Multisense Realism

I’m only about 20 minutes in to the video, but I wanted to post some comments before I forget them.

Topic 1. Non-Foundational sets
Take the idea of non-foundational sets and infinite probability distributions of infinite probability distributions but invert it. Literally, invert the language and then conceptualize the result. If I do this and apply it as a hypothesis, the foundation of consciousness and nature in general would be Absolutely foundational setless-ness. Consciousness now no longer needs to be positively asserted as an agent which instantiates itself recursively, rather it is the appearance of unconsciousness which is a negative assertion which is temporarily instantiated by manipulating relative degrees of sensitivity. Think here of how the color black or white are colors which stand in for colorlessness. Desaturating an image is analogous to how conscious experience is truncated into forms and functions which are quantifiable.

Consciousness now no longer needs to be positively asserted as an agent which instantiates itself recursively, rather it is the appearance of unconsciousness within consciousness which is a negative assertion which is temporarily instantiated by manipulating relative degrees of sensitivity. Think here of how black or white are colors which stand in for colorlessness. Desaturating an image is analogous to how conscious experience is truncated into quantifiable, finite forms and functions.*

To continue then: Instead of infinite probability distributions, I propose the inverse: Finite, but absolutely pervasive improbability. If we trace back any consideration of first cause we run into a something that we have to admit is being considered beyond causality and existed ‘just because’. Instead of banishing this miraculous-seeming appearance of ‘existence’ from nothing or vacuum potential or God, I see that all phenomena have some degree of uniqueness, and that uniqueness is by definition idiopathic (aka ‘strongly emergent’). Blue comes out of nothing but itself, and ultimately the uniqueness of any given moment does the same thing. By grounding our view of nature in infinite improbability, we can re-frame our own interest in probability as a function of our subjective desire to defy incompleteness rather than an impartial assessment of nature as a phenomenon.

Topic 2: Hypercomputation
I like this line of thinking. I would suggest thinking first of ‘transcomputation’ rather than hypercomputation, that is, instead of conditions which are inaccessible to computation simply because they exceed quantitative limits of finite-ness, think of finite-ness itself as only the monochrome edges which bound a deeper and dynamically expanding spectrum of universal phenomenology. Because this spectrum is pervasive, communication is a matter of triggering each entity’s unmasking of their own separation from the totality rather than generating a new understanding which is copied from one entity to another.

To communicate is to subtract a seperation between two minds, and the separation between minds and the totality of cognitive truth, and between that totality of truth and the universal phenomenal spectrum. To communicate is to dissolve some of the masking of underlying unity across all phenomena.

Topic 3: Morphic Resonance
Morphe = form, shape. I like Rupert Sheldrake’s famous idea of MR, but again I would invert it. The name ‘Morphic Resonance’ draws us to the exteriors of tangible and visible objects. It implies that forms hold meaning which propagates to other forms. Turning that inside out, I find the resonance to be ‘phoric’ rather than morphic. This neologistic use of the Greek root ‘phor’ (pherein, to carry, bear) is intended to inspire associations with terms like ‘metaphor’, ‘euphoria/dysphoria’ and even ‘semaphore’. Between these three terms, we might glimpse a sign of three ‘primary colors’ of human consciousness: The the personal, the sub-personal or impersonal, and the transpersonal. I am a holon of experiences (‘phoria’), my body is a holon of biochemical code (‘semaphoria’), and my lifetime is a leaf on a branching ‘zeitgeist tree’ of mytho-poetic themes propagating from the top down (‘metaphoria’ or anthro-metaphoria for us humans).

In all cases where we talk about ‘patterns’ (morphe) we should substute ‘sense’ (phor), i.e. instead of an ontological, existential phenomenon, we should think of a phenomenon which expresses itself to itself by self-masking, unmasking, and residuating novelty (in a similar way to the residuation of color from the diffracting of visible light which is ‘white’, i.e. colorless, clear, and representative of visibility itself).

*sidebar: If we have color, we can use it to point to the potential for colorlessness. This pointing can’t be accomplished mechanically because there can’t literally be a color which implies colorlessness, but because of the aesthetic quality of black and white in relation to the other colors, we can pick up on a metaphor. By being able to access the difference between monochrome and color vision, and compare them, we ‘break the fourth wall’ which separates the content of visible phenomena from the modality of our visual sense, and we can carry that metaphorical wall breaking to the larger context of the wall between our personal experience and the totality of all possible experience. We can see that visibility is possible with only one dimension of hue, but only if we have more hues that we can compare it with. If there were no color vision, there would be no way to conceive of more than one type of hue (luminosity).