| Re: An Idea
Hey ProfPat,
I just looked over your idea and don't know if you've modified it since post #40, but it has some very broadly expressed symmetry that I find intriguing, especially in that you managed to relate it to the I-ching. As I'm certain has been pointed out to you, the devil is surely in the details. Nonetheless, I myself am a mystic at heart, and really like the symmetry and holistic spread on your theory and look forward to engaging it further.
I might suggest that often I see the earlier holistic philosophies of humans (like I-ching and the Tau) to have an inverse significance to that of modern reasoning. Kind of like how instinct is inverted from reason. Evolutionarily speaking reason starts with a bunch of symbols and builds a situationally relevant context pertinent to our survival, while instinct starts with a hundred million year old survival context and delivers a situationally relevant feeling or compulsion as stimulated by the environment. It's not in your match-ups that I sense a problem so much as in the implications to the modern rational presumption those parings imply.
I need to read some more posts when I have more time so as to avoid re-inventions.
Later -Mike  |