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three thoughts
in search of the mind
I:
in the weave of the world
this does not explain "knowing"
but
does "knowing" exist
in the "possible" watching
willing in the weave of the world
as it unfolds
so that we exist in the
"observing it happen"
a "quantum" phase (forgive me)
we watch it happen
watch with will
observing acting
and without us barren moonscape
in us cultures civilizations
academies
wars rumours of wars
and by golly it is indeed "quantum"
(the "how it comes
came out of nothing")
in pixels of energy
oh our visual fields
aren't really just pixels
they are patterned and smudged iterations
of a something that is happening somewhere
sliding down time
hmm
so "knowing" exist possibly
in the waves
in the fields of probability
watching
willing
in the weave of the world
II:
being is because though
the "possible" is an abstraction
a "what could be" yet
everything is in the possible
that's what there is
until it happens
then it's in stone
real but gone
out of the possible
into the was
III:
why did the stone go from "the possible" to "was"
without passing through "is"? she asked
because "is" may just be "maybe" collapsing
into "gone"
oh! except in the mind
remember those visual fields
that aren't just pixels
but are "patterned and smudged iterations
of a something that is happening somewhere
sliding down time"
the neural process is indeed
intrinsically a process,
smeared over time, no stage in itself complete* :
and that is quite special:
so maybe "mind" is still in the "possible",
unfolding, even while it happens
visual fields
(for an example)
begin as a page of pixels
that give rise, through a lateral inhibitory
process,
so that's two "iterations"
of the visual field,
still in the retina,
to domains accenting contrast
then on through the optic chiasm
fibers interspersing to project up by the brain
an iteration compounding both eyes
a fourth iteration (in the "visual cortex")
brings linear boundaries
a fifth movement and direction
and how many more before
cat sees dog or mouse
all of this "sliding down time"
and where
is the world seen?
in the neural maps?
or electromagnetic fields?
and how long was this phrase in your mind?
it's the
stretch of the process
its depth in time
where root and branch join all phases
from "possible" to "was"
that's unique in this world
beyond rock and computer
a tangle of activity stretched through a multiplex moment
free from was and maybe
floating...
*
see iteration in the CNS
("sliding down time")
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