Part Three: The Second Premise

Part Three: The Second Premise

“What is the precise definition of a handful of Air?”

Education has a computer technology presence on campus, and is part of performance expectation, and yet is often one that is very unruly and inconsistent.  However, it can run the gamut from a total disinterest on the part of some teachers and very high technology demands on the part of others.

            And yet, the students they teach have never known a world without it.  It has affected their thinking modalities.

  

CAPTION;  "Recall (R)", or memory, is a state of activity.  “R” Recall embodies awareness, therefore must be represented by "Omega-minor" as the only time it can be passive is when a person is asleep.  However, " R " does work at high and low levels depending on the state of the mind, the brain and the emotions.  When the mind and the brain are in "active Omega", or "neutrality", and the emotions are in neutrality, then the "recall" can be very effective in calculations involving proto-activity.

[proto-activity is a word of my own construction, refering to various activities, or experiences, that a person (student) may be encountering for the first time.]

Muscle and sinew grow weak with age, but knowledge has the potential to remain strong.  The caveat to this statement is that today knowledge is not built with facts, knowledge is built with cognitive processing  skills.  To put another way, it has been held on to as a given that knowledge is built on a foundation of prior knowledge which has been built on solid facts or information that is in some way irrifutable. 

            What was once thought to be a world of reality ruled and governed by definitives, by facts, has somehow changed.  As science has become more capable in determining more and more reliable data, what makes up our reality, that reality has taken on a nature that resembles what was once thought to be fantasy.

            Solid matter, we are told, is more empty space than solid.  Liquids are actually more dense than solids, hence their liquidity.  Gases are merely solids or liquids that by their nature have not yet quite gelled through the lack of a catalyst of some kind.  The universe originated by a single event. It occurred as one of many possible events that happen all the time.

            Knowledge of value today is not what you know, knowledge of value today is what you can do.  Intellectual strength today is what you are capable of learning while you are doing something. Applicable literacy today is what you are capable of learning while you are doing something unrelated to what you are learning.  This begins not with what education you receive, but how you receive that education.

            Not to be misinterpreted, “A dog might not remember a voice command, but if you ever kick that dog, it will remember you.” (Forever, pretty much.) 

            How does knowledge remain strong?  Knowledge that is used on a reasonably regular basis, remains stronger than knowledge that has little to no relavance to a given person’s life, and is therefore used rarely or only accessed on an unrelated irregular basis.  Knowledge that is held in play longer, is experienced more, roots deeper and has the most memory stamina.  Analogies would be any athletic activity or some form of manual skill that is practiced until the motions become second nature.  As in, a Concert Pianist doesn’t really have to look at the keyboard in order to make beautiful music. 

            However, to get to this stage of “Omega Mind” (to be exponded upon) we must return to the very intial concept of the Math.  And how mathematics is based, or rooted upon, a single foundation; i.e. exactly on what  Base are we operating , or what is the primary structure.  As previously stated if this Base is binary, very quickly any calculations derived from any collected data will topple over.  It’s like trying to get a sincle piece of paper to stand vertically on its edge.

            To complete that analogy; if you bend, or fold, that piece of paper, thereby adding dimension to its structure you can actually do this. Or, just as a milking stool, three legs will stand independantly and are actually more stable than four legs.  If you reduce the concept of Prime Numbers to its simplest state, you get Base 3.  In all states Primary Numbers are always more stable than non-primary.  Look at any swivel chair manufactured today.  Most have five feet, some seven.  None have two, obviously, and none have four.  Some yahoo will always find a way to tip over backwards on a four footed swivel chair.

CAPTION;  Figure 4 (I ask forgivenes, Dear Reader, for the blurriness here.  I am reformatting all of my old graphics.) This chart is derrived from the Edgar Dale in the previous Part of this blog.  From Dale’s chart, it is my observation, were derived all of the visuals used in subsequent work by Benjaming Bloom and in more modern terms, eventually, by Howard Gardner in his work on “Multiple Intelligenses”. 

My purpose in including the chart above (Figure 4) is to begin to expose how using a visual cue with a verbal (written language) outline structure is really just an attempt to push into some sort of box, what is actually a very complex systematic approach to a concept that is, in real world functioning, actually, an impossibile task.  Much as simply trying to write the above sentence – and have it make sense. 

In the next installment, I will include historical examples which were designed to accomplish the same general task and begin to clarify how the Binary System (Base 2 math), in its infantsy, changed European culture forever.  And, step one as to why is doesn’t work.

Peace and joy be unto you, Dear Reader.

           

All material in this blog is from “Equations for the Joyous Mind”  © 2016 by Dale Clarence Peterson

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