Consider how WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are locked into THINKING in BINARY LOGICAL terms. Take the concept “GROWTH” , for example.  It carries with it the BINARY implications of FIGURE and GROUND as TWO, and we use it all the time in our language based representations of reality.

Newton tried to develop a science of dynamics that would handle the movement of three or more bodies under one another’s mutual influence.  He couldn’t get there and had to stop with TWO BODY movement as in FIGURE and GROUND as TWO.

“An exact solution for three bodies, exceeds, if I am not mistaken, the force of any human mind” – Isaac Newton 

I am going to connect this with Bohm’s point that we have the capability of INTELLIGENCE based understanding but commonly employ the abstractions of RATIONAL thought.  Nietzsche makes the same point in his critique of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR which, together, conjure up the BINARY ABSTRACTION of GROWTH.  We talk about GROWTH as if it were something REAL, but it is just the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-abstracted-asTWO (otherwise the FIGURE could not GROW without the GROUND reciprocally SHRINKING to accommodate such GROWTH).  What is REAL is NOT GROWTH but TRANFORMATION wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE as in a Wave-dynamic.  Since the TRANSFORMING relational continuum is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT (i.e. the Wave-field is ‘everywhere at the same time’), The abstract DOUBLE ERROR concept of THING-IN-ITSELF GROWTH serves as an expedient that is EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT.

EXAMPLE: We could argue over whether the DYNAMICS of the HURRICANE (including GROWTH) source the dynamics of the ATMOSPHERE, or whether the dynamics of the ATMOSPHERE source the GROWTH of the HURRICANE.   In reality, the HURRICANE (FIGURE) and ATMOSPHERE (GROUND) are ONE TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM so we don’t have to live with the ambiguous question of whether the HURRICANE sources the stirring up of the ATMOSPHERE or whether the ATMOSPHERE sources the stirring up the HURRICANE.   In the modern physics FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE understanding, there is only TRANSFORMATION of the relational continuum (Wave-field) and there is no such thing as SOURCING of LOCAL actions and developments.  The WESTERN CULTURE conservative – liberal POLAR opposition as to whether SOURCING is ‘one-to-many’ (one bad apple SOURCES rotting of the whole barrel) or ‘many-to-one’ (it takes a whole community to SOURCE the raising of a good/bad child) is an unresolvable dichotomy because, in the reality or our sensory exerpience, unlike in the DOUBLE ERROR abstractions of NAMING and GRAMMAR, THERE IS NO LOCAL SOURCING, there is only TRANSFORMATION as is the basic nature of the Wave-field aka the Tao.

Ok, this is going to ‘get us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS into trouble’, this reduction of everything to BINARY LOGIC as in the reduction to TWO-BODY dynamics just because NEWTON’s mathematics could NOT handle the 3+ body problem (where motion of three or more bodies derives from their simultaneous mutual influence).  For example, three or more spherical soap bubbles squeezing together involves simultaneous mutual influence that manifests as transformation of the bubble spheres into hexagonal cells. Thus Newton’s theory not being able to handle the THREE-BODY PROBLEM boils down the psyche not being able to REDUCE all dynamics to EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT abstraction.  TRANSFORMATION is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT. If we constrain our understanding to the EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT as in the DOUBLE ERROR constructions of NAMING and GRAMMAR, then we exclude TRANSFORMATION from our these language-based conceptualizing of reality.

TRANSFORMATION requires the BOTH/AND logic of the INCLUDED medium wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE as in Wave-frield reality, while representations in the DOUBLE ERROR terms of NAMING-instantiated LOCAL things-in-themselves-with GRAMMAR-instantiated powers of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments gets by with the EITHER/OR logic of the EXCLUDED medium wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND are TWO.  The issue is not that the latter is MORE TRUE than the FORMER, the issue is that the former is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT while the latter is EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT so that if we want to go with UNDERSTANDINGS OF REALITY THAT WE CAN SHARE WITH LANGUAGE, we must stick with the DOUBLE ERROR constructions of NAMING and GRAMMAR, whereas if we want to understand reality in the full-blown sense of the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, we must understand that it can’t be reduced to explicit and direct language and language-based sharing and that language can only go so far as to serve as INFERENCE of the fluid reality that lies beyond FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO capture..

 

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