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Commentary 5

( NETWORK OF NETWORKS )
by Hugh Bone
17 September 2003, posted 30 September 2003

Much of TA62 is a useful contribution in describing mental processes in the many "worlds" each intelligent human inhabits, and sometimes attempts to understand and describe. One person can know little of the six most recent millenia, and nothing of the the next.

For me, the following paragraph sums up a significant effort to imagine the unimaginable.

" [8b] These lengthy musings serve one important purpose : to distinguish between the SIMPLICITY of the natural (plenitude based) content of the universe and the COMPLEXITY of our reductionistic views. We left out two characteristics, so common to most topical groupings in our universe view models: THE SPACE AND TIME RESTRICTIONS. Most networks we identify are time-bound : valid only in a niche of the lifespan of the universe. That may also be the case for the space-bound networks. Exceptions may be some ideational 'topics' which may be 'nonlocal', i.e. aspatial-atemporal. These topics may include some transitional links to the plenitude-view just as those may have in which we try to eliminate the timed boundaries. The same may happen if some other restrictions are lifted, however 'One quale we recognize is the scale-factor, select the orders of magnitude we restrictively think in as the granulation. As we cannot detect the network characteristics of a car-engine in the scale-framework of atoms, or living cell connections in cosmic measures, we cannot consider an economic setup (network) for the past 5 millennia. Our untold boundaries include the space and time frames. This makes the network thinking definitely reductionistic. This may also be the reason, why we cannot think otherwise, only reductionisticly (more or less, of course). Another reason is our (nonlocal, atemporal) mind, the mental aspect of us, our network as human beings, functions as a unit operation with its material tool, the neuronal brain. Consequently we cannot "cut out" completely the material restrictions of the universe-view, we cannot approach a 'real' plenitude-view. "

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Hugh Bone