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Vision, Audition and Physical Form

 

Marvin E. Kirsh 1

Kirsh2152000@yahoo.com

mkirsh@calstatela.edu

1 California State University Los Angeles Department of Anthropology

 

Keywords: energy and form,  The Elements of Euclid, discourse and power, mind and        matter, the concept, vision and audition

 

Areas of Interest: Philosophical Anthropology, Cognition and Anthropology,

Ethnography, Ethnology, Complexity Structure and Function, Evolution, Economics

 

Abstract

 

  The production of  sound by the machinery of change is a viral element in the problems of civilization.  Historical paradox involving mind and matter as the recurring source of the problems of civilization is elaborated to expose a  space reducing  friction  residing  at the  border of  concept  and interpretation involving cause and effect. A qualification for conceptualizations is proposed that involves a physically describable form bound to energy in addition to contemporary notions of energy bound to form.. A visually based mathematical-physical form is elaborated  and discussion is evolved  in  an  analogy to interpreted  ancient mathematics of Euclid.


 

Introduction

 

  It cannot be denied in argument that the concept ‘universe’ entails the concept ‘path’ and visa versa;   knowledge has a path,  'path’ entails both the concept of it and from perceptual reference,  parametric specificity.  There is no type of knowledge that can exclude a familiarity with living, living a familiarity with change which has no other means of communication than by the entailment of path.  All concepts originate from the motions of interactions that again entail a temporal path.  If the word ‘universe’ is restricted to mean all that which life experiences and the senses can refer; ‘path’ refers to the ‘universe’, ‘universe’ refers to ‘path. Remaining  to the imagination, at the borderlines between science and life experience, are still cases of path, of the universe as a statistical entity, or as a set of historical names-i.e. “a universe” or “The Universe”,” A path” or “The path”.   A division of invention and nature  can be  witnessed  in the  Euclid’s creation of ‘The Elements” (Proclus, 1970):  Euclid’s dialogue,  originating at the indivisible point of intersection of mathematics and philosophy, maintains the continuity of an infinite line that originates from an indivisible  point of philosophy and not mathematical invention, is given, almost by rule, to possess dividable connections from one element to the next as if fearing to tread into uncharted waters,  not on points  of philosophical argument;    invention as substitute for the natural, as if profane, is avoided, the works of nature are  not considered works of art.   Whether postmodern  philosophies  posit truth away from the  category  of unmasking, to the category of its’ creation, either the result of the application of impulse, ‘path ‘is ubiquitously entailed as either a path to its’ revelation, or to or from its’ creation: within the common perspective,  either publicly, put to test is the body of scientific knowledge or in private its’ soul, i.e.-the means of rational comprehension of the happenstances from which the path towards tomorrow can proceed.  The topic of change as a manifestation of power or as the power of manifestation has not escaped the active gaze of judgment of those who see to court it;  in doing so engender power itself to the same discourse that contains it (Foucault, 1977).

 

Discussion

 

    In a universe postulated to be composed of  occurrences possessing a relative time for events that are contiguous within  given perspectives rather than a universe that possesses time as a counting clock that speaks as if relating to a unique, single, ubiquitous and contiguous process, logically referred  is the necessity for a witnessibility of events and a first person perspective for description: if description of both historical events and a scientific construction of the path of processes evolve from  a co-evolution of the physical and conceptual, temporal paralleling and subsequent aligning of the physical and conceptual occur upon the achievement of knowledge,  then the conceptual and physical, memory and path, the immaterial and the material,  respectively, are the effect of emerging path that is not describable with numerical constants,  but change with the perspective dependant means of the elaboration of time.  The universe, argued to be contained  in definition as the effect of change, can be descriptively embodied from a scientific viewpoint  as a perspective dependent  path of propagation at any point of witness referral in which unwitnessibile energy, becoming sound-possessing witnessible matter  is attributed as a state of matter;  a difference  state of unwitnessible energy, becoming-sound-possessing witnessibile matter, is attributed as a  conceptual state.

    To encompass a form to the concept, a form for energy is derived and is added to modern conceptualizations that  in converse dwell singularly on an association of energy with form.     The interactions of physical volumes of space can be envisioned to parallel the witness-pair dependant distribution of formed  concepts whose creation is also  a perspective dependent matter extended from the  proximal relations of volumes that form the environment:  if ‘the concept’ is conceived of included in universal description as a uniquely existing parallel to  uniquely existing  physical spaces, as in a  nominalists’ view of the world, it might be accommodated within a scientific framework if it is given the property of unwitnessibility; if the evolution of  witnessible sensory experience is held as the only criterion for the existence of volume appropriate to tangible witness, the existence of an unwitnessible sort of volume/energy-state  can emerge from the point of witness perspective in which its’ characterization involves an unwitnessible displacement of some sort that reflects a difference ratio of appropriate energies that characterize physical phenomenon (i.e. the concept of color can be taken to be the result of a synergy of energies of proximal radiations of various colors). ‘The concept’  is, thus,  relative to both the internal energetic motions associated scientifically with the life process, and physical motion of the entity, to a common process that underlies both the physiological and directly witnessible kinetic  motion  of witnesses. A relative arc length of an angle occupied in the field of witness-pair relations can also be used to lend temporal priorities to concepts that are dependent on the parameters of a situation.  (Figure 3). Combined  physical and conceptual reality is  associated as a dynamic state involving the intersection of their proximally inherited associated states.  Language as the sum of learned/acquired  conceptual states is ascribed to a dynamically changing plurality of angles of arcs physically tangential to the line that connects witnesses in relations that are actively organized into hierarchies of priorities whose order in terms of appropriate application are dependent on the particulars of the witness-environment encounter and association.   The concept is construed to  possess more of  an absolute value than environmental energy parameters conversely  drawn from a slower rate of its’ change with respect to environmental change,  and reflects  a scale of  magnitudes of importance in relation to other concepts that in turn is a  creation  of the particulars of surface terrains that contains the witness event. Ideation of an  extrapolated combined  structure of the functioning physical environment  (as heterogeneous volumes within heterogeneous volumes) or the functional set of concepts (as a translated  ordered set of priorities derived from different parameters of physical volumes known from memory/experience as a memory state), sharing the same property, though not necessarily temporally ordered parametrically with respect to containing and contained elements, necessarily dependent on witness encounter with other witness and/or with a common environment to both, is postulated to entail, regardless of the potential existence of a universal origin common, at least a common element from which the descent of energy has occurred, i.e.-inheritance by proximity in which all relations are enabled by a  process of familiarity.  Uniqueness of the elements of nature, in addition, entails a force of self avoidance that is modulated by differences, the self not different from the self, greatest familiarity, least difference and greatest compatibility entails  sharing of the physical and the conceptual. Employing mirrors the self cannot witness itself simultaneously in its’ own reflection and a reflection of its’ reflection but in very immediate proximity to both mirroring surfaces. It is supposed that it at this intersection that life, volume, physical form is birthed to function as an obstruction to the death of its’ energy of creation in a process of  avoidance, negative selection rather than from forces positive towards the direction of life, growth towards the open. 

      Descending from a containing volume,  the conceptual and the physical together have an independent  relation to it.. Though not all species are observed with the capacity for cognition, it is proposed that the concept has a universal nature, independent of the human capacity for thought, that is a property of (becoming closed) spaces that is transmitted to their contents in constantly-becoming open heterogeneous spaces..   It is in this sense that it is thought (excuse the pun) that the ‘ether’ postulated as an entity in the physical sciences as a the substrate for the propagation of  light, can be substituted with the notion of ‘the concept’.  A world construed as a construct of need and symbolism and an atemporal process of mirroring is proposed as a sufficient universal conceptual outline suited to account for all explanation; it is composed of an interchangeable, between energy and matter, physical  form, of memory as tangible states of energy-matter that are ordered with respect to the cognitive establishment of relative endurances that are necessarily reflected from tangible factors related to familiarity that is  present in different degrees and is possessed to all of the species of an environment whether or not  living, inert, cognitively able to respond  symbolically to need (if  symbolism is limited to mean  the act of selection against a loss of form (as identity) that occurs from a loss of energy embodied to it).

     In this model, open space as volume is not taken to be  absolute parametrically, but relative to the event of witness such that totals are construed to be a facet of total available witness and are not absolute; in the absence of witness a volume can be construed not to exist, the total volumes pertinent to the earth can be reduced in definition to those volumes that  are witnessible to pertinently associating agents associated with the earth.   

     A  volume of space, be attributed an identity as a uniquely existing single space, regardless of its’ potential multiple representation in the form of  multiple occurrences to witnesses or construed existing total volume, as a synergy modulated by the interaction of individual volumes: a parallel can be made to the cultural trait, conceived  as  conceptual  volumes in which, either witnessed physical/natural volumes or cultural traits, are given a relative empirical nature related by relevant and necessary witnessibility to establish neither totals, nor  absolutes, but descriptive only wholes possessing  a set of ratios related to survival priorities.. The dimensions of a ‘road sign’  can have a similar dimension in magnitude to the road itself, can be traveled upon and thought of as a road though maybe appearing so in attempts to construct physical laws, ‘road’ has no dimensions that can be measured, possesses no numerical description;   the designation Hiway One or an angle of bend to a ray of light, the velocity of a light beam, has no numerical content that can belong to conceptual frames; the numbering system describes rather than undergoes, as a road,  emergence.  Parametric volume is not only dependant on measurement with (relative)standards but with the importance of particular volumes to survival. Though it might be contended that appropriate physical size attributed in this manner to material objects, becoming relative in meaning, escapes logic, are meaningless rationally, scientifically, they are  contained to be real and applicable, observation and measurement is ubiquitously contained to the facets of the physical and conceptual, to the acts of witness that necessarily encompass all existence.   The concept of witness dependent, relative parametric volume, then encompasses all perceivable and pertinent volumes; witness-actual physical volume is designated as a product that is totally gauged by cognition rather than by an absolute, universal and  non-existent standard gauging ruler. Comprehensive parametric volume  is innately contained to the sensory-physical means of establishing its’ existence to a group, culture, or universe.      

     The feasibility of existence of  this account. of relative physical volume,  is based strictly on perspective in which, other than the  single witness, only the witness pair is postulated to  exist. In this way creation of a representation of the concept or of the means of physical measurement rests upon  the occurrence of meaning in denominations of associated with witnessibility, has symbolic meaning only based on need as it is mirrored  from occurred associations and entails time only as a concept whose measure is relative to the experience and history of the path accumulated to the life time of  engaged witnesses and empirical facts  of their association.

 

 This model appears suitable to accommodate all description:

1)      The genetic material DNA, its’ arrangement into chromosomes can be considered to be the effect of energy matter conversion resulting in “physical pieces of energized path”-i.e. DNA.  The existence of genes, the genetic code as a facet of temporal ratios of individuals (genes) to whole structures and related to the volumes of entities and associated processes. The presence of uracil in RNA rather than DNA can be viewed as a natural evolution of an energy possessing  physical divide between the contemporary cytoplasm and the long life time of inherited structure to the genetic material in the nucleus, as the simultaneous birth of a form to energy and  physical obstruction born from a threat of the loss of energy bound to form,  the assumption of biological identity occurred from a path of energy approaching multiple perspectives capable of  mirroring self witness..    A complex spinning machine is envisioned to be entailed that can be accounted  for with the same notion of negative selection, -i.e. selection  against death or closed spaces.

 

2)      In the physical sciences it cannot be said that a measured value for the velocity of light can have coherent meaning if it is not referred to both the measurer, i.e. mankind, the human species, and the light measured; the witness pair man-light is not the same as the witness pair dog-light, or light-mankind, light-dog, Albert Einstein (1986) and reflected light or  Max Weber (2005) (who was not a scientist) and reflected light.

 

3)      Cultural evolution (Clifford, 1922, Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, 1940, Bourdieu, 1977, Sachs, 1982, Strathern, 1990, Marcus and Fisher, 1999, Geertz, 1963, Harris, 1979)  can be related similarly to paths arisen from  processes modulated by  familiarity as the  criteria for evolved  behavior, cultural traits as a range of ratios based on prominent cultural concepts that have come about from sensory experience of the witnessible physical environment.

 

4)      Economic systems and their aspects can be  described with respect to witness, witnessibility as the agent, basis of  criteria for  estimations of potential value that emerges  from the possibility of conversion of accruing conceptual capital assets to material assets. A universal form, dually a geometrical shape possessed to energy and  physical form or space, elaborated strictly from criteria involving the perception of motion, as explanation for a condition of natural constraint that results in the existence of life and the physical world, as the agent of a natural economic balance, is derived strictly from criteria of physical existence  

 

 

     If the total of external physical volume pertinent to activities of mankind changes with population statistics, size, geographical distribution, one cannot speculate that space exists as a fixed entity, but is dependent on the  variables of  witness. If the volume of space is effectively variable with respect to time, age and state of a witnessing population, all existing subset volumes ae considered to be parametrically variable for effective description, historical interpretation may be plausible only when ratios relating the observer to the observed entail the same library of concepts that has remained pertinent over generations, i.e. if the same family and environment, i.e. relatively unchanged homo sapiens and the earth are maintained as topics over the interval of comparison.

      In analogy to the geometrical renditions of Euclid, in which a parallel situation, i.e. Euclid’s Parallel Postulate, cannot be contained to mathematical proof, requiring physical connections, it might be speculated that a continuity of the identity of the relationship earth-mankind serves as an example for all identity, identity  continues from the indivisible point of witness  relations as a divisible line that extends towards the temporal intersection, situation,  and is strictly conceptual/philosophical  in nature to define  permissive intercourses and their plausible continuances, delineates compatibilities for all intercourses from which the generation of new combinations and diversities emerge.

     If the nature of the concept, thought or cognition is made to parallel the physical process of diffusion and the geometries of the physical world and the ordering of indivisible and discontinuous conceptual points, in light of the rearrangement of the head and cranial  vault, especially the  reduced prominence of olfactory abilities in H. Sapiens in comparison with other species, certain facts emerge with respect to the respect to the evolution of cognition.  The nature of evidences from the fossil record are considered: without exception all aspects, including the nature of formation of fossils, the conditions required for their formation, locations of their discovery related to land upheavals as the source of weather related changes in ecologies, the means of extrapolating weather data from distant ocean sedimentations,   refer universally to the physical process of diffusion.  It is perhaps due to a similarity of the nature of cognition and olfaction, that H. Sapiens (i.e. researchers) in attempts to resolve events into physical chains of cause and effect are not aware of a relation of the nature of the evolution and means of his cognition to evidences, entailed to his ‘hunt’, as the means of hunting,  is the fact that his sense of ‘smell’ is endowed from the very occurrences he is pursuing to define, they perhaps have only an indivisible conceptual notion to them, and at best only profuse physical evidence available to support notions. In less rational or less scientific, though not profane description, as no tangible connection is made in numerical order from the invented to the conceptual, conceptually , mankind might be postulated to have diffused into existence in a descent from the physically existing location tree (i.e. point of beginning). 

     In Euclid’s geometry,  ‘the point’  is indivisible.  It cannot  be conceived but to indicate place, position. It can be envisioned to the end of a divisible line but a point has no continuity with other points, it exists alone indivisible, without contents, and is not considered to be a contiguous part of something else, e.g. a line  that is divisible. .(Morrow, 1970).

 

.     It is from the indivisible point, the concept of physical connection (i.e. the tree structure)  and the concept of diffusion (i.e. the concept itself) that parallels can be constructed between the frustrations of civilization, the diffuse power possessed to dialogue in the processes of planning and change and efforts to understand nature and the world in a rational manner.  In the act of perceiving both the tree and the sky as open, the sky with greater physical room, in response to intrusion to their spaces, men simultaneously, symbolically  push themselves from ‘the  tree’, a symbol of cause and effect, the scientific, rational place, point from where they are supposed to have descended,  and causing witnessible physical damage to nature, pursue  injuring concepts, themselves indestructible,  with aggression that has, as a door stop  necessarily beyond  witness, ‘the concept’ itself that descends on the concept of self as it has become structured within relations peculiar  to the culture of the individual.  

 

“..This then is demonstrable, but it is an axiom that every  continuum is divisible; hence a finite line, being continuous, is divisible. This is the notion that the author of the Elements uses in bisecting the finite straight line, and not the assumption that it is divisible to infinity. That something is divisible and that it is divisible to infinity are not the same thing.”  (Morrow, 1970a).

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      Absolutes of volume can have little meaning in a universe of endless volume.  A single real space, though evidenced to exist separately and independently in the field of each of many witness referrals, is here recreated to refer, synergistically to arrived  parameters of  unique common loci that possess conceptual identity in however many relations of witness that may refer to them; there is but one, regardless of a possible plurality of existence, unique space or volume that is adjusted, for analytical purposes, parametrically with respect to a hierarchy of  importance.   The bumble bee, necessary to all humans is reported close to becoming extinct (Latsch, 2007).  In the presented model the volume of the bumble bee is not a grossly estimated 2 or so cc (cubic centimeters) that can be  measured physically, but a 2 cc volume that is distributable throughout the entire human race ( the survival of the bee affects the survival of every human) as a single volume and is adjusted by a ratio that reflects it priority in an order of all enumeratable  volumes that are likewise  pertinent to the members of a culture that refers to them..  For instance, if the number of volumes pertinent to all men is inclusively 23,256 and the bumble is rank # 2 in order of actual  prominence to survival then its’ effective  volume would be adjusted, regardless of actual measurements,  to  23,255/23,256  X 2 cc=  1.999914 cc.  If the extinction of the bee is the result of an act of genetic tampering, involving the employment of an actual measured volume of 2 cc, the witness and  hands of the researcher upon the genetics of the bee reduced the real volume of space occupied by the bee to the effective difference  of 1.999914 cc – 2.0 cc=-.000086 cc of lost environmental space per existing bee for each bee lost.  If 100 trillion bees become extinct ( a vast under estimate) that leaves :

   0.000086 X 10^14 = 8.6 X 10^6  m^3 of volume absent from the world

If a the volume of a  man is 1.6 m^3 (~ 2 X 2  X .4 ) m^3 and 1 trillion men exist

               = 1.6 X 10^12 m^3  of total  volume of man

        :  each mans effective volume will be reduced to (an unwitnessible, unmeasureable)

           (1.6 X 10^12  - 8.6 X 10^6)/10^12=1.5999914 m^3

        = -00.0005375% reduction in the volume of men

 

    It  might be postulated that the loss of the bumble bee  is reflected from an  autoimmunity problem of the same nature that is witnessed to be lived out in the actions of society in which capitalistic enterprises result in natural abuses and that in turn had prompted the research in molecular genetics that enabled the tampering with the genetics of the bumble bee in order to preserve a species for cultivation that is lesser in priority for survival. This cycle of the willful transmission of the form of an occurred impulse, profane to rest its’ case strictly on invention by means of induced points of destructibility based on  connections made by a physical  geometry  adapted to the free floating figure,   is interpreted to reflect an evolving  cognitive blindness to the  possible existence and nature of suspect (unwitnessed or unwitnessible) events as the instigators of self defeating behavior.  It is not logically excludable, if logically arguable, that the historical path of this behavior may lead to externally occurred impulse from nature that is contemporarily  falsely attributed to the conceptual in renditions of nature.  It is interesting to note the proposed unwitnessed but witnessible (though imaginatively over an extended temporal range)  causality of behavior in the example of the bumble bee problem, suggesting that the associated self defeating behavior possesses no active voice in discourses,  has causes that are external to the environment area encompassed by the  culture involved, present a tangible obstacle to the expression and realization of appropriate social spaces with which to work resolutions. . An existing, imposed  vicious cycle then motivates group efforts to unearth a paradox of the material and philosophical, of mind and matter, yet with the focusing eye upon the same means and tools employed from which the problem came to existence, i.e. a potentially preexisting   autoimmune deficiency from  which evolved incentive and means for the elaborated genetics of the crop pollinated by the bumble bee became the subject of manipulation.  It may argued that  ritual and magic focused activities, thought to be based in distinct cognitive quarters that are  maintained separate from the logical and rational applications involved in the enacting of daily survival \\tasks, can also reflect intuitively perceivable and logically renderable,  but unknown influences on life, i.e. an unwitnessed, untestified  defining  difference to rational verses  mystically oriented behavior may exist that is not always  known or present to awareness, but is dependent  on cultural learning with respect to the history of environment-human interactions and natural phenomenon. A hidden rational temporal element may exist to the enactment of non rational appearing, superstition and belief..  Western methods of reduction and repetitive division, to expose conceptual divides, in older societies  might simply had found a birth, that is avoided and sublimated to the posting of the unexamined divide itself as the routine element of nature and the self, especially if not much acceleration with  respect to a chronic and contiguous nature of the elements of nature exist, are molded from the physical, had not been made prominent, socially or genetically. In each case, either  a lack of conceptual understanding in the form of an ethic that precludes self defeating collective behavior, or a lack of direct individual ethics with regards to the rights of others can appear to exist.  It appear that in older societies, ritual may exist or have evolved in frustration from  a lack of means of control over (potentially at some point in history) known agents, and in modern societies a means of general control has evolved, but over potentially unperceived, unsuspected to exist  elements.  It is suggested  that behavior emerging from encounters has potentially devastating possibilities with respect to the occurrence of natural damage to the environment.        

   These kind of formulations in physical models that are mechanically ruled from existence, men made to be machines in the same manner that a comprehensive understanding of nature can be conjectured for learning from  its’ isolated parts, at the same time to include and exclude in a temporal sequence induction as a valid means towards the accomplishment of knowledge,  in the balance refuse  a potential redefining role for a role of synergy in the  structure and function of spaces as simply as volume of spaces can be over estimated or sheared from existence as  in the given example of the bumble bee-i.e. to result in  a culture so modified by intrusion,  the its’ actual problems become   buried beyond a predefined mechanical breath of observation.

 

 

     Mankind appears to be industriously busy with all of this;  if Frederick Neitzsche (1967) claimed man had become weak and frivolous thinking to think ‘he had conquered himself’, man may unintentionally had, yet with the greatest strength of  compromise , diligence, ingenuity and resourcefulness conceivable, diverted a vast amount of energy to have fit vast infinite numbers into finite accounting figures and complex mathematical representations, yielding, in a detour from the yet remaining, conceptually open and untouched as they were conceived, puzzles of life, an influential congregation of green house gasses, bricks and mortar constructions of capitalism, and constantly thought of falsely ordered paradox that results to be  the only existing by-products of a diverted  path. Witnessibly unsettled man, engulfs, swallows the sea that is drowning him, actively reflects in symbolism, in the mode of operation of the mechanisms involved in descriptive interpretation, the consequence of either witnessible unwitnessed or unwitnessible originating events,  that subsequently are  giving  birth to a mode of operation involving  the enormous consumption of resources  at the ubiquitous border of conflict, at the intersection of the  rational and the spiritual/religious. 

     The philosophy of logical positivism (Karnap, 1956), asserting the application of impulse to nature, inherently entails the production of both physical mechanical power and a power to its’ discourses within a prescription involving  the interaction of the tangible physical and the hands of mankind to control nature (Kirsh, 2009).    A situation for the universe, that mirrors the situations known to civilization and history,  rather than the distinctly held linearly renderable chains of cause and effect leading to the assembly of life from the inert appears to have been excluded from all possibility but the theological. It is interesting that it has recently been observed  that chromatin carrying the genetic material in cells contract rather than expand on pulling (Fulcronis, 2006); if an agent were to grasp a human arm and pull on it the expected response might not be to extend it but to retract it. A philosophy to parallel the  human situation, ‘the circumstance’  must be non spectacular not to engage the silent spectator but to account for him. Post-modern philosophy, seeming logical, in light of this discussion, more opposed to the rational and impulsive method of science, asserts truth to be created rather than discovered, does not resolve problems of failed conceptual understanding and interpretation of nature, but seems to both purport any act of creation, either of man, god, or nature, as the creator of the truth of the matter (excuse the pun),  and refuses non-spiritual rational interpretation made from assumptions inherent to rationally interpreted experience; postmodernism makes no account of the possibility of unwitnessed, stationery or chronic slowly variable elements that are external to witness as potential cohorts to truths of existence.  Though it maybe that matter, volume, space, are always in the process of being created in the niche and perspective of the first person, regardless of the identity given the agent(s) responsible (which non-the-less can only be the same as what is created as it is all that is present ),  the verbs ‘created’, or ‘discovered’ employed by either the post modernists or the rational scientist respectively, bear innately an association of the meaning of truth with action,  necessarily entail more of the same power, movement, sound, other than silence, in a philosophically unspecified path that is referred to only as ‘a creation’; post modernism at least seems to acknowledge potentially unknown mechanics possessed to all corners of a real open nature but lends only directionless power emanated from the power of its’ discourse upon  a path that is extended from,  both preceded by and coexistent with, a  blind  purposeful aggression on the natural that is suggested to both logical positivism, and the self created intelligent designs of science that are blind to the existence of spaces that include it’s own symbolisms, the  symbolisms of science  as a subset within a whole of possibilities. The struggle to argue intelligent design verses evolution is difficult to conceive without including twisted, falsely based criteria in arguments.   If the study of self-unkind man is structured from a perspective in which the study of anthropology has the property of self belonging (Kirsh, 2009, 2010),  if the act of studying mankind belongs to a set described as mankind, then so do activities of self-unkind mankind to a set “self-unkind mankind” to the self belonging set ‘nature’ as the set of unique volumes that are necessarily reflected contradictorily in the latter as a ubiquitous and universal  unkindness of nature, simultaneously referring to both an unknown and an unkind physical volume that threatens beyond the ability of the senses to know of it and the whole physical volume of nature of which both man and the world is constructed.

        Entailed within all these described gears is the need for a silent visual approach in the wake of a vast blindness that currently occupies steering mechanisms.  A single  action of replacing the conceptually heterogeneous  entity of time, with the unwitnessible entity the mirror as the generator of, the maker of the form of ‘the concept’ is presupposed, less in a search for the dark and silent, only the dark results.

 

I.                   The Explanatory Gap

 

      To make physical room for the unwitnessible concept, the path of change of an always  unwitnessible containing element of processes and situations  is postulated to be unknowable, only inducible by the imagination, from the impulse defined path determined  from the witness event. If a universal exists  as description that is  the same for all frames of reference in which  any volume is a subset of another, then the universe itself can be confined in definition to and represented from the frame of the associating individual;  if it is possible to construct descriptive properties of a path from path bearing witness testimony, it must necessarily include an accounting of  a necessarily existing unwitnessible, hence,  unknowable containing element as the  influential agent of criteria of description of both all of the  contained physical path and associated ensued path of concepts. A suitable representation is proposed that is  accomplished  from  geometrical representations that elaborate  path in terms of a radius that is construed from the two kinds of important energies  known, from the slow observable motions of matter and fast, either observable only with respect to a consequence effected on the former, or unobservable as the path possessing agent responsible for the becoming contours of the physical environment from which conceptual structure is evolved.  In a further conceptual step (excuse the pun but ‘the concept’ is postulated to have a unique standing alone identity though it can assume in physical nature, ironically a more tangible and enduring ascending hierarchy than might be attributed to the witnessible matter of either a wooden stair case or the species arranged in a stepwise order of complexity) the unwitnessible path of the concept is given existence as a displacement, a difference state, arrived from physical proximity of unwitnessible states of energy-becoming-matter. Figure 1 illustrates an oval as a generating template for the construction of physical volume from fast and slow velocities of motion; becoming matter is defined by a change in the velocity of light emitted from a moving plane along a line of reference. Figure 2 shows an egg shape  that is generated from the oval template in Figure 1 employing a combined expression for energy from  Einstein’s special theory of relativity and Newton’s laws’ of motion to calculate a radius.

 

       E/m=v^2/2 + c^2         c=variable velocity of light v=velocity of motion E/m= ratio

                                                 of energy to mass

 

   The witness pair is construed to necessarily be always  present within the  relationship of emission and reflection. The egg shape results from the conversion of the energy of emission to mass in the ideal situation. The resultant form illustrates the  naturally existing situation in which the tangible world is given existence and  requires that the  orders of magnitude of change interpreted to distance with the element of time, as a mirror of  the distances entailed to change in the velocities of emitted fast radiation and slow motion to coincide to fall within the same range to produce the experienced environment.  In the graphing situation periods of pi + 1 *10^17 revolutions are required before visual witness of the egg can be realized. The required presence of pi is interpreted to indicate closure of the whole surface  that  has no geometrical center  (other than the line (∆v + 2*∆c)  and is the product of coordinates of sine and cosine such that a closed surface is not represented but from a coincidence of parameters of plot path, sign and periods of revolution.  The large numbers of periods of revolution are construed to represent a relatively simple, in light of the complexities that are entailed, but vast temporal period required for the accomplishment of physical nature. In a test of graphing parameters, the egg shapes’ general, overall appearance is variable dependant on input parameters.  The golden number or similar ratios representable with numerical square roots and trigonometric values combined, result with similar but different structures (not shown) that can approach to be indistinguishable from a true sphere, but lack a mathematical center point.  As the egg is constructed of witnessible slow motion and unwitnessible fast energy propagation it is suggested to represent an elemental  shape for space that has empirical existence only, as an ordinary egg; the egg shape  presented is employed to function conceptually as a bridge between the conceptual, philosophical and material reality represented mathematically as  lines and intersections  in the discussion of Euclid.  In a parallel to the translation by Proclus  describing  Euclid to construe the circle to be composed of indivisible points rather than a  divisible line, the egg is viewed as a form equivalent to the sphere, i.e.- the sphere and hence the egg is the circle possessed with breadth and depth:

 

“ One might think that, although both the straight line and the circle are simple lines, the straight line is simpler. For it contains not even any dissimilarity in thought, whereas concavity and convexity in the circle indicate difference; and the straight line does not suggest the circle, whereas the circular line does bring to mind the idea of the straight line, if not through its’ mode of generation, at least by its’ relation to a center . What then if someone should say that the circle needs the straight line for its’ existence? For if one end of a finite line remains stationary and the other moves, it will describe a circle whose center is the stationary extremity of the straight line. Should we not reply that what describes the circle is not the line, but the point that moves around the stationery point….It appears that the circular line belongs with the limit and has the relation to other lines that the limit has to all things…the circle alone is limited and makes a figure, whereas the straight line belongs with the Unlimited and can be projected indefinitely without end  (Morrow 1970b).

 

   The 3-D egg is viewed to be indivisible as the circle is to the center point and motion that compose it; as it originates from the philosophical, e.g., in analogy to the center point of a circle, motion within its’ form is bound to the indivisible points that define its’ center line and is construed, in analogy to the motion that forms the circumference of a circle, in two motions, one to form the indivisible circle from the indivisible point and the second to form the indivisible surface from the indivisible circle.  The path from the conceptual to the geometrical egg, as the path of philosophy to geometry,  (in analogy to a location, position given to the indivisible, in a parallel to Euclid’s description of the indivisible point) is proposed to be unidirectional to proceed from the previously unaddressed philosophical point of inquiry involving motion, in a second depth and breadth lending motion, the transit of the point  along the center line to produce the egg surface, to represent the motion itself from the conceptual/philosophical, from the indivisible point at the end of a finite line the  towards the creation of divisible physical structure from intersections involving the birth of matter from energy.  It is motion, beginning from the indivisible point of the motion of thought, in a movement towards the elaboration of witnessible form that is the theme. Hopefully, an interval of creation, represented within a process involving the making of lines on drawing paper, the interval in its’ simplest form is added to the ancient philosophical rendition.     

       The rectangular table I am writing at is filled with boxes, within boxes, spaces that ultimately do not have the form of the box that is intentionally molded by impulse of hand or machine into the construction of the table and  bear only in common the possession of a geometrical form that has both a physical and abstracted nature. A truth exists of the interval of the writing of lines or words upon paper that rests on the table; for truth, the action of writing lines, the path created in the interval of writing cannot deviate far not to match those of the creation of life paths and reflections from which our learning and concepts are evolved.  If space is assumed to be representable by a shape, as in the geometry and divisions attributed to the square table, though universally more round than the square, persistence with square figures in representation and interpretation of situations can make, a hard to see from historical actualities, spectacle of the propensity of the human hand to draw rough edges to continuous curves or visa-versa, a false spectacle of  testimony that is enabled correspondingly to unknowingly trim fact from surfaces as easily as a criminal is born to seek to cut corners within  a frustrated situation.

 

   And thus we must think of the plane as projected and lying before our eyes and the understanding as writing everything upon it, the imagination becoming something like a plane mirror to which the ideas of the understanding send down impressions of themselves. (Morrow 1970c).

 

    It is thus that parameters of structure and function,  such as in methods to elaborate cultural evolution can be envisioned to never fall together for  witness in a combined fashion to account for specifics in the passage of time; the time elapsed to the individual in the rendition of form, is a creation, synthesis, of the new that has, as unacomplishable boundaries for creative cognitive description of situations involving the self and relations to the external , an absolute shape of space within  the irregular dynamic intercoursing, containing and contained  spaces  of the  individual and the physical elements of the environment; faithfulness towards philosophical truth cannot begin from the tangibly witnessed  physical space with the employment of lines of cause and effect to render explanation; if a monism exists to the elements of nature it entails  no path  from the particulars of the interval of time  towards a hidden conceptual shape as it should bear, as discussed,  a stronger relation to the  characteristics of diffusion processes, cognitive reflection as it is proposed to have evolved from and  necessarily reflects  similar processes, on inspection of the more linear elements of motion.  The addition of a philosophy of motion in interpretation, in a likewise manner in which  mathematics exists as but a subset to a  whole concept in Ancient philosophy,  must proceed from conceptually found form to find analogy that would  not necessarily align from a starting point of artifactual productions from the application of willed impulse, but with actual natural form . As Proclus, in interpretation of Euclid, acknowledges that neither the circle nor sphere have real existence, nor is assumed the egg form but as an  approximation at a point of intersection of  the practical and conceptual, an indivisible limit made from indivisible points that denote unique location, as an indivisible (philosophical) point itself, a thought, devoid of the temporal and physical, concerning  all locations;  eggs in nature are not free floating forms but are bound in their creation, in the same manner as Ancient philosophers and mathematicians confined applications to witnessible intersections, to architecture, military etc.,  to the elements of the path of circumstance.  

     It is proposed that little can be gained from the rational tampering with the development of the species but to change the unwitnessible forces that are associated with natural form that  already occupies available spaces. Nature is inferred to behave strictly in a living out manner and follows a simple logic to effect organization that is witnessed as the  propagation, necessarily both of  a form bound to energy and  energy bound to a form, that is not so readily visible within temporally constructed chains of cause and effect from which the laws of the energy of processes are deduced.

 

Figure 1   An oval template for the generation of the egg from a simple

                geometry of motion of fast and slow radiation  The egg (Figure 2) is

                evolved from a linear motion (v)  from which light (c) is projected

                simultaneously in the x-y and x-z planes.

 

  

 

Figure 2  Three Dimensional Plot of the  Shape of space is Egg Shaped.

                E/m=  Velocity^2/2 + Light Velocity^2 (C (Speed of light) is applied as a

                            variable

                                 R(a)Sin @ = Velocity       R(a) Cos @ = Velocity of light                                                                    

                                 Radius/Radius(a) = [[(sin theta)+2 (Cos theta)]^2 + (2 Cos phi)^2]^1/2

                                 Pi < Theta,  Phi  < pi + 1 * 10^17

 

    

     

 

     Systems of structure and function of the circumstances of  physical path, and a path of knowledge, each independently self referring, are suggested to together refer instead to historical intercourse, the ‘situation’ as  an interaction of structures, functions that are bound to a common ontology given to all elements.  The intangible, invisible, unwitnessible,  indivisible elements of the concept of ‘the concept’, when equipped  with motion, behave in a diffuse manner, obey the laws of slow diffusion rather than laws that, in perceptual mechanisms, refer  to continuous and divisible lines of vision, of the fast reflection of high speed energy in  the physical world.

      As  testimony to deception, confusion and coincidence involving physical form verses conceptual form,  it may be that as Karl Marx (Tucker, 1978) related  that men are unhappy as wage earners in a self defining situation that is secondary in relationship to  a naturally defining nature, it seems  more than seeking its’ resources,  seek to capture it conceptually to conquer it as if it had some mysterious hold over them. Possessing a synergy of the conceptual and physical, nature  strikes life experience with two thorns when the conceptual and physical come to be interpreted   together  singularly into a  concept, rather than as concept and its’ second in nature subset, the physical.    Perhaps neither Marx nor what proceeded from him had captured a viable representation of man, nature, happiness.  The same description is visible to the theory of relativity;  false, as they lack physical/geometrical form, notions  in the General Theory of Relativity, establish,  in combination with physical interpretation  given in the Special  Theory of relativity, a blindness towards a physical nature possessing diffuse properties: a constant physical force upon the environment of civilization over an extended time course  might also  account for theory elaborated by Einstein that is based upon chains of cause and effect rather than tangibly describable form.  It is also important to note that cosmological views in which birth precedes death lend alternate perceptions and renditions of nature, natural history and human history , human behavior, than the reverse.  Interestingly, visual representation is accomplished by the brain from the input of metabolic energy to a negative image to produce a positive image; the mind is innately given indication of what is actually downhill either in universal whole perspective or from the perspective of the individual, towards death to be  positive in nature.  All of nature at any perspective appears to work this way, is possessed with a similar divide of inside and out, the self and external, the received, the emitted and  reflected.  Life seeming  to require metabolic energy to carry it uphill from negative to positive, death  towards life   in the limited  perspective of the first person, in actuality channels energy, theorized to arise from the  released of energy from a failed death, towards death,  proceeds from death to life in a manner analogous to  the discussed  unidirectional, divisible path from the point of philosophy towards empirically oriented geometry, and is not accomplishable with rational applications to witness experience.  If natural selection is confined in description to be negative, to the avoidance of death rather than the pursuit of life,  a concept of death as the origin of birth becomes feasible; alternately, a contradiction by definition, (divisible)  point of nature is  born witness as  a disturbing, deleterious change producing artifactual  motion effected from a divisible path constructed in reverse, beginning  from  observation of the physical, of growth,  made to a direct philosophical point that proceeds  towards the philosophical and is assimilated to conceptual assets as potential  physically witnessible economic assets rather than negative assets accumulated to a point of philosophical invalidity, and  involves a violation of nature.    It is possibly an innate nature of western man to pursue elaboration of ‘the divide’, though indivisible it is the agent of a paradox of nature, life, and form. It is the accumulation of path to events, as the event itself, the divide acting as catalyst,  that is important. 

     An apparent different, between Western and Old, culturally associated focus on metabolic energy verses the acquired energy of structure,  on food verses acquired characteristics,  exists with respect to the discussed conceptual prominence of the natural divide in pursuits.   It is possible to speculate that a disease related to the ingestion of self, cannibalism, is associated with the discussed conceptual blindness and for some reason either operates differently in western man, or the trouble is more recent in history than may be indicated.  A potential gene spread throughout mankind, associated with cannibalism has been reported (Roach,2003).  

    As a point of departure from the philosophical towards the physical, efforts towards the accomplishment of a concept and definition of time, not only  intuitively occupying, necessarily occupying space and time itself, molds  activities involved in the occupation of physical space,  must be put into the correct conceptual order, philosophical precedes  physical form. 

 

          …for the One is the measure of all things.   So also in geometry the solid is bounded by

          the  surface, the surface in turn by the line, and the line by the point, for the point is the 

          limit of them all.  In the realm of immaterial forms and partless ideas the line, being

          uniform in its’ forthgoing, bounds and contains the varied activity of the surface and

         immediately unifies its’ boundlessness,  while in the realm of their [sensible] likenesses,  

         the limiting factor belongs to the very thing that is limited and in this way furnishes it

         with boundary. (Morrow, 1970d).

 

     False philosophical ordering, a potential   inflating agent of unwitnessible volumes of space and deflating agent of natural room afforded to the individual, has a profound bearing on economic and political activities as they reflect  needs, symbolisms and  interactions  that can arise more truthfully from a point of a philosophical breadth of motion given to a geometry of connections and intersections that contain physical form , to embody the breath of individual.

 

          “Thus the divine Plato said that geometry is the study of planes and contrasted it with stereometry as if he thought surface and plane were the same thing.  Likewise also the inspired Aristotle.  But Euclid and his successors make the surface the genus and the plane a species of it, as the straight line is a species of line.”  ….”For the straight line, he says is equal to the interval that lies between its’ two points and the plane likewise….” (Morrow,  1970e)

 

Figure 3 Symbolism of the Concept as a Mirror

 The figure ‘8’ is meant to represent a mobius strip, a continuous surface in which inside and outside are inverted and is meant as a partial representation occurred during the progression of  a path of the changing polarity of the lines that compose the complete representation of the egg. The small darkened line along the figure is meant to represent arc length attributed to “the concept”.  ‘The concept’ as the philosophical and indivisible central structure representing both man and nature, occupying a small arc as a tangent to the line connecting  witnesses,  having an inverse relationship with respect to arc length as it bears on conceptual priority,  is proposed to reflect dynamic differences in the energy metabolism of spaces and  possesses a more tangibly, statically construed, slower and diffuse nature than that of the encountered witnessible  physical (though slowly becoming but diverse) environment. 

 

Conclusion

 

   Path and the knowledge of it are often not so distinct; numerical absolutes, constants amenable to measurement  are not feasibly construed in representations of nature. The universe is considered as a heterogeneous entity of the containing and contained physical and conceptual, and  its possession of the property of parametric path at all loci.

      A model involving form rather than chains of cause and effect is given.  Though the only obvious relation to the empirical in the presented example is to the biological egg, it is argued to be a singly unique, indivisible, hence  sufficient example of the consequence of the application of a motion of construction to the indivisible point, to augment  understanding involving  the  logical containment of concepts of structure and function, of path and knowledge, ‘the circumstance’ within a  broader philosophical realization.      A focus is suggested that is oriented  away from accounts involving sensual, perceptual witness that entails temporal chains of cause and effect,  towards the elaboration of physical shape as it relates to the spaces of life and the environment (Kirsh, 2010).  


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