Spectra : Orthogonality

The Flatlander is well aware of things pushing and pulling along length. Politically, Flatlanders have left and right. (Those on the right see valuation in their label: they're right!) (Those on the left are sinister. (A mere redundancy.))
What do we do with orthogonal forces?
Well, in Flatland, we're simply not aware of them. (Or, we generalize them all as divine. God is pulling us upward. The devil is pulling us downward.) But of course by then we're no longer in Flatland. A little better, we're in 3-Dland.
more coming
and this will be placed in my Spectra folder: though of course it relates to much of the rest of Macroinformation.org.

Data Transmission / Information Filters

I hope I've been clear enough about macroinforamtion to date to try to elucidate an important set of arcs around the core of my real purpose. Phone company engineers, military technicians, etc. understand a great deal about problems of data transmission: noise, for example. Though all data is information, not all information is data. Macroinformation, though it cannot emerge without data (just as there can be no mind without at least one organism with a physical body) is wholly distinct from data: as close to independent as possible.

Any society will assure that some information transmits without interference. Indeed, society will subsidize, augment, amplify some information. At the same time that same society, any society, will under no circumstances countenance other information. Every society will have an informational black hole, sucking up, holding onto, not letting go, of a near infinity of other messages.

The problem isn't with the data. It remains nevertheless an informational problem: one that no society will allow any budget for solving.

Jesus wowed the countryside, got stifled in the city. Abelard knocked people's socks off: until he addressed certain deep philosophical and epistemological (and ontological) issues. Thereafter, Abelard got stifled. His messages still haven't transmitted. The data is still there, not all of it lost; the information goes a-begging.

There are hosts of important messages that simply will not transmit through the medium of society.

James Joyce got published. He submitted manuscripts to publishers. The publishers published stories, novels. But by the time he got to Ulysses, Joyce knew better than to waste his time with publishers.
pk submitted stories, novels. I don't doubt that the data arrived in the mail. But the relevant information never got through: not to the public. I doubt that the publishers saw more of the information than just enough to know: that buck stops right here. Of course I know this latter only in my imagination, since no intelligible discussion ever took place.

This problem is the undiscussable problem. And dealing with it rationally would require my theory of Macroinformation: or at least some other theory that distinguishes data from information: or rather data within information, important information being beyond data. (Could that be why not one scientist has yet discussed my theory with me? No feedback, no healthy theory.)
Scientists record the songs of whales. We have data; we don't have the whales' information. We can't read the song.

Christian stories dramatize the phenomenon. (So did Jewish stories.) God's messages don't arrive: not uninterferred with: not even through the church.

Some literature doesn't arrive through the publishers. Many a thesis doesn't arrive through the universities. Wouldn't it be a kick if all messages to the White House got published? (pk's FLEX would have done it: provided that everyone who wrote the White House also cc'd FLEX!)

I'm just painting the house. I'm in the middle of a gross of projects. Nevertheless I intend to continue this theme, in these terms, here at Macroinformation.org (as indeed I long have: in my fiction, in my theses: especially at Knatz.com: especially under the rubric homeostasis.