{"id":560,"date":"2011-01-06T03:32:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2012-07-30T03:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T11:39:24","slug":"fractal-metaphysics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Fractal Metaphysics"},"content":{"rendered":"

(An occasional paper of the\u00a0<\/em>Journal of (Very) Speculative Philosophy)<\/em><\/p>\n

by Adam Blatner, Confabulologist Extraordinaire<\/p>\n

For more fun, see\u00a0No. 2 of this Journal<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Theoretical & Speculative Metaphysical Confabulation<\/h3>\n

I have been instructed \/ empowered \/ inspired \/ channeled \/ whatever to let you know the low-down on the higher-ups, the \u201cthat\u2019s what it\u2019s all about\u201d of the Hokey-Pokey, the underlying structure of the Universe.<\/p>\n

First of all, it\u2019s multi-dimensional, so what we perceive as three dimensional reality is only a shallow projection of what\u2019s really going on. Plato\u2019s parable of the cave is oh, so right on. What psychedelic inspiration clued him in on this. Of course the Aristotelians pooh-poohed this, and many philosophers don\u2019t get it. When ol\u2019 Plato talked about primal forms, he wasn\u2019t talking about the perfect chair, or even the archetype of sitting\u2014that\u2019s way too specific. My friend Zordak point not only to the Balbonians on their planet many light-years away, but also to the spider in the children\u2019s nursery rhyme about Miss Muffet on her Tuffet\u2014you known, the one that came down and scared her away? But the key is, how does a spider \u201csit down\u201d??\u00a0 Not crouch, not lie prone, but… well you can get all consternation-ish about it, but back to Plato.<\/p>\n

He was trying to express what David Bohm a few decades was sort of intuiting what he called the \u201cimplicate order\u201d that contrasts with our familiar ordinary universe. And don\u2019t get me started describing how all this is implicit in the intuitions of the great Kabbalists.<\/p>\n

Now the discovery of the mathematics behind chaos theory, the whole field of fractals, came a little closer, but it\u2019s still only one dimension. Other writers who fool with string theory have tried to model what more-than-four-dimensional space might be like, and it\u2019s mind-stretching. So here we\u2019ll just go with my revelation, okay?<\/p>\n

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So take this little simple diagram on the left for example. Imagine that each of the little squares is a universe. Yet this whole set is only one button\u2014 really, only a sequin\u2014on God\u2019s garment (speaking very poetically, of course). Now this is the point: Each of those little squares with circles in them are in turn complex nexuses of influences. The physical universe at the seed-core is only a part, sort of the flowering or product of all the dimensional activity. From another perspective, these diagrams are just another way to think about my mandalas:<\/p>\n

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Now, carrying on the sequence: Here on the right is another mandala that is sort of an enlargement of one of the tiny circles in the diagram on the above left.<\/p>\n

Now, those points ont the diagram to the right where the liking irregular “chains” come together are “nodes” and close-ups of both these elements will be shown.<\/p>\n

Portrayed below, are some of those nodes.<\/p>\n

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They are nexuses, points where different dynamic currents come together. You are a nexus of many roles and role demands. You may be a parent, a spouse, the adult child of an older parent who is the father-in-law or mother-in-law to your spouse. You have to earn money and keep house, perhaps belong to a church and\/or a club or two, and each of these is a complex mixture of many sub-roles. They all come together in your life. So, too, chains of many dynamics come together to form these mediating, choosing, balancing, creative living centers. Although these complexes may seem static, they are actually in dynamic action. Swirling would be too simple a term—they are evolving and each element is an evolutionary strand that divides, integrates, veers off in interesting directions, analogous to the many twists and turns taken by a religion or technology or language in our history.<\/p>\n

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Now back to that form on the right: The connecting branches are in fact as complex and dynamic as the nodes where they come together:\u00a0 Note to the right above the magnified connecting branch, there’s a rough diagram of a piece of that connecting branch—complexities that have within them further complexities.<\/p>\n

Now, below, here below is a magnified segment of that branch shown to the right.<\/p>\n

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. . .\u00a0\u00a0 and this is not even the weird part! What\u2019s really weird is that this whole explanation is only one of countless numbers of other possible explanations!\u00a0 For example, the nodes might evolve so that they look like this or even in an elegant bit of aesthetic relaxaion, settle into the far right:.<\/p>\n

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… and since the Cosmos is also evolving mind-stuff, this explanation may be at least limited (if not off-the-deep-end wacko wrong), perhaps awaiting further revisions, antitheses, counter-proposals, or elaborations in the \u201cDialectic of Creativity.\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 Wheee!<\/p>\n

Enough for now. You might enjoy reading other confabulations about the textures of reality,\u00a0 the nature of soul-concrescence,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(An occasional paper of the\u00a0Journal of (Very) Speculative Philosophy) by Adam Blatner, Confabulologist Extraordinaire For more fun, see\u00a0No. 2 of this Journal A Theoretical & Speculative Metaphysical Confabulation I have been instructed \/ empowered \/ inspired \/ channeled \/ whatever to let you know the low-down on the higher-ups, the \u201cthat\u2019s what it\u2019s all about\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}