Emergence is false. The universe does not scale up mechanically from microphysical to physical or physical to phenomenal. It fragments from totality “All Here Now” to countless “theres” and “thens” by degrees of consciousness or scopes of awareness. Connection is Holos, disconnection is graphos. There is no emergence from graphos (mechanism, points in a void) to Holos (gestalt experience)…no encoding and decoding of ‘sense data’ into a whole. These are all assumptions made by over-valuing the sense of tangibility and assuming that what is most distant from our direct awareness is most real simply because the scale of time and space is most extremely different from our own.
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On 0.999… being equal to 1
We can revise our understanding of numbers such that each number is not a noun but a verb. The numerical value comes not from the digitization, which is only a snapshot representation, but from the act of counting. In other words, quantitative value may ultimately require a direction of flow. In this case, the “…” refers to a positive direction of flow that is unbounded so that it must be considered identical to the value that it reaches by its own definition.
All numbers are parts of a continuum and therefore always ‘almost’ the previous and successor numbers just as orange is defined as the color between almost red and almost yellow.
One interesting possibility from making this fundamental shift is that zero could be understood as an imaginary number between two real numbers “-0.000…1” and “0.000…1”.
Once we have that, we no longer need to see numbers as digital entities added on top of nothingness, but as diffraction bands breaking the continuity of a fluid spectrum of ‘everythingness’. Numbers do not connect to form wholes, they break wholes into parts. This has enormous consequences for our understanding of existence, consciousness, and AI.
Beyond the Brain
When we look at the brain, I think that we aren’t looking directly at the back end of our whole experience, we are looking at the back end of only our body-related experiences through the limited front-end view provided via our eyeballs and skin sensors.
We are not seeing a 1:1 map of our personal psyche, we are only seeing the inflection point between our personal psyche and the sub-personal psyche. As complex as the brain structure and activity is (3d connectome + 1d time + 1d voluntary interaction modifiers), it is still only a 5d *surface* of an even higher dimensional phenomenon linking to the transpersonal levels of totality.
Multisense Realism Sight-Light Hypothesis
• Transparency as the true center of the absolute visible spectrum, which is the spectrum of visibility itself.
• Colorless extremes (dark and light) as undersights and oversights. White and Black are the masking colors for sights outside of any given scope of vision.
• Color as sights.
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