One thing ChristianKI is referencing is IOTA a cryptocurrency project that is apparently written using ternary rather than binary. I’m guessing the other two examples (which I’m unfamiliar with) are also places where this sort of triplet thing appears, and he’s generalizing it as a way to think about things.
I think there’s a cultural default to try to reason in base 2 for many issues and it would b interesting to think about more issues in base 3.
That default of thinking in base 2 for example leads to many people taking “The map is not the territory” to be a statement about there being two kinds of things when that wasn’t Korzybski’s intention at all.
I don’t understand what you mean by this. Can you give concrete examples?
One thing ChristianKI is referencing is IOTA a cryptocurrency project that is apparently written using ternary rather than binary. I’m guessing the other two examples (which I’m unfamiliar with) are also places where this sort of triplet thing appears, and he’s generalizing it as a way to think about things.
It sounds like this amounts to using a version of base 3. I don’t understand what the conceptual significance of this is.
I think there’s a cultural default to try to reason in base 2 for many issues and it would b interesting to think about more issues in base 3.
That default of thinking in base 2 for example leads to many people taking “The map is not the territory” to be a statement about there being two kinds of things when that wasn’t Korzybski’s intention at all.
Turning dichotomies into trichotomies seems useful but it seems unrelated to working in base 3 instead of base 2.