Universl Recusrive Grammar of being
DECLARATIVE -
Each of the three sections are a theory itself, relating to consciousness in their own way, and culminate into a cohesive model for the consciousness, perception, experience, understanding, and expression of reality.
This is a system of adaptation that expresses how and why people create internal symbolic structures, which are models of meaning, perception and experience, which are a simulacrum of the internal / external world, as to orient and make that internal / external world navigable. Religions / myths / areligious worldviews are each internal adaptations to external environments. So are all languages, and all systems of thought and expression.
Religions, worldviews, myths, systems are adaptive processes rooted in innate / instinctual functions, survival and wonder, which are the primary mechanisms that begin the process. The process matches the structure and behavior of the natural observable laws of fractal recursion, feedback loops, wave interference and collapse, and chaotic sensitivity to chaotic conditions, which the natural world operate under. Consciousness as a process may be our inheritance from the natural world, but even without the word consciousness, the System / Model articulates processes correlating in how we experience reality, and the natural world.
SECTIONS
Section 1 – Terminology
Section 2 -Will, Word, World
Section 3 – ICOC -In Context of Consciousness
Section 4 – Boundary Condition, Pattern System
Section 5 – How It Came to Be
SECTION 1 - TERMS
Symbol - a symbol is a half-known sign, a representation that carries meaning and not just direction or instruction. A unit of meaning. Any unit of meaning.
Experience of symbol - the feeling of awe, wonder, fear, related to the sign that whereby a sign becomes a symbol through a psycho-emotional experience that bypasses conscious thought, that resonates with something in an individual from the inside or is outside their frame of perception. This is the process of gaining meaning. The symbol is then constellated with the existing symbols until a balance is reached.
Sign -a representation of information or direction. A unit of information or direction, with the purpose of orienting strictly in the rational mode.
Sign into Symbol as Core – the transition of a sign, which is something with only information gains psycho-experiential resonance via outside to in, realization, or experience outside of the bounds of comprehension.
Symbol to Sign – is the process of understanding, from the subjective to the objective. I do believe we humans understood more in meaning than utility for most of humankind, where history is the evolution of seeing the world as sign after it has been digested from the subjective, from the symbol.
Libido – procreative energy, both of the psyche and of physical procreative energy. This is the energy that fills the symbol, and gives it shape. As a psychologically procreative flow of energy. In a similar way to how humans have a drive to physically reproduce, all symbols are composed of multiple other symbols, and the creation of and integration of symbols is both a birth and a death, bonding.
Trauma / Traumatic Event – an experience outside comprehension,
This also applies to any stress to the internal symbolic structure that is outside of its comprehension, ability to identify, understand and integrate.
Clash – of the existing symbolic structure, usually parts of it that most related to the new symbol.
Constellation – of that new symbol with the existing symbolic structure.
Absorption / equilibrium – the new balance of the symbolic structure including the new symbol in an understood and contextualized way.
Experiencer - the person or group that is affecting meaning and affected by meaning. One with will, that exists, in inertia of ground and figure.
Ground – the environment, as static. A set of meaning in which figure, expression which is drawn from for expression.
Field - as a ground, which is drawn from to compose expression / figure, and or new symbols and is expressed into.
Ground Field - the idea that the ground is recursive, that it feeds expression and is fed by that expression. This perfectly matches the boundary condition / pattern system.
Figure - the emergence out of the ground, as figure, or expression with meaning.
(In this system all forms of figure/expression have meaning.
Will – innate intent of being, that because we exist in a ground field with previously existing rules, has direction.
Word - any expression or gesture,
World - this is the field created of the world internally of arranged meaning that acts as an accurate model of that world that makes it understandable, and navigable. This is similar to the internal symbolic structure but in a context that allows,
Expression - this is figure but in the context of conveying meaning or information by the individual or group.
Feedback / Recursion – occurs in the ground / figure, field / expression, boundary condition / pattern system, wisdom / logos, tool / environment, thought /mind, action / context, wave / point.
Consciousness – the will, of the individual or group, that is expressed in every point of existence, which is encapsulated and codified in the internal symbolic structure. Ie/ myth, religion, culture, which are a framework for perception, experience and perception.
Wonder – is what draws the internal symbolic structure into the process of projection, a sensation of awe that is followed by attempts at articulation in the form of projection and symbolic clash, constellation and integration, and late formed into an expression / articulation.
Fear – is the opposite of wonder, but initiates the process of projection, in the case of survival. See a sound in the bushes at night.
projection –to apply something that you know, believe or think to something you don’t, or a problem to solve. of the known onto the unknown, which is initiated in virtually all moments, not just moments of awe, and fear, but in every possible interaction. Known is projected onto the unknown, whether consciously or unconsciously.
wonder / awe - the unknown or allure of something fascinating, which initiates the pattern system’s interaction by experiencing, and projecting the known onto the unknown.
Fear an instinctual reaction to a danger or perceived danger, in which
innate – a quality, or trait that is pre-existing in something.
instinct – biological reaction to an experience / interaction.
internal symbolic structures – psychological structures that are a representation of the external world.
external world – the real-world environment, including physical and symbolic structures, and their psycho-experiential / meaning potential.
Mesomorphic - a term from minerology that describes the change in the structure of a mineral. An intermediate stage of matter. Consciousness / the models, Internal symbolic structures we create are in constant stage of change. We are on a macro and micro level perpetually in the mesomorphic level.
Macro – the field, ground, systemic, environment, which micro occurs, shapes and frames micro.
Micro – the point, fractal, in context of the macro, occur.
Meso - intermediary between micro and macro
Macro Time – according to Eliade, sacred time
Profane Time - the everyday world.
Sacred Time – the world before, and after profane time.
Reification – to make something abstract concrete.
Experiencer – the individual or group interacting with meaning.
Subjective – dependent on taking place in the mind. Shaped by a person’s experience, understanding, feelings.
Objective – existing separate from the mind, external, actual real. Uninfluenced by emotions, feelings, experiences.
Subjective into objective – similar to reification, but turning something defined only in the mind, or by the mind into something rationalized, and understood.
SECTION 2 - WILL, WORLD, WORLD
Will - as innate intent, drive or orientation. Inertia of existing of a given thing. This is present in all things that do anything. Essentially the base state of being. Meaning that if you exist you exist as will, regardless of choice, and any action or thought is an expression of will. This works on the personal/ social / civilizational / existential levels.
Word – is an expression, any expression, from word to grunt to gesture, a look, any form of communication. Is any form of communication that is an expression of the will. This is also any figure made from the ground, expressed into a field.
World – is both a field which is expressed into and the ground of those expressions, which feedback into the ground to be used for further expression. That is the world, in whatever reference, such as language, field of expression, media as an environment. The world is any environment that is composed of expressions, and as a ground / field of expressions both influences and is influenced by those expressions.
Relate how the process conveys how the logoi interact.
Ideal – in this case would be the will, which is the ineffable innate concept of a thing, which is understood in thought as that thing when the object or thought most matches it.
Thought – the concept of the ideal in the mind.
in this case would be the conceptualization of the that thing
Utterance – in this case would be both the articulation of the word, and the world which it is expressed into, that is the world/system acts as both ground /field.
These three logos are three stages, ideal, conceptualizing, and articulation, but are segmented instead of treated as a flow of consciousness. The Will, Word, World interplay conveys this as a process of expression / consciousness instead of treating them as static states.
Chair Example:
There is an idea of a chair, someone thinks of a chair to build, as they build it is not yet a chair, but through that process at some point it becomes recognizable to themselves and others. There is an ideal of a chair, the conception of a chair, the articulation of that chair, and the recognition that there is in fact a chair. This example is applicable to any form of thought, expression, experience, articulation both in thought and physical expression of a person or of an object as they are contextualized by the existing system of their kind.
In my understanding, the person’s will manifests as a desire to create a chair, the Word would be both the conceptualization of the chair and the expression of it. And the chair would be expressed into the system, World / collection of all chairs existing chairs, where it would influence the creation of other chairs, just how its creation / expression was influenced by the existence of other chairs. The lineage and collection of all chairs would be akin to the language of chairs.
The ground / field of expression for chairs.
Language – is a system composed of symbols with agreed upon meaning that usually acts as signs to elicit thought or emotion.
Personal interaction – the previous interactions with a person, or group are the ground of expectation for any further interactions with a person, group, organization, object, experience, etc. This is true for every experience, seeing a tree, a person, going to a place like the doctor’s office.
Fields of study – as ground / field, as systems which are the collected expressions of an area of thought, which are expressed into.
Physical fields – like the chair, but any physical media.
The media - as means of collective communication, which is a collection of expressions, conveyed back to the people, which increases the ground for
I mean all of mass media as one single thing, or an individual level, like everything on the radio>everything on this channel/genre>everything that the vj likes,
All fractally obey this model of interaction. Each is a macrocosm to microcosm shift, but they all follow the same rules. This is also true of all fields and subsets of anything.
WILL WORD WORLD INTERACTIONS
The interactions between, Will, innate intent or the inertia of existing, Word, expression / figure, and World as Ground / field alone convey the system of human thought, human expression, language, mythology, terminology of any given field of thought. And the ground / figure, figure / field, field / ground of how we build perceive, experience, understand, and express systems to navigate the world around us.
Ground / figure – is an expression of a microstate into a macrostate.
Figure / field – is that expression into an existing system of similar figures and the effect it has in that feild.
Field / Ground – is the field, including the new expression, becoming the new ground for further expression.
The ground/field -That is both ground as in what the expression is drawn from, and field is that which is expressed into it, which changes the field, which then leads to the change of probable / possible expressions, which is the ground for the next or new expressions, in a recursive cycle where the figure, experssion is the intermediary.
We interact with our environment, field or ex. Language, symbolic systems, organizational systems, as both ground for that expression, affecting that field and further affecting the individual that exists in that field by creating new ground in the field, or number of expressions and possible configuration of expressions.
Cultural rituals, ex sports, voting, tv shows, are communal rituals that foster cultural identity,
Mythology, worldview, and religions are symbolic structures, structures that encapsulate and arrange meaning, in doing so, operate as perceptual / experiential lenses, or frameworks that order the word as to make it understandable and navigable. These are reinforced and reinvigorated by ritual and liturgy, even in areligious worldviews, where the process is not religious but serves the same purpose of revitalizing the internal symbolic structure and its relationship to the external world.
ON BECOMING THE SYMBOL BY BECOMING AN EXPRESSION OF IT
Ritual – is an action taken for an effect, which is intentionally performed, usually external, though could be solely internal. Acts as a creation of a link to oneself and meaning, or to reenact an existing bond / relationship with the divine, or the meaning past the ability of common expression, being that it is all symbolic. In a ritual the performer of the ritual becomes a living symbol, this renews the bond between belief and perceived actuality,
Liturgy – a social ritual that does the same as the ritual, but on a social level, in a way that the group relationship to meaning, or affect in the symbolic framework they operate under.
These are all consecrations of the internal symbolic structure with the external world, (of sign) and symbol (meaning). In both liturgy and ritual, the practice of that ritual or liturgy becomes the symbol, that is their actions / thoughts act out the function of the symbol and they themselves become the bridge to meaning. This is what gives them resonance. And these restore the internal symbolic structure and the bridge to meaning. In that they are perfect expressions of the recursive process. Ritual and liturgy are not specific to religions, they occur in all cultures though are not always recognized as religious, but they perform a similar psychological function. Reification of the experiencer, of their pscyho-perceptual model, internal symbolic structure occurs,
MARIE LOUISE VON FRANZ – GROWTH OF MYTH / RELIGION
The growth of an event, becoming a local saga (understood subjectively), Then a fairy tale( a string of local sagas, with a protagonist, representing local values) then into a myth (a string of fairytales, now with a more pronounced protagonist / ego character, that represents the values of a people, ex. King Arthur) which becomes a religion,( a collection of myths that attempt to give order to the universe, give shape to reality as to navigate it. The sequence reverts, When the religion / myth / worldview no longer matches the external or internal environment, the religion / myth / worldview fragments. An example she gives is the singular myth of Odysseus, and how sections of it can be found around the Mediterranean, but in the local symbolic language of the age they are told.
In my language that is an internal symbolic structure that grew from the micro, the event, or person, to people, to many people, and with each iteration the story grows and changes according to the people who interact with the story, until becoming, over time, the story, the structure of narrative and symbols become the framework for perception / experience.
Auseinandersetzung – there is an ego character, that goes into another world because of some lack or need, the subjective world, on the journey, interacting with forces in that world in the form of characters, coincidences, and contexts which play out as the growth of the ego, or the individual. But in these fairy tales there is an anima character which he pursues, saves and marries. One of them is usually a prince or a princess, and in this way the kingdom is renewed, and this is the process of renewal of the king told in narrative form.
This process is streamlined, and more personified, character centric, more psychologized which tracks with the continued personification of myths and figures that we use to articulate the world, but now in part we do that in the structure of screenplays and films, and the characters continued realism, that is resembling us as more direct expressions of the human experience.
This is the process of growth and adaptation articulated in a story that we call fairytales, the oldest oral tales passed down to the present, which use the same subjective language as mytho-religious symbolic narratives and structures.
This is the process when I say clash, constellate and integrate the new symbol into the existing internal symbolic structure, increase the boundary condition, and the pattern system. This process is the process of projection, of a symbol, onto the unknown, the clash, between the known and the unknown, where the known changes to adapt to the unknown
In the fairy tales this is the ego anima relationship and the trials, or adaptations, which are lessons that when passed convey growth of the ego, eventually enough to join with the anima. Which in this context is the integration of the symbol.
In terms of media, and present day storytelling, they are character centric which tracks the continued personification of myths and stories, where instead of gods, they are people now as the focus of the story, which correlates with the age of collective individualism, and the disintegration of the singular symbolic structure at the level of living religion.
IN MODERN MEDIA – the system articulates that political figures,
Politicians / cultural figures– are symbolic, representatives, of the values, supposed to be, but aren’t because they are only human not actually symbols, to the people who support them. When the role is violated, like when a scandal of some sort occurs, then the politician then loses all symbolic relativity, likely becoming the opposite. This is an interplay of ground and field, with the figure being the politician, or any cultural figure, between the people and them, when they no longer represent what they did to people via actions or cultural shifts, they no longer align with the collective or individual internal symbolic structure in how it balances values.
IN MODERN ENTERTAINMENT
Hit tv shows or movies are expressions of the collective cultural consciousness played back to them, they emerge out of the time, the zeitgeist, the collection of symbols and modes of thought, and they become part of the collective experience, feeding into further expression and experience.
I like Stars Wars, which is a good example of modern myth, in that it functions on the conscious and unconscious level, in a few ways, but this one I will elaborate on. A take on this, there are others, that the core of that story is not only about the light sight and dark side as representing both conscience and consciousness, but is also the relationship of humans with their tools, in this case lightsaber, (sword) ships (steed), androids (familiars). The key moment for this is in the first movie was to trust himself, the force, human nature, over the targeting system, a machine, his main opponent is a machine man, he is destroying an artificial moon, and moon is tied to nature. The two androids are a logos / expression dichotomy that act as the soul of the story, and in the last movie little bear things on a lush natural moon help them, then dance when the second mechanical moon is destroyed, and it makes sense that they would be present and dancing in a battle to save the universe.
This motif of humans in relation to their invention is a timeless story, that changes as our relationship with our technology changes.
From Eliade – religions as a language that changes over time.
Morphology - the study of the structure of a language.
Morphosis - the study of how that language changes over time.
You can track the differences modern English, English a hundred years ago, and so on to old English, and further, this is true of all languages. Applying the rules of morphology and morphosis to mythology / religion, you can track the shape of a religions, which is its symbolic language and structure, and it undergoes as it grows from what it is to what it does. Each are symbolic systems, though language is unstructured as a whole, where the symbols are smaller bits of representation, while in religion / myth/ worldview, the system is not only a means of expression but a perceptual / experiential model.
MARSHAL MCLUHAN – MEDIA THEORY – TOOL / ENVIRONMENT
Tool / environment – a media theory terms from McLuhan, that states, the tool is an adaptation of the individual or group to an environmental circumstance. The tool changes, increases, the environment, which would then require another tool to adapt to that environment and so on.
Apply this idea to the creation of myths, in that humans create symbols to articulate and understand their environment, just like we create tools to adapt to our physical environment. That the way we psychologically, experientially, perceptually adapt is to articulate and arrange symbolism in a way that matches the external / and internal (psychological) environment.
The concept of tool / environment, and morphology / morphosis together.
Religions/myths/worldviews are an adaptive process, though not every symbol created is for survival, or awe, many symbols are created just from casual interaction. Even a memory of a person is symbolic of them, and not actually them who that person is, though not to you.
The following are examples of the way in which religion / myth, internal symbolic perceptual models, and the symbols that constitute them change over time. That the internal symbolic structures, are shapes of consciousness that rise and change over time according to the external environment, and internal environment, the psyche, or previously experienced and collected symbols arranged as to make sense of their existence both internally and externally.
SECTION 3 – IN CONTEXT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
In Context of Consciousness, or immanent convergence of consciousness, conveys the permutations of consciousness through the creation and changes of religion/myth/worldview.
Throughout history, and the beginning of all religions, if you trace them far enough being with the anthropomorphizing of their immediate phenomenological environment. In this way they used what they knew, themselves, their emotions, their understanding of cause and effect, to articulate and understand the world, environment / circumstances they were in.
Attributing human traits to volcanoes, the sky, as calm, content, or angry, or performing rituals for an effect from the environment that would benefit them. People from a desert would articulate the world around them differently than people from a forest. If the people from the desert never seen a waterfall, it would likely strike greater resonance in them because of what water represents to them in the desert. If they’ve never seen a tree, they will use their understanding of the types of foliage they normally encounter to articulate an understanding of the tree. If people from the forests were to see a desert, they would articulate the sand using their own symbols. Similarly, a person from one tribe, village or town would understand the customs of another’s by contrasting them with their own.
All around the world a child says there is a monster under their bed, but we know it is only shadows. The unknown frightens them. There is no monster, but the child projects a monster, either as just a word or the image of something that already frightens them, like something from tv show, film, or previous experience. This process of projecting the known onto the unknown is innate, and instinctual to humans, which is both innate, not taught, and instinctual, activated in times of fear, and awe. When people encounter something out of their understanding they project onto it what they know to better understand.
The birth of consciousness, as told by shapes of consciousness, articulating itself, through symbolic narratives.
Cosmogenesis: chaoskampf lineage, is actually the story of our own consciousness coming into being, told in the symbolic language of that culture which is heavily influenced by their external environment, lineage of symbolic structures, and use of tools.
The Greek chaoskampf, but there are chaoskampfs all over the world, which all convey the same thing, not the world coming into being but human consciousness itself coming into being and articulating itself though symbols and narratives, with collected compose internal symbolic structures perceptual, experiential models which orient the individual or group that hold it in the world / circumstances they are in. That is why many cultures share a similar chaoskampf myth but are told in the language of their culture at the time of the telling. Each of these is an internal symbolic structure that has changed over time according to circumstances.
The lineage of Void (nothing) > Chaos (unstructured potential) > Eros (attraction) > Gaia (form > Chronos (time /movement with direction) > Uranus (libido / fecundity) > Zues (libido with direction, and logos, ordering principle, embodied in a human figure).
What’s happening here, there is nothing, then there is unstructured potential, in this unstructured potential comes attraction, which brings the chaos into some order, where you then get form. After form there is motion of the form. After motion of the form, comes fecundity or growth, from growth comes logos, the ordering principle, an understanding of thing.
That is the process of understanding, to continually refine something vague into something shaped, contextualized and understood. There is nothing, you think about something, the possibilities of that thing open up, you think about it more, the form of it takes shape, over time it grows, until an understanding is reached.
This also conveys the process of anthropomoprhization of phenomena, which is how all religions began, which over time became personification, which then became psychologization, as the Greek religion is now seen as a myth, and the figures on that myth as psychological contents expressed in the form of gods, places, and monsters.
Continuing the lineage of consciousness being expressed through symbols,
Zues (directed libido / logos) > Dionysus (twice born god, sacrifice and renewal)> Hercules (divinity in human form, becomes a god through trial) > Odysseus ( logos, as intelligence, cunning in a purely human form), symbolically articulates the progression of consciousness from phenomena to personification to embodiment of what the idea, logos, understanding. Odysseus outsmarts by understanding and controls his instinctual drive through the trials of his journey, which is literally how people navigate the world.
This is the same process but of a different strain. Enlil (sky god)> Marduk (storm god, wind, net, and lightning)> Yahweh (storm god, word)> Logos (ordering principle)> Christ (logos in the flesh, a human)> Lutheranism (individual relationship to the divine)
This conveys the process that also occurred in Greek religion, though with the process continuing into complete personification in the form of Christ, which over time became psychologized in the form of Lutheranism, which is a personal relationship with the divine as the logos, the ordering principle of the internal symbolic structure, experiential / perceptual model.
The symbolic chain of sky/nous/mind> storm(churning, thinking mind)> lightning as fire of the mind / a thought in the mind, that creates and destroys just like defining, by words, a part of the whole changes the understanding of that whole> lightning bolts as symbolic expression of the sky, mind, over time became the word, a thought in the mind logos, and expression of it. To define something is to create a new micro in the context of a macro, which re-informs the macro. This shows that the process of understanding personification is evident and continual.
God/logos/reason, created the heaven and the earth, via the word, i.e. By defining them. We create an understanding in the exact same way, via the word, or expression that matches what we are experiencing.
There is another correlation made by Joseph Campbell, that of Odin, Christ, Quetzalcoatl, and Buddha, who all carry the same symbolism of bird / spirit, Tree / world and serpent / chthonic, symbolism as a way to articulate the human experience, of existing in this world between the spiritual and the hellish, between life and death.
All four of them sacrificed themselves to themselves, though in different ways, which itself is the process of understanding, as when you understand something, or experience something new, the old understanding dies, but you live on renewed.
The Christ and Buddha specifically, represent moments in the evolution of consciousness, or religious history, of the logos made flesh, of the direction attribution of the divine in human forms and not as gods that are made in man’s image but as man themselves, all also carry the bird/tree/serpent motifs
This is all one long process of self-deification, self-understanding, via the continuous personification of the internal and external environment by defining the world while creating internal mental models of the external world, and together as internal and external they create a shape that perceptually contextualizes reality.
The word, the ability to express and understand the world, our own existence is what is truly being deified. The process of defining reality via symbols and narratives which we innately construct into internal symbolic structures which ac as experiential / perceptual models that change over time according to accumulated experience with existence itself. It is an adaptive process unique so far to humans.
Religions are mythopoetic symbolic structures used to orient the group / individual in their life, it is a collectively organized psyche. When the symbols are alive, they let the light shine through them, meaning they are experientially active. Over time they become opaque, which means that they lose their metaphorical value and are taken not as truth but as fact.
THE SHAMANIC TO THE PRESENT
The shamanic to the present, it’s the same process over and over again. The process of going out into the wild, usually around troubled times, ex puberty, taking a substance to alter perception, as part of a journey. The journey into the wild is actually a journey into the world of spirits, which are psycho-experiential interactions, in that the spirits are projections of the individuals internal.
This is the Christ myth stripped of its cultural clothing, meaning Christ undergoes the same exact journey, but in the cultural / religious language of its age.
This shows that there is an underlying process operating below the surface, and that the internal symbolic structure, religions/myth/worldview are changing in arrangement, structure, but all are accumulated.
Because that process is the process of understanding mythologized onto ontological, symbolic narratives, which themselves grow and change but the creation of internal symbolic structures accrued by that process remain, regardless of cultural / religious clothing, and the process continues.
The process operates on multiple scales.
Wave patterns in the ICOC – as a visual model.
Civilizational – This process operates on the civilizational level in the way the religions / myths/ worldviews of the age come about and fade away, which occurs when internal symbolic structure no longer matches their environment.
Societal – in the form of each society having their own collective internal symbolic structure that we call culture.
Social – in the form of cultural understanding, meaning the ability to understand each other in expression, and the collective subsets of culture, shows a shared symbolic structure.
On interpersonal relationships – in any relationship between one person and another there is a shared symbolic structure that acts ground, of past experiences, that gives expectations to the present dynamic and future interactions between the two, with the present and future interactions when engaged being expressions into the field of interactions, with then becomes the ground for future interactions.
Individual – the specific individual’s internal symbolic structure, the structure of their psyche, experiences and personal traumas, which shape the psyche, thoughts and patterns of behavior as the person experiences life.
Universality – this system is universally applicable to any interaction with any system or framework.
Interaction with and through symbols between symbolic structures on the same scale and other scales in this context would be wave pattern interference. In this way you can more easily visualize the system in motion.
If we use the analogy of the wave, where the civilizational is the largest, single wave. The societal as a collection of large waves, the social a smaller collection of waves, the interpersonal as small waves, and individual waves as a little wave each. A sea or field of waves that all behave the same way, in the Macro and micro systems, each wave operates in the framework of the preceding wave.
The process of going through a trauma, trauma as neutral not a strictly negative, which all people do, in that they experience something outside their psyche’s ability to comprehend, that is they don’t have the internal symbolic structure, experiential, perceptual model, to understand what is happening, which brings about a change to the internal symbolic structure occurs as an adaptation. This applies to the process of all the waves, they change when they meet a new disruption, or their boundary condition.
SECTION 4 - BC PS – BOUNDARY CONDITION / PATTERN SYSTEM SECTION
Which is superior, Wisdom or Logos?
Wisdom is the sum of collected knowledge which reasoning is drawn from. Logos, reason is applying what we know to what we do not know, in a way that makes what we don’t know understandable to us.
Someone with good Wisdom would have good reasoning, but someone with good reasoning would have greater wisdom. The answer is not that one is superior to the other but that they are recursive, and part of one system of understanding, which is universal and fractal.
In the same way that the process of religions rising and falling into myth, or worldviews change with the times, each is based in what is, which is used to understand and orient, until it no longer matches the individuals or groups experience.
The sum of collective knowledge or it’s articulation to order the order the unknown. This question is at the core of the system because it articulates in the field of reason what is true in all interactions, that there is a ground / field that is drawn upon and fed back into via expression of the process of understanding.
BOUNDARY CONDITION – PATTERN SYSTEM
The Boundary Condition – wisdom - is both the ground and the field. It is the ground, it is the sum and shape of the internal structure, and the field in that it is what the pattern system draws from. Collected and arranged symbols accumulated through experience. This is akin to wisdom, the sum of collected knowledge, and in the context of wisdom / logos, acts as the ground drawn upon.
It is a field in that it is not static, the ground changes over time, it changes as more symbols are integrated into it, to act as both ground and field. It is called the boundary system. It contains all that is known, and outside of it is all that is unknown, which the boundary condition being the point where the known interacts with the unknown, where the pattern system then operates. Once the unknown is made partially known via known symbol projection onto the unknown it begins the process of integration.
The pattern system – logos – Is the internal symbolic structure composed from the collected symbols, wisdom / boundary condition, that is articulated into an internal symbolic structure as a means of ordering the external world into an understandable and navigable environment. This is akin to reasoning the world into a cohesive model, with the symbol at the core of that symbolic structure being the ordering principle, logos, of that internal symbolic structure. When there is a disruption in the pattern system / boundary condition, that is it becomes old, and no longer matches the internal or external environment, or gap in the boundary condition, where the unknown is interacting with the boundary condition, the pattern system then projects from the field of the boundary condition a known symbol that best encapsulates the unknown. This gives a face to the unknown and allows it to be further understood, then integrated with the existing pattern system, or in cases of complete dissolution or opacity of the internal symbolic structure, begins to replace the structure itself.
ACTUAL SEQUENCE
The actual sequence
1. There is a field of the known symbols, the boundary condition, where the pattern system is operating as the framework for perceptual / experiential reality.
2. There is a disruption to the field of known, in the form of the old thoughts not applying or a new experience which is not yet known.
3. The pattern system activates to project what symbols in the known that match the unknown as a way to approximate it. The projected symbol is relative to the known symbols, if a single symbol does not match it will generate a composite, that is not fully known but gives face to the unknown.
4. The new symbol, what it represents, clashes, according to meaning, purpose, etc. with the existing symbols. In this way it becomes more refined.
5. The new symbol is then constellated, that is the symbol’s meaning becomes integrated with the existing symbols to become part of the ground / field, wisdom / boundary condition.
6. As part of ground / field, it becomes part of what the pattern system that could then be used for further interactions with the unknown. In this way the boundary condition, ground / field of knowledge, grows.
STAGES OF THE PROCESS.
Apoca-syncretism – the decay, destruction, disruption or loss of the existing internal symbolic structure do to an unknown, a series of unknowns, or a disruption, where after destruction, the internal symbolic structure tires to renew itself by developing new symbols, revitalizing existing symbols in a way that account for the new environment / circumstances, in a phase of chaos, that is worked through via boundary condition / pattern system / projection / clash integration process, until it is renewed.
Entelechial emergence – the stage of the process when the new internal symbolic structure, experiential perceptual model, shape of consciousness after the dissolution / destruction, and beginnings the symbolic structures reformation / renewal, when the rise of a new coherent structure / form of consciousness that act as ground for perception / Experience. Symbolic software, were the
An obvious example of this is the Old Testament to the new testament to Lutheranism, but this is also true of every system, like genres in fiction, films, tv, physical inventions, modes of expression, all of these can be considered languages in a continuum, subjects
In these five forms, but any system really.
In story structure, there is a normal way of the character’s world, but there is a lack or need in that world that sets them into the wider world, or series of events, as they navigate the world outside their own, they try to use what they know, but what they know fails, so they have to learn new things, apply them to the new circumstances to overcome them. This is streamlined in all forms of films and television shows, with a focus on character, and more modern logic. This is an order, into chaos, adapt to chaos, into new order. Or reasoning failing, learning where reasoning failed, establishing a new reason.
This is present in myths, fairy tales, which are proto-myths, and the foundation all storytelling that succeeds as they were the first oral tales, and all tribal stories that survive us the same magical / subjective logic, which in evolved over time as the human experience progressed and accumulated more knowledge.
In psychology, the renewal of the king is obviously the individuation process of confronting unconscious aspects of oneself by making them conscious, where they come into a clash with conscious understanding, the ego. After which the old ego, self, or whole is renewed, and the old self, ego, understanding dies, or rather is sacrificed so the new may replace it. This is a very similar process to what is happening on a civilizational, societal, and individual level.
In logic, the interplay of wisdom, collected knowledge, and logos, as pattern recognition, as the drive of ordering the world, how we solve problems is the same system of projection of what is known, onto a problem, a variable, an unknown or a disruption.
In media theory, as explained above, the process described by Marsihal McLuhan the tool / environment, as recursive process by which there is an obstacle or problem in the physical or media environment, where people create a tool to solve that problem, which in turn leads to an increase of that environment.
What they all have in common is that they are symbolic narratives or can be understood as symbolic narratives.
The process is one large process the collective expression of human consciousness, with religions and cultures being expressions of them, and we today are part and involved in that process. That religions are not static, but change over time as cultures change, and according to new collective and individual experience, in the modern day more specifically related to our interaction with technology and how that shapes the human experience. Though technology has always shaped the human experience as it is physical and figurative in its application.
Contributing ideas.
These are some of the concepts from the four fields that most contributed to my understanding of the Boundary Condition / Pattern System as a concept and process. I have elaborated and developed my own understanding of all of them.
Renewal of the king, Eliade, the process of the logos decaying and becoming renewed. Logos in this sense is the ordering principle of the mind, or of the universe, which is understood in the context of the mind that is the way one rationalizes the world. Pattern system, into recognizable patterns which correlate with the understanding of the individual as to orient them in the physical and psychological world. This is the figure.
Renewal of the queen, elaboration on Eliade (Rotk). The field of awareness, of consciousness in this context, that which is the sum of and contains the reasoning, that is Wisdom. What is beyond the field of awareness is the unknown, which the individual or group fear, but are entranced by it. Through the process of the renewal of the king, the queen is renewed and grows, that is the field of knowledge, and awareness grows. The collective wisdom grows.
Tool / environment, McLuhan - the selection process of the symbol used to articulate the unknown or the disruption, which is the symbol known that most matches the unknown and is therefore projected onto the unknown. The environment in this case is the mind, with the figure the disrupting thought, emotion, memory, idea, etc. being the disruptive aspect that needs to be understood, so the tool would be the symbol that is projected as a face to the unknown or disruption to orient the person or group in reaction to that
Alchemical projection, Jung, the process of projecting the known onto the unknown, or your thinking coming to match the abstract functions of nature, or the process of smelting / early chemistry as a process of change, which the mind absorbs and emulates through a form of trance like meditation. Through the process of understanding the
Morphology / Morphosis, Eliade, applied to mythology this is treating mythology as both a language and the study of the change of that language, which is also how the mythology / religion change over time.
Focal point, Mlvf, the focal point is that which holds the attention of the individual or culture/religion, and is being challenged in some way, leading attention to be given to the unknown or disruptive force, ex an invading army in the societal sense, or some lack or need in a physical or psychological sense, or a thought that disrupts the logos or eros, emotional state, in some way.
Verge of wonder, this is the unknown on the edge of what is knowable, that is on the edge of the queen, or wisdom, which draws the focal point, it must be close enough to perception to interact with the internal symbolic structure.
Example, no one in the 2nd century thought about a v8 engine, or any other example where the ground / field has not yet reached a point to be able conceive it.
Special key, Frye, is the matching of the internal symbolic structure with the external world so that what is perceived matches what exists, objectively and or subjectively. That is, one is properly oriented to understand or correctly interpret the experience because what is perceived matches what is known, and or constellated into internal patterns for larger external things with multiple or charged meaning.
Of symbols into Signs, what is projected first are by nature symbols, and if not take on the traits of symbols in that they become a mask for the unknown, using something known, making it half known and half unknown, when the unknown becomes know, via apprehension, constellation is no longer a symbol, but a sign, that is something that is contextually understood.
cRx, Campbell, (though I read this after I articulated it on my own)
C, is the known world, what is known, the perceivable universe, X, is the unknown, and R is the relationship of the known to the unknown. That is the worldview, and/or religion, acting as the perceptual frameworks humans create to navigate the world, which change over time according to the experience. This is the growth of the consciousness resulting from the continuing accumulation of experiences. We are perpetually in the meso-layer.
Read the runes, Eliade (Odin) sacrifice to gain, that is in the case of knowledge, experience, identity, virtually anything, something must be sacrificed to gain. In the myth, it’s an eye, that case is telling, in that losing one form of sight so that one can have foresight, in this case the old is a weaker version of the new, that is what is gained is greater than what was lost. This relates to the old logos, which when dealing with the disruption, or chaos / unknown uses the aspect of itself that most apprehends the unknown to bring it into the known, in this process the unknown and the known form a new logos, or a new adapted way of understanding, a new orientation. An evolution. We also sacrificed as a way of living in harmony with the external world, which was actually our internal world projected onto the external world as a way usually to reaffirm life.
Auseinandersetzung, Mlvf, the clash, fairytales put into a psychological context, coupled in this context with fairytales and myth are of the same metaphorical language that was a product of the culture, formed the culture.
The ego, in lack or need, usually pursuing a princess, anima, aspect of the unconscious, into the wild, unknown, unconscious, where they interact with new elements, clash, fail, learn or are helped by he will of the story in the form of magical aid, overcome the trait in the form of character or circumstance, marry the princess which is the marriage of the consciousness in decay, to the renewing energy of the anima, unconscious, and rule the kingdom, or return to renew their home.
Other examples
Symbols in this case could be literally anything, and the ground /field could be any set could be taken as a language, and whatever figure, expression rises.
The machinery that a car or anything physical is composed of is akin to words being used to articulate information / meaning. In that there is a lineage of parts, and an expression of advancements of those parts that when created into the field of parts, increases the ground which the new possible parts are drawn from, to express and become new ground. Recursively the car is better, more advanced, and it too has its own ground as the sum of the parts in a field of expression of other cars.
Not only psycho perceptual models, but any articulated set of constituents of a system, how they are arranged, and expressed. The machinery of a car could be taken as letters, each are tools in that they perform a function, with their own expression, and are part of a larger expression, the whole car. Similarly, the concept of a car, all the types of cars and the evolution of cars can be taken as a symbol in a field of symbols, that operates in a larger system of symbols, society.
When you were a child, your parents told you don't go past the end of the block. But one day on a bicycle you ride past your block, out into the open world, where you see new things, and you instantly compare them to things you already know. That tree looks like the tree on my block, that house is yellow like a house on my block. This is the process in action, of using what you know to orient yourself in the new, the unknown.
A sound in the bushes at night. What do you do, you try to match the animal or person that you know to assess the level of danger, of threat to your life. This is instinctual. This is the projection of what you know onto what you don’t know. What is a sound in the bushes at night and what does it have to do with a monster under the child's bed? Both are projecting a face onto the darkness, onto the unknown as innate instinctual reactions to the external environment.
When you have something that you are worrying about, what do you do, you run simulations through your head of various, but usually specific to the possible people and the circumstance that determines the thought, but this is using what you know to try and approximate what could be.
This applies also to artificial intelligence, as language models, or any application really, and possibly the creation of general artificial intelligence, by giving the AI a recursive model, a recursive mode of understanding, interaction, and growth that models more closely to our own.
This system model matches the actual observable processes of nature in the fluctuating order of chaotically unfolding recursively fractals that feed and are fed back into in continuity. This recursive fractal system we use to compose internal symbolic structures is our heritage, our inheritance from nature, and is that which we use to adapt to nature, and operate in whatever environment or circumstance we are in.
Above there was an analogy of wavelength in terms of applicable scale, example, a red wave is long slow wave like a civilizational wave, then down to societal, orange, then yellow, social, then green, interpersonal, to blue, the individual wave, and violet, the moment. By using this visual analogy, this tracks across scale of time, and interaction, where the interactions between the lower waves affect the higher waves and vice versa. The point would be the moment of interaction of the wave.
Secondarily, using the same framework for a different analogy, the wave function, of a wave, and a point. The wave down the scale can be said to be collective beliefs, circumstances, cultures as adaptation, and the point could be said to be the issue, or focal point of their present moment, when the system / model is active in dealing with an unknown / disruption. This way you can visualize change, and potentiality of a given system or cycle.
SECTION 5 - HOW THIS CAME TO BE
For 20 years on and off I was building a fantasy mythology planet. Over the last 10 years I wrote some books that were not that great, then created several allegorical story worlds that were originally meant to encapsulate the story and related ideas so that when I was ready to write them, after and during that I started studying writing, and fields, depth psychology, really just Jung & Von Franz, comparative mythology, mostly Campbell and Eliade, media theory, McLuhan and others, and storytelling, various, but Frye in terms of contribution. I began recording ideas I thought were interesting. In articulating them as I understood them, I began seeing correlation between them as being part of one process, which I came to call the Boundary Condition / Pattern System.
A third factor which contributed was a story idea, The first being an idea for a story that was to correlate a child growing up, with someone waking up from a dream and the modern day compared to subjectivity of history, as I see them as similar. They are all the process of the subjective becoming objective, form of reification.
How I devised almost all of my fictional worlds, and stories, was through daydreaming and laying with eyes closed, watching my mind and seeing what came out of it, then as they grew and correlated with other ideas, they would culminate in what allegorical story worlds, narrative symbolic structures, though which I later came to understand. I composed them, then through learning I was able to articulate the process of them coming to be in the form of three distinct ideas, Will, Word, World, In Context of Consciousness, and Boundary Condition / Pattern System. They as three would later be realized as a recursive system/model of consciousness, perception, experience, understanding, expression and the feedback of expression to continue the cycle.
We understand the world and ourselves, our experiences, reality, in the form of narratives and symbols. Humans understand and express themselves in narratives and symbols. We create systems of symbols to interpret and orient our reality that match external reality, through a process that matches observable natural processes that govern the physical reality.
I think that this adaptive process is innate and instinctual in humans, possibly all sentience, that both mirrors and embodies the processes of fractal recursion and ordering chaos that is present in nature, observable in evolutionary biology, and all natural systems from the quantum level to the cosmological scale. I think that is our inheritance from the natural world, and we call it consciousness.