The Sixth Law of Identity

_{Now we have a tiny little itsy bitsy teeny-weeny problem in the <- .} 

_Ready?

_{There are two senses we know for a fact do not act the way we think the senses work.}

_{One is what we see.} 

_{The other is what we smell.}

_{I suspect those two rascals the ears as well, but that is unproven.}

_{The oldest cones in our retinas sense the color blue.} 

_{But do those cones report this color blue to the optic nerve? Does it travel to the part of our brain that says what we are looking at is blue?}

_No.

_{They report to other glands and organs that relate to our ability to adjust to time. In other words our sleep cycle.} 

_{Our noses sense smells called pheromones. But this information is not passed on to the olfactory system. It is sent somewhere else and causes reactions that could be called romance or lust.} 

_Ooops.

_{So we have to live with the conclusion that we do not know for sure what we are sensing and we do not know for sure how we are sensing it. Nor can we ever be sure what our bodies are doing with that information.} 

_{This puts a whole new spin on A <- P.}

_{We do not know for sure what A is.}

_{We do not know for sure how well we perceive A.}

_{We do not know for sure how we perceive A.}

_{To make it worse when synaesthesia kicks in. That is when someone smells yellow, hears blue, sees the sound birds make, or hears someone touching them.} 

_{All answers are provisional.} 

_{Only questions have meaning.}

_{If we can find the right questions.}

_{It order to account for these types of phenomena we must add in the uncertainty of what might be being perceived.}

_{I <-^- P}

_{Hmmm. We have another problem. This one is with ->.}

_{A = R}ip_{/T -> I}

_{I do not want to dig too far into Complexity Theory, Breaking Points, and Emergent Phenomena, but let us simply say the recipe sometimes produces unexpected results. Without trying to account for it we still need to include it.} 

_{A = R}ip_{/T -^-> I}

_{So now we have:} 

_{A -^-> I <-^- P}

_{So lets take a look at one of the unexpected things in A -^-> I.}

_{Most people are aware of Herd Mentality and are disparaging of it. That is where a group of livestock will follow the leader anywhere without question. Sort of the way people follow Rock Stars, Politicians, Preachers, and Talk Show Personalities. It enables unscrupulous slaughter-house owners to train Judas Goats to lead the herd through the slaughter-house.}

_{What most people are unaware of is Herd Intelligence. This is where the intelligence of the individuals in the herd is low but the effective intelligence of the group is high. This is most obvious in ants that appear to have no intelligence as individuals but have been known to perform amazing feats of engineering in large groups.}

_{If you recall P(EE) where EE is Experience and Expectations. If we add cultural bias and other factors that influence perception into the ^ of <-^- P we can pretty much cover the entire gamut. Other people from other disciplines can add whatever unexpected influence might occur here.}

_{In short:} 

_{Even if a human ever did come across an A = A situation there is little chance that human being would ever be able to experience it.}

_{Yet, of course it appears that we do.}

_{A baseball bat is a baseball bat and whether it is made out of wood, aluminum, or plastic, it is still a baseball bat.}

_{And we all know it.}

_{We are able to function not because A = A but because we can act as though A = A.} 

_{The ^.  I call it the Bump, as in “The Bump in the road”.} 

_{Normal humans only have three cones. Red, blue, and green. Butterflies can see ultraviolet light. Mantis Shrimp — The number of colors they can see is just plain scary.} 

_{Two things that look exactly alike to a human might look like two entirely different things to a Mantis Shrimp.} 

_{Thus our own senses, such as eyesight, limit out ability to comprehend reality, to reason through reality, and to be creative with reality, if we actually believe and treat reality as if A = A.}

_{Or when:}

_{A <- P -> B}

_{When A as Perceived and Processed by P become Absolute Belief then we have an individual or group who are locked into mental prisons of their own making and will be unable to cope with any emergent reality their belief system does not encompass.}

_{When A <- P -> U} 

_{That is when A as Perceived and Processed by P produces a deliberately useful Future (Where future can be the time it takes to respond at the speed of light) Action or Reaction. Please note that an Action or Reaction can range from discounting the tree as not being relevant to the current situation, or a simple admiration of its habit (Habit means “Shape” to non horticulture types), or snapping its picture. It does not have to be a physical action or interaction with the tree.} 

_{Thus P is aware, at some level, that other Actions and / or Reactions are available but are not included because they are not useful at the time.} 

_{Thus if we expand the new formula derived from A = A out to its maximum we would have:} 

_{A = DR}ip_{/Tn -^->DQ/Tn  = I (EE)/Tn <-^- P/Tn -^-> B -^ -> FAR/T}t

_{It is doubtful to me anyone would have any use for such a cumbersome formula aside from explanation of its parts and how they fit together.} 

_{The simplest accurate formula we can use is: A <-^-> P = ? where A and P interact with each other in ways that produce results that have statistical probability but are not individually predictable. Yet managing, in most cases, to produce the illusion that A = A.}

_{It is almost scary to me that I could do that to Aristotle’s poor little A = A.} 

_{But to me it is just, well, obvious.}

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Tags: Aristotle, Computational complexity theory, Emergence, Herd Mentality, Judas goat, Mantis Shrimp, Perception, Sense