[syndicate] Filtering and Analog Digital

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> Filtering and Analog Digital
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>
> Reworked from a 1978 Toronto Notebook, "On the successive eliminations of
> the entity in transformations"
>
> or rather all that is necessary from the diagrams
>
> a -> a' -> a'' f' f
>
> The function f moves a to a'; f' moves a' to a'' and of course there is a
> composition f'f(a) -> a" or some such. a' disappears as an entity, and on
> might generalize, considering a series of functions f, f', f", f"' ...
> such that (f'''f''f'f(z)) is a filter over z. In the lifeworld, f^n
> extends in either direction, i.e. n ranges over the integers at the least.
>
> In reality, n ranges over the continuum. Every entity z carries its filter
> and a filter is non-existent without an entity. The continuous transform-
> ation of the entity is defined by the filter and vice-versa. Since z may
> split in the process, the filter may split. The series f... need not
> define any particular entity, but may be considered split from a previous
> series, i.e. one out of an almost infinite number of processes, infinite
> in relation to the continuum. In this fashion, the worlding process is
> visible, the entity disappears, as entities do. Entities are named in any
> case in relation to space-time; too great a dispersion, and "entity"
> disappears qua entity; the background microwave radiation of the universe
> is an example. Too small a dispersion, virtual particles for example, and
> "entity" is ontologically problematic. Within everyday life, water and
> other liquids, as well as gases, are not considered entities, while glass,
> also liquid, is. It's a question of a family of usages in relation to
> viscosity for example. There is also a notion of intrinsic identity based
> on communality and communication; humans are entities, although rapidly
> undergoing decomposition. Reichenbach's genidentity is useful here; it
> references the actual material substrate of a coherent object, held gene-
> alogically together over a substantial period of time, and undergoing
> change qua object. Such an object brings human phenomenology with it;
> objects out-gas, wear, wear-out, dissolve, split, from what might tempor-
> arily be considered an origin, their inhering to a presumably created
> form. All origins and all endpoints are subject to filtering, which
> dissolves them as such. One is left with continuous birthing, continuous
> languaging and worlding, processes related to Bohm's implicate order on
> one hand and maya on the other. Of course the filtering itself is
> filtered, there is no end to it. To be human is to attempt to halt such,
> impede what is identified as dissolution, death, permanent impediment.
>
> Ownership arises out of this, as does the urge to collect, related to the
> urge to hunt, to permanently annihilate, absorb, be reborn in the blood of
> the other. To stay with the filter is to remain analogic, deeply human,
> chthonic; to impede is to construct the digital, build, aerate, delude.
> The digital is always already inauthentic, Vaihinger's as-if which resides
> for and in the moment. Culture veers among the various orders, as if the
> world and its history is ordered and orderly; it is the sympathetic, not
> empathetic, magic of this that allows us to survive.
>
>
> history (site still operating):
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> http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt/
>
> waters: http://www.asondheim.org/waters.wma
>
> anyone using http://www.activeworlds.com/ ?


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