[CG] Re: Theory and Therapy of Representations

Cf: Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1 http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2022/09/13/theory-and-therapy-of-representati… | Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, | but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης | κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and | his fellow sailors? | | Plato • Alcibiades • 135 A Responding to issues raised by Michael Harris on [Mathematical Literacy and the Good Society] https://mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/tim-gowers-as-… All, Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course. The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and ballasts and error-controlled feedbacks to achieve the bicameral purpose of representing both reality and the will of the people. In that connection Max Weber observed how a state's accounting systems were intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish. The question for today is — • What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended? Repercussions ============= • The Place Where Three Wars Meet ( https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/21/the-place-where-three-wars-meet/ ) Regards, Jon