Synopsis:  We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have incorporated an over-simplistic logic in our language and grammar that is a culture-pervading CRAZY-MAKER.

“As regards the academies, they are established in order to regulate the studies of the pupils and are concerned not to have the program of teaching change very often: in such places, because it is a question of the progress of the students, it frequently happens that the things which have to be chosen are not those which are most true but those which are most easy. And by that division in things which makes different people form different judgements, it so happens that certain people are in error contrary to their own opinion.” – Johannes Kepler, ‘Harmonies of the World’

Our WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT practice of reducing the quantum BOTH/AND logic of the INCLUDED medium to the EITHER/OR logic of the EXCLUDED medium gives rise to our substituting the ‘flat-space’ concept of GROWTH for the ‘spherical-space’ concept of TRANSFORMATION.  We have built this reduction into our language and while it “COULD” serve simply as a useful tool or ‘short hand’ based on the EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT, … for triggering an intuitive leap of understanding of reality that is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS fall into the habit of employing the EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT as our ‘OPERATIVE REALITY’, hence,we experience inclusion in TRANSFORMATION yet speak of it in the reduced terms of GROWTH-and-DECLINE, CONSTRUCTION-and-DESTRUCTION.

Let’s be honest!   The REALITY of our sensory experience is of inclusion in relational TRANSFORMATION.  There is no such thing as “GROWTH’ and “DECLINE”, ‘CONSTRUCTION” and ‘DESTRUCTION”.  As Nietzsche has pointed out, we fabricate these concepts with the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.  The farm cannot ‘GROW’ without the shrinkage of Wilderness; in other words, TRANSFORMATION is the reality while GROWTH is a DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR (e.g. “the cultivated lands that now produce wheat and other agricultural products have grown to more than twice the size they were ten years ago.” —This statement is exemplary of “the over-simplistic logic in our language and grammar that is a culture-pervading CRAZY-MAKER”.  There is no such thing as GROWTH, there is only relational TRANSFORMATION which implicitly includes the SHRINKAGE of Wilderness lands in reciprocal relation to the “GROWTH” of cultivated lands.

The DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR is the origin of the concept of WILL as the implied LOCAL FORCE, this abstract intellectual concept that we INJECT into our reality constructions as the synthetic ‘explainer’ of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments, … ANSWERS THE QUESTION; “Now that we are saying that the SOURCING of actions and developments are LOCAL rather than NONLOCAL, … where is the jumpstart agency coming form that is responsible for LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments [NOTE that ‘TRANSFORMATION, being NONLOCAL, has no need of such contrivance as ‘WILL’, a concept called into being by the associated abstraction of LOCAL SOURCING which itself is abstraction that we invent for the purpose of reducing the INEFFABLE NONLOCALITY of TRANSFORMATION and give is an EFFABLE rendering  in terms of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments.   ‘WILL” is a concept that ‘fills a ‘logical hole’ in our GRAMMAR-based LOCALIZING PROJECT, a ‘filling in’ that is not needed in an understanding or reality in terms of NONLOCAL TRANSFORMATION, as in the reality of inclusion of all things, including us in the transforming relational continuum aka the Wave-field aka ‘the Tao’.

However, once we employ the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR and reduce the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT (of TRANSFORMATION) to the EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT, …in INVENTING this intellectual reduction of the NONLOCAL to the LOCAL we PAINT OURSELVES INTO A CORNER (logically speaking), having removed the animating force which is IMMANENT in relational TRANSFORMATION, obliging us to add to our reductive DOUBLE ERROR (NAMING-and-GRAMMAR) LOCAL-SOURCING based reconstruction of reality, a notional LOCAL SOURCING POWER to fill the gap left by retracting the concept of nonlocal TRANSFORMATION with its nonlocally immanent ‘field’ based sourcing.  As is possible with language and grammar when we are the ones ‘making it up’, we have popped in a surrogate answer for the lOCAL SOURCING need, by just inventing it, calling it WILL, and giving it the needed role within our NAMING and GRAMMAR constructions which for a LOCAL SOURCING ENGINE.  Where TRANSFORMATION gives way to LOCAL SOURCING and we lose the Wave-field concept of immanent influence, the notion of a “LOCAL JUMPSTART FORCE” or in humans a “LOCAL JUMPSTART WILL” serves as the LOGICAL FIILL-IN-THE-GAP SUBSTITUTE for the IMMINANTE ANIMATING that is the basic nature of the Wave-field dynamic aka the Tao.

No matter how much NONLOCAL relational dissonance we relational forms find ourselves embroiled in, our WESTERN CULTURE and its JUSTICE SYSTEM eschews the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT (which is meanwhile embraced by the indigeneous aboriginal culture and modern physics)  and instead goes with the EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT.  The abstract concept of LOCAL SOURCING is established in the intellect thanks to the notional LOCAL, JUMP-START-SOURCING AGENCY known as “WILL” which serves to erase from consciousness the vast web of influences that comprise a local ‘humaning’, re-inventing the “human” with the DOUBLE ERROR as a LOCAL thing-in-itself with its own GRAMMAR-given powers of SOURCING actions and developments.  The notional ‘WILL’ is needed in this reduction of dynamics from INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT to EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT.  This LOCALIZING of the NONLOCAL is where the DOUBLE ERROR comes in;

“In its origin language belongs in the age of the most rudimentary form of psychology. We enter a realm of crude fetishism when we summon before consciousness the basic presuppositions of the metaphysics of language, in plain talk, the presuppositions of reason. Everywhere it sees a doer and doing; it believes in will as the cause; it believes in the ego, in the ego as being, in the ego as substance, and it projects this faith in the ego-substance upon all things–only thereby does it first create the concept of “thing.” Everywhere “being” is projected by thought, pushed underneath, as the cause; the concept of being follows, and is a derivative of, the concept of ego. In the beginning there is that great calamity of an error that the will is something which is effective, that will is a capacity. Today we know that it is only a word.” – Nietzsche, Chapter 5 (Reason in Philosophy) of Twilight of the Idols.

DAMNED IF WE DO AND DAMNED IF WE DON’T (Devil’s Bargain).   REALITY is NONLOCAL which is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT, so we can’t capture it ‘as is’ in words and discuss it’.  Meanwhile, NAMING-and-GRAMMAR permit us to conjure up a REDUCTION in LOCAL and EXPLICIT terms (imagine the NONLOCAL atmospheric disturbance or hurricaning where we can orient our language to the apparently ‘LOCAL’ centreal ‘nipple’ that we can use NAMING to reduce to the LOCAL HURRICANE that we use GRAMMAR to re-animate as if it were a LOCAL THING that was ‘growing larger and stronger and was devastating New Orleans’.  This DOUBLE ERROR of language and grammar allows us to ‘break relational features out of the TRANSFORMATION and re-cast them self-standing LOCAL entities with their own internal SOURCING POWERS as imply an internal “WILL”.   By ‘giving up the INEFFABLE (aka ‘the DIVINE), we get to talk about a dumbed-down surrogate pseudo-reality wherein humanings-in-the-Tao are recast as LOCAL things-in-themselves WITH THEIR OWN INTERNAL WILL-DRIVEN behaviour and development.  In this reduced from INEFFABLE-to-EFFABLE form, we can talk about ourselves, but only as if IN A NEW WORLD wherein forms are EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT, we have lost the DIVINE (the all-pervading Wave-rield aka ‘the Tao’, and we couldn’t keep it within our language based representations of reality because this most basic sensory experience reality (the Wave-field aka ‘the Tao’) is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT, as is the nature of the Wave-field.  While the EAST employs the EFFABLE reduction as a ‘Wittgenstein ladder’ or ‘expedient tool’ to trigger an intuitive leap to the INEFFABLE reality that lies innately beyond the reach of the EFFABLE, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, as Emerson complains, are “letting the tool run away with the workman, the EFFABLE human with the INEFFABLE divine’. 

Wittgenstein reminds us that REALITY, because it is ‘in flux’ is INFFABLE and can’t be directly and explicitly captured in language.  The resonance that is DUNING is an inextricable feature of TRANSFORMATION which is inherently INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, however, our NAMING and GRAMMAR (DOUBLE ERROR) employs the LOCAL and EXPLICIT and thus can only serve as an EFFABLE tool to tickle the INTUITING of the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL (i.e. “TRANSFORMATION”).

6.54 My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)

He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly.

7.0 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. (“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen”),

–Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

This following essay explores the respective realities of EAST/MODERN PHYSICS wherein there is only relational TRANSFORMATION and no ‘GROWTH’, versus the reality of WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS wherein there is only GROWTH and no “TRANSFORMATION”, as in the reductive concepts of GROWTH and DECLINE (CONSTRUCTION and DESTRUCTION) as simplifying substitutes for TRANSFORMATION.  An ‘intuitive leap’ is required to pass from the ‘simplifying substitutes to the INEFFABLE reality of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum aka ‘Wave-field’ aka ‘the Tao’.

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We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS divide ourselves into polar factions (conservatives and liberals) due to our belief in LOCAL SOURCING power and the associated FIGURE-and-GROUND polarizing contention that is born with it; i.e. does the FIGURE source changes in the GROUND (conservative) or does the GROUND source changes in the FIGURE (liberal).  Here, one may interpret FIGURE and GROUND and ‘INDIVIDUAL’ and ‘SOCIAL COLLECTIVE’ or, as well, ‘INHABITANT’ and ‘HABITAT’.

As Schroedinger and others have pointed out, there is no such BINARY SPLITTING in the real world of our sensory experience;

“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.” – Erwin Schroedinger

Not only in modern physics but also in indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, the reality of our sensory experience is understood in terms of FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE or INHABITANT-and-HABITAT-as ONE.  This is expressed by way of the Tai-Chi (Yin/Yang) symbology.

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