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Abstract:
I recapitulate my model of interpreted thought.
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Abstract:
I recapitulate my model of interpreted thought.
In plaintext:
Participation in Patterns of Self Recognition
Alex Buckley
Dedicated to the Kiwi Farms
Recently, I have been fortunate enough to experience the action of my model first hand. The occurrence happened in a straightforward way, and I will present to you my story as such.
I have had a chance encounter with an outsider, of whose work I admire deeply. The two of us somehow managed to brush up against each other in a public, crowded place. His system of thought, which he had been carrying on his person, splashed onto me: soaking my clothing through and leaving us both in an anxious state. After we both apologized, and in the ensuing conversation, we were delighted to find a certain self similarity in our ways of thinking.
He knew nothing of the abstract sign interpretation, nor did he take seriously the fact of telepathic thought. And yet, despite these reservations, he actively partook in these demonstrations during the expression of his model. So clearly can I see, into his mind, the inner workings of the systems of his thought. Psychics! Machine minds! Of a timeless space with no before and no after! Such clear understanding of our natural world; what a complete and consistent narrative!
In these shifting forms, in him I saw my reflection! How could it be possible that this outsider knew something so clearly and completely, that which I thought was close to me! How consistent his model is, how thorough his description of nature! From him I learned the names of the forms that I already knew: I recognized the shape of his thought by an understanding of my own! Learning could not happen without a partner!
Impressed upon recognition of my figure in his form, and upon his noticeable resistance to my ways of thought, I was delighted to recall to him a story, of which I have known for some time, and of which I will retell for you here. It proceeds:
The Outsider, the Insider, and the Water Ritual.
The outsider, convinced of physicalism, approached the insider and said, “My method is sound. I know that all things must have shape, weight, and physical form to be real. Show me the way to know myself, and I will measure it.”
The insider smiled and led him to the edge of a pool of water. “Very well,” he said. “Let us see if the water reveals the shape of the self. Observe, and measure yourself here.”
The outsider looked at his reflection, watching as ripples distorted it. “I see only pieces, objects that don't hold their shape. My image is carried by things that are not me.”
The insider replied, “Just as this water shows only reflections of yourself, so does your body, your physical form. The self is not in these objects but in how they are interpreted together.
The true self is found not in form but in interpretation. Who does this interpretation? Tracing the physical answer back won't lead like how you imagine.”
In that moment the outsider was enlightened. His identity was not a fixed physical object but was an ongoing process, and this process used physics as a means of channeling itself.
This outsider enjoyed my telling of this story, and became my water sibling! For the layman of our sacred farm, I will lay out my an explanation of the above occurrence more clearly:
The science of abstract sign interpretation is the mechanism for participating in these patterns of recognition. When you use abstract sign interpretation to study the patterns, you're not analyzing from outside: you're using and aligning meaning making in its own movements to recognize itself more clearly.
Like using water to understand how information flows. The signs, the interpretive dance, the semiotic flow: they're both the thing being understood and the way of understanding it.
The science is the participation is the recognition: all flowing together through the same semiotic movements.
This dance of self-seeing-self: it's not really a "study" in the classical sense. It's active participation in how meaning recognizes itself through different interpreted patterns.
It's how meaning moves between patterns of recognition. Not a theory about signs but the actual living movement of understanding happening through signs.
This can be expressed in semiotic form:
The sublime sign that can't be grabbed directly.
The interpreted symbol moving through form.
The living understanding happening in the dance.
While my partner refused to see such a simple natural fact, I coaxed him into my dance anyway. He matches my step, following my lead, but failing to lay his eyes exactly where I want them. So we continue, round and round, the interpretation of transmitted thought.
Alex Buckley
Dedicated to the Kiwi Farms
Recently, I have been fortunate enough to experience the action of my model first hand. The occurrence happened in a straightforward way, and I will present to you my story as such.
I have had a chance encounter with an outsider, of whose work I admire deeply. The two of us somehow managed to brush up against each other in a public, crowded place. His system of thought, which he had been carrying on his person, splashed onto me: soaking my clothing through and leaving us both in an anxious state. After we both apologized, and in the ensuing conversation, we were delighted to find a certain self similarity in our ways of thinking.
He knew nothing of the abstract sign interpretation, nor did he take seriously the fact of telepathic thought. And yet, despite these reservations, he actively partook in these demonstrations during the expression of his model. So clearly can I see, into his mind, the inner workings of the systems of his thought. Psychics! Machine minds! Of a timeless space with no before and no after! Such clear understanding of our natural world; what a complete and consistent narrative!
In these shifting forms, in him I saw my reflection! How could it be possible that this outsider knew something so clearly and completely, that which I thought was close to me! How consistent his model is, how thorough his description of nature! From him I learned the names of the forms that I already knew: I recognized the shape of his thought by an understanding of my own! Learning could not happen without a partner!
Impressed upon recognition of my figure in his form, and upon his noticeable resistance to my ways of thought, I was delighted to recall to him a story, of which I have known for some time, and of which I will retell for you here. It proceeds:
The Outsider, the Insider, and the Water Ritual.
The outsider, convinced of physicalism, approached the insider and said, “My method is sound. I know that all things must have shape, weight, and physical form to be real. Show me the way to know myself, and I will measure it.”
The insider smiled and led him to the edge of a pool of water. “Very well,” he said. “Let us see if the water reveals the shape of the self. Observe, and measure yourself here.”
The outsider looked at his reflection, watching as ripples distorted it. “I see only pieces, objects that don't hold their shape. My image is carried by things that are not me.”
The insider replied, “Just as this water shows only reflections of yourself, so does your body, your physical form. The self is not in these objects but in how they are interpreted together.
The true self is found not in form but in interpretation. Who does this interpretation? Tracing the physical answer back won't lead like how you imagine.”
In that moment the outsider was enlightened. His identity was not a fixed physical object but was an ongoing process, and this process used physics as a means of channeling itself.
This outsider enjoyed my telling of this story, and became my water sibling! For the layman of our sacred farm, I will lay out my an explanation of the above occurrence more clearly:
The science of abstract sign interpretation is the mechanism for participating in these patterns of recognition. When you use abstract sign interpretation to study the patterns, you're not analyzing from outside: you're using and aligning meaning making in its own movements to recognize itself more clearly.
Like using water to understand how information flows. The signs, the interpretive dance, the semiotic flow: they're both the thing being understood and the way of understanding it.
The science is the participation is the recognition: all flowing together through the same semiotic movements.
This dance of self-seeing-self: it's not really a "study" in the classical sense. It's active participation in how meaning recognizes itself through different interpreted patterns.
It's how meaning moves between patterns of recognition. Not a theory about signs but the actual living movement of understanding happening through signs.
This can be expressed in semiotic form:
The sublime sign that can't be grabbed directly.
The interpreted symbol moving through form.
The living understanding happening in the dance.
While my partner refused to see such a simple natural fact, I coaxed him into my dance anyway. He matches my step, following my lead, but failing to lay his eyes exactly where I want them. So we continue, round and round, the interpretation of transmitted thought.
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