Well I did read your last year essay and state that it is effectively parented with mine. Thank you for your comment and for indicating me your work.

If you allow, I would say that both essays are indirectly telling a question about the existence of a (natural?) mechanism of selection pushing a few from us at the top of a pot containing so many others. This is a fascinating question and I...

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Well I did read your last year essay and state that it is effectively parented with mine. Thank you for your comment and for indicating me your work.

If you allow, I would say that both essays are indirectly telling a question about the existence of a (natural?) mechanism of selection pushing a few from us at the top of a pot containing so many others. This is a fascinating question and I presume that, if that mechanism exists, it works since a very long time. Perhaps should we look for a relation with the Darwinism or with tribal laws? Perhaps should we also have the courage to ask if, concerning the animal or the human life and in opposition with the second law of the thermodynamic concerning inert objects, the chaotic behavior of our life soon or late spontaneously generates some organization, or at least the need for?

Nevertheless I believe that our analysis differ in the fact that yours considers the devil’s side of that mechanism (in extenso when the latter is presumably based on a pathology carried out by a small number of people or, eventually, by only one and) resulting in some form of “pathocratie” whilst mine just concentrates on the hypothesis that an excessive use of the Cartesian approach acts like an activation-enzyme when it is coupled with the mechanism of selection cited previously.

This is seemingly a slight distinction but (in my head at least) it is an important one in fact; why? With or without that Cartesian way of thinking, or with or without that ability to mathematize, human people have a natural tendency to organize themselves. Each psychology in the group (with or without pathology) and their sum –the resulting psychology for the group at hand- certainly give rise to some organization for that given group. In bad circumstances (developed in your last year thesis), that organization exhibits a pathology (the Nazism is an obvious example but it is far to be the only one; the Stalinism was certainly not a perfect regime). My essay doesn’t concentrate on the birth of that mechanism of selection (safe or not) but on a by-side mechanism influencing it.

My argument is that the Cartesian approach (cutting the whole thing into infinitesimal parts and analyzing each of them with the purpose to discover the rules for the whole thing) creates a contra-productive dichotomy between the observed thing (experiments, physics) and its systematic analysis and parametrization (rules, mathematics). So that, unfortunately, it becomes possible to cut the scientific community into two too separate parts: one part being experimenting and testing the laws proposed or deduced by the others.

As you asked me, this mechanism can evidently be extended to political organizations characterized by an excessive production of laws and rules written by people without sufficient connections and contacts with the real life inside the enterprises… The danger is obvious.

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Thanks so much for the link. I shall think about the "structure mère"...

For now, I would like to give you this answer.

A girl/boy wants to discover how her/his toy works in breaking it into its constitutive parts. After a while, (s)he is able to describe exactly the diverse parts but absolutely unable to reconstruct it. The description is not equivalent to the understanding....

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Thanks so much for the link. I shall think about the "structure mère"...

For now, I would like to give you this answer.

A girl/boy wants to discover how her/his toy works in breaking it into its constitutive parts. After a while, (s)he is able to describe exactly the diverse parts but absolutely unable to reconstruct it. The description is not equivalent to the understanding.

I speak intensively about the Cartesian attitude and, doing so, certainly realize an indirect auto-biography. But in fact –and this is the reason why my essay was so short; and this was my subliminal message- there is no distance between the two rei, there is no motivation to really believe there would be one, except if we misunderstand the Cartesian method. This is actually the case in our modern occidental society (my argumentation).

And I was trying to explain that we usually misuse the method because we construct a fictive partition between the object (physics) and the image of that object (mathematics) whilst the reality is a set of “Unikaten”. Unfortunately most of the classical essays on the topic are focusing on that fictive de-coherence.

Mathematics is not the image of what we observe or live our self, it is part of what exists (inert or alive) and, at least at a first glance, all what exists is a set of provisory and seemingly inseparable entities (explaining my title: intrinsic motor…). Mathematics is not and abstract object lying outside of the objects and more exactly as we tend to believe it: in our brains. Mathematics is in some way extending inside these objects, as an unveiled and inner essence explaining how and why they behave like we perceive it.

Objects can contain smaller objects. The inner logic of the greater might be different from the logic of the smaller; the interaction between the two logics can result into a separation, a breakdown of the smaller or of the biggest. In all cases, a code, a law, some systematization is driving the behavior of each object. Not because we have revealed that code with our Cartesian method… but because it is so.

With other words, the use of the Cartesian method should not be an externalization but a deepening of our understanding. It should not result in schizophrenia but in a greater self-coherence.

We should understand that when we understand something about an object that has been analysed with that Cartesian method, then what we have understood is not landing inside our brain but is staying where it was, namely inside the observed object.

This is why I have introduced mathematical objects with real dimensions in my theory (www.cordescosmiques.com).

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