User:A Helpful Little Gnome/NoteBook3x/knowing

  

WORN NOTEBOOK

> Browse the notebook A dozen or so pages are flipped. Six of them should be looked at for the second time. One of the pages was about a cavern, another about knowing, and another about permutations and cycles. There was another page about narration. Some more page flipping reveals something about city maps and not talking to strangers. > Read about 'knowing' If you had an idea, the idea would be that you fall into the 'discrete mind' category, which is full of categories. Your categories are just lacking completeness. On the one hand is a highly categorized mind that is able to know because of names and indications. On the other hand is a mind with no categories, no names and no indications, which means its knowledge isn't discrete. So everything flows together and nothing can be pointed out, seeing that no end points or edges are present. A discrete mind can count and measure itself; a continuous one cannot. Measurements and counting are discrete, which makes no sense to a mind with no end points or edges. A discrete mind only has language to communicate what it knows; a continuous mind has no language. When language is required, something external must be represented in some way. It must be a continuous mind that never represents anything outside of itself. As such, either the continuous mind includes everything, and it's meaningless to talk about inclusion, or nothing is outside of that mind which would need inclusion. Either way there's no use for symbolism. A discrete mind and a continuous one won't be able to understand the other. The two are too different, and can only look at the other in their own way: a discrete mind cuts up the continuous mind into pieces for observation, and thus the pieces, being disconnected from each other, lose what they are. When the continuous mind looks at the discrete mind, I don't know what it sees. Back