- that on these aspects of reality the same phenotype can self-structure adaptive behaviors
- that some of these adaptive behaviors include self-understanding and self-awareness through the sign-process
- that sign-processes about self-understanding and self-awareness can reciprocally re-structure the phenotype's self-organization
- that patterns of self-organizations which facilitate the review of adaptations tend to find more and better adaptations to their environments
- some forms of mimesis are less subject to entropy, including those that re-structure or translate adjacent primitive forms, indicating that translative action is an emergent property of physics
- that the phenotypic results of translative mimesis evolve into behavior
- that the compounded behavior of one phenotypic result of translative mimesis (with a really big and complex neural sign-process) isolates and combines the compositional, mimetic, and translative aspects of reality ...
The models that make our shiny tech work indicate that:
- the cosmos emerges out of the stochastic, entropic interactions of fundamental fields of forces
- the stochastic interactions of those forces accumulate into primitive forms that exhibit compositionality indicates that compositionality is an intrinsic property of the universe
- compositions from primitive forms can yield basic patterns of mimesis, indicating that mimesis is an intrinsic property of reality
...
The frozen ground of the Altai Mountains preserved this beautifully detailed Scythian woman's boot for over 2,300 years.
The leather boot was decorated with a red woollen braid, with leather figurines and gold-leaf, possibly depicting ducklings.
Photo credit Sergei I. Rudenko/ Washington University. https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/shm/shmpazyryk.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0ruczzG1TpZNqVjz9f4QTey_xlsE6VBN4lG5Ksn2yIsiJLTskn3YmqLj8_aem_AUMB1uCQewdUjL6CCmCwVIVAZrmdIQWfkLHBl3kxfHKhgRX32RKoM_r-74pNj9e98a2JsxuHlI5ga2jS98bsidwh
"This compulsion strikes him at a certain instant; and he remains
under it forever after"
"To assert a proposition is to make oneself responsible for it, without any definite forfeit, it is true, but with a forfeit no smaller for
being unnamed"
@adrianhon An adequately sourced alternative example would be the Visingsö oak forest, but that anecdote has several drawbacks:
- less time elapsed, so it's less impressive
- about silly Swedes, not wise and posh Britons
- the timber wasn't harvested because of transformational technological change, proving the long-term thinking to be fallible rather than sagacious
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.