Friday, April 28, 2017

The Next Step Is, "I Will Be what I Will Be!

   " Everything is in motion and motion needs space to move in, and duration of movement."

It is demonstrably true, that everything in the universe is in unceasing motion from one moment to the next, including the attention of whomever or whatever is observing the universe. Regarding anything of substance, matter and the particles that it is composed from, all is defined by endlessly shifting spatial and temporal coordinates from some point of view. This is so true that it reduces to the observation that if one freezes a particle in time and in space to the very most narrow possible measurement of both, the particle immediately disappears. It cannot exist unless it is in motion, duration of existence itself depends on a sequence of coordinates in time and space.
     To persist in existence means to move in space and have continuous momentum, and maintaining the duration of motion is the only way to preserve identity. Anything with or without mass, must move to be perceived and motion itself  can only be perceived from a viewpoint  that arbitrarily determines something to be at rest. To determine motion something must come to be that doesn't exist except metaphysically,  and that is a static viewpoint, the location of which is independent of mass, because all mass is always moving. The static viewpoint is the central component of a far more complex metaphysical construct, which is the mind. It is the creation of something the existence of which needs no prior materiel cause. It is a pristine beginning, because as all things are in motion, it is impossible that they factor together into a true static state. In the inner world of the mind and  what is called the objective physical universe, everything is in a constant state of flux. Nevertheless, the mind  comes into existence through the arbitrary creative postulate that a state of relative stillness is a static viewpoint and that is a platform from which the motion of all potentially perceivable objects from that static viewpoint can now be determined.  Within a context of absolute motion of all content and all boundaries, which is the physical universe itself and all it contains, for motion to be perceived there must exist something that cannot come to be, as a consequence of the ever undulating and fluctuating and spreading and circulating and vibrating and spinning and expanding and contracting waves and particles that compose the  altogether moving physical universe,  and that is a static space of perception. A static state cannot be caused by a moving object.  This is particularly wonderful because no one ever experiences a real static state, presumably until they die. And then like anything no longer in motion, whatever we are,  ceases to be. Our minds, ever in motion like the universe reflected into them, exist by reason of a postulated arbitrary static viewpoint from which the observation of objects in motion or relative stillness, creates a static space which is the multi faceted context of the conscious mind.  This postulated static space exists only because the viewpoint is deemed at rest, with its  spatial and temporal coordinates in constant motion as determined from a point of view, which we experience as the place from which we observe all that moves around us and in us. This is the I and the Me and is fundamentally multi dimensional and contains metaphysical machinery that produces our ever evolving aesthetic experience. It is multi dimensional, sophisticated and complex, because we never have only one or two viewpoints, rather a countless multitude of viewpoints each with a stream of information that comes together as a grand cross referencing coalescence of aesthetic experience, involving all our senses, memory and imagination, together in any given moment. .  This conscious space of fluctuation and evolving self is affected by the metaphysical machinery that produces all it perceives. It is a dynamic experience of aesthetics and produces morals, as in the moral of a story, and ethics, the rules by which civilizations govern themselves when not governed by tyranny.

So we have a mind, created around a postulated relatively static point of view, the I and the Me, which while static itself, is ever receiving complex streams of shifting information which is presented at different spatial locations as sensation. Perception is sensation and sensation is an aesthetic symbol that represents the relationship between the self and the environment. The value of different sensations or aesthetic packages    is determined by the degree to which they symbolize the accomplishment of purpose. Initially purpose is pleasure and the avoidance of pain, but as morals and ethics develop, purpose becomes ever more abstract and metaphysical purposes make it possible for minds to endure great pain and assume very ascetic life styles to achieve and manifest abstract intents.

The solely metaphysical idea of "static" or "unchanging" is essential to the mind, beyond serving as an axiomatic platform for the observation of spatial motion or temporal change. One of the metaphysical machines that produces the complexity of the living mind is the mechanism of memory. Memory is an axiomatic component of mind, as much as a static viewpoint, and like a static viewpoint, it takes many memories and viewpoints cross referenced and held in place to produce the experience of coherence.  Memories are created as a consequence of the consciousness of motion, as to determine motion, one must "store" cross referenced moments of shifting coordinates.

   Motion is determined by postulating an unchanging or static geometric matrix of coordinates and recording an objects consecutive appearance and disappearance in the context of those coordinates. The object is only in motion when it's position in the matrix has no duration. It is always in a renewed state of "was there." and is now"here", with "there" always being a static memory of what is no longer true and "here" always becoming "there". For an object to exist it must be both there and here and time is what keeps memories apart and allows coherence.  Actually, the object is everywhere and all the time with all the other objects that are everywhere and all the time, but can only be perceived as a finite duration of a symbolic representation of its ultimate identity, with an arbitrary determination of motion from a static viewpoint and the creation of a memory which captures a moment of motion of a symbol with a symbol and stores it for cross reference in  a static state.   To be perceived as in motion the object doesn't have to move in a sequence of linear coordinates defined by proximity to each other. It is simply enough that it appears and disappears somewhere in the field of perception at different spatial coordinates. If it appears and disappears in the same spatial coordinates and at different temporal coordinates, the mind perpetuates with memory the the unchanging position of the object, filling in with imagination the duration in which the object has disappeared, and determines the object to be static and in a state of inertia. This allows the mind's ability to arbitrarily postulate static viewpoints, to make of such an object a coordinate from which can be extrapolated the relative position of other objects.

Should the object disappear, cease to exist in its spatial coordinates without reappearing elsewhere, the validity of the memories of that object lose their coherence as they can no longer be confirmed with present time perception of what is remembered,  and become confused with imagination, as imagination can postulate what is only the possibility of existence in the past, present and future and is independent of any need for present time perception.

Attention is never static and when it is focused on what appears to be a stationary object, the intensity of the perception of the object, fluctuates in a shifting context both temporally and spatially. Perception changes from one moment to the next because the means of perception, attention, is constantly scanning the objects potentially perceived.  When I say "objects", I mean, anything at all one can become aware of by focusing on it with one's attention and scanning it for a duration of time. This would include everything that has to do with what we experiences as the world around us, what we call the physical universe, as well as everything we experience as the world within us, our subjective universe of thoughts and sensations such as sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, hunger, thirst, well as feelings and emotions.  Anything one can put one's attention on is an object, real or imagined. Attention is best understood when likened to light. It has the quality of expansion and promulgation throughout what we experience as the space of our own conscious mind. It constantly relays to us streams of information concerning our well being on all the planes of our existence, from the condition of our physical body, to our hearts and soul, however these are defined.

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