Re: Ron Paul by a vast majority in the Fourth Republican Debate. WAS(Re: ...Hurricane Felix Yet another Category 5.)
- From: "Jonathan" <write@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 21:35:02 -0400
"Craig Fink" <WeBeGood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jonathan wrote:
"Bill Ward" <bward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:47:53 -0400, Jonathan wrote:
In political human terms, this might be call "grass roots", the shear
magnitude of the neural network supporting a particular candidate.
It is kinda interesting to try and figure out how rumors explode
or certain ideas/candidates seem to spread like wildfire.
How can a single or small disturbance/event cause the
greatest system wide effect? Using non linear concepts
how can we design some action that theoretically has
the biggest bang for the buck?
I think complexity science teaches us such things.
If you take any real world system at all, it will have
it's own opposite extremes in possible behavior.
In political systems, this would NOT be the very fringe
or extreme left and right as we might assume.
But it would be the ...qualitative opposite extremes
in behavior. From the very highest ideals or best
examples of political behavior on one extreme.
And the other being the simplest or most common
tangible action required to make such a system go.
One extreme would be, say, hopes and dreams
of a better future. While the other extreme might be the
grubby world of raising money.
Not just opposites in magnitude, but in every respect.
One a concept, the other an action. One inspiring
the other dirty. One deals with the largest scale
the other the smallest and so on.
The ideal system, or cause, would be where those two
opposite extremes are not only at simultaneous
maximums, but are connected to each other in
a way that completely hides which extreme dominates.
A real world example. Take the infamous Janet Jackson
wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl a couple years
ago. That struck me as an ideal example of such an
ideal 'cause' that set off the maximum system wide
effect. It was a fraction of a second event, that immediately
cascased just everywhere. And reverberated around
for several years in fact with new laws, broadcasting
policies and debate etc.
Why was that fraction of a second so effective at
stirring the pot?
Was it one extreme, an artistic expression of natural beauty?
Or the other, just more porn?
Was it an act of rebellion or statement against censorship?
Or a crass publicity stunt?
Was it deliberate or accidental?
When the opposite extremes are stretched to their
very limit, then connected together in a single act
or system in such a way so the observer can't
tell which extreme dominates....good or evil.
That is where self organization, or spontaneous reactions
or a cascading non linear response should be found.
It is how life evolves, or creation itself. When the primary
system variables are all at their most ...uncertain..state.
Another example, when Kennedy made his famous
moon speech, he connected the dreams and adventures
of discovery, with a program that could also help win
the scary cold war. He connected one extreme with
the other in a single idea.
As in the Mona Lisa smile. Knowing or devious?
Uncertainty, the 'complex' realm which lies between
the certain extremes, is a universal attractor.
Or even the opposites of science and religion
in the Scopes trial.
This is true whether we're dealing with a poem, or
a painting. Matter or energy, gravity or cosmic
expansion. Instinct or intelligence. Male or female.
When the opposite extremes, such as a particle
and a wave, coexist in a single system so that
we can't tell which-is-which, that is where
creation is found.
But this is not a new idea really. Just only
recently been given mathematical form.
In the words of T.S. Eliot in his essay on Dante.
"If the artistic emotion presented by any episode of the Comedy
is dependent upon the whole, we may proceed to inquire what
the whole scheme is. The emotional structure within this scaffold
is what must be understood-the structure made possible
by the scaffold."
"The contemplation of the horrid or sordid or disgusting, by an
artist, is the necessary and negative aspect of the impulse
toward the pursuit of beauty. But not all succeed as did Dante
in expressing the complete scale from negative to positive.
http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw14.html
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Craig Fink
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