Apathia,
I believe you are trying too hard (again) to facilitate Doron's communication.
I don't know entirely why I do it. It's the same sort of thing as other people carrying on with him in this thread. sometimes I just like to throw an angle of what he says at the wall and see if it sticks, or how long it sticks, or just the splat it makes.
I'm not under the illusion that I'll somehow change him, yet my responses might give him a less hard nosed position.
Or on other occasions impel him to dig in deeper with very unfortunate assertions.
I've tried to interpret for him as well. Just so other posters can give him a more useful critique than just saying it's all gibberish and word salad.
But in the least it is a salad with some identifiable chunks, rather than a mush.
Even if I had not been a player, Doron would have gotten more mileage here than anywhere else he has posted these many years.
I do very much enjoy reading your philosophical insights,
Well, there's a telling reason. Doron provides opportunities for me to say stuff.
And sometimes it's stuff that if I were to post it in any other thread context or make a thread of my own with it, I'd be the crank.
but I fear what you have written is mostly you re-interpreting pockets of order that appear at random in his ocean of chaos then trying to link them into a meaningful whole.
Yes. I've tried to get at some basic positions of his, or at least the intent of those idea But I always cone to grief when I try to fit them into a consistant picture.
The one truly consistent reply Doron has given me is "That's what you get with Complexity."
But I've relaxed a little in expecting his stuff to have a rational coherence and realized that one needs to lighten up the rigor and not look to closely to get the drift of Doron. But by that time my points of agreement with him are just bland platitudes.
(It's all so Unitarian-Universalist, of which I'm a member.)
I predict if and when Doron responds to your post, he will pat you on head for a couple of your points and rap you on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper for the rest.
A safe prediction.
There's a situation comedy aspect to all this.
And a situation tragedy aspect as well.
Being someone who has a taste for the works of David Lynch, it's not really a surprise I come back for more.
I'm not just playing with Doron. I respect him for his desires for a world where we aren't crammed into marketable categories but are respected as persons.
Ah, the ways each of us pursue respect and acceptance, and maybe a little objective immortality. We're all so comedic and tragic.
He won't recognize much of what you write as his, mostly because it isn't his. It is not Doron's insights you are exposing, but your own.
I can't refute that charge.
Certainly in my previous post, I made an offer of an heretical variation on the Doron theme.
A kind of X/~X Interaction that I don't think would gut Mathematics, but just soften those edges out where nature takes leave of our common sense.
But I don't think I'm going to be presenting my own new paradigm.
I still toy with using some of this Doronesque stuff as part of a back drop in a future novel. But I'm busy with another writing project at the moment.
This is deja vu all over again, as are so many elements in this thread.
