MIND & MATTER & MORALITY – A CASE STUDY – By Monteiro, Marty

MIND & MATTER: THE 2ND PERSON (PART I)
In a case study, a matter and mind model is presented from an ‘interpersonal’ perspective in the context of ‘final-ity’ and ‘causality’. The social architecture of mind-body relation occurs on basis of ‘interaction’ at physical-, mental- and social level. Interaction is generated through an imbalanced state of ‘shortage-surplus’ within a person and between persons to bring about a balanced state by en-ergy/matter transactions. At all levels, learning occurs resulting in physical-, social and mental development. The growth of matter takes place through mind-in-matter trans-formation mediated in short-term memory and mental devel-opment through matter-in-mind transformation in long-term memory. Material synergy evolution is on account of the mental autonomy of inter-individual interaction, contrary to mental synergy evolution, for which a supra-individual unifying-creating force is postulated.
1.1 INTRODUCTION
For thousands of years one has approached the mind-body issue from the perspective of a sole per-son without taking another human being into consid-eration. Trying to explain consciousness while fo-cussing on mattermind influencing, the individual is viewed either from the 3rd person physical-biological domain as a ‘passive’ being or in case of mindmatter influencing from the 1st person per-spective; the mind is an ‘active’ agent supposed to exist as a phenomenal consciousness of how reality is experienced subjectively. It is advocated that the 3rd as well as the 1st person approach fall short and it is tried to cross the border of the individ-ual perspective by way of including the social en-vironment. The claim that active consciousness to-wards the environment is not only object-oriented but above all subject-directed, throws light on the mind-matter issue. Unveiling the ‘private’ mind-matter domain occurs in the framework of interper-sonal behaviour, behavioural products, related to intersubjective mental processes serving as valida-tion criterion. Within a growth-dynamic experimen-tal setting, mind and matter are made ‘public’ in the context between the 1st person – 2nd person.
The architecture of mind-matter in a social framework provides additional information through the introduction of finality beyond causality. It concerns not only the related causal process pat-terns but also the emergence of autonomous proc-esses. Autonomous processes operate at mind-body levels for which the status of finality holds. The relative role of finality and causality is valid under specific conditions. The claim is that final-ity is valid for primary autonomous linear proc-esses and causality for related processes forming a cyclic system. It is assumed that final processes only play a role before interaction between events. After interaction feedback occurs, generating a cy-clic process system to which the status of causal-ity applies. In the framework of processes between objects and between subjects, the distinctive role of finality as well as causality refers to:
1) physical process level of sensation of a stimu-lus & motivation of a need
2) mental process level of cognition of structuring & perception of information
3) social process level of sensation of a norm & motivation of a value…

     The claim is that morality refers to the ‘mind state’ of a person and specifically that cognition is the source of morality. Testing of morality of cognition occurs, however, at an interpersonal energy and/or behavioural level by perception. Defining morality refers to an interactive interpersonal (inter-group) domain. Ethics are restricted to events outside interactions and concern the short-term or long-term consequences for a person involved or affecting (an) other person(s). If persons mutually behave morally, this does not necessarily imply that the effects of an interpersonal event can be qualified as ethical, as for instance giving a child too much candy, which will affect its teeth later on. Thus, morality is restricted to ‘interactive’ events of satisfaction in economic transaction, pleasure in cultural relation, fulfilling in natural dependency, and happiness in universal connection. Thus, the definition of ethics refers to the consequences of interaction affecting other systems in the socio-cultural and bio-natural field, generating a feedback on the person(s) in question at a later stage. On the basis of the interactive and consequential perspective of the domains of morality and of ethics, one can state a morality and ethics distinction.

     The reference frame of mind and matter serves as the starting point for founding morality and ethics. The mind-matter processes are operational in the categorical system of the relation between mind and morality. The mind is laying the basis to approach morality and morality test from the perspective of ‘interpersonal utility’. In the framework of social interaction of moral good reflected in satisfaction, pleasure, fulfilment and happiness, it defines the border of morality and the domains of ethics. The morality and ethics distinction is relevant and based on the interactive and consequence criterion resulting in direct or indirect feedback. Economic transactions can be morally satisfying but not consonant with or even contradictory to culture ethics, etc. The role of morality is more extensive than the conditional role of finality and causality. Morality keeps its general status whether cognition is final or cause. To know man’s mind and morality in the framework of another person is the essence of human existence in his moral entanglement.

 TABLE 2 Mind & Morality

Mind-Morality 1st -2nd person	Morality +Test cognition-perception	Space-Timefinality-causality	Domain Ethicssocial utility
social interaction	good	3-D morality	social ethics
economic transaction	satisfaction	present	economic ethics
cultural relation	pleasure	past	cultural ethics
natural dependency	fulfilment	future	natural ethics
universal connection	happiness	past-present-future	universal ethics

 
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Bibliography

Monteiro, Marty (2009) – Model Of Man: Mind & Matter – Mind & Morality. AEG Publishing Group, New York, Lon-don, Frankfurt
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This case study is extracted from the author’s book Model Of Man: Mind & Matter – Mind & Morality (AEG Publishing Group, New York, London, Frankfurt, 2009)

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Cast – ‘New York’, a hindi moive about 9/11

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Ideas Online, Yes, but Some Not So Presidential

WASHINGTON — On Jan. 21, his first full day in office, President Obama promised to open up the government, ordering officials to use modern technologies like Internet message boards and blogs to give all Americans a bigger voice in public policy.

Beth Noveck, a New York Law School professor, is President Obama’s deputy chief technology officer for open government.

Well, the people have spoken. But many of them are not sticking to the topics at hand.

The White House made its first major entree into government by the people last month when it set up an online forum to ask ordinary people for their ideas on how to carry out the president’s open-government pledge. It got an earful — on legalizing marijuana, revealing U.F.O. secrets and verifying Mr. Obama’s birth certificate to prove he was really born in the United States and thus eligible to be president.

“Please, as fellow human beings of this great planet Earth, disclose all known information on space/UFO’s because the world needs to know,” wrote sprinter5160 on the site, whitehouse.gov/open, which attracted thousands of similar comments on fringe topics.

While it was not exactly what administration officials had in mind, they noted that democracy can be a bit messy.

“Even for people who want to talk about U.F.O.’s or the Kennedy assassination, we have created a forum for people to have a conversation with each other, and potentially to go off and organize and develop this further,” said Beth Simone Noveck, a New York Law School professor who is Mr. Obama’s deputy chief technology officer for open government.

Most of the suggestions were closely related to the topic at hand, like publishing a list of everyone who meets with the president, using computer graphics to track how rapidly agencies respond to Freedom of Information Act requests and installing webcams to monitor federal offices. The administration’s goal is to devise regulations that would tell federal agencies how to make their operations more open to the public.

Undeterred by some of the wilder suggestions, the White House proceeded Monday with the third phase of the process — asking people to collaborate online to draft language that could be used to create the final rules.

The experience so far shows just how hard it is to allow all voices to be heard and still have a coherent discussion. When millions of Internet users are invited to discuss every regulation, how can any real work get done? On the other hand, why bother opening up the government if views that are outside the mainstream — as defined by the usual collection of lobbyists and think tank scholars — are summarily dismissed?

The responsibility for sorting it all out falls to Ms. Noveck. She has permitted any proposal that was not abusive or repetitive onto the brainstorming site, just as the Obama transition team did not stop visitors to its Change.Gov site last fall from voting marijuana legalization as their top concern for the president-elect.

She argues that the experience of collaborative Web sites like Wikipedia proves that groups of users can police sites to keep small groups from spoiling things for everyone else. During the public brainstorming about rules for open government, the White House asked visitors to vote on the best ideas by clicking a thumbs-up or thumbs-down button, much as people vote on the most interesting news articles on sites like Digg.

The visitors advanced more than 3,900 ideas, which in turn spawned 11,000 comments that received 210,000 thumb votes.

The result? Three of the top 10 most popular ideas called for legalizing marijuana, and two featured conspiracy theories about Mr. Obama’s true place of birth. (Among the technical ideas that got a lot of support was a proposal to have the federal government press states and cities to follow open-government principles and a call for a central Internet site for all requests to the president and Congress, modeled after a site for petitions to the British prime minister.)

“This is Obama’s Madisonian moment,” said Clay Shirky, a professor at New York University and the author of “Here Comes Everybody,” a book about Internet collaboration. Just as James Madison, the nation’s fourth president, argued during the drafting of the Constitution that the government must protect the minority against the tyranny of the majority, Mr. Shirky said that government must also prevent small groups of loudmouths from hijacking the public debate.

“The first thing that happens when my mom and dad log into the system and they find it’s populated by U.F.O. people and birth-certificate people, they simply are not going to participate,” he said.

The White House tried to screen out some of the more unusual comments in the second phase of the process. Ms. Noveck summarized the most significant ideas, then invited comments on them at blog.ostp.gov. Visitors could flag off-topic comments, which were then shunted to a separate part of the site. That reduced the birth-certificate and U.F.O. comments to a relative trickle.

On Monday, the White House began Phase 3 of its project using yet another format: a wiki, an online tool that allows a group of people to collectively create and edit documents. Visitors will be able to submit and edit drafts of the open-government rules, similar to how people contribute to Wikipedia, the user-created online encyclopedia.

Ultimately, of course, “this is not policy by referendum,” said Ms. Noveck. The Office of Management and Budget will consider the public comments and the views of agency officials and White House staff and then put together its own formal draft of the open-government rules. After soliciting another round of public comment, the final rules will become effective and will govern the actions of federal agencies.

To some, the bumps in the process simply represent growing pains for a new and promising approach to government.

“The U.F.O. thing is healthy,” said Micah L. Sifry, the editor of TechPresident.com, a blog on politics and the Internet. “It’s weird there are some groups of people obsessed with it, but it’s a democracy, and you can’t make them go away.”

As people get used to this kind of participation, he said, “the mischief will be much less noticeable.”

Ms. Noveck has some confidence that the effort will result in better government because she has built something like this before. As a professor, she worked with the United States Patent Office to test a system that invited the public to help evaluate patent applications. Companies that apply for a lot of patents, like I.B.M. and General Electric, participated in the optional program because the public comments helped patent examiners consider their applications more quickly.

But then, I.B.M. never tried to patent a U.F.O.

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Barack Obama in New York City

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Over 24,000 people joined Barack in Washington Square Park,New York.

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While googling on net…i came across a Boston/New York-based photographer named Margaret Singer. She has good piece of work in his profile.Her work in portraiture and weddings lies somewhere between fashion and photojournalism.

Reference:

http://margaretsinger.blogspot.com/

http://www.margaretsinger.com/

Some of her work…….

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