C-246.9 Differentiation and pattern
“Pattern” as an observed instance points to the phenomenon of extended differentiation. An expansion of sorts. Found in each of the Expansion, the B-universe and -- but not frequently enough – in the S-universe. Ubiquitous enough that “pattern recognition” is itself a problem. Enough so that Hayakawa noted a loss of pattern due to conceptual cognitive technology (inside-outside, object-attribute) … as the cow disappears within “animal,” then within “asset,” then within “object”….
But pattern is also a “layered” differentiating. An ordering – i.e., a splicing. “Pattern” should be an R-word, comprising mettles of slice and splice. As in matters Grasped conceptually as composition, invention, creation, etc. The drama of life calls on us to pattern the beginning of our next step, to provide procedural technology (e.g., script, plot, plan).
Patterns as simple, perhaps, as a “minor encoding habit” in an author’s works. As complex as the thematic developments in a symphony. Or “… don’t mean a thing if it aint got that swing.”* But always a matter of extended differentiation, as much before the fact as after the fact – i.e., life AT and ON the Frontier of the Expansion and in the S-universe, our true place rather than just our location in the B-universe and B-spacetime.
Pattern is very much evident in the phenomena of both evolution and development. Enough so to suggest that we see differentiate and differentiation as comprising the two? Enough so that we see the potential of body CEM step … given the obvious interplay of body and step in their “shaping up” history?
Pattern, as extended differentiation, and so pervasive through the Expansion and into the several universes, suggests that we might see history as a progeny of pattern rather than as a prosaic B-ness accounting. A less “invisible hand.” A better story than the choice between agent-sourced One-ness and random collisions as human histories?
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* “… Don’t mean a thing if it aint got that swing” is suggestive of the CEM phenomenon – i.e., that the splicing has attained an appreciable measure of contingent emergent materiality. “Slice, splice and swing” would make good a recipe for almost anything behavioral.
In light of the very useful Search feature now available, parenthetical back references are suspended for Comments as of C-184.
(c) 2021 R. F. Carter
But pattern is also a “layered” differentiating. An ordering – i.e., a splicing. “Pattern” should be an R-word, comprising mettles of slice and splice. As in matters Grasped conceptually as composition, invention, creation, etc. The drama of life calls on us to pattern the beginning of our next step, to provide procedural technology (e.g., script, plot, plan).
Patterns as simple, perhaps, as a “minor encoding habit” in an author’s works. As complex as the thematic developments in a symphony. Or “… don’t mean a thing if it aint got that swing.”* But always a matter of extended differentiation, as much before the fact as after the fact – i.e., life AT and ON the Frontier of the Expansion and in the S-universe, our true place rather than just our location in the B-universe and B-spacetime.
Pattern is very much evident in the phenomena of both evolution and development. Enough so to suggest that we see differentiate and differentiation as comprising the two? Enough so that we see the potential of body CEM step … given the obvious interplay of body and step in their “shaping up” history?
Pattern, as extended differentiation, and so pervasive through the Expansion and into the several universes, suggests that we might see history as a progeny of pattern rather than as a prosaic B-ness accounting. A less “invisible hand.” A better story than the choice between agent-sourced One-ness and random collisions as human histories?
* “… Don’t mean a thing if it aint got that swing” is suggestive of the CEM phenomenon – i.e., that the splicing has attained an appreciable measure of contingent emergent materiality. “Slice, splice and swing” would make good a recipe for almost anything behavioral.
In light of the very useful Search feature now available, parenthetical back references are suspended for Comments as of C-184.
(c) 2021 R. F. Carter
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