This blog entry's subject is unit-economy. Its theme is: unit-economy as key to cognition.
(I'm writing this in a Saganized state.)
I was looking down at a hard copy of Morton Hunt's The Story of Psychology and it finally hit me in a completed/perfected form: Books (i.e., their entire contents) as units. Then I generalized to other units in my immediate sensory vicinity - CDs and DVDs, meticulously organized to criteria I won't go into here at this point in time. (Dramatic intrigue to ensue; see P.S. below [currently in my mind but yet to put down on digital screen].)
The Hunt book was grouped in with other "empirical psychology" books. They can be grouped together as units in that regard in accordance with conceptually fundamental similarities. (See: Rand, "Fundamentality, Rule of" which I see is right over there in the large white-cover well-worn copy of The Ayn Rand Lexicon, similarly grouped in with other concepts according to fundamental-level similarities (which I won't name at this point in time - dramatic intrigue, again). This process of generalizing falls, I think, under the general category of "induction." (Now I look over at the Harriman book and also physical copies of Peikoff's "Objectivism Through Induction," which I've barely even listened to yet.)
(I've just had another important unit enter my perceptual field, but I'm sure as shit not going to tell all of you right now. Just a moment.)
Gist: The task now is to condense (units and concepts being condensatins of concretes, with mental units serving as concretes with respect to higher-level integrations/condensations) all the units in my perceptual view, as well as all those other higher-level units rolling around in the ol' noggin), into a philosophically compelling, dramatic narrative to culminate a few months from now.
P.S. 4/20/2013. "Mark it, Dude." Possible title: There Will be Bud. Details to come, of course. (Are you hooked on my every word yet? I know I am. :-)
P.P.S. I think I can present a pretty good case against digitizing much less pirating all information/entertainment units. ;-)
P.P.P.S. Ain't integration fun? / You can't refute perfectivism. :-)
P.P.P.P.S. What Would Howard Stern/Seth MacFarlane/David Shore Do? shifaced
P.P.P.P.P.S. UP asks: So am I the first to figure all this out or am I just now catching up with everyone else? (Hi there year 2100 readers! :-D ) lmao
P.P.P.P.P.P.S. Best 10 bucks I ever spent lol. Plenty more material where that came from. :-o
