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Originally Posted by <<>> Mike, after reading all your posts 3 or 4 times I think I've understood what fractal dialectics is about, or atleast all of what you've exposed. But there are two things I still don't understand:
Recursive Analogue Binary?
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What impplies which numboid/mudra something has? i.e. What is it determined by? |
Recursive Analogue Binary:
Originally computers had two forms - analogue and digital. Analogue computers dd not fit our decimal number system, and lost the survival race. There was an alternative, never tried, to CHANGE OUR IDEAS OF NUMBER to fit analogue computing.
The real data of nature is always analogue and through Fourrier analysis can be reduced to layer upon layer of sine waves. Sine waves are the flattening of rotation, in a way.
So our digital computers today use binary - a system of two symbols such as 0 and 1 or - and +.
The Chinese YiJing uses two PROCESSES which are Penetrating and Swallowing, or Pushing and Sucking. There are ying tong tiddle eye po names for these, but penetration and swallowing are the essence to realise these are real physical forces and at our most animal and sexual we know all about these two processes.
The YiJing refined the swing of the sine wave form pushing to sucking and back into four - the basic pair had two mid points. My analogy here is the four seasons - summer autumn, winter spring, or the duality of dawn and dusk which might be photographically similar but are so different for the farmer and postman in the flow of the real world between day and night.
So this seasonal quadrality is an extension of binary that is fairly easily implemented into today's computers, although the "meaning" of the four double binary items changes 00 replaces 0, 11 replaces 1, and 01 is 0 BECOMING 1 and 10 is 1 becoming 0.
Binary is brutally on or off, hence the pixelation and aliasing and so on in digital data, the pops and clicks in sound files.
Anything beyond brutal binary is an attempt to show the actual flowing qualities of real data from the real world.
My favourite is to take the sine wave and chop it into six - I used this a lot in my own research and thinking.
The YiJing went for 8 and then 64 as a way to chop up flowing totality. In three places of binary you have 000 001 010 011 100 101 110 111
i use these in a different order so that pairs are inverted and it does not matter which symbol is + and which is -, which is an arbitrary choice:
000 001 010 011 111 110 101 100 000 001 010 011 111 110 101 100 000 001...
And so this is one way that Fractal Dialectics moves beyond number into position within a finite cycle of totality.
Analogue Binary is my way of describing dialectics as mathematics.
Recursively you can go on and on - taking more and more levels of precision and chopping in two over and over, or chopping fuzzily into 4 seasons, or 6 or 8 and so on.
Whilst it seems tempting to do this rigidly by cartesian equality, my breakthrough in Fractal Dialectics was to use only the actual form of the data itself as the place to cut it up into separate forms. So this is more like Fourrier Analysis - you only find what is actually there in the CONTOURS of the data, and chop it up by recognition of standard forms in that flow. The sine wave is the most obvious form to recognise, but you could make a lexicon of the forms you tend to find for each real data realm.