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To: koan who wrote (11573)	5/18/2006 7:02:33 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78411

OT: Max Weber The concept of "elective affinity" has been one of the most important intellectual constructs I have come across in a long and extremely varied academic/intellectual career. One of the reasons I am no longer in academia is that I've never seen the need for intellectual divisions -- both sides of the brain are vital and when they work together it results in extremely powerful emergent phenomena. (Did Weber come up with that one too?) It still amazes me that to this day I am still the only student to get a B.A. with the double major of Mathematics and Sociology from the fair-sized university I attended. TO me, math and sociology are ideal partners. (I should also mention that if I put in another 2 1/2 undergrad years, not that I plan to, I could finish an Honours B.Sc. in Chemistry and Physics, a B.Mus., and a B.F.A in History in Art.) Even within sociology I got into trouble from both sides of the quantitative/ qualitative debate. I saw each methodological approach -- oversimplifying, measure vs, describe -- as having its own strengths and weaknesses, hence as part of a "quiver" of approaches I could draw on depending on the particular topic I was addressing, which alienated me from both sides. Music and mathematics have always seemed to me to be two aspects of the same thing -- not to go all Platonic on you, both are the results of humans' ability to extract the essence of patterns found in the natural world. I am pretty good at both math and music, which is why I am able to make some money extracting patterns from the welter of information that describes the stock market. (Well, at least until the past week -- I failed to detect and respond properly to the current pattern in commodity stocks! Live and learn.) LC

To: koan who wrote (11573)	5/18/2006 10:11:20 PM
From: Rollocaster	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78411

««I told both my daughters the most important concept they can ever understand is existentialism, because once understood, it provides the keys to unlock the jail doors of dogma... Teaching my daughter the same! Still learning myself, right and wrong! I call it the survival guide to living in a chaotic world. Freewill, responsability, accountability, experiencing, open-mindedness, awareness. And this lead me to gold... art, dance and music! And out of psychology! Go figure Lester