GRAVITY ZERO -- Tuesday, September 15, 1992

Great glory for a man to believe that he knows his world and the reasons for his choices. Highest honors go to those who support their reasonsskillfully with a presumed knowledge of things. The arbitrator proposescategories of true and false. He aims to pursuade by using distinctions that appeal to his audience. To another audience, his categories may appear arbitrary...

Hello, Everyone. Greetings from 441 Heckewelder Place. Since you have received this electronic note, you have been placed on my mailing list, which may be because you are involved in computer science, cognitive science, philosophy, english, religion studies, anthropology, government, economics, languages, liberal arts reviews, or the levitation of buildings.

Regardless of how you got on this list, you're on it. You'll be getting
daily installments of an ongoing discussion about something called Gravity.

If for any reason you'd like to be removed from this Gravity mailing list, respond to this note or any of the series, and I'll remove your ID.

If you think someone you know would like to be placed on this list, by all means, let me know. The more in the mix, the better the sound. ...

To begin. I thought it might be appropriate to somehow convey my intentions.

I've been obsessing about something I've named Gravity since April '87. I've filled seven sketchbooks full of ideas about it. I've ranted
to countless confused people about it. I've used it to make several
software systems. I've built up an entire marketing scheme and set of
social reforms around it.

All without knowing quite What It Is...

You see the problem has always been that whenever I've tried to formally describe Gravity, it's changed. The part-time Taoists among us will recognise the pertinence of that fact, and this is no coincidence.
Gravity & the Tao have many other features in common. And for you to appreciate my intentions in writing this series of electronic notes, for
you to at all understand the spirit of my efforts, and the nature of
Gravity, it's very important for you to dwell on one single phrase, so
important to this whole endeavor that I'll end this first note with it:

"NAMING IS CHANGING"

From: Glenn Blank