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In regard to Brendan's trinity of modes (with its implicit critique of certain Wittgensteinian techniques)--a re-working of standard "living" descriptive vocabularies (aesthetic, scientific, mystical, logico-mathematic, etc.) can do more for a fresh comprehension of the "curious impending overall synthesis." This is in the core of the matter. The exchange activity itself is either an activity resistant to definition or an activity extremely tolerant of definition, absorbing and transferring these into its own substance. The specter of failing at maintaining this inverse and paradoxical harmony of resistance to definition and wild tolerance of definition is in a line from Wallace Stevens: "Sentimentality is a failure of feeling."
As for Brendan's "delicious
infection"--I would (driven as it drives me) draw on, in full flush
of reference, my very last Kierkegaard: "The individual becomes conscious
of himself as being this particular individual with particular gifts, tendencies,
impulses, passions, under the influence of a particular environment, as
a particular product of his milieu. He who becomes thus conscious of himself
assumes all this as part of his own responsibility. At the moment of choice
he is thus in complete isolation, for he withdraws from his surroundings;
and yet he is in complete continuity, for he chooses himself as product;
and this choice is a free choice, so that we might even say, when he chooses
himself as product, he is producing himself."
I submit the following as entries in the glossary for this exchange. The connections between these words stem from intuitive contagion, and not necessarily a strict adherence to formal definition. They are essentials (in the cybernetic sense) as transferable to cybernautic activity.
message: composed of various ratios of
information and noise.
feedback: positive, in order to expand deviation in a given system
performance, and negative in order to restrict deviation or maintain a
steady state.
homeostasis
redundancy
"redundancy of potential command"
continuous and discrete
euphony
cacophony
fecundity
chaos
incoherence/triviality
proto-responsibility