Re: virus: meme (WAS: re: virus: Spirituality)
Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Thu, 2 Jul 98 07:35:21 -0400
>Phenomenologically, It is from the natural perceptual foundation of
>the concrete pariculars as apprehended in their relationships to
>their circumscribing gestalts that we of necessity must begin (the
>middle). From there, we may technologically transmute our perceptual
>scale into both micros and cosmos. We must take care, however, that
>each perceptual mediative link in our chain does indeed connect the
>perceiver and the perceived in a direct and isomorphically
>proportional manner, so that the degree of alteration of the read
>symbol seamlessly relates to the amount of change in the referent
>being investigated.
Wilson's metaphor for this consilience is the vast chasm created between
the sciences, in many cases by the sciences themselves, certainly the
practitioners. Ultimately, he is looking for a joining and winnowing and
elimination of pointless and obfuscating jargons, of which the above
paragraph is a shining example....