AUTHOR’S PROLOGUE: 

The language required to critique the concept of PATHOGEN must go beyond ‘reason’.  Reason allows us to employ the BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM as if it were capable of capturing the real-world of our sensory experience.  This is a CRAZY-MAKER;

“Reason” in language!—oh what a deceptive old witch it has been! I fear we shall never be rid of God, so long as we still believe in grammar.  

If we speak of “the town is growing”, we put our representation within a FLAT SPACE since in the curved space of our actual sensory experience if “the town grows”, the “Wilderness shrinks”, or in other words such change is TRANSFORMATION in the real world of our sensory experience.  ‘REASON’ is ‘flatspace’ based.  It is abstraction and it can’t handle the real world of our sensory experience. It can only handle LOCAL actions and developments, but the reality of our sensory experience is NONLOCAL.  We are included in the transforming relational continuum aka the Tao aka the Wave-field and such experience is INEFFABLE (we are like fluid forms in a fluid dynamic, as in a holographic space).

We need INTUITION to interpret our sensory experience of inclusion in the Tao and “REASON” is too limited.  As Bohm, Schroedinger and others have pointed out, we need a more comprehensive logic than the logic we use to ‘reason’; i.e. the EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED medium, … we need QUANTUM LOGIC which is the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDED medium.  We can think of this ‘quantum logic’ in terms of FIGURE AND GROUND AS ONE, or as Schroedinger says; ‘SUBJECT AND OBJECT ARE ONLY ONE.

This shortfall in language and logic is involved in the  PROBLEM WITH THE PATHOGEN CONCEPT.  Since we are currently experiencing what we are calling the COVID 19 PANDEMIC, … where COVID 19 is the name given to a purported PATHOGEN that is purportedly threatening our health, … and I say ‘purported’ because in a relational representation, of reality, we have resonance and dissonance and TRANSFORMATION but “NO PATHOGENS”.   This essay explains ‘why the PATHOGEN concept is not viable”

 

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There is a problem with the concept of THE PATHOGEN that we would do well to consider, in our current acceptance of COVID 19 as a PATHOGEN, a concept that Nietzsche articulates, and modern physics reaffirms, is a DOUBLE ERROR based abstraction.  The FIRST ERROR is ‘NAMING’ that imputes local thing-in-itself existence to a relational form in the flow, and we conflate this with the SECOND ERROR of GRAMMAR which imputes to the NAMING instantiated thing-in-itself the LOCAL POWER of SOURCING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS. 

This DOUBLE ERROR allows us to use language and grammar to construct in our intellect, the abstract concept of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments and thus OVER-PRINTING the NONLOCAL nature of our sensory experience of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum.

For example, if I am in a crowd wherein a lot of pushing and shoving is going on (i.e. where the basic dynamic is NONLOCAL), when I am impacted by the pushing, I may employ the DOUBLE ERROR to LOCALIZE this action and identify THE PERSON THAT PUSHED ME as the LOCAL SOURCE of this action.  As playful youths, we may push a friend so that he bumps into a third party and then gets accused by that person, as being the SOURCE of an aggression, while we get off scott-free. In general, as relativity physics affirms, dynamics are relational and the concept of LOCAL SOURCING (and thus local blame/attribution of good or bad developments we associate with LOCAL SOURCING) although a reductive abstraction deriving from the DOUBLE ERROR of language and grammar, is generally employed, IN WESTERN CULTURE, as the ‘operative reality’.

In order to intuitively remind ourselves of what ‘we are dropping out of the reality of our actual sensory experience’ by the DOUBLE ERROR reduction to LOCAL SOURCING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS, we have to remind ourselves of ‘what we now automatically do’ in reducing our relational experience to language and grammar based terms.  This REDUCTION is ‘taken seriously’ in our WESTERN CULTURE but is employed only as a tool of INFERENCE in modern physics and EASTERN CULTURE (indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta).

First off, we need to recall that our experience is of inclusion in an innately ‘fluid’ Nature-dynamic, as in the example of DUNING, where the NONLOCAL-RELATIONAL dynamic of TRANSFORMATION is primary and the reduction to LOCAL and EXPLICIT is abstraction based reduction (i.e. ‘secondary’).

DUNING is a nonlocal relational resonance (wave-field) based dynamic; i.e. DUNING is a relational dynamic that “belongs to” TRANSFORMATION.  MEANWHILE, … “A DUNE” is the NAME we give to a visibly appearance that is FORMING and UNFORMING i.e. a LOCAL (slowly changing) FORMING (aka “FORM”) that makes a visual appearance and seems to persist in the fluid dynamical continuum so that our focus may lock on to the ‘from’ as if it were a LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF that is its own SOURCE of actions and developments; an ‘illusion’ that the DOUBLE ERROR of language and grammar helps us to capture and carry in our intellectual representation schemata.

We can and do use our sensory experience to feed our intellectual representational capacity wherein we have the tools of NAMING and GRAMMAR to capture VISUAL forms in fixed (NAMING-instantiated) intellectual thing-in-itself terms, using GRAMMAR to impute to these NAMING-instantiated things-in-themselves their own powers of SOURCING actions and development.  This is the DOUBLE ERROR treatment that equips us (intellectually) to shift reality to the new abstract conceptual framework of ‘forms’ seen as LOCAL things-in-themselves notionally with their own powers of SOURCING actions and developments..

This capture and reduction of DUNING (a resonance or Wave-field phenomenon) to terms of DUNES based on ‘visual appearance’ allows us to construct a superficial ‘reality’ in which these ‘forms’ such as ‘dunes’ are conceived of as NAMING-instantiated things-in-themselves.  We can then use GRAMMAR to describe ‘the DUNE’ as a LOCAL thing-in-itself having the capabilities of  “growing and developing and moving and acting” , … mental conceptual imagery that ‘over-writes’ in our language and grammar stimulated psyche, our REAL but INEFFABLE sensual experience of inclusion in a fluid dynamic, the all-included Wave-field in which we, ourselves are relational resonance features.

While everything is in flux according to our sensory experience based REALITY of inclusion in RELATIONAL TRANSFORMATION aka ‘the Tao’ aka the Wave-field, and is thus INEFFABLE-BECAUSE-NONLOCAL, …  the reduction to fixed forms by NAMING and using GRAMMAR to impute to them “THEIR OWN” movements and development gives us an EFFABLE but abstractly reduced version of the TRANSFORMATION based ‘reality of our sensory experience of inclusion in the Tao’.

This intellectual reduction rendering our ineffable experience of inclusion in TRANSFORMATION effable, is what modern physics and the EAST employ as a tool of INFERENCE to infer the ineffable that lies beyond it, but in the WEST, this reduction has become commonly employed as the OPERATIVE REALITY.

In the NONLOCAL dynamics of unreduced reality of our sensory experience of inclusion in relational TRANSFORMATION as in the ‘GREAT RESONANCE’ aka the Tao, there are no PATHOGENS, there is only relational resonance and dissonance (in a Wave-dynamical sense of in-phase and out-of-phase as when we as a social-relational collective do things in social relational harmony and/or in social relational dissonance).  As in the example of the relational interactions in a crowd dynamic or in a traffic dynamic, our habit is to IMPUTE LOCAL SOURCING to relational dissonance so that the person receiving a jolt tends to regard the one who jolted him as the SOURCE of his jolt, as is also the case in a collision in freeway traffic where the relational reality of a complex matrix of braking and swerving wherein a fender-bender manifests, is reduced to a “victim” identifying and blaming “a perpetrator”.   This reduction of the NONLOCAL to the LOCAL by way of the DOUBLE ERROR is the WESTERN CULTURE reality-reducing NORM.

While EAST accepts that NONLOCALITY is the reality so that the DOUBLE ERROR that LOCALIZES dynamics is just a useful TOOL OF INFERENCE, the WEST, instead, accepts LOCALITY and regards the DOUBLE ERROR based reduction to LOCALLY SOURCED actions and developments as the OPERATIVE REALITY.  Hence the concept of the PATHOGEN.

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