Re: Know your mind

From: David Seaman <drseaman.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:42:06 +0100

> At 4:46 -0700 17/7/99, Devin Harris wrote:
>
> David Seaman wrote:
> sum(everything) = 0
> sum(everything known by conscious subjects) = infinity
> sum(everything not known by conscious subjects) = 0
>
> Translation =
>
> Sum(everything) = 0
> Positive + Negative = 0 = neutral
> Positive whole + Negative whole = 0
> Infinity = 0 (Not axiomatically possible or describable in
>ordinary mathematics)
> New Axiom: 0 = sum of all reality =
> 0 does not mean nothing or non-existence, absence, vacuum, or
>void
> 0 means indefinite, same as undefined, same as non-polar,
>same as neutral
> 0 means whole, complete, finished, same as singularity
> 0 means not many but one thing, one whole, oneness

Devin, you are very welcome to make such an interesting interpretation, but
the three equations were meant to be read from the rather dry point of view
of information theory.

> sum(everything not known by conscious subjects) = 0
>
> I expect you meant (anything not known by conscious subjects) = 0
>(ordinary i.e.nothing)
>

        sum(everything not known by conscious subjects) = 0
means that the parts of information space not observed by conscious
subjects are likely to be equivalent to white noise. Any tests carried out
by a hypothetical outside observer would show zero information content.
This is because the part of information space available to conscious
subjects is probably of measure zero on the whole of information space.

David
Received on Mon Jul 19 1999 - 00:45:29 PDT