable instance of the faculty of language to arise and evolve (as all languages do) relative to the innate vocal components of soma (= body),... i.e., the vocal anatomy plus brain set, ...that this Hexametry Principle might be manifest in some manner. The hexametry of somato-linguistic semantics and syntax must have existed prior to the most primitive methods to archive human memories (identified more or less with invented writing).
Otherness as Antithesis, Anti-podal, Other-specie and Anti-Matter Penny's Koko, a Gorilla at the Gorilla Foundation, does very well with a non-verbal "quasi-hexametry" themata, but this has required a major human directed teaching effort. Primate scientists who have studied great ape social groups may reveal more about this aspect of non-human "primatological hexametric proto-liguistification" scenario. In regards to the Koko Project, the idea "Me Good/Bad Gorilla" seems to have a weighted significance among the behavioral awards/punishments strategies;...yet there is a definite appreciation of "The Otherness" motif with Koko... (specifically, in regards to the Ape's beloved kitten-pet named by Koko herself "Ball."). Some non-human energy-event bioforms do indeed deploy a quasi-syntax in information conveyance. It remains to be determined how "hexanometric" this may be in certain species. We seek any and all Natural Universal Laws of Information Conveyance. Once becoming an "endowed or generally learned skill," it would seem that "Action = Object Naming," as an intellectual (intensional-domain) function, matures to become an activity of highest importance in a multitude of ways. On certain ways, object naming and identifying moment by moment during wakeful awareness is identified as memory itself. Observe the pathological conditions like Alzheimer's Syndrome in which the brain cannot resolve even a broader category descriptive-name for an object like "green-plant" versus "Rose." Object naming, indexing and ordering seems to serve as a sort of "land-marking" strategy for the very neural processes themselves. As this process becomes "extentionalised" beyond the mere personal aspects of language usage, ... we identify it as the essence and em-bodiment of Scientific Thinking and Reasoning itself.
Memory, Coherency and Artificial Intelligence As far as language and alpha-numeric sets can be concerned,...not much can be known about this precisely; even the "invention" of the dictionary is not very ancient. We can only "speculate" and imagine about the lives of the clans and tribes that were our many thousands of ancestors before any formalized writing systemology ever was established relative with respect to any given "civilization." Linguistic elements etched into stone are the most historical-trans-historical of any "fossilization of language," and virtually all of this must have been fairly recent in comparison to the eons of un-written history whence basic "sonality" issues were settled. One might suppose, however, that individual (person) naming probably preceeded the more general name-identifications of family-member types: "father, mother, son, cousin,...etc. Anyone who has a modicum of personal computing experience and has had to work with files, folders and directories while maintaining some semblance of order in this process soon learns much about object-naming and its value and complexity for information utilization, accessing and sharing! Most would agree that "bio-organic neural-memory" is itself, more or less, modelled by all this computer-i-zationism. Indeed, we cannot under-estimate the role of object-naming, identifying, ranking, and order-indexing with neuro-linguistic functions in the Natural Philosophy of a Eusystems Science of the Biophysics of Consciousness.
The Action identified as comprehending object-naming-ordering unified with the action called memory optimization as well as the use of "statistical expectations functions-resolutions"... (i.e., ‘what object-set should be expected next in a given sequence for processing of data??) is identified,... more or less, with the electrical-engineering + mechanical endeavor-challenge called "Artificial Intelligence." Evolving brain first had to make "coherent" the human "otherness" of familial, group and social interaction. The Hexametry Principle discussed here evolved in the milieu of necessary thought and action to become human. We know now that millions of years and many hundreds of thousands of ancestors were involved per brain existing today. Next, via the efforts to make less superstitious and fearful,the objective mind-brain turned its attention and functions to work on the world of phenomena. This too, required many thousands of generations of "brains getting the proper perspective." With Science, we hope to be less demon-haunted and fearful of our own archetypal "Shadow." From the infant's first sensorium of faces "above" and smiles the enrgey-events ...for an "I-me-myself" abstractioning,... the toddler's Self-Otherness eusystemizational neuro-physiology matures and complexes. The World of Things becomes omni-potent. The Alpha-Numerical Economics of the individual's neuro-ecosystemic reciprocity (which includes society as well as biosphere) has an ontogeny and a phylogeny like the body itself. Science seems to define a sort of re-capitulation of this evolution manifested per individual. Language and symbol utiliztion skills refine the Self-Otherness motif of the maturation to define various levels of alpha-numeric efficiency variations. Some Space-Ship Earth passengers are hardly beyond the "participation mystique" level of Parable Lessons = "preferred alpha-numeric set" tools. Others can appreciate more analytical and "patentable" for prosperity detail perhaps. there is Social Relativity and social boundaries. For what is recognized as the "less skill-ful or adept" in {A,N} set conveyance functions is identified as the "less-intelligent," the knowledgeable mind recognizes the relativity of mind-brain evolving. Everthing has to "be" somewhere, and no two minds can exist in the same opening to Universe ...the relativity of the World-view is real. Science only seeks to make it valid and generic for the masses. As a physiological function of the brain and as an "analogue" function of the machine-computer memory is identified as none other than "archived" alpha-numeric set resolutions or,... much more mysteriously and technically perhaps, archived-encoded sensory impressions. The later aspect may be implicated in such phenomena as amnesia and deja-vu, and certain savant memory skills. Systems Biophysics postulates a "unit" of neuro-linguistically relevant "exchange." This unit is termed the biophysical engram. In a certain manner of speaking the engram is biophysic's analogue of what physics makes a "particle." Systems Biophysics explores the concept of a "unit" of biophysical accounting in great detail.
The Hexametric Self-Otherness Principle expressed in Language is Critical to the Conservation of Semantic Coherency.
Loss of semantic coherencey is identified as "loss of meaning" in information conveyance. As such, any "artificial intelligence" device which cannot optimize fundamental and more complex hexametric "self-otherness" criteria is doomed to failure. As stated previously, humans which, for various reasons, cannot "hexametricize" their mentation sharing functions are also in trouble. (The psychotic has a sick Self-otherness). Without some semblance of the Hexametric Principle in linguistical conveyances one might postulate only consistent socio-economic confusion (social entropy). Linguists find primitive languages which lack a well defined person-syntax exceedingly gibberish-like and difficult to decipher. A great deal of "Code-Science" is apparently related to the Hexametric Priciple and its manifestation(s).
Objectivity Errors Attrributable to Language.
Role of Anthropomorphisms. An elementary example might help to elucudate the scenario. Often a physicist will "humanize" the qualities of sub-atomic partilce interactions as a model-metaphore. A common example these days is the "dance-floor" scenario of Boson interactions. Or in certain instances, a Quantum Theorists will say that "such and such" a situation is "more quantum" than another situation (Big quantum-ness versus Little Quantum-ness?). Now this is rather heuristic and harmless perhaps. The author has made the metaphor emphatic and obvious, so no big deal. Yet these strategies do affect the mind of the learning student and may do so in ways that are not all so harmless. As another example, a botasnist might make the remark that such and such a plant "likes" lots of sun-light. Now plants, we realize, do not actually form likes and dislikes as do humans; this is a humano-centric projection upon the botanical world. "Certain plants," we might better choose our words to say, "have certain ranges of solarization under which they optimize their metabolic processes." Now all this may seem a bit pedantic, the example is trivial and may not amount to much. However, there are instances in Science where it is, I think, a serious flaw and a trouble-causing perspective. The language of Science should optimize anti-humanocentric ideation and strive to eusystemize the object(s) of analysis. To be on guard against humanocentric ideation is to deploy the archytypal Hexametric Principle with an optimized "it-ness" which is omni "Otherness not = human " and not to be now or later confused with human-ness. Extropy is the antithesis of Entropy. Writers in Science should be extropic. Language and a Civilization's alpha-numericisms are the instruments of Extropy. Logic and Order can come out of the chaos and confusion. In certain ways difficult to elucidate here entirely with respect to the sum-total of human neuro-sensory functioning, the alpha-numeric set genesis "action" of an objective Science (actually The Objective Science!) might itself be demonstrated somehow as something which deploys the Principle of Hexametry in a manner that can only best be described as a use of the concept: Dimension. This need not mean "six-dimensions" exactly. In todays Science, concept "Dimension" seems to be as varied as the imagination itself. I have tried to express the concept in ways I hope will be enlightening and productive in some fundamental ways. The Hexametric Principle seems Linguistically Universal, we just do not know much about any genetics of this.
Physics, as we have learned, works to "optimize" comprehension of "Otherness." Set collectives of "it-ness" define non-self and non-human componential part-wise world-Universe reference. "It-ness plural" is identified as They-ness and Them-ness,...not absolutely non-human objectivity assessments. The Universe is "made" of the itness-otherness inventory,..."concept-reality." Elucidation of the micro-fine aspects of the chemical elements and the irreducible "particles" which compose "them" (non-humanocentric) refines alpha-numeric "it-ness" inventory to N-th level. Science Is Identified as a Charting and Atlas Synthesis Endeavor of Alpha-Numeric Set Resolutions and Compounding. The Ultima-Thule Atlas Maximum is identified as "The Standard Model" itself. We want this to be optimally non-humanocentrically complicated and as enduringly omni-valid as possible. This is what it means and should mean to be "scientific."
Relative with respect to the ocean of alpha-numeric set inventories and categoreis as "resource,"...the opportunity arises or becomes extinct for the new human to value or not to value the generalized idea-concept: Some people it seems are either genetically or culturo-socially conditioned isolationists;... the "Us-Them" motif rules their lives. In any and all cases and "World-views," consciouness, it seems... "is a chemical change,...like a laser beam." And this includes Scientific Consciousness.
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