Re: the need for relevance


first came the manipulations
a playful thing
the first symbological stumblings
as our skills with hand manipulations grew to encompass
notches
zigzags
and other projections of eidetic patterns

this symbology soon became useful as complexity grew

rules could be learned

language developed
through identified pattern collection
and protocols of queries and response

^..^

symbology allowed social learning
providing atomic units of information transfer
and the self-organisation of action schemas
used this exchange to structure group tasks

social structures formed

this began a long time ago
long before simply our primate speciating divergence

acoustic symbols
visual dance patterns
or the ancient art of chemical signalling

they has been useful for a very long time
these symbolic manipulations

it is these uses where judgements of morality may be formed

^..^

for me
judgements of morality are judgements of health
ie. not a derivation from some a priori axiomisation
but a measurement on scientific metrics of health

there are many such scientific metrics
from the macroeconomic to the microeconomic
from the biosphere to its suborganisms
constructed from the many models found good predictors

but there are many healthy ways to use symbology

use it to amuse
use it to amaze
use it to delight
use it to ignite
any passions that allow our healthy existence

design a car
or construct a poem

symbology is not something you prescribe a reason for
nor one you constrain it's practice

there are no reasons
no a priori teleological

mathematics just is

it may be used to great destruction or great innovation
the health of the use is its measure

art can be a very healthy activity

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galathaea: prankster, fablist, magician, liar
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