Re: Modeling relations and semantics

[James N Rose <***>]

With the list's indulgence, I was working this morning
on some books about social-groups attitudes about one 
another and enmity over prior events and identified
'wrongs' felt by one group due to the actions of
another.  The notion of 'blame', specifically.

And it dawned on me that every one - to a fault - 
indulges in 'blaming' as a way of concept-coping
with life and experiences.  Adults, children, everyone
does it.

So what is 'blame'?  Well, it occurred to me that it's
simply our mental proclivity to be 'causalists' by nature,
channelled to account for negative outcomes specifically. 

If we engage in this thinking by automatic re-inforcement
every day, and analysis in general to include good-results
(which we tend to gloss over, accept and comfortably ignore),
then it stands as apparent that effective analysis depends upon
timely reaching of assessment in order to .. stay alive, or 
maintain some safe status quo.

In other animals the perceive-evaluate-react net of awareness/
behaving, is a crucial causal-analysis chaining as well.


How challenging then is it to break from "tangible"
specifiable-causality concept processing, and accept
indefinite but as or more important, indefinite
nebulous relations as the more important ones.

:-)    ???!!

-again ... till later ...

Jamie