The Man said:
Obviously you need more time as your reference of “belongs AND does not belong to” is still not used in any self consistent fashion. Using the reference “on AND not on” or "included AND not included" in an equally self inconsistent fashion ...
The self inconsistent fashion is a direct result of your inability to get the difference between membership between atoms and non-atoms.
The Man said:
However, some portions of the vehicle are entirely black and other portions of it are entirely white, thus the vehicle as a whole, being a collection of those black potions and white portions, is then black and white without contradiction.
By using your example, the vehicle as a whole is non-local w.r.t its black or white aspects, where black or white aspects are local w.r.t the vehicle.
Let us go deeper than that, and ask ourselves, what do we wish to achieve by using some tool.
Mathematics is a tool that is considered as interesting if it is found useful by its users\developers.
Currently Ethics and Logical reasoning are considered as disjoint systems according to the current paradigm of the mathematical science.
Jsfisher asked about OM’s utility and I already said that OM’s aim is to find the bridge between Ethics and Logics under a one comprehensive framework, where Ethics and logical reasoning are not disjoint concepts anymore.
The way to achieve this goal goes through our understanding of Complexity, where Complexity is the result invariant (non-local rules) AND variant (local expressions of non-local rules) under a one comprehensive framework, such that Complexity is survived and developed by using this framework, both by its quantitative aspects and qualitative aspects that are derived from the relations between the elements of a given complex.
Mathematical definitions do not create the things that are defined by them, and it can easily be demonstrated by ZF axiom of the Empty set:
"There is a set such that no set is a member of it." (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_empty_set )
“there is” is called Existential quantification that is a statement about the existence of the considered thing, and in the case of the Empty set, one of the already existing things that are not members of the considered set, is the empty set itself.
OM uses the same fashion by defining the minimal exiting terms that enable the existence of Complexity. By using this knowledge right at the foundations of some framework, we are able to penetrate better to the core of the researched concept, and by using the bridging between Non-locality and Locality OM clearly shows that traditional Cardinality is a partial case Complexity such that the number of the internal existing structures of a considered member, are ignored.
It can be done according to our purpose, but by OM we are aware of our wish to limit the number of the existing things of some collection, and we are aware of the fact that traditional Cardinality is a partial measurement of an existing Complexity.
OM has a very clear gaol, which is:
To define the best framework for Complexity’s survival AND development, and I think that this gaol the most important goal for complex systems like us, in the near and long run.
By using the current paradigm, where Ethics and logical reasoning are disjoint frameworks and Complexity is not a fundamental concept of the current mathematical science, I do not think that we will achieve the mentioned most important goal.
On the contrary, as things are done nowadays, we are going to fulfil the disjoint state between our Ethical and Logical\Technological skills, simply because we do nothing in order to understand Complexity, which is exactly what we are both mentally and physically.