Actually, there shouldn’t be any confusion going on at this level. I am pretty sure that it is only my wording that has caused confusion. So let me try again to express how simple this really is;
Remember this pic;
That picture is, in effect, showing you the very foundation of all reality… ALL reality. No matter what the subject, physics, mind, life, society, war, machines, or whatever, there is ONLY the situation and the changing of that situation. The situation is called the “potential” and it is made of “potentials-to-cause-change-of-potentials” or more simply, “Potential-to-Affect”, “PtA”. And as the situation changes the situation (the potentials change the potentials), that changing is called “Affectance”.
So in all reality, regardless of the subject of concern, there is but two concerns;
1) Potential to Affect - PtA
2) Changing of Potential-to-Affect, Affectance
Every other concern is merely a particular topic of interest; mental concerns, consciousness, society, physics, life, whatever.
But they are ALL no more than potentials changing, situations changing; Affectance. The I Ching is actually that same lecture.
But what has been left out for thousands of years, is the issue of maximum change rate. It seems that in all of the contemplation going on, no one realized that if there is a change, there must also be a maximum rate of change. And it is that maximum rate of change that brings about all of the more interesting details involved in reality and life.
In that slide, you see the foundation of all existence at the top, being randomly positioned and varied potentials as though they were frozen in time and also, after released in time (not that they were ever really frozen) they begin to change each other and form Affectance - the changing.
In the lower part of the slide, is the issue of maximum rate of change causing the first issue of interest, a slowing of the motion at one point as a particle gains a reason to begin to form. The slowing caused by the maximum changing rate creates a growing pileup of congestion. The changing within the region never stops moving around, but it is always slows when it passes through that area. That small area of congestion is known as a “particle”. The particle of slowing grows until it reaches a maximum density of change, too much changing going on within one region.
Now in addition and again, it doesn’t matter what the topic of discussion is. A “particle” within a person is called the “Self” and/or the “Ego”. In a society a “particle” is called an “Organization”, “Order”, “Religion”, “Governance”, “Club”… In the mind, a particle is a conceptual construct such as an idea, a math formula, a picture, an ontology,… And each and every one of them is formed ONLY due to the slowing of affectance associated with the “particle”. The particle is the firming through time of affects, it is a natural form of documenting or remembering that something is significant (“maximum rate of change”) and thus isn’t to be changed. And because something isn’t being changed, other associated affects begin to cling and not change very much either, an ego is formed, a society is formed, a life is formed, an ontology is formed. Eventually they all grow to become as dense as they can and at that point are “stable”, no longer growing. And if they were formed from true incentives and maximums, they will also no longer fade or disseminate. They are stable through time.
All of that merely from potentials to cause change, causing those changes and discovering a maximum rate of change which then builds to a maxim density of change. ALL entities throughout all of reality are no more and no less that merely that.
But another topic of interest is not so much the precise changing of potentials, but their average changing. As there are many small wavelets of affectance always running about, some are more positive and others are more negative. If you take the average potential changing of all of the little wavelets in a region, you have an average potential that might be higher than other areas or lower, “regional potential”.
But if all of that changing within a positive region happens to become dense enough to form a particle, you don’t merely get a particle, but you get a particle of the higher average potential, a “positive potential”.
In social terms, you could think of it as a legitimate governance rather than a criminal organization (a negative particle). In the mind, it might be the formation of “the true self” rather than a “demon self” or “false ego”. In your essay on the construct of a mind, you had mentioned an alternate portion of the mind that is in contention with the “true you”. That would be a “negative ego-particle within your mind”. A church sees itself as a positive social-particle whereas an occultic and manipulative order, such a a Satanic cult, would be a “negative social-particle”. Most societies, much like most minds, have both, and often many of each positive and negative.
But in physics, it is merely called a “positron” or “electron” (used to be called a “negatron”).
Then the next issue of interest comes up as to why such positive or negative things, “particles” of whichever type, become stable and self-supporting. If you are trying to create an organization, an ego, a life, or whatever, it is important to understand the metaphysical principles involved in the stability of anything.
Again, we have this slide. It is expressing that there is a natural filtering process that is caused by the AVERAGE potential being higher than its surroundings.
As anything that is positive, by whatever standards are of concern, enters something that already has an AVERAGE positive potential being maintained (a church that is already maintaining a friendly gathering, a government that is already maintaining law and order, a mind that already has a strong sense of well being, or a physics particle that already has an average high potential), whatever small thing that enters, because it is also positive, will adhere more to the particle and anything that is negative will adhere less.
In physics, that is all merely an issue of how fast the small wavelets of affectance are traveling as they pass through the particle. A positive wavelet will get slowed more than a negative wavelet and thus it hangs around longer. That is the exact same thing that causes social and mental positive particles to be maintained. But it also applies to negative particles, merely in reverse.
But one must realize that in everything there is coming and going. The mind accepts many ideas, but they shift around, get forgotten or updated, a society loses people and assets, but for as long as the entity exists, it is always both gaining and losing. For it to survive, it must merely ensure that it isn’t losing more than it is gaining, which at times means that it must ensure that it doesn’t gain too much ( a different issue).
