[-empyre-] writing and pattern flows

[Bill Seaman <bseaman@risd.edu>]

Pattern Flows

ontology

 1. <philosophy> A systematic account of Existence.

 2. <artificial intelligence> (From philosophy) An explicit
 formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts
 and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of
 interest and the relationships that hold among them.

e·pis·te·mol·o·gy      P   Pronunciation Key  (-pst-ml-j)
n.
The branch of philosophy that studies the nature 
of knowledge, its presuppositions and 
foundations, and its extent and validity.


Pattern Flows

I wrote a major text for Convergence Magazine. I 
also have a different version of the text on-line 
at billseaman.com.

Pattern flows are multi-modal experience. 
(multiple sense modalities as 
experienced/generated over time)- another way to 
say this is sense perturbations causing bodily 
flows over time, (and constructions arising out 
of operating on these sensual inputs [thought 
processes][related - see Turing - input and 
output organs].

We have an on-going experience of multiple 
senses. Any word comes to be known in relation 
to(through) this experience. In fact the 
employment of the associational network tied to a 
word later enables the projection of a history of 
pattern flows back onto experience, calling forth 
an associational network of relations.  I smell 
(sense) something and I recall a place or a 
particular person or a special event (or 
other)?these multiple senses [assuming experience 
in a time-based n dimensional flow (in mind)] 
fuse and form a time-based pattern flow {the 
conjecture is that this is an embodied flow that 
also forms a particular neuronal flow in the 
brain/mind/body (nested in environment). So I 
(we) learn a word in an embodied context as well 
as through a relational set of varied embodied 
contexts?This is a bit like Wittgenstein's 'The 
Meaning is the Use" but much broader --- I am not 
just "pointing" at words here but how words and 
multi-modal experience dynamically intra-act in 
an ongoing manner (we are functioning in a 
subjectobject continuum). (Heidigger's Being and 
Time points at this --- but in English one may be 
outside of the nuance of the German language?) I 
have a pattern flow of experiences (multiple 
senses become enfolded,  I associate a word with 
these experiences, and with other experiences, in 
an ongoing accretive manner.

The computer enables one to author dynamic 
relations to pattern flows.  The "input/output 
organs of Turing" are very much open to 
interpretation and use (steering) [see 
cybernetics]. This is the beauty of the computer 
- how it can be re-purposed (re-focused) [Turing 
machine as universal potential machine of focused 
communication / interaction potential].

So language/meaning production is about the 
generation of pattern flows in the service of 
communication (or miscommunication) or other? 
Thus computers have great potential at the 
creation of multiple kinds of patterns? 
multi-modal flows [pattern flows].  Code becomes 
enfolded - the flows always have multiple levels 
and valences (conveyances) and potentialities.

Best
bill

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[Pierce was also interested in subjectobject 
unity but I think code injects contingencies that 
semiotics has not as yet fully articulated?]
see - http://www.peirce.org/writings/p32.html
On a New List of Categories

Charles S. Peirce



See also Open Order Cybernetics with A. Gaugusch.





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