Categories and Duality

There is a part of Aristotle's analytics that describes the method of capturing different beings into different categories. This is a distinct substance to the substance of the actual living individual, they are separate substances. What i want to consider here is whether categories are designed to contain or to separate? They obviously do both but what does the process of each mean? Deduction is the process of starting with the general, or universal, and moving toward the particular, or individual, this is a nice summary of Aristotle's idea. Start with a category that covers everything and divide those categories until you get as close as you can to the individual. But it works both ways, you can start small and expand the category to contain more beings, instead of less, either way we are expanding and contracting the rules of the category.

This phenomena has been described at length by logical analysis and many a genius has tried to demonstrate it's meaning. But what i want to discuss is how we capture the freedom of the mind. The concepts of physics are great at being measured, mass, velocity, energy, temperature, pressure and so on, can all be given a number that relates to the numbers of the other and so different categories, or paradigms can be compared to each other according to the numbers. The paradigm of the human mind is much different, but there is a little crossover. Quantum mechanics finds it hard to place the general laws onto the tiny particles, they don't behave as expected, they seem to represent some sort of physical freedom. My theory would be that they are the chaos of physical law meeting mental freedom on a minute scale, both God and the void lose control when looking at tiny beings.

Now to mental categories, intelligence, morality, agility, beauty, practicality and so on. These categories don't come with consistent numbers that allow for lawful relations to be compared between paradigms. Economic success does not have a category for which a rule or series of rules can create a paradigm. Is it chaos? Is it freedom? The ideas of categories should, in my opinion, provide us with scales, or continuums, at one end is the greatest and at the other is the worst. It's a duality of a single category, and everyone should be working to better themselves and others. That's the freedom I believe in, when you understand the duality of getting better or worse, you can understand the limits of your own being. Like physics, the measurements are made in the individual, the measurements of better or worse, even if they don't have factual numbers they are fact in the sense of the objective judgement of their meaning. What we need is a general starting place, and I think the world is heading that way, just as theory crisis creates a scientific revolution, so political crisis should pave the way for ethical revolution. If we can create a paradigm of mental perfection, then we can start the deductive process of all working to better ourselves.