January 8, 2009
- Huineng -
To which I would add “through time at the speed of light”.
“Flag” and “wind” are both 3 dimensional illusory constructs, created from the informational input that the mind gathers as it moves through time-space.
Every conditioned thing is thus: wave patterns of movement through time. Frequencies of movement connect each discrete object to the next. Nothing ever stands just-on-its-own. That would reqire a 3 dimensional universe, in which no life could live, because no change could ever happen.
We think that things put out vibrations and frequancies, which we gather up with our senses, to make a picture of the universe. But really, there are no things there to vibrate. It is all just vibrations.
This actually reminds me of something I read in a book once, by a chap called Carver Mead, who (coincidentally??) was one of the inventors of the microprocessor. Something like:
‘Everything in quantum mechanics is waves. Particles are an illusion created by the existence of boundary conditions’
i.e., the beginnings and ends and interactions of things make the world look granular.
I’m not sure this is received scientific wisdom, but it’s sure interesting. Another massive puzzle in science is to unite the particley Quantum stuff with the smooth wavey Relativity stuff; the current state of play is that they’re both right but mutually incompatible. Thoughts of unity often seem to end up looking at the role of the observer, a thing which the reductionist mind has trouble focusing on.
Comment by speedbird — January 9, 2009 @ 6:31 am
“unite the particley Quantum stuff with the smooth wavey Relativity stuff; the current state of play is that they’re both right but mutually incompatible. Thoughts of unity often seem to end up looking at the role of the observer, a thing which the reductionist mind has trouble focusing on.”
Sounds like squaring the circle to me…
Comment by Ian — January 9, 2009 @ 3:55 pm