Philosophizing About Truth

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Synergetics Slide Show (School of Tomorrow)

My YouTube channel contains quite a few examples of me presenting this slide deck. 

This latest version dives into more technical detail on many of the slides. 

My treatment this time may have been influenced by a changing sense of my audience. Since connecting with the Math 4 Wisdom (M4W) community, headed up by Andrius Kulikauskas, I've senses my audience having higher bandwidth -- as in "intake capacity" -- regarding the mathematics of what we're doing. 

I was also inspired by some recent work on the S-module, in turn inspired by David Koski and Casey House.

I'm continuing to see Synergetics as more a philosophical work in mathematical foundations, but with a built-in critique of "foundations" as a metaphor, given our conceptual space is more gravity-neutral than we experience as tiny guys on Planet Earth. 

We're more apt to see our system as a planet in and of itself i.e. infrastructure of a spherical nature cohered by gravity, and capable of functioning as a transceiver i.e. as both a tuned in recipient and a caster-emitter of intelligence and information.

Continuing the Conversation

Joe Clinton opens by reading a lengthy passage by some philosopher, which begins to sound like Bucky in places, but is this text by Joe Clinton himself? Is Joe into being this metaphysical? He quotes Bucky internally, so clearly the outer quote is not Bucky. 

Funny how the term "dictate" forces itself into so many discussions of metaphysical rules.  Grammar police.

OK, they're his own words, he's taking credit (these are notes in real time). He addresses his convention of colorizing internal Bucky quotes.

Joe is a big Froebel fan.

Lots of good pie crust language around the Jitterbug Transformation.  Yeah, Bucky called just about everything he treasured a "dymaxion" at one point or another.

Joe has spent a lot of his time on this Jitterbug Transformation, a centerpiece in Synergetics, a kind of dumbbell dorge if we look at symmetrical expansions to outer limits around a zero center, called a "bow-tie" by Bucky (he used a symbol):

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