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A friend writes:
Evolution jury-rigs out of the available material.
This sentence, useful as it might be for popularizing the matter in a grade-school magazine, is simply catastrophically wrong. Evolution doesn't jury-rig (or jerry-rig or n-rig). Evolution is not a person, does not act, has no goal. The use of anthropomorphic concepts leads to hidden teleologism.
Strangely, many folks agree that teleology, as applied to evolution, is a bad thing. And yet those same folks, as humanists, cannot seem to escape this fallacy. From the proper perspective the movie that is creation, from big bang to big crunch (or whatever happens to turn out to be the case) can be played backwards or forwards; it is only from our limited vantage within the film that we seem to be moving more one way than another. When I read a novel I suspend disbelief and immerse myself in the time-stream of the characters, but this does nothing to change the reality that the whole piece is set and done. There is no surprise, no mystery, only our ignorance from our little, limited perspectives.
This pushes on the ISR domain, rather than simply ending up on the Oblio's Cap site, which is admittedly more unrestrained in terms of free-from philosophizing, because of the seeming paradox in communication theory where we pit information against entropy, redundancy against novelty. Somewhere, somehow, this notion of actively suspending disbelief bears on the signal:noise, pattern:chaos, information:entropy split, even as it butts up against the free-will and predestination issue.
No further statements at this time, just marking a thought to ponder.
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A friend writes
<g> is an early emoticon for "grin"
I think it's worth the effort to maintain a greater level of precision on this. An emoticon is an image, or icon, intended to convey emotion. The "Have a nice day!" smiley face from the early 70s is probably the best known, and most loathed, example of such. Traditionally, inclusion of any such non-verbal nonsense in writing was considered trite at best, vaguely pathological at worst, but in the email era and beyond the rules are changing.
However, <g> is not an emoticon. It is not ascii or any other kind of art. It is a tag, as in a mark-up tag, as in "hypertext mark-up language," or its more valuable predecessor, "standard generalized mark-up language." I would call <g> "a semantic markup tag providing emotive-contextualization." I would not call it an emoticon. And I would, in certain company, stand on this distinction because part of what the next few decades promise to bring is a greater appreciation and application of text-context-subtext-medium distinctions, McLuhan notwithstanding.
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Spell checking some of the pages, which, of course, should be de rigueur before they post. Be that as it may, I've noticed the N-LP oriented stuff is rife with fog. The spell checker barfed on "creativities", and rightly so. There was no reason I couldn't have said, "...the client's competence and creativity." But the over-nominalization bug had hit me.
Sure, over-nominalization can be useful in a confusion technique, but sometimes the goal is not to confuse someone into a trance but to actually transmit information. Duh.
So, be on the lookout for a kinder, gentler, sunnier mode of discourse in some of this stuff. Transparent even. Wish me luck.
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