Part 09: The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts -- Human “Self-Consciousness” as an advanced species of ‘Self-Reflexivity’/‘Self-Refluxivity’.

Part 09:  The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts --

human “self-consciousness” as an advanced «species» of ‘self-reflexivity’/‘self-refluxivity’.

Dear Reader,

FYI --

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an Officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] Office of Public Liaison, 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 sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

The ninth such release in this new series is pasted in below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

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Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

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

“... Many of our readers wonder how, on the one hand, we “see only a single science, the science of history” [Marx and Engels, The German Ideology.], and, on the other hand, include, in natural history, also human history -- i.e., include ‘psych[e]ohistory’, the [later] parts of natural history, involving «arithmoi» of «monads» that contain psyches; «monads» that exhibit “self-consciousness”.”

“Some also wonder what is all this talk about ‘‘‘self-reflexive functions’’’, and ‘self-refluxive functions’.”

“Well, it all has to do with the fact that human, ‘‘‘proprioceptive’’’, ‘self-perceiving’, ‘self-biased totality-perceiving’, ‘self-cognizing’ consciousness is an advanced special case, and kind, of high-frequency, continual ‘‘‘self-reflexivity’’’ and ‘‘‘self-refluxivity’’’.”

“As Bertrand Russell would have it, in terms of the logical and set-theoretical paradoxes that, for him, were to be suppressed [but which we see as rudimentary formal models immanently-critically pointing to ‘logical nonlinearity’, i.e., to dialectic, and to human self-consciousness]:  “In all of the above contradictions (which are merely selections from an indefinite number) there is a common characteristic, which we may describe as self-reference or reflexiveness.” [Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, Prinicpia Mathematica, vol. I, Merchant Books, LaVergne, TN, 2010, p. 64.].”

“Elsewhere, Russell noted that the “propositional function” expressing, in the Principia Mathematica formalism, the famous “Russell Paradox”, which crashed Frege’s system -- the proposition about the set of all sets which are not members of themselves [Is it or isn’t it a member of itself?] -- is of a peculiar, “quadratic”, kind, instead of being of the ordinary, first degree, or “linear”, kind.”

“That is, this “paradoxical”, or “contradictory” propositional function is of second degree -- it is a nonlinear logical function. ...”

Part 08: The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts -- The ‘Meta-Equation’ of Cosmological ‘EROSIS’.

Part 08:  The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts --

The ‘Meta-Equation’ of Cosmological ‘EROSIS’.

Dear Reader,

FYI --

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an Officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] Office of Public Liaison, 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 sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

The eighth such release in this new series is pasted in below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

ENJOY!

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

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

“... In ancient Greek mythology, the word “Eros” named a divine force that was then sometimes seen as ‘‘‘ever combining the stuff of the «kosmos» into ever higher unities’’’.”

“With reference to that mythopoeic intuition, and despite its somewhat mystical overtones, we can well describe the F.E.D. ‘Dialectical “Theory of Everything”, Dialectic of Nature Meta-Equation’ as a model of the empirically-observed cosmological process of ‘erosis’, which is our name for the trend of self-re-iterating, scale-escalating, «aufheben» ‘meta-«monad»-ization’ that we see all around us, as the concrete process binding ‘‘‘the stuff of the «kosmos» into ever higher unities’’’.”

"The entry on “Eros” in an historical lexicon of ancient Greek philosophical terms is quite informative in this regard:  “...Eros is one of the many personifications that appear in the prephilosophical cosmogonies.  But unlike most of the others that represent states, e.g., Night, Chaos, Earth, Heaven..., Eros is a force.  In the Orphic cosmogonies he unites all and from these unions is born the race of the immortal gods...; in Hesiod he is among the first to emerge from Chaos and draws all else together...; according to Pherecydes..., when Zeus wishes to create (demiourgein) he changes into Eros.  Eros, then, is a motive force on a sexual model used to explain the “marriage” and “birth” of the mythological elements, a species of “First Mover” in the ancient cosmogonies, and was recognized as such by Aristotle (Meta. 984b).  And even as the mythological trappings began to fall away in the speculations of the physikoi Eros, the mover, or now, more frequently, Aphrodite, continued to play a role in conjoining the opposite powers.”

[F. E. Peters, Greek Philosophical Terms, New York:  New York University Press, 1967, pp. 62-63.].”

“Indeed, the symbol at the core of our very logo is a depiction of the ‘“conjoining of opposite powers”’. ...”

Part 07: The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts -- The ‘Self-Irruption’ of New ‘Qualo-Fractal’ Scales in «Kosmos»- History.

Part 07:  The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts --

The ‘Self-Irruption’ of New ‘Qualo-Fractal’ Scales in «Kosmos»-History.

Dear Reader,

FYI --

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an Officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] Office of Public Liaison, 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 sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

The seventh such release in this new series is pasted in below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

ENJOY!

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

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

“... It is not the case that, when the dialectic of «aufheben» ‘self-meta-monad-ization’ creates new ontologies -- new kinds of units -- that they then merely “populate” somehow pre-ordained, somehow pre-existing, yet, ‘til then, empirically empty levels       /layers         /scales of ‘qualo-fractal ontological content-structure’.”

“On the contrary, the dialectical [«aufheben»] ‘self-meta-monad-ization’ of the monads or units that had formed part of an existing, previously-created ‘qualo-fractal scale’, creates, for the first time, a new ‘qualo-fractal scale’ [one exhibiting ‘‘‘[self-]similarity’’’ in relation to the previously-created scales of cosmological ontology] that was never previously existent, newly created by the very act of their «aufheben» ‘self-meta-monad-ization’. ...”

Part 06: The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts -- The Epitome of a ‘Multi-Ontic Cumulum’ as a Physical Actuality.

Part 06:  The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts --

The Epitome of a ‘Multi-Ontic Cumulum’ as a Physical Actuality.

Dear Reader,

FYI --

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an Officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] Office of Public Liaison, 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 sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

The sixth such release in this new series is pasted in below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

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Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

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

“... the epitomic instantiations of our concept of ‘multi-ontic cumula’, as an external[-to-mind], physical actuality, is the molecular/atomic/... ‘‘‘proto-stellar cloud’’’.

“From this ‘‘‘proto-stellar cloud’’’ as ‘‘‘premise’’’, as ‘‘‘ground’’’, so much else in the ‘onto-dynamasis’ of our «kosmos» has already followed, and still will follow, we hold -- in our solar system at the very least.”

“From such ‘‘‘proto-stellar clouds’’’, stars are born.”

“Later, with sufficient reproductive accumulation of higher atomic species, produced by those first stars, and by their successors, themselves, and deposited, by them, into the thus increasingly “metalized” interstellar media of the galaxies, planets are born -- as we lately know so much more than before.”

“Later still, there is born all of the life both within and atop [some] planetary lithospheres [and planetary hydrospheres], we expect, in their biospheres, and in their noospheres.”

“These ‘‘‘proto-stellar’’’ “molecular clouds”, self-developing into “accretion disks”, begin with an ontology of, yes, “molecules”, but also with one of ‘exo-molecular’, ‘pre-molecular’, and ‘proto-molecular’ “atoms” and more.”

“At length, these ‘‘‘proto-stellar clouds’’’ give birth to stars, to planets, and, in many cases, we hold, to living cells, to multi-cellular organisms, to animal societies, to human societies, and, we expect, to ‘the META-human’ and beyond. ...”

Part 05: The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts -- ‘Categorial Combinatorics’, or ‘«Arithmoi» Combinatorics’, as a Proxy for ‘«Monad»-ic Combinatorics’.

Part 05:  The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts --

‘Categorial Combinatorics’,  
or ‘«Arithmoi» Combinatorics’ [i.e., ‘‘‘Numbers’’’ Combinatorics],

as a Proxy for ‘«Monad»-ic Combinatorics’.

Dear Reader,

FYI --

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an Officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] Office of Public Liaison, 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 sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

The fifth such release in this new series is pasted in below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

ENJOY!

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

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

“... The _NQ_ dialectical arithmetic/algebra is all about ‘categorial combinatorics’, or ‘«arithmoi» combinatorics’ [i.e., ‘numbers combinatorics’, in the ancients’ sense of the concept ‘‘‘numbers’’’], as a proxy for ‘«monad»-ic combinatorics’ [i.e., for ‘units combinatorics’].”

“There are two kinds of ‘categorial combinations’ in this combinatorial system of realities representation -- (1) ‘self-hybrid’ combinations, or ‘auto-hybrid’ combinations, modeled by category symbols that we call ‘autograms’, and (2) ‘merely hybrid’ combinations, modeled by category symbols that we call ‘allograms’.”

“‘Self-hybrid’ combinations may be associated with ‘metafinite resonance singularities’. ”

“‘Merely hybrid’ combinations may be associated with ‘metafinite depletion singularities’. ...”

Part 04: The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts -- ‘‘‘Psychohistorical’’’ Resistance to Mathematical ‘Re-Qualification’.

Part 04:  The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts --

‘‘‘Psychohistorical’’’ Resistance to Mathematical ‘Re-Qualification’.

Dear Reader,

FYI --

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an Officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] Office of Public Liaison, 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 fourth such release in this new series is pasted in below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

ENJOY!

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

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

“... The ontological and/or metrical ‘re-qualification’ of key nonlinear differential equations -- i.e., the ‘‘‘multiplication’’’ of such “purely”-quantitative equations by the appropriate dialectical-arithmetical ontological and/or metrologicalcal qualifier ‘meta-numbers’ -- that first becomes possible for us via the seventh, _Rm dialectical arithmetic, and that is also carried forward/«aufheben»-conserved in its sequel systems of dialectical arithmetic in our standard progression of such systems/languages -- given its ‘qualifier nullification’ axiom, solves the division by zero conundrum of those nonlinear differential equations.”

“That is, ‘re-qualification’ solves the scandalous problem of their “singularities”; it solves the problem of their “infinite erroneousness” at and after their moments of irreversible “singularity”; it solves the problem of their “infinity residuals” at such moments.”

“But such ‘re-qualification’ goes against the grain of the entire cognitive/ideological tide of the last ~500 years of the ‘‘‘psychohistory’’’ of Terran humanity, as documented in texts of great ‘‘‘psychohistorical’’’ insight by, e.g., Jacob Klein [e.g., Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra], and Alfred W. Crosby [e.g., The Measure of Reality:  Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600].”

“Such ‘re-qualification’ contravenes the overall trend of capitalist modernity, of the modern «mentalité» entire.  And yet, this counter-trend of ‘mathematical re-qualification’ is also emergent in our times, ever more so with the deepening of the descendence phase of the epoch of capitalism. ...”