| Memetic Baby Shower: Reframing 'Cause and Effect' | 6 comments |
 13 Jul 2003 @ 12:41, by Max SandorEd, the greatest pun(k) sage & philosopher known to me, or should I say 'the sagey pun(k)ster'?, help me out here Ed.., anyway, we talked about 'tanha', the Pali (Buddhist) word for what is commonly translated as 'desire' (yet another one of these words that should be left untranslated, really!). We talked about the reverse flow of tanha, a phenomenon that I labeled 'backdraft' some years ago, and... ...what else can you expect, a new word was created: ahnat (which for the pun-challenged is 'tanha' spelled backwards). Somehow I keep saying and writing atanh. It reminds me a bit of the 'arcus tangens hyperbolicus'; I used to write it as atanh back in the old days when I tried to solve arrays of differential equations on a DEC PDP-11. Perhaps I still have the same confusions I had back then. But today, especially today, I am missing the steady stream of icecold air coming from the special airconditioning we had to install back then. Nowadays, any pocket calculator is more advanced, but you can't just get that thermo-factor out of them. It's only noon here in Tujunga and it already hit the 100's in the shade of the Sandorian Grove (Euros: 100 F is about 37 degrees Celsius). Anyway, instead of thousand words, I made one little picture.. The Tao symbol refers to the 4-fold structure of a goal (any and all goals, that is). The arrows indicate the flow for Merging (Discharge) Cycle, right?? Oooops... I boobooed... what phase is it in really? Anyway, with this simple model at hand we can more easily demonstrate all the things that can go wrong in Life, Universe, and Everything... which pretty much sums it up.. Theoretically, a much better model would be 3-D or even 4D. See Die Banchoff-Kleinsche Flasche (in German). But, hey, let's take one step at the time.. And, yes, I will explain the 'bread of shame' paradigm with this explicitly, but now I need to go back into the pool.. c u mx |