thoughts-lists-classifications

comment on this:

I still like some aspects of this stuff, especially tarot and qblh -- I think these things are great interest in terms of systems of spiritual categories or of archetypes. I mean, you often see systems of thought with two categories (good/evil or +/-) which all seem to have a solid, deep, qualitatively different meaning, but the major arcana has 22 and they all seem to be deeply meaningful and not to collapse into each other! Sort of like how it would be interesting to categorize all the different moods that music could have or categorize the different kinds of feelings that one feels in dreams but not often while awake -- you get the sense that there could be more than 4 or so categories, but lots of our systems of thought end up not giving you too many categories (or at least that is what happens with me if I try to categorize almost anything while thinking in a standard Western mode).

-- me

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tarot

belbin roles

INTJ etc

BigFivePersonality? thingee


by # dimensions

2D vs. 3d thinking, meta stuff, etc


from http://www.interconnected.org/notes/dynamical.html from Dr Neil Johnson's lecture notes for Chaos:

Number of variables

Linear

Nonlinear

n = 1

Growth, decay, or equilibrium

n = 2

Oscillations

n >= 3

Chaos

n ? 1

Collective phenomena

Continuum

Waves and patterns

Spatio-temporal complexity


tarot cards

+/-

numbers

counting, integer, real, complex #s

Vital Relations: change, identity, time, space, cause-effect, part-whole, representation, role, analogy, disanalogy, property, similarity, category, intentionality, and uniqueness

(a Google Set from some vital relations: Change Cause Effect Representation Space part whole Habit Death Organism Immortality Interaction Scientific Model System Time Cycle Process Evaluation Impact Decision )

cardinal virtues: wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice.

theological virtues: faith, hope, and love.


"Black and white are opposites, and as such we can relate them to each other, on the philosophical level, of dialect[2]. Hegel has three principal dialectics: the dialectics of opposites like black and white that make gray when mixed; of polarity, like north and south, that cannot be mixed as they define each other, are necessary for the other to be at all; and the dialectic of negation, of a and -a. The yin-yang is not the first dialectic as it is not just a gray blob. It is not the dialectic of polarities, as white is as much black as it is white. Nor is black the negation of white, for if white were a and black -a, the yin-yang would be nothing at all. What we must do is take the -a of white and the -a of black, the negation of both of these principles, and examine them in the light of each other." -- Cotter Kelsey