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The more one thinks about the oil and water interaction
patterns, the more intriguing they become. They resemble other natural
entities but are uniquely themselves. They display the relationships
involved in their spontaneous self-organization but would never have existed
without my collaboration. The pieces below investigate the meaning and
significance of these patterns using perspectives from both philosophy and
science. They are arranged in a progression but each piece has
implications for all the others; think of them like spokes on a revolving wheel,
each blurring into all the others.
"THE ROUGHNESS OF TIMESPACE" "THE VERY STRUCTURE THAT IS TIME" "INTENTION AND OBSERVATION" "THE STRUCTURE OF DESIRE" "TOWARD A THEORY OF PATTERN" "TEDDY: MAPPING AND SUSPENSION"
For there to be anything, there must be difference, nonuniformity, roughness. If everything was the same it would make no difference whether it was or it wasn't. Nonuniformity of matter/energy determines the timespace field. Yet we are in that field, so perception of time and space depends on perspective... the eye of the beholder... If anything happens, from a given perspective, it happens in a sequence. This happens, allowing that to happen, but then something else no longer can. The path chosen...
Once a path is taken, from a given perspective, things happen either together or not together, depending on duration. It's all in the timing... What can happen, and the timing of it, can only occur in response to what is already there. Being directs its own growth, becoming the possible... Me and not me. Intentional sculpture versus natural structure. Am I making it all up, or what is really "out there"? How can I find out? We can perceive and discriminate, or we can experience and participate. Mathematics as sensory perspective...
Red diagram from Ian Stewart, "Does God Play Dice?", and yellow diagram from Fritjof Capra, "The Tao of Physics." What can I find out? "What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning" (Werner Heisenberg). Some questions give better answers than others... If it is really "out there" and I'm not all alone, it should be there more than once. Keeping the faith... What do we want from our investigations? Is the "shape" between our desires and our observations something we can use? Symbolization, model-making... What we think we "own" may not be what we now need, or what we actually have. We may not like it, but change is. The intertwining... what we want and what we get. New perspective, new differences, new actions, all requiring new models, go back and do it again and again... And even if we cling to the old, we still get the new... Perspective and speculations on death...
Upper diagram from Ian Stewart, "Does God Play Dice?", and lower diagram from Fritjof Capra, "The Tao of Physics".
"THE ROUGHNESS OF TIMESPACE"
For there to be anything, there must be difference, nonuniformity, roughness. If everything was the same it would make no difference whether it was or it wasn't. Nonuniformity of matter/energy determines the timespace field. Yet we are in that field, so perception of time and space depends on perspective... the eye of the beholder...
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