`` As if - the explanation of Emergence

Blog 2024 and Before


A mind not to be changed by place or time. Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n - John Milton - Paradise Lost


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I thought that I'd add a blog page, largely because I haven't yet finished coming up with ideas, although I do frequently go over old ground. Some of these thoughts don't immediately, if ever, make it onto a suitable page, and if someone has already read the earlier version, they may miss the addition in any case. So here it is - newest entry first. Lots of things will be incomplete, just because time is not always on my side. Lots of things will be just copied out here because they will show how my understanding has evolved over time, and so will give a clearer picture of anything else I publish.


2024


25 December 2024 - AI


Digital computers, and their AI, are Chinese Rooms, i.e. no more aware of what they are doing than a stick [I am quoting Blindsight - the SF novel - when I say about the stick]. The only meaning is in the question input as language, and the picture output according to rules, even the question may just be a pictogram, as may be the answer. Neither of which are in themselves any more conscious of what they represent than is a Picasso. Lol, did Picasso really know what he was doing? Sometimes I think he was a bit of a fraud, or is that Freud?


14 March 2024 - Awareness


There is a difference between the truth of material reality, and the truth of conscious experience. That difference means that the trail of truth that is left by the past of material reality has a very low impact on the present of material reality. Anything material in the present is affected by what is locally actual, and by what is distant and in the past, within a universal reference frame. That gives the appearance of 4D reality, of 'time' laid out 'as if' it were a block universe, and it means that the emergent centre of the Universe is not located anywhere in the material part of the Universe, just as the centre of a ball is not located on the surface of that ball. That centre is not in any sense in the past, and the dimension that gets you to it is not in any way equivalent to time, although as a point in 4D space, that centre will not have moved much, except to vibrate as the universe around it changed. The centre of the universe is very much a feature of the present, although it too has a past. However, it is its present position that is involved in gravity, not any of its past positions - although, the centre is a virtual object, a truth, defined by the whole of the Universe, and no more, or less, a substantial thing now than it ever was in the past. That centre stands in simple relation to every material object in the Universe, and its ghost - the truth of where it was in the past - stands in simple relation to every past material object, and all these instances of the past also stand in relation to one another, as truths, but not as material realities.


It kind of raises a question about possibility, and the truth of possibility, and probability, and how all that contrasts to the definite truth of the past. But all that is a separate question.


Conscious awareness is very much more complex than simple physical awareness. The physical state essentially responds to gravity, with the added bonus of subjective changes, such as light, being thrown in. But this material reality is simple in contrast to the emergent states of conscious awareness. That simplicity means that the truth of the physical past makes not much of a ripple on the surface of the present. It's still waters may run deep, but they are as silent as the grave.


Conscious awareness, by contrast, is immensely complex, not only are the objects of consciousness composed of highly multi-dimensional facts, but those facts connect those objects to a host of other objects. We might think that material objects, such as computers and other tech, are complicated, and they are, but it is as nothing compared to the complexities of a child at play. Child's play is not as simple as it sounds, and as for adult games, well ... now you are talking! The tangled webs that grownups create, even when they are being honest, make mountains out of simple molehills.


Consciousness creates truth that is more than a match for the apparent truth of material reality. The physical nature of material reality may seem durable, but 3D existence is a loan that must be repaid. All material things must pass; they may leave a ghostly trail of what has been, but that truth is insubstantial, and as nothing in contrast to the complex truths that emerge from conscious activity. Aware conscious activity is an even greater pinnacle of truth, and the greatest levels of awareness must include all the emergent elemental combinations inherent as potential in any situation, i.e. to wring the last drop of potential truth out of each experience, we'd need to be fully aware of every implication, whether it be the scientific technicalities involved, or any other intellectual aspect to the situation, through to its political, social, psychological consequences, together with the multitude of human [and animal] emotions, hopes, wishes, dreams and memories, that are also involved in anything we do when we are conscious life. All of these aspects contribute to the truth of our awareness, and while we are all capable of great intensity, if we want mahatma - great spirit - then we'd do well to cultivate as broad an experience as we possibly can.


That said, we'd also do well to tread lightly on other people's dreams. We are all in this together, and as they teach in school with ABC - actions bring consequences. Everything that we are swims in the same pool as everyone else, and if we pollute that pool in the manner in which a Trump, a Putin or a Netanyahu does, then we commit a crime against God, or rather against the greater spiritual existence that is the eternal truth of everything that ever was.


29 January 2024 - Truth


In John, it says that Jesus says 'The truth will set you free', but why should that be ? The truth can be as much of a prison as anything. However, the truth frees you from addiction to the unknown possibilities of want. This is unlike more sensation [air], because the next hit of the 'drug' may get you high, or some relief, but it always feeds the addiction. This is why anything can be addictive. Truth that fills the emptiness does not create more space for the addiction.


Pluto is both one's power and one's prison. It is the application of what is true on what is real, and what is real can only comply, it must obey. Pluto is divide and conquer, or any other change to any other difference, when that change comes about in accordance with the laws of truth, which is the necessary component of changing earth. The plus side is that Pluto is the resurrection as well as the destruction. The truth of one's own self is the spirit, and must necessarily be in the moment of any future moment that matches it. Not that any such moment can match exactly, but any spirit that partially fits, will have the possibility of rebirth at that moment. At which point it is to be hoped that what one did in one's last life has improved the prospects for the new life. This is karma.


When a Donald, or an Adolf, comes back, they may like the shitty personality that their karma gives them, after all, it fits them to a tee. But the only way that their spirit evolves to something better is by experiencing the downside of being Trump, and eventually relinquishing the practice of being Trump. Killing Vlad would not change Vlad, he'd still come back as a piece of shit, just like last time - where it really looks like he may have been the reincarnation of Nicholas I, or at least the Tsar's traits, which is his spirit, so Putin is old Nick. The same truth applies to the whole of a country, as much as to individual citizens, so America must educate Maga to not want guns, not eradicate the people with guns. Russians must develop some backbone if they are to ever be more than serfs.


If it is not obvious, this is why capital punishment is never right, not just 'even' for the most heinous crimes, but especially for the most heinous crimes, and that is entirely before taking into consideration the awkward fact that they very often get the wrong guy.


Neptune is both one's inspiration and one's undoing, one's hope and despair, what is true wounds us, creating a space that we feel because it moves us, moves our heart, moves our centre, and some of us become unbalanced. See, the clues are there in the language we use, because as sapient individuals we know stuff.


Uranus is both the free realisation of what is true, and the dogmatic blinkers of belief in lesser truth that ignores some of what is known, and most of what could be known. Ultimately Uranus senses truth, but no truth is the whole truth. Even the truth of numbers has limited context, i.e. is only wholly true when limited to the abstractions of mathematics.


15 January 2024 - Causes - aetiology


The elements are just a shorthand for expressing the possible relational connections between objects of every kind, i.e. real objects, ideal objects, mind objects, and self objects. Without Existence there are no numbers, no elements, no rules, no gods, no space, and no time.


Existence of the void is the naked truth of unity, of being whole, of oneness. By Leibniz' Law such oneness is the same for each and every object, of any kind.


This truth precludes any actual duality, as all things necessarily share the same the same property of unity, of being one individual thing. However, many kinds of thing may emerge from the basic numerical facts.


Properties are facts of the matter, even when the matter is a simple truth, such as exist of numbers. Facts are truths.


The first truth is wholeness, but the facts of wholeness are potentially paradoxical:


  • Each thing is whole, a unity.

  • Every whole defines its own parts by relationships of containing.

  • Parts are necessarily less than wholes, or else they would be wholes [this is where Leibniz trumps Cantor].

  • Every pair of parts defines a midpoint as a truth.

  • Every whole defines a heart, a centre that is the midpoint of all its own midpoints.

  • The heart of any one thing may be paradoxically indefinable, except by the wholeness of the thing itself.

  • Paradox creates as emergence.

    • Various competing theories for the ways that things are, tend to be called ontologies - the logos of being. But to describe the facets of Existence we may well need more categories for being than just the catch all of 'ontology'.


    Not only are there the possible relationship types, giving four elements, or states of being,


    Water - a void, of any description, that which cannot be known except by inference [usually by feeling, when it comes to people], the space defined by what is. The subjective whole that is also the empty heart.


    Fire - a truth, of any description, that which is a fact, that which is objective, and which generally is the same as some truth maker, i.e. is true of some whole thing. The most fundamental truth is that of the number one.


    Earth - a reality, of any description, that which is differentiated from other things, and therefore causes emergent space, and is subject to emergent time whenever any real thing changes.


    Air - an idea, of any description, an iconic model that subjectively forms an analogue of some other thing that may itself be of any kind.


    From Water to Fire - Creation

    From any void comes the emergence of something. This is the defining of existence as truth - whatever is true must start to exist as true facts, and these are the eternal spirit of all things, because there is no process that subtracts truth - truth is always an addition.


    Leads to an ontology - the reasons of being


    From Fire to Earth - Necessity

    From truth follows necessity, the way that the effect of truth is to produce laws of the nature of things - literally the laws of nature, of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology. All become necessary based on the facts of what has emerged.


    Leads to a realology - the reasons of difference.


    From Earth to Air - Change

    Whenever anything changes, some thing produced from the laws of its nature transfers from one object to another object, producing change. Change produces Time, and leads to Gravity because change at one place appears as change everywhere


    Leads to an iconology - the reasons of knowing, through not just sensing parts, but the conveyance of wholes.


    From Air to Water - Possibility

    Whenever anything changes, it changes in itself, adopting a new abstract of what is and what is not the self, and creating some new possibility as a potential of being. The non-being may not yet have form, nor substance, but it has the silhouette of a shape, from which emergence can occur, if that shape has paradoxical properties. It may also match some already extant truth that therefore is a fitting potential destiny for that individual to discover.


    Leads to an ipsisology - the reasons of self.


    2023


    11 May 2023 - Trojans and Greeks


    I saw an interesting wiki about Orestes and the Furies [following a link from the Browning Version, prompted by a post that was just about Browning], from the play Agamemnon, whose muder by his wife Clytemnestra, and hers by their son Orestes, leads to the rule of law, rather than the retaliation of the Furies, because of the justice of Athena. This then led to me reading about the two Ajaxes, and Cassandra. Ajax, according to Graves, means 'of the earth', leading me to think of bread and wine - NB. They are on what I see as the female side of the battle [the Greeks], while Cassandra seems to be 'rising' and 'man' - on the male side [the Trojans]. So maybe we attribute the success in battle to bread [food in general] and the defeat of Man's erection to wine - symbolically in the rape of Cassandra by Ajax the lesser. Ajax the Greater loses out to Odysseus, in the argument over Achilles' armour, i.e. which is most effective in battle, and wisdom beats physical prowess when it comes to winning.


    2022




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