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Confabulations
20:
Multi-Dimensional Mind
Adam Blatner, Imagination-ologist
June 15, 2012 |
A conference I attended in late
June, 2012 (The British Psychodrama Association Conference west
of London) has as its theme Innovations and Integrations. What
struck me about the design (left), which is fine, is that it
draws on the metaphor of mechanism, clockworks, gears. Someone
observed that the mind in its complexity tends to be modeled in
terms of the most complex technology. (The problem with current
technology is that we don't know yet where it will lead!) So the
complexity of a fine clock harkens back to the wonders of two-
to three hundred years ago. In Freud's time, it involved the
mysteries of pressure and volume---fluid dynamics, plumbing.
(Indoor toilets were just coming in.) A few decades later the
mind was likened to an electrical switchboard, and more recently
people are trying to figure out the mind as if it were a
computer or more, a network of computers, or the internet.
The problem is that they all deal with rational forms of information processing and no systems other than playful mind are capable of entertaining the wealth of paradoxes involved. Mind varies with attention, motivation, fatigue, levels of consciousness, hunger, other appetites, the presence of distractions, its inclination to be playful or rebellious, and the many other influences that may come into the different individuals involved. This one partakes more of sports and that one more of mathematics. I've been impressed by thinkers who find in the phenomena associated with geometric topology or biological processes hints at the paradigm-shifting nature of what we're learning about how the cosmos works. Chaos and fractals now offer ways to think about quantum mechanics. An of late many physicists and deep thinkers are daring to consider seriously the implications of dimensionality. while this was once imagined to be a science-fiction device, many now take it seriously!
My hunch is that mind is indeed multi-dimensional; or, that reality is only partly time, space, matter, and energy; it also is information and consciousness, the ways that knowledge is transformed; and it also mixes chaos and order within matrices of play. It is and must be truly inconceivable, but yet mind can in part dare to conceive of it. ... and my preference is that of a multi-dimensional form, the Calabai-Yau matrix.
I'm reminded also of the hint of multi-dimensionality in these other drawings---on the left, a Tibetan "yantra" or sacred
drawing used for
meditation. To the right is another Calabai Yau diagram, and
more can be found by clicking on the images on google.
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Mind includes categories that can't be represented mathematically. First of all, their parameters are not precise, but fuzzy: cute-ness, funny, pleasant, confusing, startling, amazing, tiresome, mind-boggling, suspicious, and so forth are not clearly definable. Such qualities are not only subjective, but also they vary with culture and individual temperament, ability, and other individual variables.
Although these pictures are from others' pens, via the worldwide web, I recognize in my various mandalas a tendency to create similar drawings, and also vaguely have associations to what I have expressed on this page: There are processes of the mind and the social matrix that indeed cannot be specified.
For example, on
the left is a relationship (someone else's picture, but it feels
right to me)---a multi-dimensional relationship that involves
the many aspects of connection. (This is how I feel resonant
with my dear wife Allee.)
The problem is that they all deal with rational forms of information processing and no systems other than playful mind are capable of entertaining the wealth of paradoxes involved. Mind varies with attention, motivation, fatigue, levels of consciousness, hunger, other appetites, the presence of distractions, its inclination to be playful or rebellious, and the many other influences that may come into the different individuals involved. This one partakes more of sports and that one more of mathematics. I've been impressed by thinkers who find in the phenomena associated with geometric topology or biological processes hints at the paradigm-shifting nature of what we're learning about how the cosmos works. Chaos and fractals now offer ways to think about quantum mechanics. An of late many physicists and deep thinkers are daring to consider seriously the implications of dimensionality. while this was once imagined to be a science-fiction device, many now take it seriously!
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| Calabai-Yau
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Another:
Multi-Dimensional? |
Calabai-Yau "Dragon"
?? These from the internet! |
My hunch is that mind is indeed multi-dimensional; or, that reality is only partly time, space, matter, and energy; it also is information and consciousness, the ways that knowledge is transformed; and it also mixes chaos and order within matrices of play. It is and must be truly inconceivable, but yet mind can in part dare to conceive of it. ... and my preference is that of a multi-dimensional form, the Calabai-Yau matrix.
I'm reminded also of the hint of multi-dimensionality in these other drawings---on the left, a Tibetan "yantra" or sacred
drawing used for
meditation. To the right is another Calabai Yau diagram, and
more can be found by clicking on the images on google. .
Mind includes categories that can't be represented mathematically. First of all, their parameters are not precise, but fuzzy: cute-ness, funny, pleasant, confusing, startling, amazing, tiresome, mind-boggling, suspicious, and so forth are not clearly definable. Such qualities are not only subjective, but also they vary with culture and individual temperament, ability, and other individual variables.
Although these pictures are from others' pens, via the worldwide web, I recognize in my various mandalas a tendency to create similar drawings, and also vaguely have associations to what I have expressed on this page: There are processes of the mind and the social matrix that indeed cannot be specified.
For example, on
the left is a relationship (someone else's picture, but it feels
right to me)---a multi-dimensional relationship that involves
the many aspects of connection. (This is how I feel resonant
with my dear wife Allee.)