[size=200]1 Existence - The totality of processes, perceived or not, interacting in an endless state of Flux/Fluidity. [/size]
[size=150]1.1 The distinction between Flux and Fluidity is one determined by human conceptions, which are, in turn, based on the nature of consciousness. Fluidity denotes a temporally linear direction, a unidirectional perception, whereas Flux denotes a temporally multidirectional reality – a chaotic mass of fluctuations. [/size]
[size=150]1.2 Exists – In the specific the term describes a dynamic congruence (synergy) and/or amalgamation of phenomena exhibiting a multiplicity/diversity of reactivity (activity) with no final end and no beginning (infinite).[/size]
1.2.1 Phenomenon {φαινομενον} – The congruence or amalgamation of dynamic processes that exhibit a differentiation, making it/them distinguishable - apparent. What distinguishes a phenomenon is this differentiation, this divergence in relation to others, and in particular in relation to the observer, which reveals its essence and is interpreted as color, form, texture, sound, speed, movement, mass, taste etc. by the observing conscious mind.
[size=85]1.2.1.1 The separation of observer from observed is that of difference and the connection is that of coincidence, as a result consciousness is a product of a rejection, a pushing-away, and the awareness of divergence – discrimination. [/size]
[size=85]1.2.1.2 Essence – The aggregate of a phenomenon’s history being made apparent and interpreted by a conscious mind, using perceived patterns, as characteristics and/or traits. The culmination of the entirety of a phenomenon’s congruent flow is the apex of its appearance. [/size]
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1.2.1.3 The phenomenon’s essence is also the display of its power, as it is pushed along the path-of-least-resistance. This path is determined by its combined energies in relation to other phenomena and by how it interacts with them and so how it affects and is affected by them (determination). [/size]
[size=150]1.3 I act because I exist; I exist because I act. All that exists displays itself in activity – it is action manifest and so it displays a temporal signature. Action and Existence are tautologies. [/size]
1.3.1 That which is said to exist exhibits a temporal signature, as an indication of its presence, in other words it displays itself as a divergence with particular possibilities.
[size=200]2 Universe - The sum of all that exists incorporated within one mental model – a concept of a whole – and ambiguously maintained as a simplified concept – abstraction.[/size]
[size=150]2.1 Whole – the concept of a ‘whole’, indicated in the concept of universe by the term [uni], is the very representation of mind’s abstraction of fluidity into a singularity and then defined as [1] and/or as [thing]. [/size]
2.1.1 A necessary starting proposition also described in Descartes’ “I think therefore I am” by the starting necessary proposition of an [i] which is described as that which is thinking. In Spinoza the starting proposition is that of a whole, a universe, representing the totality of man’s understanding or possible understanding as one singular concept, and then its description as ‘perfect’ or ‘complete’.
[size=85]2.1.1.1 Like all human abstractions, the concept of a whole relies on simplifying a concept by eliminating one or more of its dimensions, or dismissing them as irrelevant or projecting one’s self, using the imagination, to some ambiguous place “outside” that which is defined as a whole. For instance in the concept of ‘a tree’ – the [a] implying a singularity – the mind arbitrarily posits a point in space/time as the beginning and calls the seed the beginning of the concept of tree, and then posits an end as the cessation of any possibility for self-sustenance, of this ephemeral congruence of flow. Similarly human conception arbitrarily decides that life begins at inception, as that is the point where the ability for self-sustenance emerges as an increasing probability, as part of this newly formed emerging unity’s essence.[/size]
[size=85]2.1.1.2 This necessarily presupposed, and inherited, framework, evolved via trial and error naturally selected methods, a priori conceptions are established and passed on, from generation to generation, as a successful framework within which experiential models materialize. [/size]
[size=150]2.2 Time – The mental model’s incorporation of flow within its unity and this flow given a standardized measurement of duration. [/size]
2.2.1 This standardized measurement is dependent upon biological functions, such as neural speeds, metabolic rates, cardiovascular functions, cellular diastolic/systolic rates and other organic effects, which determine perceptual acuity and cognitive functions – prenoetic awareness.
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2.3 Space- The projected possibilities of this flow, according to the mind’s perceptions, within this unified model. [/size]
2.3.1 The possibilities being unknown and dependent on constant interactions makes their evaluation infinitely complex and ongoing and so projected as infinite. The organism’s perceptual horizon determines its spatial awareness – a mind’s perceptual Event Horizon. Anything beyond this is deemed unknown (void, dark) or infinite in its possibilities.
[size=150]2.4 Reality – That (phenomena) which is independent from the mind’s interpretations of it. [/size]
2.4.1 A shared perceptual space/time continuum, perceived and interpreted in multiple ways by multiple sensual organisms.
[size=85]2.4.1.1 The acuity of the perception and the accuracy of the interpretation determines the fate of the observing organism – natural selection. [/size]
2.4.2 Because existence is that which is active, fluid, then reality is dynamic and all interpretations of it must be constantly reevaluated, adjusted and adapted to the changing circumstances. This makes consciousness all the more important and decisive as a survival tool.
2.4.3 Truth is a reference to a mind’s position(s) concerning reality. These positions, being based no incomplete knowledge, always produce approximations and are judged by their application – tested against the reality they propose to explain and interpret.
[size=85]2.4.3.1 The validity of a proposition or a perspective is always determined by its ability to reference reality and then propose explanations and predictions that remain accurate, and so useful, over longer periods of time. [/size]
[size=150]2.5 Eternal recurrence, even if it were proven as a fact, does not mean perfection, for what repeats itself has left itself incomplete or has failed to accomplish its goal the first, or second, or tenth time around. [/size]
2.5.1 What repeats itself has either been misunderstood or has failed to complete the reason it appeared at all. What has been completed, need not re-complete itself, in an endless and redundant cycle of rediscovering what has already been known.
[size=85]2.5.1.1 Those that fail to accept this are driven by some underlying motive to place a mysterious hand at work behind the scenes and to impose upon reality and their own lives, a reason and a final universal end. The latter some admit to being unable to define. So, they take it on faith. [/size]
[size=85]2.5.1.2 Since nothing is ever unique, but always a recombination of what was and has been into new forms and new compositions, the idea that change entails some kind of total reinvention of reality is based on a mindset that totally ignores the past and adopts the absolutist perceptive of describing change, as they do everything else, as a revolutionary act of bringing about something out of nothing. [/size]
2.5.2 The idea of this eternal recurrence, describing the infinity of multidirectional flow (flux), is expressed in many cultures as rebirth or reincarnation and is almost always accompanied by the ideal of an end to this unwanted and often vilified process; by a final completion as Nirvana or Brahman or Paradise. This is the very epitome of nihilism.
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3 Matter – A manifestation of a congruence of flow exhibiting a differentiation in its rate (degree) of change/activity, in relation to the observer. The solidity or substantiality of matter, as all of its characteristics, being a product of its rate of flow - interpreted by a conscious mind as color, form, texture, mass, weight etc.[/size]
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3.1 Congruity is produced through the constant interaction of flow(s), with itself, creating currents directed along paths-of-least-resistance. [/size]
3.1.1 Path-of-least-resistance: the relationship (interaction) of the sum of energies participating in the congruence of flow (phenomenon), with other phenomena (attrition), resulting in a direction…a towards.
3.1.2 Only a willful act, that is a focus against the flow and towards a desired ideal, can redirect this congruence of energies towards paths-of-more-resistance.
[size=85]3.1.2.1 In this willful act of slight modification in direction, constitutes a ‘free’ act. [/size]
[size=150]3.2 The various characteristics of matter are interpretations of the manifestations of its essence. [/size]
3.2.1 The different types of materialization of flow can be metaphorically thought of as currents within the general turbulence of existence, that stream towards and away from completion in an endless cycle of construction/destruction.
[size=150]3.3 Energy – A manifestation of flow exhibiting a differentiation in its rate (degree) of change, in relation to the observer. It’s only difference from matter, as a symbol of human understanding, is in its rate (degree) of change (movement, flow) in relation to the observed.
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3.3.1 Light – The extreme perimeter of human perception – Event Horizon. Energy flow along the edge of human awareness forming a perceptual boundary between linear movement (towards increasing entropy) and all the possibilities this entails, and all other possibilities (dimensions), which can partially (indirectly, theoretically) be perceived, or can never be perceived (void, chaos, darkness).
3.3.2 Light being this extreme boundary of human sensual perception it is also, relatively speaking, consistent.
3.3.3 Quanta – Even if we were to accept photons as being bundles of energy, as a sufficient model, this would still not contradict the fluidity of space. Firstly because these quanta are themselves infinitely divisible and only represent man’s current level of perception and understanding, and secondly because these packages of energy are themselves conceptualized as active – an electron rotates around its own axis.
[size=85]3.3.3.1 Science deals with how fluidity displays patterned congruencies of flow, manifesting in a ‘towards completion’ and translated into elements, particles etc., and so it depends on static models that are continuously updated, as human knowledge and perceptions grow. But science can never provide us with a final answer nor with one immutable, indivisible ‘thing’. It can only provide us with models that integrate all human understanding into one conceptual continuity which can then be used to explain and predict phenomena within man’s event horizon. [/size]
[size=85]3.3.3.2 If one were to use a different mental model such as String Theory then one conceptualizes fluidity using a string that is vibrating. But the string is superfluous and only necessary for the mind to make sense of what is occurring, given that the string is not vibrating, but it IS vibration. Take away the vibration and you are left with a non-existent phantasm. [/size]
[size=85]3.3.3.3 As human perceptions increase, using technological aids, and as human knowledge expands mankind’s conceptual event horizon, the need to integrate all of man’s models into one harmonious whole increases in turn. Greater ‘unified theories’ must be found to preserve conceptual continuity. As a result greater simplification is necessitated. [/size]
[size=200]4 Life – An ephemeral and incomplete manifestation of a congruent unity of flow (materialization), reaching a particular level of organization (sophistication) and displaying a partial and ongoing rejection of the Flux.[/size]
[size=150]4.1 A resistance and attempted separation from the flow (otherness) - autopoiesis.[/size]
[size=150]4.2 A part of the fluidity attempting to cut itself free from it by differentiating itself from it (reaction, rejection). A movement towards completion (independence). [/size]
4.2.1 Duality is the result of this rejection/resistance.
[size=150]4.3 A temporal manifestation trying to first maintain its momentary unity (survival) and then compelled to increase it towards completion (power, order).[/size]
4.3.1 Strength is a measurement of this congruence (synergy) of energies.
[size=150]4.4 An ephemeral self-organizing Becoming, an emerging unity, striving for Being (immortality, completion, independence, self) as its idealized end, guided by a Will. [/size]
4.4.1 Will – the focus of the synergy of flow upon an object/objective.
4.4.2 This object/objective represents another form of the absent absolute. Originally this wilful focus upon an object/objective facilitated self-preservation, as an organism sought out elements in the environment to correct the affects of flow (temporal attrition - aging, disease) upon its emerging unity, as a result of its resistance to it.
4.4.3 Growth and power are products of the energies dedicated towards self-expansion, once the fundamental necessities of self-organization and self-preservation have been met. The result of an excess of energies. As such all excess results in nihilistic tendencies as any completion or attainment of the absolute – even if possible – would be an end to existing. The emerging unity’s hypothetical ultimate success would mean its obsolescence.
[size=150]4.5 Need – A living organism’s sensation, interpretation, of its own lack – an absence. [/size]
4.5.1 Because life is a part of existence attaining a level of separation and through this degree of self-control, then the sensation of lack is the sensation of fluidity - existing.
4.5.2 Suffering – An increased state of need dependent on the unity’s ability to deal with existence.
4.5.3 Suffering is the sensation of a challenge being presented to an existence. How it responds to this challenge determines the direction this unity’s Becoming will flow towards.
[size=200]5 Self - Life identifying with its own processes by excluding everything not participating in its maintenance and empowerment - discrimination. [/size]
[size=150]5.1 Consciousness – A part of the flow becoming aware of it. [/size]
5.1.1 Stream of thought, fed by sensual data, constructing abstractions within innate frameworks (methods), inherited and established through natural selection (evolution), resulting in memory and with this, in turn, in the possibility of experience.
5.1.2 The incorporation of sensual data within pre-established prenoetic schematics and then their projection into the unknown, followed by a constantly adjusting evaluation, is what establishes our conceptions of the world. These schematics are based on motor-sensory functions that occur on an unconscious level and are automatic physical activities of self-management.
5.1.3 Life having organized itself sufficiently evolves consciousness as a tool to focus its energies more efficiently. The projection or foreseeing of possibilities based on the past is what is most often referred to as intelligence.
5.1.4 Consciousness, being a product of organic functions self-organizing in reaction to fragmentation, is a tool towards this end. It is organizing sensual data using predetermined evolved methods.
5.1.5 An energy pulse flowing along neural networks in predetermined (nature) and constructed (nurture) succession resulting in a continual stream of imagery and sensations.
5.1.6 An awareness of what is not self.
[size=150]5.2 Time (flow) and its projected spatial possibilities (dimensions) are necessary starting interpretations of fluidity extended as possibility, that evolve as part of a tested methodology that makes experience possible and offers the organism a survival advantage.[/size]
5.2.1 Time is the established, through natural selection, interpretation of flow; space is the projection of this flows possibilities, within a mind constructing a static a grid so as to make reality comprehensible. Within this pre-existing mental grid (a priori concepts) experience is oriented and constructed using mental models which incorporate sensual data, perceived as patterns of flow. This, then, becomes what is called an mental model, exhibiting dimensions, as a representation of the perceived phenomenon’s temporal possibilities and discarding the sensual data which cannot be adequately incorporated within its own premises – simplification/generalization.
5.2.2 Time and its established duration is determined by the organism’s organic functions, and it is used as a unity of measuring existence.
5.2.3 Spatial dimensions are limited by the mind’s ability to project possibilities (probabilities), using the imagination, and so they are contained within an Event Horizon which establishes the mind’s limits of awareness.
5.2.4 Because of the nature of consciousness and of life, as a reaction to flow, awareness is always oriented away from entropy – a movement away - while only aware of a moment towards it. This linear perspective is what determines the human condition of living-unto-death. Able to project possibilities towards only a few direction the mind’s awareness is contained within three dimensional space, with time as a measurement of movement within them. All other dimensions are only partially comprehended, only indirectly perceived or the mind remains completely oblivious to them and can only conceptualizes them as hypothetical.
5.2.5 Although the flow of existence cannot be limited to a few possibilities and a multidirectional flux is a reasonable hypothesis, all other possibilities are inaccessible to a mind that can only order in reaction to what it interprets as disordering. Therefore the possibility of life can only be imagined within this linear flow towards entropy whereas anything else would make life unnecessary.
5.2.6 We can imagine that as entropy increases it is also decreasing, creating this constant flow with no end, but this model of looping can also be considered a simplification of a reality so as to make it comprehensible. As such this model can only remain an unproven hypothesis.
[size=150]5.3 Change – A term referring to the ongoing juxtaposition of mental models, occurring constantly in a stream of comparisons, and the awareness of alterations between them. [/size]
5.3.1 The degree of differentiation between one mental model (abstraction) and the next is called change, movement, alteration and it is measured by time or one of the other dimensions.
[size=85]5.3.1.1 Change is always a matter of degree of divergence, and so never an absolute reinvention of reality. So, the idea that nothing can be called change if it bears a resemblance to what has been, is an absolutist perspective based on absolutist principles and mythologies. Change is always determined and so it is always the product of its past, recombining (assimilation, consumption etc) into new temporary phenomena, and in so doing what has been proves itself incapable of completing itself. [/size]
5.3.2 This differentiation, within the unidirectional (linear) human conceptions, is what produces the causal chain as a way of explaining it.
[size=85]5.3.2.1 In the causal chain of {Effect-Cause-Effect-Cause-Effect-Cause…} the Effect represents human abstraction, whereas the Cause represents the gap between Effects and is best represented linguistically as such: {Effect…cause…Effect…cause….Effect…} where cause is that which needs to be deduced in order to connect one mental abstraction with another. In reality there is no such gap and the Cause in this linguistic model is simply the gap in human conception and the entire model can more precisely be described as a toward with no is – the cause is in the effect and the effect in the cause. [/size]
5.3.3 The interpretation of these differentiations can also take the form of mass, weight, form, color, or any of the other sensual translations of flux into human conceptions.
5.3.4 Without a continuity of mental models, no consciousness is possible, given that consciousness is the continuous awareness of successive abstractions and the differences they expose in relation to each other (constructing linear awareness), therefore the very idea of a solitary, single abstraction, is an absurd one. Consciousness, like the reality it tries to interpret, is based on constant change. If no distinction is perceived no awareness is possible.
[size=150]5.4 Self-Consciousness – A part of the mind becoming aware of the rest. [/size]
5.4.1 Mind – The sum of neurological processes, manifesting in a stream-of-thought, mirroring the very universal processes they are a part of and a product of.
[size=200]6 Will – The focus of the aggregate energies (3.1) that are part of the living organism, focused upon an object/objective. [/size]
[size=150]6.1 As there is no thing to focus upon, the mind focuses upon its own mental constructs (abstractions) within its own mental grid and then projects them, as signposts, upon reality.
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6.1.1 Ideals are such projections. They facilitate the survival of the organism by giving it a static point to move towards, in a reality that offers no such static points.
[size=200]7 Absolute – The complete, perfect, independent. [/size]
[size=150]7.1 A human abstraction meant to facilitate survival by orienting the Will and so giving it an object/objective to focus upon (direction). [/size]
[size=150]7.2 A reference to a state which the world lacks and as the very, attempted, description of what is absent. [/size]
[size=150]7.3 The term is a tautology with the term absent (nonexistent). It is also expressed using many other words such as: Freedom, Here, Now, God, Power, Knowledge, Self, One. All these concepts represent a movement towards what is indicated, but they never represent its attainment or completion since this would be an end. [/size]
7.3.1 When these terms are used implying a completion they result in paradoxes. As a reference to what is absent the Absolute remains ambiguous and indefinable. A vague assertion constructed by taking the actual, the perceived, inverting it, and then projecting towards the unknown to make it comprehensible.
[size=150]7.4 The Absolute’s highest metaphor, it’s best linguistic symbol, is that of the Ideal. [/size]
7.4.1 The Ideal implies all the absent aspects of existence without actually having to describe them or validate them using reason. As such the Ideal is ambiguous enough to be just about anything the human mind can imagine as being preferable to the existent.
7.4.2 As a concept the Ideal functions as a signpost, a distant goal, offering direction to an organism’s constant flow.
[size=200]8 Culture – A continuance of natural processes which facilitates survival by integrating multiple organisms within one system. [/size]
[size=150]8.1 Language – A standardized (cultural) metaphorical symbolization of mental abstractions. [/size]
8.1.1 Every language, like every mental model, has its own logic, grounded upon its own self-evident starting propositions.
[size=85]8.1.1.1 In the language of math, the self-evident starting proposition is that of the #1, to which the 0 stands as its absolute negation. In all languages the absolute, which is absent, is symbolized in many ways, each with its own particular, culturally derived, nuances. [/size]
[size=85]8.1.1.2 These self-evident propositions and their relation to reality is what causes the paradoxes described by Zeno or often becoming apparent in such statements as: “Truth is, there is no absolute truth.” or “There are absolutely no absolutes.” [/size]
[size=85]8.1.1.3 The logical progression of symbolic representation [0<1<2<3<4<5<6<7<8<9<…] is based on the dualistic notion of absolute states, with the entire chain springing out of the absolute nil. Between these fabricated, generalized, simplified, absolutes, an infinity of divisions is possible such as between the 0 and the #1: [0.1…0.01…0.001…0.0001…], because the gap between these cause/effect abstractions is a mental fabrication that has no reference to reality. From this human fabrication the errors of a God or a beginning or the absolute spring forward as logical. [/size]
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8.1.1.4 Language, being a symbolization of mental concepts, effectively displays theses mental abstractions in its symbols. So, the succession of A-B-C-D… or 1-2-3-4…are based on this human simplification of flow into singular mental models (abstractions). [/size]
8.1.2 The negative/positive dualism stands as a fundamental part of all human linguistic/symbolic expression. It’s basic foundation upon the on/off neural flow established its methodology and is expressed in many ways, such as: good/evil, true/false, here/there, now/after, me/you etc.
[size=85]8.1.2.1 One need not negate a negative. To negate a negative would mean that you reaffirm its positivity, by accepting its existence, so as to deny its existence. This ion one way in which language and the human concepts (taken literally as real and not as representations of what is real) fall into paradoxes. A language constructs the premises for contradictions to arise, as language is only representational. An absolute concept, taken for granted, then forces an absolute response, an absolute negation, It buys into the premises in order to deny their completeness, and so falls into self-contradictions. In fact, one need not negate what is absent, no more than one needs to prove a negative, and the idea that one must, within the context of human binary logic, do so forces one to fall into the error of taking language literally rather than metaphorically. [/size]
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