{"id":5179,"date":"2021-03-18T22:03:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T06:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2021-03-19T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:57:00","slug":"our-western-culture-sorcery-based-substitute-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodshare.org\/wp\/our-western-culture-sorcery-based-substitute-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"OUR WESTERN CULTURE SORCERY-based SUBSTITUTE REALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AUTHOR&#8217;S PREFACE: <\/strong>Language that has a dependency on the abstract voyeur viewable concept of LOCAL THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES is &#8216;not up to the task&#8217; of capturing the REALITY of an all-including transforming relational continuum wherein everything is in flux.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering a language based scheme for REPRESENTING a reality that is in continual flux, involves some &#8216;trickery&#8217;.\u00a0 The &#8216;bootstrapping&#8217; approach described by Wittgenstein is to use the notional &#8216;existence&#8217; of &#8216;local things&#8217; to establish a web of relations among, whereupon the purely relational web will be the &#8216;take-away&#8217; and the &#8216;things-in-themselves&#8217; disposable expedients;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>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.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u00a0<em>7.0 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.<\/em> <em>(\u201cWovon man nicht sprechen kann, dar\u00fcber muss man schweigen\u201d),<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2013Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus<\/p>\n<p>The thing-based illustration e.g. of the TOWN that is GROWING with its many streets and buildings &#8216;under construction&#8217; is a PICTURABLE CARTOON which we could flesh out with STICK-FIGURE WORKERS and RESIDENTS or with a high resolution DOCUMENTARY FILM.\u00a0 The narration accompanying the CARTOON can describe, in great detail, the construction activity including the importation of construction materials, the quarrying of sand and gravel for concrete, the smelting of iron ore for steel beams, the logging and milling of trees for lumber, the hiring and training of construction workforce, etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p>However convincing a &#8216;reality&#8217; captured in this documentary, because of its VOYEUR representation mode, it can never move beyond its CARTOON status in that &#8216;what is going on&#8217; it is always &#8216;out there in front of us&#8217; and the workers always seem to be moving around as if they are &#8216;free things-in-themselves&#8217; driven by their internal instructions, as informed by some &#8216;master plan&#8217; or some previously acquired skills.<\/p>\n<p>AT SOME DEPTH WITHIN OURSELVES, we INTUITIVELY understand that this CARTOON activity we picture as &#8216;going on out in front of us&#8217; is contributory to the constructing of an intellectual SUBSTITUTE REALITY that liberates the CARTOON characters from the transforming relational continuum, and re-establishes them as LOGICAL OBJECTS participating in a VISIBLE CONSTRUCTION DYNAMIC.<\/p>\n<p>SUCH PSYCHE-INFORMING CARTOONS play the same role as &#8216;LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS&#8217; in Wittgenstein&#8217;s above comments.\u00a0 In other words, <strong><em>these CARTOONS are NOT to be taken literally;<\/em> &#8220;<em>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.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The high resolution filming of the construction of the TOWN is one of those THROW AWAY LADDERS.\u00a0\u00a0 The indigenous aboriginal people whose sense-experience is of inclusion in the transforming landscape, &#8216;see&#8217; (intuit) &#8216;the TOWN&#8217; as a TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, and NOT as some &#8216;LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF&#8217; accorded &#8216;its own local BEING&#8217; thanks to the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR of Standard Average European language constructions.<\/p>\n<p>In our sense-experience reality, THERE IS NO &#8220;LOCAL TOWN THAT IS GROWING&#8221;, &#8230; THERE IS ONLY &#8220;TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE&#8221; (i.e. in the transforming relational continuum aka the Wave-field aka the Tao).\u00a0 The MENTAL PICTURE of THE TOWN THAT IS GROWING is a VOYEUR VIEWABLE CARTOON that is not qualified as a SUBSTITUTE for the REALITY of TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH OUT!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> THE POINT IS THAT DIFFERENT language architectures induce intellectual understanding of sense-experience reality in different ways!\u00a0 THE CARTOON reality where we &#8220;SEE&#8221; ant-like workers swarming over the new TOWN-SITE and CONSTRUCTING the NEW TOWN is a CARTOON-like visual presentation, as could be captured in a DOCUMENTARY FILM, that gives us the impression that the TOWN is &#8216;under construction&#8217; and is GROWING LARGER and MORE POPULOUS as the new dwellings become OCCUPIED.<\/p>\n<p>Since the REAL REALITY (sense-experience reality) is that of TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, the CARTOON in which workers and residents are continually constructing new edifices and GROWING the LOCAL TOWN is a PICTURE-supported SUBSTITUTE REALITY that is INTELLECTUAL ABSTRACTION (hence &#8216;CARTOON&#8217;) that is NOT SENSE-EXPERIENCE SUPPORTED.<\/p>\n<p>In WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT SOCIETY, because the language architecture gives a foundational role to the abstract concept of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and development, by way of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, the CARTOON representations made thus available support the fabrication of a SUBSTITUTE REALITY which is LOCAL SORCERY based.\u00a0 No matter how convincing the documentary film footage of the CONSTRUCTION of the NEW TOWN, it remains, in ESSENCE, a CARTOON which is hijacking, in the psyche, and SUBSTITUTING FOR, the REAL REALITY of the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE (i.e. the transforming relational continuum).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>A\u00a0picture\u00a0held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.<\/strong> \u2013-Wittgenstein \u2013 Philosophical Investigations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have become STUCK within the &#8216;simplified&#8217; SUBSTITUTE REALITY of our own making; i.e. the TOOL of CARTOON based RE-presentation of reality has (as Emerson observes) &#8216;run away with the workman&#8217;).\u00a0 As in indigenous aboriginal languages and as in Bohm&#8217;s &#8216;Rheomode&#8217; language, there is no TOWN, there is only TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE. The concept of &#8216;the TOWN that is GROWING&#8217; is an artifact of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, a CARTOON.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0* * * END OF AUTHOR&#8217;S PREFACE * * *<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">T<\/span><\/em>he TURNING POINT for the WEST was RIGHT HERE where those who were influential in architecting our SAE (standard average Euopean) languages encountered the challenge to architecting language posed by our inclusion in a reality that is in continual flux;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>, since thus the laws of mechanics are expressible in a much simpler language.<\/em><\/strong><em>\u2014 Henri Poincar\u00e9, \u2018Science and Hypothesis\u2019, Ch. VII Relative Motion and Absolute Motion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once we design a language that makes a BINARY LOGICAL separation of the FIGURE from the GROUND we are on our way to CONSTRUCTION OF A SUBSTITUTE REALITY which is much SIMPLER than the reality of our sense-experience of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum.<\/p>\n<p>We use &#8216;language&#8217; to reduce our visual sensing of relational forms-in-the-flow to CARTOONS wherein the FIGURE is seemingly (thanks to NAMING and GRAMMAR, liberated from the GROUND.\u00a0 These CARTOONS can &#8216;hold us captive&#8217; so that we cannot &#8216;find our way back&#8217; to our natural sense of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum, but remain captives of a CARTOON world;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u00a0<em>A\u00a0picture\u00a0held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. \u2013-Wittgenstein \u2013 Philosophical Investigations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The SIMPLIFIER in our WESTERN CULTURE SAE language architecture is the injection of the abstract concept of SORCERY or in more euphemistic terms, LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments by way of (as Nietzsche has pointed out), the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.\u00a0 SORCERY is the accessory to the NAMING and GRAMMAR based CARTOONING of reality.<\/p>\n<p>Once we say \u2018the earth turns round\u2019, we hammer into the mind, BINARY LOGIC as the basis of our spoken (language-captured) SUBSTITUTE REALITY.\u00a0\u00a0 This WESTERN CULTURE spoken, or written, language-based REPRESENTATION of reality departs from our sense-experience reality once we choose the path of <strong><em>\u2018more convenient\u2019<\/em><\/strong> representation wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND are TWO instead of ONE.\u00a0 This split-up clears the way for a CARTOON like RE-PRESENTATION of our FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE sense-experience reality.\u00a0 When we say &#8216;the TOWN is GROWING, we PICTURE the TOWN as a CARTOON THING that is GROWING.<\/p>\n<p>Note that <strong><em>\u201cthe convenience\u201d<\/em><\/strong> in the statement; \u201c<strong><em>It is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round\u201d is the convenience of SUBSTITUTING a figure-and-ground-as-TWO CARTOON wherein (the EARTH and SPACE are RE-PRESENTED as TWO distinguishable ontological entities,. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In this case, the FIGURE-as-a thing-in-itself and the containing SPACE as a thing-in-itself), &#8230; are abstractions we SUBSTITUTE for the figure-and-ground-as-ONE NON-PICTURE-REPRESENTIBLE REALITY (such a &#8216;picture&#8217; would have to continue unbounded in spacetime)..\u00a0 A local picturable piece of reality is a CARTOON that is NOT REALITY (e.g. the CARTOON of Robin Hood removing grain from the King&#8217;s granary is NOT REALITY.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This NON-PICTURE-REPRESENTIBLE FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE reality is our basic sense-experience reality as understood through Modern physics and in indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism\/Buddhism and ADVAITA Vedanta.\u00a0 \u00a0Talking about it is beyond the scope of BINARY LOGIC and we instead need Quantum logic, the BOTH\/AND logic of the INCLUDED medium as can be intuited from the finding that;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>the elementary particles of matter are also, in their essence, nothing else than condensations of the electromagnetic field\u2014 Einstein, \u2018Ether and the Theory of Relativity\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the relationship between matter and field requires the BOTH\/AND logic of the INCLUDED medium and this is the general case in nature, it is misleading to construct representations of reality in FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO CARTOON terms.\u00a0\u00a0 Another way of saying this is that when we use FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO representation, we are constructing representations of a CARTOON-like SUBSTITUTE REALITY.\u00a0 The proposition \u2018The TOWN is GROWING\u2019 is an example of\u00a0 this CARTOON-like SUBSTITUTE REALITY wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-TWO.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If our language-based representations are to be consistent with the FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE REAL TREALITY, then we would have to say, there is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE which acknowledges the FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE reality supported by Modern physics.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding that \u2018there is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE is consistent with our sense experience of inclusion in that TRANSFORMING space, but not with our VOYEUR VISUAL OBSERVING \u201cOVER TIME\u201d where we can take a time sequence of mental visual snapshots of \u201cTHE TOWN\u201d and, so we say, \u2018SEE IT GROW\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>But from the understanding deriving from our sense experience of inclusion in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE or in other words from our sense experience of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum, what we understand is that the TRANSFORMATION is ALL-INCLUDING and the TOWNING is included in the TRANSFORMING.<\/p>\n<p>That is, our sense-experience-reality is \u2026. <strong><em>the experience of inclusion in a transforming relational continuum and it cannot be captured in language (the Tao that can be told is not the true Tao).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It bears repeating, for emphasis;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong><em>It is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round\u201d is the convenience of SUBSTITUTING a figure-and-ground-as-TWO PICTURABLE REPRESENTATION (the EARTH and SPACE are represented as TWO distinguishable ontological entities, the FIGURE-as-a thing-in-itself and the containing SPACE as a thing-in-itself) for a figure-and-ground-as-ONE NON-PICTURE-REPRESENTIBLE REALITY.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The VOYEUR view is a figure-and-ground-as-TWO PICTURABLE REPRESENTATION which serves up a kind of caricature of reality, a SUBSTITUTE REALITY as in the case of \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019 which is, as Nietzsche has pointed out, the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.\u00a0 Because we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS accept propositions such as \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019 as reality when it is in fact only an abstract SUBSTITUTE REALITY, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS run into trouble in our using this SUBSTITUTE REALITY for our OPERATIVE REALITY.\u00a0 We think that it is \u201cTRUE\u201d that \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019 and think we are the AUTHORS of that growth and it may be TRUE in the sense of BINARY LOGIC based TRUTH with its EITHER \u2018IS\u2019 OR \u2018IS NOT\u2019 CHOICES.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Goedel\u2019s Theorem reminds us, <strong><em>all such (finite) logical truth propositions<\/em><\/strong> are incomplete, and in this case, while IT IS TRUE THAT THE TOWN IS GROWING, it is also a radically INCOMPLETE TRUTH because it leaves out the CONJUGATE SHRINKAGE OF THE WILDERNESS, which is necessary to bring home the full REALITY which is that the LANDSCAPE is TRANSFORMING.<\/p>\n<p>What is UNVEILING ITSELF here is that there is both a HIGH ROAD and a LOW ROAD to LANGUAGE-BASED REPRESENTATION; i.e. <strong><em>the FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE<\/em><\/strong> basis of representation where we say <strong><em>\u2018there is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which preserves the <strong><em>NON-PICTURABLE<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>FLUID<\/em><\/strong> nature of reality, and the <strong><em>FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO<\/em><\/strong> basis of representation where we say <strong><em>\u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019<\/em><\/strong> which is a <strong><em>PICTURABLE SUBSTITUTE REALITY <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>MODERN PHYSICS corrects the WESTERN CULTURE choice of the PICTURABLE DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR based representation of a SUBSTITUTE REALITY<\/em><\/strong> but Modern physics philosophers such as David Bohm believed they had to come up with <strong><em>a NEW LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE wherein the representations were able to capture the NON-PICTURABLE<\/em><\/strong> in order to do so.\u00a0 This was the flow-based language architecture termed Rheomode by David Bohm who late in his life discovered that the indigenous aboriginal languages such as Algonquin had \u2018already been there, done that\u2019.\u00a0 That is, the indigenous aboriginal languages employ a representation wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE, as in the NON-PICTURABLE flow-based reality of our sense-experience.<\/p>\n<p>We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have been thoroughly, over generations, socially and culturally conditioned in language-based constructing of PICTURABLE SUBSTITUTE REALITIES based on BINARY LOGIC as in the \u2018more convenient\u2019 representation wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-TWO.\u00a0 Thanks to this SIMPLIFICATION (in language-based representations), we can THINK OF <strong><em>THE FIGURE <\/em><\/strong>as if it were a LOCAL, INDEPENDENT <strong><em>THING-IN-ITSELF<\/em><\/strong>, with <strong><em>\u201cits own\u201d GRAMMAR-given powers of AUTHORING actions and developments<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Once we grow from infancy getting culturally conditioned in this manner to PICTURABLE language constructs, it is NOT EASY to liberate our intellect from this OVER-SIMPLISTIC, BINARY LOGIC based way of building language-based SUBSTITUTE REALITY representations.\u00a0 In a flow-based language, what we inferred to be a TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, would, IN OUR BINARY LOGIC based language, be captured in PICTURABLE terms such as \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019 where each new element constituting this GROWTH can be explicitly pointed out<\/p>\n<p>Once we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS start thinking in these abstract BINARY LOGIC based terms, we start conceiving of \u2018THE TOWN\u2019 as a thing-in-itself which can GROW \u2018in its own right\u2019 (as if it were situated within an absolute empty and infinite containing space &#8212; an abstract illusion).\u00a0\u00a0 In our delusion triggered by this illusion, we LOSE TOUCH WITH THE ACTUAL REALITY of TRANSFORMATION wherein the \u201cGROWTH\u201d of the \u201cTOWN\u201d is CONJUGATE with the \u201cSHRINKING\u201d of the \u201cWILDERNESS\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>TRANSFORMATION cannot be EXPLICITLY captured in PICTURES as GROWTH can be.\u00a0 TRANSFORMATION seems to be smeared throughout everything (as one might expect with field-based phenomena) While GROWTH can be identified as the DIFFERENCE between an EARLIER and LATER version of THE SAME THING.\u00a0 The key here is the \u201cSAME THING\u201d ASSUMPTION.\u00a0 This assume that ONTOLOGICALLY PERSISTING THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES are possible, although such a concept is abstraction deriving from the persistence of NAMING-based IDENTITY in the intellectually abstracting mind.<\/p>\n<p>While TRANSFORMATION is the REALITY and it is NONLOCAL, IMPLICIT and cannot be EXPLICITLY CAPTURED in PICTURES, our FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO BINARY LOGIC is much kinder to us and serves up for us, a SUBSTITUTE REALITY where we \u201cPICTURE\u201d in our mind\u2019s eye \u2018THE TOWN\u201d and by comparing a sequence of \u2018PICTURES-OF-THE-TOWN\u2019 we \u201cSEE\u201d the \u201cTOWN GROW\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BUT WHO SAID THAT THERE ARE \u2018THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES\u2019 THAT ARE THE \u2018SAME\u2019 THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES\u2019 SUCH THAT WE CAN SNAP A SERIES OF PICTURES OF THEM AND ASSUME THAT WE CAN COMPARE THE PICTURES TO CAPTURE \u2018CHANGE IN THEM\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>Heraclitus \u2018has Modern physics on his side\u2019 when he observes that \u2018One can\u2019t step into the same river twice because it is not the river and not the same person stepping into it\u2019 (everything is in flux).\u00a0 In this case, THE TOWN CAN\u2019T GROW because the TOWN is instead the TOWNING in the TRANFORMING RELAITONAL CONTINUUM and the FIGURE-and-GROUND (TOWNING and TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE) are just \u2018ONE\u2019 and NOT \u2018TWO\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>So, the reality is that \u201cTOWNS DO NOT GROW\u201d, \u2026 the reality is that \u201cLANDSCAPES TRANSFORM\u201d, the latter understanding including both MALE and FEMALE conjugates in ONE dynamic; i.e. the MALE ASSERTING GROWTH of the TOWN and the FEMALE OPENING and ACCOMMODATING RECEPTION of the WILDERNESS.\u00a0 It is not possible to have the GROWTH of the TOWN without a conjugate REDUCTION of WILDERNESS, but in saying this, I am \u2018IN THE REALITY OF SENSE EXPERIENCE\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 As far as things go \u2018IN THE BINARY LOGIC SUBSTITUTE REALITY OF GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION\u2019, \u2026 it is perfectly possible to \u201cONE-SIDE\u201d the representation and construct a purely MALE-ASSERTIVE PICTURE of the GROWTH of the TOWN wherein the shrinkage of WILDERNESS is entirely ignored.\u00a0 In fact,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It is more convenient to suppose the TOWN GROWS, since thus the laws of mechanics are expressible in a much simpler language. <\/em><\/strong>the same point as made by <em>Henri Poincar\u00e9, \u2018Science and Hypothesis\u2019, Ch. VII Relative Motion and Absolute Motion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One may try and devise one\u2019s own language and then see how things get complicated when, if one makes a change to the representation, it changes everything; i.e. the first house built on the planet changes the whole planetary landscape because, in the reality of our sense-experience, we don\u2019t have an absolute Euclidian space frame that we can isolate our house construction within, so that our \u2018house construction\u2019 is NOT A LOCAL, EXPLICIT THING-IN-ITSELF kind of development, but, as the indigenous aboriginal would see it, it is a TRANSFORMATION of the overall spatial relational continuum wherein \u2018everything is in flux\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>IF we develop a language architecture that lets us speak in terms of \u2018the TOWN IS GROWING\u2019 instead of acknowledging the REALITY wherein THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, then it is clear how this LOCALIZING of the dynamic simplifies the task of language based representation; i.e.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><em>It is more convenient to suppose the TOWN GROWS, since thus the laws of mechanics are expressible in a much simpler language.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201claws of mechanics\u201d in this case, BINARY LOGIC, enable the notion of the FIGURE being an INDEPENDENT THING-IN-ITSELF that is capable of MOVEMENT and\/or GROWTH \u201cIN ITS OWN RIGHT\u201d, thanks to the implicit absolute, empty and infinite containing space that is implied by BINARY LOGIC based phraseology wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-TWO.\u00a0 Who among us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS \u2018blinks an eye\u2019 on hearing expressions such as \u2018the TOWN is GROWING larger and more populous and productive\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>However, such a proposition amounts to construction of a BINARY LOGIC based SUBSTITUTE REALITY wherein \u2018the TOWN\u2019 is presented as a LOCAL, INDEPENDENTLY-EXISTING THING-IN-ITSELF that is capable of GROWTH IN-ITS-OWN-RIGHT, as if it were situated within an absolute empty and infinite containing space, instead of, as our sense-experience affirms, within the FIGURE-AND-GROUND-AS-ONE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.<\/p>\n<p>Bohm\u2019s, and Modern physics requirement for a flow-based language, goes back to the basics of our sense experience wherein there is no such thing as a FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO based \u201creality\u201d, an abstract SUBSTITUTE REALITY deriving from the consideration; <strong><em>It is more convenient to suppose the TOWN GROWS, since thus the laws of mechanics are expressible in a much simpler language.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imagine if we were a mixed culture group of language architects and we had the job of describing, in words and grammar, the reality of the WHOLE NONLOCAL AND IMPLICITLY TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.\u00a0 Our group discussion might have gone like this;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indigenous aboriginal:<\/strong> I believe we need a relational language because everything is in flux and if we use words which imply fixed ontology to signify a \u2018local form\u2019, from the moment we NAME it, it is moving on to become something other than when we NAMED it\u00a0 As we know from our sense experience, everything is in flux, even mountains and valleys are included in the ongoing transformation and all things are related such that the valley are not two separate ontologies.\u00a0 \u00a0We need a RELATIONAL or FLOW based language that is without dependence on word-based abstractions that imply ontological persistence of PICTURABLE THING-IN-ITSELF BEING so as to secure our sense-experience of inclusion in the transforming flow-continuum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Western culture man<\/strong>: The utility of language lies in how well it opens up our ability for sharing our observations and experiences, in which case, the simpler we can make the language, the more we open up the scope of sharing, even if what we are sharing are representations that are not those which are most true but those which are most easy to capture and share.\u00a0 A language which is based on NAMING and GRAMMAR radically simplifies the task of constructing shareable representations since it allows us to BREAK OUT the FIGURE from the GROUND and to construct PICTURABLE representations that concentrate on the FIGURE and its actions and developments.\u00a0 Why try to cover the whole world with leather and address NONLOCAL issues when we can strap leather on our own feet and address the LOCAL issues as and where we need to?\u00a0 The GROWTH of the TOWN is far simpler to address than the TRANSFORMATION of the LANDSCAPE. \u00a0In addition, the GROWTH of the TOWN can be captured in a series of pictures of the TOWN provided one assumes that the TOWN is the SAME TOWN (i.e. that one \u2018can step into the same river twice\u2019)..<\/p>\n<p>As we now know, this issue led to the TWO SEPARATE EAST and WEST CULTURE FOLLOWERSHIPS, the BINARY LOGIC of FIGURE and GROUND-as-TWO based SUBSTITUTE REALITY CONSTRUCTION continuing to be the dominant choice within the WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENCY.\u00a0 Thus, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS continue to construct language based representations in the form of SUBSTITUTE REALITIES such as \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019, whereas EASTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, now supported by Modern physics, continue to construct language-based representations in the form of relational TRANSFORMATION such as TOWNING-in-the-TRANSFORMING-LANDSCAPE, so that FIGURE-and-GROUND-remain-as-ONE (so that one CANNOT step into the same river twice), and there is NO BINARY LOGIC based BREAKDOWN into FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO, as in our WESTERN CULTURE SUBSTITUTE REALITY.<\/p>\n<p>THE RESULT:\u00a0 While the EAST understanding is in the NON-BINARY \u2018QUANTUM LOGIC\u2019 based FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE terms of TOWNING-in-the TRANSFORMING-LANDSCAPE, the WEST understanding is in the BINARY LOGIC based FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO terms of \u2018the TOWN is GROWING larger and more populous and productive\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>How should we COMPARIATIVLEY APPRAISE these two (NON-BINARY versus BINARY) modes of representation?\u00a0\u00a0 In our WESTERN CULTURE BINARY LOGIC based representation preference, we are able to invest in much more LOCAL DETAIL in regard to the GROWING TOWN because we only have to address what is going on in THE TOWN, since we are using BINARY LOGIC to split it out of the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE and recast it as an abstract LOCAL TOWN-THING-IN-ITSELF with its own GRAMMAR-given powers of AUTHORING actions and development.<\/p>\n<p>The TOWN is something we can capture PICTURES of \u2018over time\u2019 so as to assess its GROWTH assuming that there is such a thing as ontological persistence associated with the forms we attach NAMES to.\u00a0 On the other hand, if everything is in flux, then \u2018the TOWN can\u2019t step into the same LANDSCAPE twice, for it is not the same TOWN and it is not the same LANDSCAPE.<\/p>\n<p>As indigenous aboriginal who have opted for the NON-BINARY representation in terms a TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, we are faced with an ALL-or-NOTHING situation because everything is related (\u201cmitakuye oyasin\u201d) and when there in changing in the TOWNING there is overall TRANSFORMATION because the reality is that FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE and the TOWNING is something WE DISTINGUISH within the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.\u00a0 That is, we EASTERN CULTURE flow-based language users DISTINGUISH \u2018the TOWNING\u2019 by APPEARANCE without imposing on it ONTOLOGIC INDEPENDENCE.\u00a0 In this case, the relations basis of the language architecture doesn\u2019t have us \u2018painting ourselves into a corner\u2019 by imposing FIXED AND PERMANENT IDENTITY by way of the NAMING process as in WESTERN CULTURE FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO (BINARY LOGIC BASED) language architecture tradition..<\/p>\n<p>As Poincar\u00e9 implied, there is a downside to the \u201cmore convenient\u201d benefit that comes from the BINARY LOGIC based language architecture;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It is more convenient to suppose the TOWN GROWS, since thus the laws of mechanics are expressible in a much simpler language<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In other words, when we talk about \u2018the mechanics\u2019 of constructing the TOWN as associates with its GROWTH, \u2026 WE CAN DROP OUT the real phenomenon wherein the LANDSCAPE IS TRANSFORMING and stick with the SUBSTITUTE REALITY where we only have to speak in terms of LOCAL CHANGE as in the details of the GROWTH of the TOWN as if it were a LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF with its own GRAMMAR-given powers of AUTHORING GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT.\u00a0 This LIGHTENS OUR LOAD, as far as language-based representation goes, CONSIDERABLY, because, in reality, what is going on is the TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE and that requires an infinity of words to describe because it is unbounded in spacetime; i.e. it is the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM aka the Wave-field aka the Tao.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS ARISING from our use of this BINARY LOGIC based reduction we use to construct a SUBSTITUTE REALITY wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-TWO?<\/p>\n<p>FORGETFULNESS is a major PROBLEM.\u00a0 So long as we are THINKING in terms of the SUBSTITUTE REALITY wherein the GROWTH of the TOWN is taken to be REALITY, we are not, at the same time, thinking of the CONJUGATE REDUCTION of the WILDERNESS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since there are FINANCIAL BENEFITS arising from activities associated with the GROWTH of the TOWN, these FUEL MORE GROWTH even though there is no such thing, in sense-experience reality, as GROWTH, there is only TRANSFORMATION.\u00a0 Thus, TRANSFORMATION become a loose sheet flapping in the gale as activity orients to GROWTH which is ABSTRACTION; i.e. GROWTH IS NOT WHAT IS GOING ON, WHAT IS GOING ON IS TRANSFORMATION of the LANDSCAPE.<\/p>\n<p>BUT IF THERE IS PROFIT IN CONTRIBUTING TO GROWTH, why get philosophical and question the legitimacy of the concept of GROWTH?\u00a0 One reason why that it is taking the unquestioning believers in GROWTH and everyone else as well, on a bus trip to hell since WHAT IS REALLY UNFOLDING IS TRANSFORMATION which is now flapping wildly about lake a sail with a loose sheet in a gale, because of the WESTERN CUTURE ADHERENT orienting to the pursuit of GROWTH in what is conceived to be HUMAN AUTHORED GROWTH of construction and production, as if such GROWTH were something REAL.\u00a0 But if we CAN SEE THE TOWN GROWING and speak of this as if it were a REALITY, then the reality of TRANSFORMATION of the LANDSCAPE simply disappears from view, having been replaced by the SUBSTITUTE REALITY featuring the GROWTH of the TOWN as if the BINARY LOGIC based FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO abstract depiction of the TOWN were REAL.<\/p>\n<p>FOLKS, and by this I mean WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT friends and family, \u2026 WE HAVE OUR LADDER UP THE WRONG WALL.\u00a0 There is no such thing as GROWTH, there is only TRANSFORMATION.\u00a0\u00a0 GROWTH is an artifact of BINARY LOGIC wherein we split FIGURE and GROUND -into-TWO using the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, as pointed out by Nietzsche.\u00a0 The TOWN and COUNTRY ARE NOT TWO, although our DOUBLE ERROR language lets us speak as if this were the case.<\/p>\n<p>SURE, it is simpler to speak of the GROWTH of the TOWN using BINARY LOGIC as if FIGURE-and-GROUND-were-TWO so that we can discuss what is going on with the TOWN as if in its own right, because, otherwise, we have to deal with the unbounded TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.<\/p>\n<p>The Modern physics and indigenous aboriginal approach is <strong><em>STICK WITH LANGUAGE THAT IS IN RELATIONAL TERMS<\/em><\/strong> without introducing the abstraction of NAMING-instantiated THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES like \u2018TOWNS\u2019 which one then has to animate with GRAMMAR as if they exist as things-in-their own right.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><em>So long as NAMING refers to fluid forms, as with TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, we avoid CONSTRUCTING ABSTRACT SUBSTITUTE REALITIES such as where \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>(forcing us to INVENT a NOTIONAL absolute empty and infinite containing space for our GROWING TOWN to operate in, such as a Euclidian space frame)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HOW TO SUM THIS UP:<\/p>\n<p>BINARY LOGIC lets us construct language based representations that split FIGURE-and-GROUND into TWO so that we don\u2019t have to address, in our language based constructions of reality, the entire TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, but enables us to reduce our representation to addressing only LOCAL FORMS such as \u2018TOWNS\u2019 and since we have split them out and their changing is no longer handled in the broader context of their inclusion in the transforming relational continuum, we need A GRAMMAR that can deal with change on this ONE-OFF basis of the notional (NAMING-instantiated) LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF, hence \u2018the TOWN is GROWING\u2019 reconstitutes the change aspect which is implicit in TRANSFORMATION which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT.<\/p>\n<p>The burden of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR is the price we pay to dodge the reality of the transforming relational continuum which, as far as language based representation goes, presents us with challenge of representing the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT not to mention INFINITE as are the parameters of the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.\u00a0 By breaking this down into LOCAL PIECES as we break down \u201cTOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE\u2019 in the \u2018the TOWN that is GROWING larger and more populous and productive\u2019, \u2026 we are forced to package up with the TOWN this local AUTHORING capability as part of the ABSTRACT LOCALIZING SUBSTITUTE REALITY CONSTRUCTION.\u00a0 That is, this is a SUBSTITUTE REALITY we are constructing with our BINARY LOGIC splitting of FIGURE-and-GROUND-into-TWO and we have to follow through with the invention of a scheme for LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments, which would otherwise be incorporated within the overall transforming relational continuum.<\/p>\n<p>This SUBSTITUTE REALITY that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS INVENT is FAR SIMPLER than our sense-experience reality and far easier to speak about and share with one another, but then, of course, IT IS NOT REALITY, it is only a SUBSTITUTE REALITY that we have simplified for user convenience.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It is more convenient to suppose the TOWN GROWS, since thus the laws of mechanics are expressible in a much simpler language<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this case the simplification to the \u2018laws of mechanics\u2019 refers to the fact that in using language based representations of the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM just to \u2018get to\u2019 address this local FORMING as in this TOWNING in the TANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, one would have to articulate the entire transforming relational continuum since that is the REALITY and it is ONE THING and not REALLY divisible into separate pieces as implied by THE TOWN IS GROWING.<\/p>\n<p>So, what we are talking about here are TWO DIFFERENT REALITIES, the first reality is the sense -experience reality that can\u2019t be captured with a finite word-string because it is an ongoing relational continuum that is not broken up into local pieces.\u00a0\u00a0 What we INEFFCT ARE DOING WITH OUR DOUBLE ERROR NAMING AND GRAMMAR CONSTRUCTIONS is the building of a SUBSTITUTE REALITY wherein we can ENVISAGE the \u2018GROWING TOWN\u2019 but at the cost of \u2018NOT BIENG ABLE TO SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES\u2019 (not being able to see the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE for the sprouting up of LOCAL TOWNS as in abstract FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO BINARY LOGIC SPLITTING).<\/p>\n<p>THE SUBSTITUTE REALITY THUS \u2018TAKES OVER\u2019 as the OPERATIVE REALITY\u00a0 even though it is only the FIGURE aspect of the FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO, BINARY LOGICAL SPLIT OUT of the FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE reality of our sense experience.<\/p>\n<p>WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have become LOST in our own abstract SUBSTITUTE REALITY CONSTRUCTION where we regard LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments per the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING-and-GRAMMAR, as THE OPERATIVE REALITY.<\/p>\n<p>This is a recipe for social dysfunction which manifests in many ways in WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENCE, including Pre-modern physics science and politics which are ridden with BINARY LOGIC based SUBSTITUTE REALITIES that imply LOCAL SOURCING of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS (Local \u2018SORCERY\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; AUTHOR&#8217;S PREFACE: Language that has a dependency on the abstract voyeur viewable concept of LOCAL THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES is &#8216;not up to the task&#8217; of capturing the REALITY of an all-including transforming relational continuum wherein everything is in flux. 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