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within a few standard deviations
 most of humanity can agree in clinical settings 
 specific and atomic details of events that occur directly perceivable

although there are well-established deviations 
 for uncommon states of consciousness
 such as those found in emotional trauma or chemical ingestion
there is often still much agreed upon

this is what makes language possible

these common symbols

but despite much agreement on events directly perceived
 beliefs about events unseen still varies widely
 and beliefs about events that ought happen varies even more

disagreements often start as bifurcations
 a separation of two domains of belief with a dichotomising true/false query

the logic we measure query response with
 structures the topological separations of conceptual domains

i like to mark april 23, 1943 as the birth of category theory

that was when mckinsey and tarski first submitted 
 "the algebra of topology" to the annals of math

tarski was an amazing abstractionist
 a category theorist really
who constructed the mathematical modelling of truth
in ontologies of objects and their fundamental relations

tarski's "undefinability of truth"
was formulated with a very functionally recursive fixed-point formalism
 in his original proof
much as a category theorist today would

and this paper with mckinsey
an isomorphism functor 
 from the category of topologies to the category of complete atomic interior algebras

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior_algebra

this is the foundation of our mereology
 our ordering of the world through a collection process
 a containment logic
as attractor domains in neurodynamics

a control theory in the flow of information

and that is the point of symbols
 they are our points of control

as in sartre's l'être et le néant
symbols get recognised
 negating nothingness
becoming names

inputs and outputs to our interactions

scott, tierney, and others built this into domain theory

containing similar inputs and outputs in concepts
 abstractions of first data
we build communication protocols for expectation and control

symbols have a power over homo sapiens
we place hopes and expectation into symbols
 and will avoid perceptual data to keep our hopes alive

marketing is the science of changing expectations
 from what might be indicated from other impressions
 like direct observation
through hope and related appeals
( sex appeals
 hunger appeals
 fear appeals
 ...
 most generally any human drive is a control point )

because of their direct control (in the mathematical sense)
provided by symbols
 they are the essence of modern marketing
 and mastery over their effect the foundations for a great economy

manufacturing and marketing
 the foundations of modern social structure

hillary clinton is one such symbol

despite recent provocations 
 that she may be friendly to the military-industrial complex
 and a past history of similar information on which to build models
she is being held by many as a symbol of stopping the war in iraq

other symbols don't seem to have the expectation to win
 so the hopes of those who want the war to change
have through marketing and speech
been altered

others
 more likely to affect the indicated changes
 are considered less likely to win
   and through the desire for success
   are considered less _appealing_

hillary the symbol
 erects a for-her/against-her dichotomy
 which she then can use various appeals to attempt to win
   through these marketing semantic connotations
some partitioning of a majority

yes / no dichotomisation
 is a much more easily controlled worldview

fundamentalists are easier to control

they hold onto beliefs over evidence
 through a litany (literally) of avoidance mechanisms

a dynamic worldview
 capable of belief rewriting to experiential information events
allows for adaptation to better predict

it maintains individual control over one's intellectual evolution
broadening the context of individual actions
 optimising global learning

symbols must sometimes shatter
 in order to move on and learn

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galathaea: prankster, fablist, magician, liar



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