Two-Element Metaphysics and Audio-books
Have finished the audio-book on A.N. Whitehead's Introduction to Mathematics. The second part of that project, the critique I may hold off for a while. That part will include the standard by which I critique the work, as a demonstration in using standards by which to examine what is said. The second sentence in this work contains a minimum of four logical errors.
However, before I do the critique, I want to start an apparently impossible problem, Russell and Whiteheads landmark work, the Principles of Mathematics, all three volumes. I will have to write programs for word in order to facilitate the transcription of the notation. It will be a very hard project. I need to hear it in audio-book form so, I need to do it. Also, it would not hurt to have a very good copy of it available for posterity for others to examine.
I do these words in part to learn and exibit correct processes of thought, but also to make others aware of what the mind does to try and over-come its dysfunctionality. Someday works such as the Principles of Mathematics will be seen as an exhibition of faultering psychological processes.
I got off on a tangent on another thread, reminded me of when I turned my teacher down on turning professional in writing:
I have always thought that at the start of any creative display, and introduction should be given. One part of the introduction explains why one wants to take up someone's time with a given piece. Another is the purpose for writing it. Even the Judeo-Christian Scripture uses an introduction, however, because of its demonstration that introduction is not at the start of the text, however, it is included.
Human life is valuable, it is the only value we have. Thus some believe that it is out of respect that we measure our use of someone elses time against our need to take that time from them. If a person desires to waste time, no introduction is needed. Simply write on, but if communicating is important, then a certain amount of interpersonal respect is exchanged by the introduction.
Today, creative writing is seen through the eyes of a child, how clever one can be in heaping words together--yet as you mature you will come to understand that you are, in fact, exchanging life for life--and therefore you think in terms of value added or subtracted from anothers life through the time you ask them to spend with you.
This is why some works, like Aesops fables were important. All language is designed for the modifcation of human behavior such that that behavior maintains and promotes the life of the body. Thus, on some level, a good writer knows the distinction between good and evil, and know that they are exchanging time with the reader--and time is a measure of human life.
All true art then rests upon very clear principles that pertain to life itself. These principles separate that art from heaps of words, globs of paint, piles of stone.
When you understand this, you can see that it is not popularity that determines value--for if you helped billions waste man hours each of their life, you have contributed not as a great author, but as an infamous one. But contrasting this to a work of value, if if it helped but one person to see a little bit better, then you have done more than some of the most popular writers in history. Learn how, and then simply, do the math.
