RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Base Schema-culture

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

If you go up a level, that is part of the SEED collection 
and there are some really fascinating articles.  The 
one on quantum mind is a hard read but fascinating in 
the notion that consciousness emerges from engagement 
with the environment, a topic that shows up in several 
of the papers.  Consider a set of sign systems that 
to be handled simultaneously, (remember the Gudwin 
model of intelligence), result in the creation or 
emergence of relationships (for us, possibly expressed 
as topic maps) that enable coordination.  It is a 
neat model.  Some of our containers would then 
become the topic map systems perhaps.  

People do choose among media and that by engagement 
with and reinforcement by the environment.  That is
why I insist on the choice of choices (choosing who 
chooses the choices) as a prerequisite freedom for 
governance.  If the universe is a sign production
system (one model but useful), then when you got 
up the morning to dress, what did you choose to 
wear and who chose your available clothes?  And 
even if you had one message in mind for the clothes, 
how would your nearest significant person interpret 
your choices, how would the first person you met 
on the street interpret them, and so on.  As you 
move from locale to locale and therefore the types 
of people you encounter changes, how do the 
interpretations change according to the way each 
of the locales change the perceptions of your choices 
in that medium?  Now, consider that you have chosen 
a route as well.

Back to reading.  I sure have to read a lot to keep 
up with Sylvia.  Every number has two neighbors.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]

I'm not sure about choice per se, but culture is certainly 
expressed/shared through media and somewhat characterized by the 
manner in which the sign systems are transported, i.e. the use made 
of available media. Few cultures, I think, actually choose among 
available media, though some do, as in preferring an oral tradition, 
or the person-to-person exchange for core cultural sharing, such as 
secret handshakes.

Thanks for the paper--sheesh. I thought I wished YOU an interesting weekend.