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The Playground of Consciousness
Part 2: Expanding the Playground
by Jeffrey Sax
April 24th, 2001
We will talk about patterns as the fundamental components of the information
cosmos, how they interact and are transformed through resonance, and how
consciousness is the active agent in this process.
We will then bring this abstract theoretical framework into the world of matter.
We will discuss a very general model of how consciousness uses different types
of patterns to create matter. We will show how resonance helps organize the
infinite choice of possible worlds.
Science works by building models of reality using 'ideal' forms. Every
real-world object is stripped down to its "bare essence" to make it conform to
an ideal form in the model. In this introductory article for this week, I will
argue that much can be gained by looking at concepts in an expansive rather
than a reductive fashion. The true essence of an object lies in the infinite
variety of its expressions, the very aspect western science strips away.
The 'stuff' of the Kosmos, that which always has been, is, and will be, is information.
We describe how you can look at everything as an information pattern or simply
a pattern. We show why the expansive use of concepts proposed in the
first section makes sense.
Consciousness then enters the picture as the action of the Kosmos.
Consciousness has one function: to transform and organize information into new
patterns.
Where the previous section was very theoretical, this last section is very
practical. We will look at our own consciousness and how it uses different
patterns to form physical reality. This has far-reaching implications.
Introduction |
Experiments and Experience |
Expanding the Playground |
The Dynamics of Creation