Imagine a planet whose surface is covered with LOCAL magma spurting volcanoes punctuated by LOCAL magma swallowing sinkholes.

As we contemplate this scattering and gathering dynamic, our impression of a LOCAL fluid-spraying and fluid draining SOURCE-RECEIVER combination may GIVE WAY to a sense of FIGURE and GROUND-as-ONE wherein EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX and instead of ‘the PLANET’ being the LOCAL SOURCE of the OUT-SPRAYING and the IN-SWALLOWING, it is more appropriate to understand this in the entirely NONLOCAL FLUID terms of PLANETING in the FLOW-FIELD.

This NONLOCAL DYNAMIC wherein EVERYTHING is in flux is what our sensory experience is informing us is ‘reality’.  It is the NAMING capability of language whereby we can LABEL a PLANETING which is this pure flow-based OUT-SPRAYING and IN-SWALLOWING, ‘the PLANET’ and conflate this with GRAMMAR to impute the power of LOCAL AUTHORING to ‘the PLANET’, promoting the notion that “THE PLANET” is the LOCAL AUTHOR of both actions of OUT-SPRAYING and IN-SWALLOWING (picture a spherical form covered with little volcanoes spewing magma and also covered with little sink-holes swallowing up debris from the volcanoes.  While the form is spherical, there is nothing persisting there other than flow so that the phenomenon is PLANETING and there is NO LOCAL AUTHORSHIP.

The SPACE we live in (are included in) is a NONLOCAL TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM wherein EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX.   We may SEE a fluid PLANETING within this FLUX, but to impute to the PLANETING its own LOCAL BEING and its own LOCAL POWERS OF AUTHORSHIP is contrivance that we create with the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, which allows us to REPRESENT the TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM by way of the FORMS-APPEARING-IN-THE-FLOW such as the PLANETINGS in the transforming energy field.

“Since according to our present conceptions the elementary particles of matter are also, in their essence, nothing else than condensations of the electromagnetic field, our present view of the universe presents two realities which are completely separated from each other conceptually, although connected causally, namely, gravitational ether and electromagnetic field, or as they might also be called space and matter. Of course it would be a great advance if we could succeed in comprehending the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field together as one unified conformation. Then for the first time the epoch of theoretical physics founded by Faraday and Maxwell would reach a satisfactory conclusion. The contrast between ether and matter would fade away, and, through the general theory of relativity, the whole of physics would become a complete system of thought, like geometry, kinematics, and the theory of gravitation.” — Einstein, ‘Ether and the Theory of Relativity’

Nietzsche has this same understanding, supported by the physics of Roger Boscovich who modern physics philosophers describe as having been 200 years ahead of its time.   The understanding that FIELD is an energy flow that is PRIMARY such that material objects are ‘APPEARANCES’ or ‘schaumkommen’ as also pointed out by Schroedinger, … NOT ONLY means that FORMS are RELATIONAL FLOW-FEATURES, it means that FORMS cannot be the LOCAL SOURCE of actions and developments.  It makes no sense to say that ‘the HURRICANE is STIRRING UP THE ATMOSPHERE’ and it likewise makes not sense to say ‘the ATMOSPHERE is STIRRING UP THE HURRICANE’, … because such representations invoke the notion of LOCAL SOURCING where there is NO SUCH THING.   The CHANGES in the world that we observe are in association with NONLOCAL RELATIONAL TRANSFORMATION wherein everything is in flux.  While language allows us to stimulate intellectual impressions of LOCAL AUTHORS with powers of LOCAL SOURCING, this is by way of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR as Nietzsche points out;

 

Our judgement has us conclude that every change must have an author”;–but this conclusion is already mythology: it separates that which effects from the effecting. If I say “lightning flashes,” I have posited the flash once as an activity and a second time as a subject, and thus added to the event a being that is not one with the event but is rather fixed, “is” and does not “become.”–To regard an event as an “effecting,” and this as being, that is the double error, or interpretation, of which we are guilty.” – Nietzsche, ‘Will to Power’, 531

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