Thursday, April 29, 2021

‘Categories and «Arithmoi»’. -- Part 01: Seldon’s Secrets Series.



Categories and «Arithmoi»’.

-- Part 01: Seldon’s Secrets Series.

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an elected member of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, and as a voting member of F.E.D., to share, with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release, by the F.E.D. General Council, key excerpts from the internal writings, and from the internal sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

 

The first release in this new such series is posted below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

 

In this 1st installment, Seldon describes his view of the relationship between dialectical, ontological categories, and the F.E.D.-resurrected, modern/ancient concept of «arithmoi».

 

Seldon --

Dialectic, in Hegel, and in Marx -- and even in Kant, Fichte, and Schelling – is about ontological categories and about ontological categorial progressions, categorial lineages, categorial combinations in, e.g., the form of categorial syntheses.  Dialectic is about progressions of categories involving inter-categorial oppositions, and their resolutions, and, more ‘subtlely’, is about intra-categorial oppositions.”

 

“An ontological category is a ‘single-ness’ that represents, that “stands for” a plurality:  the multiplicity of units or monads that all share the same quality that the singleness of the category comes to ‘mentally embody’, ‘uni-fying’ that monadic many-ness.”

 

“Thus, such categories are ‘arithmosic’.”

 

“An “arithmos” is a [mental] manifold, an ensemble of individuals, a ‘“number”’ of qualitative units.”

 

“Such an “arithmos” is also categorial if all of its units are not some random assortment, but if they all share [in] a common kind.

 

“Plato, with his “arithmoi eidetikoi”, was really onto something -- despite the eternalist, ‘immutabilist’, ‘static-ist’, idealist shortcomings of his views.  His “eide, his ideas”, his forms – his ‘‘‘categories’’’, as they were later called, beginning, at least, with his pupil Aristotle, were also grasped by him as ‘arithmosic’, as ‘arithmoi’, as ‘‘‘numbers’’’ in that ancient, use-value mentality sense that the modern mentality, formed psychohistorically by the incessant practice of exchange-value exchange – of Marx’s “Elementary Form of Value -- finds so difficult to reconstruct, to modernize, and hence to trans-modernize.

 

 

 

 

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Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

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Sunday, April 25, 2021

Continuation of ‘The Dialectic of Social Equity’.




 





Continuation of The Dialectic of Social Equity.

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

This blog-entry is for the purpose of describing for you a recent advance in our conception of The Dialectic of Social Equity, i.e., on the part of the F.E.D. research collective.  

 

 

The Seldonian ‘Dialectic of/within the «Genos» of Social Equity’, as we have publicly presented it up until now, and as depicted by the ‘dialectogram’ below, involves a first species category of ‘eXclusive equities’ – e.g., consider its Capital equities sub-species, legally establishing social equity for capital equity shareholders, owners of capital, alone – in opposition to our predicted, not yet widely instantiated species-category of ‘iNclusive equities’, i.e., of all-citizen social equities.

 

That ‘dialectogram’, and its associated public presentations, explicitly breaks out our hypothesized three sub1-species categories of that species-category of ‘iNclusive equities’: ‘Citizen Externality Equities’, followed by ‘Citizen Birthright Equities’, followed by ‘Citizen Stewardship Equities’.

 

This first, ‘Citizen Externality Equities’ sub1-species category of the ‘iNclusive equities’ species-category, represents the quality of a constitutionally-established human right of ‘‘‘collective property’’’, exercised by public balloting, with ‘public boards’ candidates grouped by the places of residence of the public, popular electorate.

 

This first, ‘Citizen Externality Equities’ sub1-species category of ‘iNclusive equities’ is opposed by a second, ‘Citizen Birthright Equities’ sub1-species category, representing the quality of a constitutionally-established human right of socially-provided ‘‘‘personal property’’’, exercised separately, by individual citizen-persons, but under constitutional and statutory “moral hazard” social constraints, and provided simply by right of birth, i.e., by right of membership in the human species.

 

So far, we have a supplementary opposition or antithesis of a collective property right versus a personal property right.

 

The third and final sub1-species category of the ‘iNclusive equities’ species-category we name ‘Citizen Stewardship Equities’. 

 

This category represents the quality of a constitutionally-established human right of what Marx called individual property” [Capital I, NW, p. 763]. 

 

The quality of this third sub-species is contra to both that of the first sub-species, of collective property” right, and to that of the second sub-species, of personal property” right, and to the very opposition between those first two.  

 

The third sub-species category combines and unifies qualities of each of those earlier two sub-species categories, in a single, third sub-species category.  

 

This third, individual property” [Marx] social equity right, gives the individual member of a ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’ collective, as a member thereof, a right to a ‘‘‘dual income’’’; to a periodic personal equal share in the net operating surplus of this collective’s ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’ producers’ cooperative, in addition to the right to compensation for skill-level/time-worked for that “association of producers” [Marx].

 

Returning our attention to the species scale of this ‘qualo-fractal’ scales-regress ‘content-structure’, depicted below, the third species-category is that of a recurrent alternation in the kinds of the key productive enterprises in given sectors of production, oscillating, in many cases, from ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’ enterprises dominance, back to “Capital Equity” enterprises dominance, back to ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’ enterprises dominance, and so on… .

 

The kind of instability represented by this species-level, oscillatory ‘uni-category’ is suggestive of the transitional character of our predicted new, next prevailing “social relation of production” [Marx] -- that we name ‘‘‘Equitism’’’, or ‘Generalized Social Equity’, or ‘iNclusive Social Equity’ -- in relation/competition with the predecessor predominant “social relation of production” category, e.g., of the capital[/wage-labor]-relation [Marx]. 

 

The ‘pendulatory’ character of this ‘‘‘dialectical synthesis’’’ category, qNX, is reminiscent of the – much more abstract in scale – first triad of the categories of Hegel’s «Logik», in which the initial opposition between the category “Being”, qB, and the category “Nothing”, qN is “resolved” by/in the category of “BeComing”, qNB |-º C, but only as an oscillation between the first two categories, qN and qB, with ‘coming to Be[ing]’ ‘co-ensuing’ with ‘ceasing [to] Be[ing].

 

Pursuant to further specifying our prediction of the next transition beyond ‘‘‘Equitism’’’, we extended our hypothesized triadic Seldon function’ Social Equity Domain model-equation –

 

X3^1  Âº   X3   |-º   X  ~+~   N   ~+~  qNX  

 

-- to a  dyadic Seldon function’ Social Equity Domain model-equation –

 

X2^2  »   X4   |-º   X  ~+~   N   ~+~  qNX   ~+~  qNN  

 

-- and considered possible solutions for the new, fourth, algebraic category-symbol term qNN.

 

The algebraic, N or qN-‘‘‘self-reflexive’’’, ‘self-hybrid’ category-term qNN signifies, by its very algebraic structure, an immanent ‘critique-in-acts’, as well as ‘critique-in-thoughts’ -- a ‘‘‘self-critique’’’ -- of our already solved-for “social relations of production” category, qN or N, and of the social acts, social practices, and social institutions to which it refers, plus a new “social relation of production” category as positive fruition of that self-critique self-negation: 

qN(qN)  º  ~(qN)  =  qN ~+~ qNN.

 

In a Marxian view, this self-critique, and its new-category fruition, is expected to arise out of the further growth of ‘‘‘Equitist’’’ society’s “social forces of production” [Marx], i.e., of the ‘Meta-Darwinian collective fitness’ of that society, as measured by its sustained ‘rate of social reproduction’.  That rate is accelerated by “the growth of the social forces of production”, i.e., of ‘the human-societal self-reproductive self-force of the human species.

 

One of the consequences of further growth of this ‘human-social self-reproductive force’ is the accelerated cheapening of human labor-power, the market-competitive ‘techno-depreciation’ of the ‘skill-capital’ owned within their persons by individual workers, and the ‘‘‘technological unemployment’’’ resulting from, among other forms in which ‘social-reproductive societal self-force’ manifests: the “automation”, and even the AI ‘robotization’, of social production.

 

In light of these observations, leading to our so far only tentative and partial solution for the Equity-Domain-commensurate meaning of the ‘categorogram’ qNN, we have identified three sub1-species categories of the still-only-partially-solved-for species-category qNN.

 

Our first of these predicted qNN sub-categories is one about ‘‘‘Free Money’’’, i.e., about the ‘‘‘Free distribution’’’ of Monetary resources, of Money as consumer revenue generalized use-value, to citizens, as exemplified in concepts of “Universal Basic Income”, and “Negative Income Tax”, etc., already under widespread discussion, and under local experimentation in the past, and presently.

 

Our second predicted sub-category arises out of the consideration that, with the further growth of productive force, or productivity, many kinds of needed and wanted Goods – specific use-values -- will become so reduced in their unit-cost of [re]production, and so potentially abundant, that it may become a waste of social resources to “ration” their consumption by market price mechanisms. 

 

Instead, the ‘Equitarian’ -- or ‘Political-Economic-Democratic’ -- government might choose, on the basis of electoral consent, to contract, under competitive bidding, with ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’ producers’ cooperative enterprises, and perhaps also with remaining capital-equity enterprises, paying them to produce and to distribute these classes of Goods to the public, Free-of-charge, e.g., via local ‘‘‘Free Goods Stores’’’ and, e.g. automated, home delivery services.

 

The third sub-category we expect will be a ‘‘‘complex unity’’’ combination or hybridization of the ‘‘‘Free Monies’’’ sub-category and ‘‘‘Free Goods’’’ sub-category, qGM, the hypothetical commensurate nature of which we are still deliberating.

 

Given the above, we have converged upon a preliminary designation for this predicted future category as that of ‘‘‘Free Distributions’’’:

 

qNN |-º F.

 

 

We expect, in due course, as our solution for the still largely algebraic-unknown category-symbol qNN |-º F matures, to publish an expanded ‘dialectogram’ for this -- ‘continuated’ -- ‘Dialectic of Social Equity’, depicting the Social Equity-Domain’s qualitatively, ontologically-expanded dialectical model equation –

 

X2^2  »   X4   |-º   X  ~+~   N   ~+~  qNX   ~+~  F.

 



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Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

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Saturday, April 24, 2021

‘Everything Eq.’ w/“Dark Energy” as «Arché»: ‘Meta-Genealogy Gap’.





Everything Equation w/Dark Energy as «Arché»: Meta-Genealogy Gap.

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

This blog-entry is for the purpose of presenting to you the message from Karl Seldon to the part of the E.D. research collective that will address the development/-critique of the E.D.  “Dark Energy”/“Dark Matter” ‘Dialectical Theory of Everything’ Hypothesis described in a recent blog-entry here:  

F.E.D. Dialectics: ‘Nature-Dialectic: “Dark Energy” as «Arché»' -- Part 05: ‘Seldon on the Record’ Series. (feddialectics-miguel.blogspot.com) .  

 

Seldon –

 

Unlike the versions of our ‘Theory of [Not-Quite-]Everything Known to Modern Science’ that begin with r or n as «arché»-category, i.e., with “Standard Model particles” in general, or with just the pre-nuclear “non-composite” fermions and bosons, as ‘starting-category’, our newer hypothesis has a ‘meta-genealogy gap’.

 

Our newer hypothesis, of course, encompasses a cosmological-historical, ‘singular dialectic of Nature’ which encompasses much more than did our previous hypothesis.

 

That newer hypothesis encompasses also the origin of “pure” space itself -- “pure” in the sense of initially devoid of “Standard Model” ‘particle-matter’, and even devoid of NON-“Standard Model” ‘‘‘Dark Matter’’’ -- as well as the origin of “pure-time” as ‘‘‘Dark Energy’’’, and also a theory of the origin of  “pure gravity” as the initial form of, ‘non-particle’, ‘‘‘Dark Matter’’’.

 

However, this hypothesis fails to be comprehensively ‘meta-genealogical’, whereas our previous hypotheses, based in r or in n, were comprehensively ‘meta-genealogical’.

 

This fact may intimate interesting new hypotheses that might be necessary to render ‘‘‘Dark Energy’’’ and ‘‘‘Dark Matter’’’ too as ‘meta-genealogical’, i.e., as both somehow «aufheben»-‘‘‘contained’’’ inside “non-composite” fermions and bosons – i.e., inside quarks and gluons – and, thus, also, as presently contained within our very own human bodies, just as are quarks and gluons, at the very root of each of our own bodily ‘‘‘substance’’’.  Our new hypothesis already provides for an «aufheben» ‘meta-unit-ization’ ‘‘‘containment’’’ of the ‘units of “pure” space’/‘‘‘Dark Energy’’’ inside the warped-space ‘first meta-units’ of ‘‘‘Dark Matter’’’.

 

Nonetheless, presently, our new hypothesis does not account for a full, ‘self-iterated’ «aufheben» process throughout the epochs of the known, or partially-known, ‘singular dialectic of nature’ to-present [at least -- for the later epochs, i.e., for those epochs that involve “prokaryotic” living cells, “eukaryotic” living cells, and what follows from them, after them, and beyond them, in both our old and our new hypotheses -- to-present for planet Terra.  We do not as yet have scientific evidence that these higher ontologies have arisen on any other planets, or elsewhere than on Earth].

 

That is, we cannot yet point to a way in which the hypothesized ‘space-units’ of the ‘‘‘Dark Energy’’’ ontology, and the hypothesized  ‘warped-space meta-units’ of the ‘‘‘Dark Matter’’’ ontology, are somehow ‘meta-«monad»-ically’ «aufheben»-contained inside the higher units of every subsequent, extant ‘self-hybrid’ ontological category, from atoms, or from “composite” fermions and bosons, all of the way up the ‘qualo-fractal scale’ of our cosmos, to humanity and, perhaps, to beyond.

 

We can point to “sub-atomic particles” – e.g., electrons, protons, and neutrons – and argue that the «monads» of their r «arché»-category are «aufheben»-conserved – are ingredient – at ever deeper levels, in the «monads» of every subsequent ‘self-hybrid’ ontological category, all the way up to the presently most advanced known Terran [Ã…?] ontology, that of human society, and of the living human bodies which that ontology ‘‘‘contains’’’.  All of this higher known ontology, in the deepest analysis of it of which present science is capable, ‘‘‘contains’’’ atoms made of electrons and protons, and neutrons, or, if we take n as our deeper than r «arché»-ontology, are made of ‘‘‘pre-nuclear’’’ “non-composite particles” -- electrons, quarks, gluons, etc. … .

 

“But we do not yet possess a knowledge that would explain how, e.g., human societies, and the living human bodies that they ‘‘‘contain’’’,  as well as all of the other, priorly-arisen ‘self-hybrid cosmo-ontos’, are ‘‘‘made of’’’ both ‘‘‘Dark Energy’’’ and ‘‘‘Dark Matter’’’.

 

‘‘‘Dark Energy’’’ constitutes the “space” which our bodies occupy, or in which our bodies “take place”/inhere.  ‘‘‘Dark Matter’’’, many scientists hold, surrounds and passes through our bodies, in copious quantities, continually, every second of every day, apparently without interacting with our gluons, quarks, photons, electrons, protons, neutrons, etc.”

 

But we do not know that, or how, patches of ‘‘‘Dark Energy’’’ units, already «aufheben»-contained in ‘‘‘Dark Matter’’’ units, are «aufheben»-incorporated inside -- «aufheben»-contained in -- each of the “non-composite fermions and bosons” that make up our individual bodies at their deepest-known levels.

 

“This includes not knowing how “Standard Model” matter units – i.e., [with the exception of neutrinos, actually or potentially ]‘Bright Matter’ units, or “Standard Model of Particle Physics particles” – «aufheben», ‘meta-«monad»-ically’ contain ‘‘‘Dark Matter’’’ units as their sub-units.

 


Please post your comments on this blog-entry below!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, please see --

 

www.dialectics.info

 

 

 

 

 

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of dialectical art -- see:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH

 

 

 





¡ENJOY!

 

 

 

 




Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.