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Constitutive Principles

Constitutive Principles. Matching and counterpart connections. Generic space. Blending. Selective projection. Emergent meaning. Composition. Completion. Elaboration. Governing Principles for Compression. Borrowing for Compression

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Constitutive Principles

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  1. Constitutive Principles Matching and counterpart connections. Generic space. Blending. Selective projection. Emergent meaning. Composition. Completion. Elaboration.

  2. Governing Principles for Compression • Borrowing for Compression • Scaling compression Syncopating compression Same-type compression Different-type compression • Creation • Highlights compression

  3. Other Governing Principles Topology Principle Pattern Completion Principle Integration Principle Maximization of Vital Relations Principle Intensification of Vital Relations Principle Web Principle Unpacking Principle Relevance Principle

  4. Overarching Goals • Compress what is diffuse. • Obtain global insight. • Come up with a story. • Achieve human scale. • Strengthen vital relation. • Go from Many to One.

  5. Borrowed compression • Metaphor (digging grave, Titanic, …) • Grammar (boiling the pan dry, sneezing…) • Ritual (Baby up the stairs)

  6. Compression of a single relation • Scaling • Syncopation

  7. Scaling:TIME: inner space borrowing - Baby's Ascentouter space - BypassCAUSE-EFFECT: - shortening the causal chain from many steps to few or only one - Starving children- reducing the number of different types of causal event, as in digging your own financial grave, where many different financial and social causal actions are compressed in the blend into a single repeated action

  8. INTENTIONALITYIntentionality has a scale. In Debate With Kant, Regatta, and the Mythic Race, someone (the modern philosopher, the skipper of Great America II, el-Guerrouj) is aware in one input space of the participants in the other and has an intentional stance toward them. In the blended space, this intentional stance is tightened into a mutually conscious intentional interaction.

  9. Starving childrenIn the input with the long political process, there is intentionality, but of a diffuse sort. The strength of the intentionality is sharply increased in the blend: the politician is now seen to be directing his action exclusively at the children with the specific purpose in mind of starving them.

  10. SyncopationWe can compress a lifetime not only by scaling it to run very fast but also by dropping out all but a few key moments (being born, meeting Christ, being shot through with arrows, going to heaven). Scaling and syncopation often work together, e.g. Dinosaur

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  12. DA A DA A DA A DA A CHANGE IDENTITY CHANGE IDENTITY CHANGE IDENTITY CHANGE IDENTITY

  13. CHANGE IDENTITY CHANGE IDENTITY CHANGE IDENTITY CHANGE IDENTITY CHANGE, UNIQUENESS, INTENTIONALITY

  14. Compression of one relation into another • Analogy, Change, Identity, Uniqueness (Pronghorn) • Representation, Identity (Faces, Blood) • Time, Space, Identity, and Memory Watches, Graphs, Graves and Special dates) • Cause-Effect, Part-Whole (Grim Reaper)

  15. Cause-effect into Category:pleasure, effort, painDisanalogy and Counterfactuality into Category:gapinto Property:safe, likelyCategory and Propertyguilty pleasures, grateful memories

  16. Constructing a new relation through compression • Bannister and El Guerrouj; Kant and me • Pronghorn: average of group becomes faster and then speed is inherited COMPRESSED INTO learning and memory of single individual (double intentionality)

  17. EVOLUTION |||||....|||||||||||||||||| ... |||||||||.....||||||||||| ancient pronghorn modern pronghorn DESCENT INTENTIONALITY: MEMORY young mature PRONGHORN

  18. COMPRESSION AND PROPERTIES • Complex arrays of vital relations can end up being compressed in the blend into the single vital relation of Being A Property. • Guilty pleasures

  19. The action is causally related to its results, pleasure and guilt, and the pleasure is also causally related to guilt. The action is intentionally related to the pleasure, certainly, but also to the guilt, since the actor knows and expects the guilt and explicitly and wittingly indulges nonetheless, or perhaps even partly because the action will bring guilt. These outer-space vital relations of Cause-effect and Intentionality are compressed in the blend: guilt and pleasure , which were effects in the inputs are now in the blend respectively a property and a category. guilty pleasures

  20. Same-type compression. Hierarchies of vital relations—like analogy, change, identity, or representation and identity—allow compression of a relation higher on a hierarchy into a relation of the same type lower on the hierarchy.

  21. Different-type compression. A relation of one type can be compressed into a relation of a different type, as when many-step causation is compressed to a part-whole relation between Death and the skeleton.

  22. Topology Principle • Other things being equal, set up the blend and the inputs so that useful topology in the inputs and their outer-space relations is reflected by inner-space relations in the blend.

  23. Pattern completion principle • Other things being equal, complete elements in the blend by using existing integrated patterns as additional inputs. Other things being equal, use a completing frame that has relations that can be the compressed versions of the important outer-space vital relations between the inputs.

  24. Integration Principle • Achieve an integrated blended space.

  25. Maximization of Vital Relations • Other things being equal, maximize vital relations in the blend and reflect those vital relations in outer-space vital relations between the inputs.

  26. Web Principle • Other things being equal, manipulating the blend as a unit must maintain the web of appropriate connections to the input spaces easily and without additional surveillance or computation..

  27. The Unpacking Principle • Other things being equal, the blend all by itself should prompt for the reconstruction of the entire network.

  28. The Relevance Principle • Other things being equal, an element in the blend should have relevance, including relevance for establishing links to other spaces and for running the blend. Conversely, an outer-space relation between the inputs that is important for the purpose of the network should have a corresponding compression in the blend.

  29. Overarching Goals • Compress what is diffuse. • Obtain global insight. • Come up with a story. • Achieve human scale. • Strengthen vital relation. • Go from Many to One.

  30. BAD BLENDS, 1: The Titanic-Clinton If the Titanic had been Clinton, it would have been unanimously vilified in the press, instantly impeached by a unanimous Congress, tried summarily in the Senate, and promptly kicked out of office. Versus The Good Blend: “If Clinton had been the Titanic, the iceberg would have sunk.”

  31. BAD BLENDS, 2: Vetoing the bill He's vetoing a bill that would provide foreign aid to a number of countries. Versus: Of a politician's vetoing of a bill that would have provided foreign aid to some countries, "He's snatching the rice bowl out of the child's hands."

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