Jonathan B. Marder (marder@agri.huji.ac.il)
Wed, 27 May 1998 17:11:01 +0100
-----Original Message-----
From: Fintan Dunne <findunne@iol.ie>
To: Multiple recipients of <lilasqd@mail.hkg.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 5:14 AM
Subject: LS Re: Explain the Subject/Object Metaphysics
[original posting reduced to excerpts]
Among Fintan's excellent summaries was this ...
> Objects are- Pattern as Pattern
> Subjects are- Pattern as Pattern Recognition Algorithm.(PRA)
>
Fintan, I really like this. You say it beautifully. This is the aspect
of SO that is very much a part of MoQ. As you say, classical SOM is a
perversion of this idea.
...
>MY DEFINITION IS:
>
>The Subject-Object Metaphysics is the assumption that the ONLY
>Subject (Pattern Recognition Algorithm) is Man and the ONLY
>Object(Pattern) is Matter; that these two are of different substance
>and communicate by Entropy/Data from Matter to Man.
I would generalise it a bit more. The perverted version of SOM assumes
that it really doesn't matter what the subject is - man or machine. Any
subject/observer should see the same "objective" facts because that is
reality. In cases where different subjects see different things, this is
"subjective" and not part of reality!
This view is rejected by Pirsig, Eastern mysticism and modern physics.
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