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I had been musing to my friend Rob on my difficulty of finding the kinds of people that stimulate energetic exchange. He offered:
Stop looking and do something that others will be attracted to. Be a magnet.
Brilliant!
While I was busy looking, I wasn’t emitting the vibe for others to hone in on. I consumed but wasn’t passing anything on.
Attraction
Conceive a field of attractivity like gravity, but for information.
Gravity pushes outwards from the emitting body and has the effect of attraction. Ideas or information flow outwards from the emitting body and also has the attracting effect. In both cases, attraction spawns interplay / interference / interdependent cause and effect / co-reconfiguration / interlinking / interconnectedness. Since each as these are now in deep interplay with the rest of the universe. We’re all built of each other. We’re all parts of a larger context. Or ultimately, one.
I would say that attraction is a continuum of interconnection-building. Going further, I’d say that it’s the axis of connectedness. The dimension of connectedness.
[how far above spacetime a dimension would this be?]
higher-dimensional web of interconnection
we exist in a deeply interwoven surround
energetic exchanges: To explore and exchange ideas and their patterns, in short: conceptions. [Isn’t this what we do in every exchange?]
You know, the feedback loop you get into when you’re feeding off each other, both “on”, being affected while affecting. exchange ideas and patterns
Resonating together
We say sometimes it just “clicks”. A mutual attraction that’s like harmonics, resonating together.
We see the power of this idea in intensively attractive […] of the information exchange platforms like the Internet. How do we communicate? Through information.
Until just a moment ago on the scale of our development, we could only be influenced by and influence the environment geographically near
shortens the
extends the connection making from synaptic brain to all that people eccentrify.
Eccentrify. I just made that up, but it resonates a concept I’m not sure there is already a word for.
To me, to be eccentric is to pluck from the best you know and emit it as a composite. That in turn affects the next guy’s eccentric composite. And so on…
So I offer:
Eccentrify
v. To participate in the meme flow
Upstream and downstream, it has a cohesiveness to it. You could say it’s pseudo-organic. Memes begin, reach the zenith of their energetisism and effect on others, and morph over time from distinct energies into their consequences on everything else.
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The question of free will (whether we control our actions and decisions) irks me. I’m completely uncomfortable with the conclusion that we don’t have it. Yet for all the reasoning I do, I deduce causation and determinism.
Like those first faced with evidence that the earth isn’t the center of the universe, I doggedly believe in what’s intuitive. When what’s intuitive changes, we have a paradigm shift. And I think we’re close.
We may have intuitively said that the heavenly bodies move across our sky. But from another perspective, we say our planet spins and orbits and that this movement changes our window on the sky as we move relative to them. Both are valid realities that exist relative to differing perspectives.
Premises
For this discussion, I’ll posit:
All states in lower dimensions flow deterministically from the states of higher dimensions.
and
We choose which cross-section of the omniverse to construct our reality from.
Considering that as we shift the context upwards in dimensions, we eventually have a context that is inclusive of every possible state in every possible timeline that had every possible starting condition and so on. Let’s call this field of infinite possibilities the omniverse.
Yet we don’t perceive infinity. When we think of reality, we perceive a slice of infinity. Some finite part of the omiverse; let’s call it the universe.
If you think that you are your 3D body then this can be a difficult conception. But if you step back and look at yourself across time, you see that your seemingly tangible body is a continuum from womb to grave. Which one of those bodies is you? I’d say they all are. So “I” am at least a 4D being. If I limit my self conception to 4D spacetime, this implies there was a time when I didn’t exist. Was this at conception? Well, I can trace the acts that led to conception, so I could say that I am a continuation of what came before. Long before. Humans evolved from mammals which evolved from some other terrestrial life, which came from the sea, which emerged from chemistry, which occurred because of particular configurations of particles, which occurred because of the big bang.
The entirety of my reality is a function of the starting conditions of the universe. Really, these starting conditions are just different slices of 6D space. […]
But I believe that there is free will and that we exercise it in higher dimensional context.
Go ahead, watch it, it’ll help you conceive what we’re discussing.
Events are instantaneous in 3D space but set at intervals planck’s distance apart in 4D spacetime. Imagine the event’s timeline: everything that led up to it and everything that will flow from it. Put another way, its entire causal chain. Now you’re visualizing a 4D object in spacetime.
Depending on your perspective, a 2D plane could also be conceived as a slice, its 3D equivalent. While both abstractions represent the same object, the latter puts it in a broader context. We can extend the equivalency up to higher dimensions, where 3D space is a slice of the 4th dimension spacetime. Or 4D spacetime is a slice of 5D spacetimechoice.
Spacetimechoice is what I’ll call the contents of 5 dimensional space, having an axis each of: width, height, depth, time, choice.
Interesting. Choice? I believe that the state of the causal / deterministic “universe” in a given dimension precipitates from the position in the dimension above.
“the position”? Imagine a selector. One that let you focus in on a particular 2D plane / slice of 3D space. You’ve created a context. That context’s universe has two extents / axes / dimensions. From within, you can perceive the context as a 2D universe. But you can also conceive it from the outside. It’s a small slice of 3D space. The smallest slice possible.
In trying to understand the mechanisms / physical laws / motivations / causes of the state of things in one context, it’s helpful to look at the higher dimensional context that it is a selection of. In the 2D context, we see the mysterious dot appear, grow into a circle, shrink back to a dot, and disappear; but looking at the context from the dimension above in 3D, we see the ball (a hollow sphere) moving across the 2D context.
This gets even more interesting when you extend the notion of causation to its environment / higher dimensional context. The causal chain is not constrained dimensionally. Our 2D mystery is a result of the movement of a simple object in 3D. The way things currently are in 3D is a result of our position in the 4th extent / axis / dimension: time. Likewise, the way things are in 4D spacetime is a result of our position in the 5th dimension.
What would a change of position / selection in the 5th dimension do to the 4D context? Change it. Possibly every particle at every time is different. Possibly just one quanta at just one time is different. Actually, in 5D, there’s a slice for every possible 4D arrangement. As enormous as 3D space is to a 2D plane. Inconceivable. Or maybe it is conceivable; Aren’t we?
Normal movement is progressive and linear. That is, to get from somewhere to somewhere else, we have to pass through all the intervening positions. Another way to think about “passing through” positions is the movement of the selector in the dimension above. From within the context, there is a progression of position. Viewed from outside / in the dimension above there is also simple movement. But this higher dimensional movement is changing the 2D cross-section of 3D space.
An entire dimension is a slice of the dimension above.
A line in one dimension is a [point? / movement] in the dimension above.
A point in one dimension is a […] in the dimension above.
Starting again with our 2D plane, let’s move from the point / position at (width1 x height1) to (width2 x height2). We can’t just instantly jump there. We need the aid of the dimension above to move. In 3D space, this movement is along the 4th axis, time. You pass through each quanta of both dimensions.
If you want to get from here to there in 3D space, the progression happens in 4D.
There could have been a movement in a higher dimension. Or not.
In the same way …
Einstein showed that space and time are different axies of the same thing. Thinking about time as just another dimension of extents / distances rather than a different concept than space
information and energy of …
Choice is a Context Selector from Infinite Potentiality / Choice is a context selector of potentials …
In each moment, what we focus on stimulates us. We connect our experience of the sense data with any related previous experiences that our pattern-matching minds find.
The broader the set of experiences we have to connect with, the greater the context within which we can place / understand the new experience.
It’s easy to find yourself focused into a frame of reference that extends just a few days into the past and a few more into the future. Perhaps you “think long term” and have a context of a few years, decades or centuries. In his outstanding book A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson goes further:
If you imagine the 4.5 billion odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.m. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.
Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a dip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flashbulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It’s a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long.
Perhaps an even more effective way of grasping our extreme recentness as a part of this 4.5-billion-year-old picture is to stretch your arms to their fullest extent and imagine that width as the entire history of the Earth. On this scale, according to John McPhee in Basin and Range, the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist of the other is Precambrian. All of complex life is in one hand, “and in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.”
That sure broadens ones’ perspective.
Yet while earth’s 4.5 billion years stretch almost exactly a third across the 13.7 billion years since the big bang, it may represent just one 4 dimensional slice / plane / membrane / brane in 5th dimensional space.
offer an eye-opening way to visualize and conceptualize higher dimensions. Conceive this:
, Bill Bryson goes further: