Thanks! I was trying to figure out the maths! :-)
- Alan
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Richard Guthrie wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> the quote is from 'Uncorrected Proof.' Alessandro is shadowy, young man
> filled with ambition (Paris in the Iliad). He's only one of an ensemble
> working in part, in Hollywood's terms, as the negation of the negation. Any
> 'wisdom' from Alessandro is akin to Shakespeare using garrulous Polonious to
> utter - 'brevity is the soul of wit.'
>
> And the 'maths', of course, is gibberish...the passage morphing into the
> 'logic' of authorial intention. MIMITU (on the surface) refers to an
> argy-bargy scene inLa boh?me ...as well as being an acronym.
>
> Best,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:51:59 -0400
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [WDL] query re digital / discrete or MIMITU
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > Can you elaborate here, not following you? What's the quote from? Expand
> > the math?
> >
> > - Alan
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Richard Guthrie wrote:
> >
> > > Revealing! You are right, Alan.. everything is indexable, searchable,
> > > traceable..
> > >
> > > 'Deep in himself he saw in the discourses of Borges an eternal
> unfathomable
> > > mystery of his own time. Alessandro would wake in the middle of the
> night
> > > and stare into the dark void reciting Borgesian myths in multiple
> tongues.
> > > One day he was a disciple of Diogenes, the next Herodotus was his
> brother.
> > > Alessandro confirmed History was an illusion. Standing in an olive grove
> > > with Mithridates Eupator he would argue that justice on earth was
> illogical.
> > > He read the Bible and the Koran together in order to prove that both
> were
> > > wrong. Divine love was the cruelest human trick of all. Socrates
> disproved
> > > Plato. Newton deciphered Heisenberg. Alessandro threw out his mattress
> and
> > > slept on bare boards. He carried out metaphysical experiments, entering
> his
> > > home simultaneously through a window and the adjacent door. His mother
> > > returned one evening to find him concussed on the doormat, his shoulder
> > > dislocated, a device he had built from two bicycle wheel chains and a
> gyro
> > > lying in pieces below the broken kitchen window and ruined door frame.
> He
> > > excavated caves, the first lone cowboy to discover lost Etruscan tombs.
> He
> > > attempted hibernation naked in a shed one snowbound January, succumbing
> to
> > > the resulting chill. He was discovered just in time by his uncle who
> found
> > > him rigid with hypothermia, a scrawled note in pidgin Latin pinned to a
> > > board above his head: Only through inertia can the impossible be
> obtained. '
> > >
> > > ...
> > > It is all indisputable, even allowing that:
> > > Z {a,b,c} x (Y + X ) = 0 or even (?)
> > > [a result which is simply astounding].
> > > Any reader trying to catalogue errors according to this release of
> > > information will find that each part of the code shares an evaluation
> > > of intention arriving at a common probability showing that a random
> spread
> > > of any inner sense of truth can only accept Z as universal judgment in
> this
> > > context, confirming a binomial random variance such that:
> > > P {Z = k/p} = ( x / k) pk(1 ? p) n-k
> > > allowing of course that k = 0, 1...., n
> > > It couldn?t be clearer! (or) Am I wrong?
> > >
> > > all is written..pp59,64 Uncorrected Proof
> > >
> > > R.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:15:42 -0400
> > > > From: [log in to unmask]
> > > > Subject: [WDL] query re digital / discrete
> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > >
> > > > Hi - I want to reiterate something I was thinking about earlier (and
> sent
> > > > a brief reply on) - that the distinction between the digital and the
> > > > discrete is one of addressibility; the former is addressible, and the
> > > > latter need not be, so the former is a subset of the latter. I was
> also
> > > > thinking, at least metaphorically, that ordinary objects around us, as
> > > > well as software 'objects,' might be considered as
> indirect-addressible;
> > > > one is guided by scripts, etc., through the ordinary objects in the
> world.
> > > > In this sense software objects and ordinary objects (by which I mean
> > > > physical objects) are searchable, indexable (see Schutz on relevance
> > > > theory), etc. - anomalies and the abject aren't searchable (i.e. the
> idea
> > > > of mud in Plato, think the Parmenides), but might be circumlocuted,
> > > > circumambulated. You'd have anomalies and the abject cybernetically as
> > > > noise, of course - where the envelope is probabilistically defined,
> but
> > > > the interiority is unpredictable.
> > > >
> > > > Just had a glass of wine but I think there's something to this - Alan,
> > > > comments?
> > > >
> > > >
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