Re: is SIP an Emergent Property

Dan Palanza wrote:

> My life's experience finds a number of patterns that are not as
> obvious as they first appear to be. And as simple as it seems to
> resolve them, they mystify our best minds. For example, I live in a
> small, well-to-do town. The divorce rate here, as it is nationally, is
> near 50%. I have followed a number of these breakups, including my
> own. The people involved are among the nicest, well educated people
> one meets. Yet these nice, well educated people suffer this wrenching
> life's experience. I see no indication among professional
> psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, lawyers, and judges that
> anyone has a clue how to heal this cultural dysfunction. At the same
> time none that I know of have stopped taking fees for their services,
> which obviously don't work. 

Given only the the existence of a 50% divorce rate, I cannot see how it
logically follows that the various legal, psychological and social
services mentioned "obviously don't work."

[ ... ]

> Whatever I say, as Mary Poppendick's responses do so well to
> make clear, will be judged in the listener's pattern experience,
> without consideration of the patterns upon which my statement rests.

Speaking for no one but myself, I am more than willing to examine new
and/or unfamiliar concepts. However, my telepathic powers are not nearly
good enough to pull such concepts from anyone else's mind, and I'm thus
left to hope that the proponent of such concepts will communicate them
in such a manner as to facilitate my examination. To me, SIP is an
example of a concept that *has* been communicated in such a manner;
bookkeeping as a universal pattern language is an example of a concept
that has *not*.

-- 
Edmund Schweppe -- [email protected] -- http://schweppe.home.tiac.net
The opinions expressed herein are at best coincidentally related to
those of any past, present or future employer.


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