A goal for study

[justben]

There is a field of study that underlies information theory. It supports linguistics. It drives religion, and it explains science. It guides unwitting marketers, newsies, and other world leaders. It is the Philosopher's Stone of the modern information age and possibly many ages past. It is the study of pure ideas. It is the study of human

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[keith_dragon]

Ben, this is the very heart of what it is I speak of all the time. What I am looking for, and what drives me mad all the time. It is what I've been trying to master for 4 years now.

However, it often makes me feel as if I am in the line of fire, because you find yourself between all dualities as they fire their intellectual arsenal at eachother. If one side is red, the other blue, you must think purple.

I WANT to talk to you about this. This is the core of the school I am trying to build.

It is not one thing, but all things blending together as a single consciousness.

I have some books that might help you.

Email me to discuss.

kprossick@gmail.com

[justben]

If one side is red, the other blue, you must think purple.

And that's where you and I consistently differ. Where you say think purple, I say simply think both red and blue. Not synthesis in this case, rather an asynthetic recognition of multiplicity.

I'll drop you an email.

[keith_dragon]

Actually, we are disagreeing in terms of semantice, and metaphor, but I believe we actually are speaking of the same thing

[justben]

I don't think we differ as much as we may think.

On the other hand, we seem to come to some startlingly different conclusions sometimes based on our similar ideas about things. ;-)

In my view it's a difference of focus. You focus more on the similarities; I on the differences. The fact that you're arguing for the similarity of our stances while I'm arguing for their differences is itself a case in point.

[keith_dragon]

Even differences have similarities, and similarities have differences. I seek neither one nor the other in understanding things, but both.

If you disagree with this, that's cool, I will not argue with you. However, I want to know the how and why of it. Why? Because it creates an anomoly in my understanding, and I like knowing what those are so I can evolve that understanding.

I respect every persons view of the world, though my Ego may get in my way sometimes, deep down, I do. I respect your thoughts and ideas, and want to hear them.

Tell you what, you follow our differences, and I will follow our similarities, and lets say we meet somewhere in the middle. Just to help with semantics, though, to me, similarities aresynonomous with strengths, funny thing is, to me, so are differences. So you can see how I sometimes feel I am mad. :-)

Would you be interested in lunch sometimes after the New Year? My treat.