The Taos
Discussion
Friday, August 12, 2005
Cc: Foundation for Creative Extension and Acquisition
Tony,
Thank you for the call last night. Donna is one whom I understand is part of a group of non-Indians who have been brought into a two century old process of teaching the Navaho what the unnamed religion of the system is, and is not.
She and I agreed that the problem is that the objective of most of the non-Indian people on the reservation is not transparent, and is a type of ethic intolerance. The unnamed religion is the same one that you write about in your book on the history of the concept of Santa Claus. I look forward to receiving the book. Kelly’s book will be sent to you so that we can continue the discussion about the nature of social causation.
We are hoping to see a movie made that creates a fictional account of Old Way where the unnamed religion is not creating polemics of the type I discuss in my criticism of Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.ontologystream.com/home2004.htm
Artificial Intelligence is an unexamined polemic developed ignorantly by DARPA and military funding and which now keeps quantum cognitive neuroscience from influencing the technology development we, our society, so desperately needs.
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/techInnovation/home.htm
During Donna’s recent visit to the Pruitt Studio, Inn Hills Inn Taos NM, she and I and Kelly discussed a book concept that would teach the Navaho children about the notions of trade and arithmetic (counting) available in , say, the sixth century to the inhabitants of the western part of the States and Mexico.
It was nice that she talked with
you about my father’s books.
The concept being discussed is posted as Herman Hesse type “glass beads”
Other threads are available from:
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/beads.htm
The BCNGroup digital Glass Bead Games is an “un-lawful” discussion when compared with the sets of concepts that are made easy to experience by television programming, our educational system, and our notions about science and government.
This set of concepts is what I have come to see as a “un-named State religion”, and the inhibition of other concepts appears to me to be in violation of the US Constitution.
By unlawful, I mean with respect to the “laws” of our current mainstream society. There is a parallel to the relationship between quantum events (that one knows must occur in an un-lawful fashion with respect to the laws of Newtonian physics.)
One either understands what has been said about this, or not. The discussion is one that takes special language.
For example, the theory of
memetics, (Blackmore and Dawkins), is not a complete language to discuss the
damage that continues to be done to
The link above has to do with mapping the social discourse from the Islamic communities world wide, but the issues are revealed. Memetics is discussed in this thread
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/MST/home.htm
Also my work can be seen from the temporary posting of a chapter I am doing for an academic book , “Computational Semiotics”.
http://www.bcngroup.org/area2/KSF/Notation/notation.htm
Tony, one might be asked what this has to do with Navaho, and I find this question both interesting and revealing.
We should exchange some thoughts, and allow these to be posted into one of the bead threads.
Dr Paul Stephen Prueitt
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