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Elaboration 39

It is known that imitation is the fundamental principle of ideation (is life). On very first sight it seems that there are more principles involved which is very surprising in so far that it is unlikely that nature should develop a new phenomenon, (life, ideation, etc.) that consists of several new principles thrown together, instead of only one. Nature always takes the simplest way. Life should be only different from the inanimate in one aspect. Schopenhauer, according to Schofield, said that "The language of nature is not understood because it is too simple." But there is for instance the principle of ideation (life) called feed-back, an 'ordering' principle, there is the principle of digitalizing an analog (process), there is the principle of pairing the digits in order to form 'meaning', there is the principle of representing reality, the principle of realizing itself (an idea tends to realize itself) etc., etc. Close observance reveals the fact that all these principles are but so many (parts of) synonyms for idea, is imitation, is meaning, is order, is digitalizing, etc., etc. Only the names are different. It is also where pseudology went wrong. Attitude, memory, cognition and so forth are studied (?) as different entities, in different college halls, by different books, even in different floors or buildings. In fact, they are all the very same thing under different names. Ideation is memory, reaction time, personality, is problem (solving), curation, anaesthesia, conditioning, trial & error (to name a misnomer (Elaboration 66.1), sympathy, etc. Replace all these terms and divisions by 'ideation', study this latter, and pseudology becomes a true 'mind-science'. The principle of ideation is one and the same thing, ... imitation. But imitation implies, a pair, a comparison, that is to say a sequence which, in its turn implies the past, or memory, but also knowledge, therefore feed-back, purpose, etc. The lady in the shop who takes out a sample of green, and holds it near to the dress, in order to see whether they match, is not conscious that she does so in order to diminish the 'memory' time, by shortening the distance, although the 'pair', the binary nature, does not escape her. All that, is just going round in circles, finding the names of the parts of the circle again and again. Imitation, is a fundamental principle, and is very potent in learning (from experiences of others), in avoiding to deliberate over strategies (problem solving), etc. It often is the easiest way out. In mob behaviour, it is practically the only ideational principle. It is therefore suitable solely for rough and ready ideas, no refinery here. The intelligent person is fully aware of this, hence his loathing of mobs, of robot-type humans, of habitually empty minds, not alive, but being lived (Epictetus, Seneca, Tacitus, Theognis, Cicero, M. Aurelius A. , Gautama, Confusius etc.). The thinking human would not act upon: 'There is the bastard, kill him!', but would question the guilt, or the necessity, the rights of man, the dignity of his genus. In the mob it is always war conditions, and with Thornton Wilder: "The great thing about war is that it makes murder legitimate. It permits Mr. Jones and Mrs. Jones and little Junior and dear little Arabella Jones to come out of the bushes and yell 'Kill 'em!' It is called patriotism". This patriotism of course, is group-consciousness, mob behaviour. The mob would not be able to think, but would act on the rough signal. There is no place for critical consideration.

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