[PD] FFT + dac~ delay issue

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

> It highlights the fact that the thing observed is never the 
> thing-in-itself, for one.  That no matter how well you know any thing or 
> system, it's still only your own mind that you are knowing.

No, because it's not your own mind that you are observing.
You really get to know things and systems.

It's the concept of the thing-in-itself that has to be abandoned; and 
then, knowing something is redefined as having understood that thing 
through the relations that you can have with it and make it have with 
other things.

However, in the process of eliminating the concept of the thing-in-itself, 
THEN what you are doing is getting to know your own mind (and other 
minds). It's a process of understanding why you had that opposition 
between thing-in-itself and relations-between-things, how that opposition 
is not that useful and how your mental model can become simpler by 
eliminating it.

Something like the concept of the thing-in-itself can appear in 
mathematics and computer programming, but that's because those things 
focus on invention rather than discovery. (ok, discovery can happen there, 
but it always relies on things that have been purely invented before.)

> If there is such a thing, and it can never be accurately measured, then 
> whether it is "particle" or "wave" isn't knowable or relevant.

Right: and by abandoning the stereotypes of "particle" and "wave" you are 
getting to know yourself (or how thought processes work). Analogies have 
to be abandoned when they stop working but we are often attached to them 
more than what we should.

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