The above square is from
a post of Aug. 30, 2006.
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
The Seventh Symbol Revisited
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
“Jackson has identified the seventh symbol!”
For the above title, see today's 1 PM post Black List.
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Black List
A search for "Max Black" in this journal yields some images
from a post of August 30, 2006 . . .
|
"Jackson has identified the seventh symbol." |
The "Jackson" above is played by the young James Spader,
who in an older version currently stars in "The Blacklist."
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"… the memorable models of science are 'speculative instruments,' — Max Black in Models and Metaphors , Cornell U. Press, 1962 |
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Meet Max Black (continued)
Background— August 30, 2006—
In the 2006 post, the above seventh symbol 110000 was
interpreted as the I Ching hexagram with topmost and
next-to-top lines solid, not broken— Hexagram 20, View .
In a different interpretation, 110000 is the binary for the decimal
number 48— representing the I Ching's Hexagram 48, The Well .
“… Max Black, the Cornell philosopher, and
others have pointed out how ‘perhaps every science
must start with metaphor and end with algebra, and
perhaps without the metaphor there would never
have been any algebra’ ….”
– Max Black, Models and Metaphors,
Cornell U. Press, 1962, page 242, as quoted
in Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors,
by Victor Witter Turner, Cornell U. Press,
paperback, 1975, page 25
The algebra is certainly clearer than either I Ching
metaphor, but is in some respects less interesting.
For a post that combines both the above I Ching
metaphors, View and Well , see Dec. 14, 2007.
In memory of scholar Elinor Ostrom,
who died today—
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Brightness at Noon (continued)
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
An Abstract Window
The sliding window in blue below
Click for the web page shown.
is an example of a more general concept.
Such a sliding window,* if one-dimensional of length n , can be applied to a sequence of 0's and 1's to yield a sequence of n-dimensional vectors. For example— an "m-sequence" (where the "m" stands for "maximum length") of length 63 can be scanned by a length-6 sliding window to yield all possible 6-dimensional binary vectors except (0,0,0,0,0,0).
For details, see A Galois Field—
The image is from Bert Jagers at his page on the Galois field GF(64) that he links to as "A Field of Honor."
For a discussion of the m-sequence shown in circular form above, see Jagers's "Pseudo-Random Sequences from GF(64)." Here is a noncircular version of the length-63 m-sequence described by Jagers (with length scale below)—
100000100001100010100111101000111001001011011101100110101011111
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
This m-sequence may be viewed as a condensed version of 63 of the 64 I Ching hexagrams. (See related material in this journal.)
For a more literary approach to the window concept, see The Seventh Symbol (scroll down after clicking).
* Moving windows also appear (in a different way) In image processing, as convolution kernels .
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Go Ask Alice
McLuhan in Space by Richard Cavell—
As the word "through" in the title of Through the Vanishing Point □ hints… key reference points for McLuhan and Parker in writing Through the Vanishing Point were the "Alice" books.
[The footnote symbol □ here is mine.]
Alice Rae, McLuhan's Unconscious, doctoral dissertation, School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide, May 2008—
What McLuhan calls the "unconscious"' is more often named by him as Logos, "acoustic space" or the "media environment," and I trace the debts that these concepts owe not only to Freud and Jung, but to Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, gestalt theory, art theory, Henri Bergson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Wyndham Lewis, Siegfried Giedion, Harold Innis, the French symbolist poets of the late nineteenth century and the British modernists of the early twentieth.
The declaration section of the thesis is dated November 19, 2008.
Related material— Halloween 2005 and The Gospel According to Father Hardon.
□ A work suggested by Ander Monson's new Vanishing Point . (See April 17 and April 23, together with the April 22 picture of a non-Euclidean point □ in the context of "The Seventh Symbol.")
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Monday June 29, 2009
Sunday Egyptians
“And what is it
you’re going to do?”
— Eddie Murphy as Pharaoh 
See also
Reba at Heaven’s Gate
and
The Seventh Symbol:
“Jackson’s identified
the seventh symbol.”
— Stargate
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
Sunday March 8, 2009
Transit Authority
In memory of
Stanley Kubrick
(overlooked in
yesterday's memorial)
| "For believers the day of death, and even more the day of martyrdom, is not the end of all; rather, it is the 'transit' towards immortal life. It is the day of definitive birth, in Latin, dies natalis." |
"'Wherever you come near
the human race, there's layers
and layers of nonsense,'
says the Stage Manager in
Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town.'"
— Today's sermon
from Frank Rich
For more layers, see
James A. Michener's
The Source.
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
Saturday March 7, 2009
One or Two Ideas
|
From James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
he hearth and began to stroke his chin. –When may we expect to have something from you on the esthetic question? he asked. –From me! said Stephen in astonishment. I stumble on an idea once a fortnight if I am lucky. –These questions are very profound, Mr Dedalus, said the dean. It is like looking down from the cliffs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again. –If you mean speculation, sir, said Stephen, I also am sure that there is no such thing as free thinking inasmuch as all thinking must be bound by its own laws. –Ha! –For my purpose I can work on at present by the light of one or two ideas of Aristotle and Aquinas. –I see. I quite see your point. |
Besides being Mondrian's birthday, today is also the dies natalis (in the birth-into-heaven sense) of St. Thomas Aquinas and, for those who believe worthy pre-Christians also enter heaven, possibly of Aristotle.
Pope Benedict XVI explained the dies natalis concept on Dec. 26, 2006:
"For believers the day of death, and even more the day of martyrdom, is not the end of all; rather, it is the 'transit' towards immortal life. It is the day of definitive birth, in Latin, dies natalis."
The Pope's remarks on that date
were in St. Peter's Square.
were in St. Peter's Square.
Pictorial version
of Hexagram 20,
Contemplation (View)
The square may be regarded as
symbolizing art itself.
(See Nov.30 – Dec.1, 2008.)
symbolizing art itself.
(See Nov.30 – Dec.1, 2008.)
In honor of
Aristotle and Aquinas,
here is a new web site,
illuminati-diamond.com,
with versions of the diamond shape
made famous by Mondrian —
— a shape symbolizing
possibility within modal logic
as well as the potentiality of
Aristotle's prima materia.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Monday December 1, 2008
A Version of
Heaven's Gate
Heaven's Gate
in memory of
G. H. Hardy,
who died on
this date in 1947
C. P. Snow on Hardy:
"He was living in some of the best intellectual company in the world– G.E. Moore, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Trevelyan, the high Trinity society which was shortly to find its artistic complement in Bloomsbury."
For a rather different artistic complement, see the previous entry.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Tuesday December 26, 2006
Today in History
by The Associated Press:
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2006. There are five days left in the year. The seven-day African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today. This is Boxing Day.
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
Sunday September 10, 2006
And the
"Meet Max Black"
Award goes to…
"For the Aeron and other designs,
Mr. Stumpf won this year’s
National Design Award
in Product Design,
which is to be presented
posthumously on Oct. 18
by the Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum
in Manhattan."
— Today's New York Times
Stumpf died on August 30,
the date of the Log24 entry
"The Seventh Symbol."
Related material:
From
Geometry of the I Ching,
a chessboard:
From the
National Design Museum:
From Log24 on the
date of Stumpf's death,
Pictorial version of
Hexagram 20,
Contemplation (View)
See also
Fearful Symmetry
and
Symmetry Framed.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Wednesday August 30, 2006
The Seventh Symbol:
A Multicultural Farewell
to a winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature,
the Egyptian author of
The Seventh Heaven:
Supernatural Stories —
"Jackson has identified
the seventh symbol."
— Stargate
Other versions of
the seventh symbol —
"… Max Black, the Cornell philosopher, and others have pointed out how 'perhaps every science must start with metaphor and end with algebra, and perhaps without the metaphor there would never have been any algebra' …."
— Max Black, Models and Metaphors, Cornell U. Press, 1962, page 242, as quoted in Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors, by Victor Witter Turner, Cornell U. Press, paperback, 1975, page 25