lessons of history · past-model
Ask PrometheusThe past read as a model of what current acts will do, so walls are set now where past acts were read as crossing one.
Lessons of history (noun) means: The past read as a model of what current acts will do, so walls are set now where past acts were read as crossing one. It emerges from past, read, model, current: History is compressed into a model and then run forward on the current case; which past is chosen as the model sets the walls, so dispute over the lesson is dispute over which story the self keeps. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 19, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
ordinarily means: what past events are said to teach about how to act now
Examples
- George Santayana wrote in The Life of Reason (1905) that 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'. philosophy
Emergence
- the past used to predict, not to honour
- walls set by analogy
- the choice of precedent as the real decision
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (357 steps)
- lessons of historyL19
- pastL2
- readL7
- seeL6
- informationL6
- differenceL1
- marksL5
- patternL0
- entitiesL4
- othersL2
- spaceL0
- timeL0
- patternL0
- differenceL1
- boundaryL2
- distinctL3
- differenceL1
- othersL2
- othersL2
- modelL9
- currentL1
- timeL0
- actL3
- wallL8
- setL9
- timeL0
- crossL4
- historyL7
- narrativeL18
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | never-again.past-wall | never again fixes one wall from one event; lessons read a general model from many |
| contrasts-with | track-record.model-and | a track record models one thing's own past; lessons model any past as a guide |
| abstracts | history.record | the record read as a model rather than kept as a record |