Posted by Mezei on September 24, 1999 at 10:04:03:

In Reply to: Final Version of UTK posted by mike cahill on September 24, 1999 at 02:40:30:

Although you seem to have caused some consternation on the Forum Mike, and you could probably benefit from a lesson or two in etiquette, you definition about a UTK is correct. What you've outlined is the basic process/form that knowledge either uses, or follows (sometimes its hard to distinguish) within our observable universe. So I can see why you are excited about it.

Although I can't post models to this site (don't have the resources), the process you've outlined is exactly the same (at least I can interpret it that way) as the basic premise of knowledge flow which I arrived at. However, what you have to do next is actually define, or give some concrete examples of how this process unfolds.

For example, here's one of mine. The three step process of change is described as a bar-magnet. A positive pole, and a negative pole, and the distance between poles. So you have an initial state, which can be + or - (say + for this case), a sequence of transformations which turn this + state into a - state. Simple, 1,2,3. Matter, elevated to mind, elevated to spirit, or vice versa. Polarity, elevated to phenomena, elevated to causality.

Now the interested thing is that each end point, ie + or -, can or is also elaborated upon as a triad. The essential point is that the triads are static definitions of these endpoints, or states (+/-), and that the range of transformations between them are undefined, except to call it MIND or PHENOMENA. So a UTK defines the outer limits of knowledge, it doesn't actually define what knowledge 'is' per se, but infers what knowledge appears to look like. The great quest for a UTK is really, as in Lao Tzu words, to head west, we must go east. The closest we can come to defining knowledge is to capture the outer limits, but the flow itself is, until now, beyond our scope.

Don

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• Re: Final Version of UTK mike cahill 10:36:53 9/24/99 (0)
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