Hi Bo and group
> Struan's concern was/is the impression one gets of "experience"
> labouring its way up or down through a set of levels ...the social
> level his main target. As in my last message I forwarded the space
> dimension analogy so as not to become mired in level-relationship-
> and-interaction problems. The unity combined with separatedness
> is there right before our eyes - no mysticism involved.
Right! The only mystical about it is when the experience is viewed
through SOM glasses. It forces the viewer to shift viewpoint now and
then to follow the experience through the levels. The dimensional
view however, lets the experience assume all four levels at once.
Compare a signal through the brain with a few sticks lying about on a
path in the forest. To an outsider passing by, they're just "sticks
lying about", i.e. inorganic patterns. But for the members of the secret
club having a secret meeting on a secret place, they show exactly which
path to choose to get to the meeting. This is very much like the brains'
neural pathways that instruct synapses which path to follow to get to
the right neuron and make a decision.
The really big jump to make when moving from a SOM view to the MoQ is
to realise that SOM "things" are made of many levels at once. Not only that,
they are often made of different many levels depending on the observer.
In the example above, the sticks are only one-dimensional to a man walking
his dog in the forest. To the dog however, they're two-dimensional when
it picks one up in its mouth and tastes the biological taste. But to the
children in the secret club, they're four-dimensional.
The difference between these three observers of the sticks is their ability
to experience the static quality of the sticks. The only reality each observer
sees is the reality he can perceive.
I watched "The gods must be crazy" the other day where a New York girl gets
stuck somewhere in Africa's savannah. The bushmen thought she was quite
illiterate since she couldn't read the language of nature. For her, the steps
in the sand was just "steps in the sand", for the bushmen, they told elaborate
stories about their animal neighbors.
Magnus
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