Riptide coming soon

What is logic?

There are different answers to that question depending on whether you are speaking of the popular definition or the more formal philosophical definition.  So, I would like to define it as the organizational pattern into which the brain places the experiences that have value and have been recorded as notable.  There seem to be two main types of logic.  One is to communicate important life experiences to others.  The other is to relate important life experiences to quantity.

The oldest cave paintings ever found, the Cave of Lasceaux in France, support these two types of logic.  The drawings first tell a story of the kinds of animals found in the area and record the relative strength of the herds found through a repetition of particular  animals found.  The first writing in cuneiform is translated to mean who certain plots of land belong to and their boundaries, and the amount of value (money) the land was worth.  Even Homer's great chronicles of the Trojan War and its aftermath recount the story and the number of people involved.

Formalized communication through words and numbers (reading and math) acts the same way as the spoken.  Because it is a written form, a particular syntax has been developed to follow.  Different methods of teaching the syntax of the two types of logic vary in order of presentation of syntactic parts, but the overall concepts are the same.

Apparently the two types of logic appeared in time rather simultaneously in human history, so they are organizational patterns.  They develop from the amount of use they receive.  The amount of use is related to importance and value.  If one type is used more than the other, it increases.  If the two types get the same amount of use, they develop at the same rate and to the same extent because the syntax for both follow the same growth patterns (the same syntactic order).

The educational system should be presenting the two types of logic in equal amounts of time and in matching elements of syntax.  But, teachers don't know to do this, so much of the time communication in words far exceeds communication in numbers.  So, growth in math is stunted.  That's a real shame given that the world works according to numbers both in financial and technological success.  Transmission of knowledge is so very linked to the binary code and other kinds of number patterns that living with a restricted use of number logic determines how far in society a person can advance a great percentage of the time.

Since the purpose and tools of advancement in society has grown a different direction from in the last 150 years, those whose two types of logic aren't stunted will lead the way to the next step in civilization.  Unless instruction changes, it will be the children in Asia who will rise to the occasion.  The tide has already turned in that direction, and although there will be a little time, soon the tide will become a riptide.