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On Mon, 16 May 2005 00:36:41 GMT, Red Cloud® wrote:

On Mon, 16 May 2005 00:05:46 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sun, 15 May 2005 22:57:40 GMT, Red Cloud®
wrote:

On Sun, 15 May 2005 22:07:29 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

Ok - why not?

Later,

Tom

RATIONAL decisions are the result of binary thinking... which may have been
preceeded by a whole lot of non-binary and binary thinking that established the
final two choices.

Irrational decisions do not require binary thinking,

Let's do some defining he

Irrational: (1) Not endowed with reason. (2) Affected by loss of
usual or normal mental clarity; incoherent, as from shock. (3) Marked
by a lack of accord with reason or sound judgment: an irrational
dislike.

Decision: (1) The passing of judgment on an issue under consideration.
(2) The act of reaching a conclusion or making up one's mind. (3) A
conclusion or judgment reached or pronounced; a verdict. (4) Firmness
of character or action; determination.

Now if we accept these definitions as being true, then making a
irrational decision has to be the result of a yes/no decision. Just
because a decision is irrational, does not mean that it requires more
than go/no go.

Emotional decisions do not require binary thinking.

Ok, let's do this again:

Emotional: (1) Of or relating to emotion: an emotional illness (2)
Readily affected with or stirred by emotion. (3) Arousing or intended
to arouse the emotions. (4) Marked by or exhibiting emotion.

There is nothing in that definition that disallows binary decision
making. Just because emotion is involved in making a decision does
not mean that you ultimately say "yes I will" or "No I won't".

Instinctive decisions do not require binary thinking.

There is no such thing as an instinctive decision.

Artistic decisions do not require binary thinking

See the end.

Sometimes a decision is made FOR you.

But you have the decision to either do it or not.

When I am improvising musically, am I deciding between two notes to play, or
among hundreds? I suppose if you are very anal and not very imaginative you
could say that I'm chosing between the note I played, and the others that I
didn't, but that's not really binary logic. Then there's the nuance of how I
played the note...

There are many instances where something other than binary thinking results in a
decision.

Not possible.

Evaluation, process and practice are not replacements for decisions.
I'm familiar enough with the musical process to know that when first
running through a piece, it's pretty much a mechanical process to get
familiar with it. Once you know what you want to do, you begin to add
something here, an expression there - all of which are either a "yep,
that will sound good" "nope, that's gonna suck".

When you come right down to it, critical thinking is essential to the
yes/no decision process. That isn't necessarily binary in scope being
a winnowing of data, but the end result is always a result of go/no go
or, essentially, binary thinking.

Later,

Tom

The concept I presented parted your hair as it flew over. Try again!

rusty redcloud

You just got trounced. You can accept that or not. The decision is yours, and it
will be the result of binary thinking.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."