Monday, November 4, 2013
A Crystalline Matrix
We will be looking again at the models of human diversity. Spectrums, distributions, gradients and displacements. There are many ways of mapping the variabilities of human diversity. We need not a crystal ball or a star chart to count all the ways we are distinguished. Most of the Socially Recursive varieties of personal differences are not always symmetrical: Man / Woman, Young / Old, Big / Small. And yet if we look at comparative distributions we often will find a centered mean balanced by equal sides. Now of course any of these groupings can be skewed. But we all seek balance of;
A. (Man to Woman)
B.(Young to Old)
C.( Big to Small)
And what is one extreme without the other. Polarity comes in many different ways.
If we use just these three variables, there are different ways we draw comparative analogies in the six diagnostic checklists we have been looking at;
1. Perceptual Ordination: Up / Down
2. Taoism and the I Ching: Yang / Yin
3. Chinese Medical Diagnostics: Empty / Full
4. Astrology: Rising / Descending
5. Kaballa and Tarot: Wands and Swords / Cups and Disks
6. Handwriting and Palmistry: Masculine / Feminine
Now of course we will be needing to look at much higher orders of dimension in our analytical space, but for now simple is at the core of shared meta formality. We can much further divide and order our areas of investigation. We need not be intimidated by the simple elegance of meta formal logic. We need only accept that it exists and that it has been at the core of language since the early oral traditions. We might say that the symmetry is "Local." And that the dynamics of the variables are defined by mutual exclusion. Up is not Down. Yang is not Yin. Empty is not Full and so on. As dualities these basic forms are bounded by unity. These distinctions may seem trite in regards to much finer details of variability, but as we construct much more precise terms of variability we will be glad we laid out accurate metrics for comparison. Hopefully, when we get to the rotational displacements of periodic behaviors in mass movements we may be able to make sensible predictions about individuals as well as for societies transitions.
As we have already seen much of these notations on "Social Valences," anticipate that the contraction of the corresponding gradient variabilities will negate and neutralize the countervailing indexing displacements. (A Lot of Data Is Redundant.) The simple language will make the more abstract mathematical language understandable. Hopefully! As always, wish me luck. I'm not quite done yet.
