01-02-2013, 12:00 AM
Archaos wrote: There's an infinite number of 1d lines in a 2d plane. Do we really have to recapitulate an infinite number of lines to enter the 2d plane?... 1st attention/stalking is linear time.
2nd attention/dreaming is nagual's time. If the 1st attention is a plane of lines, the 2nd attention is a solid (cube, tetrahedron) of planes. The 2nd attention can do wonders due to its extra dimension of action available to it.
Does the concept of a hypercube fit this thematic definition? I ask because what you describe...infinite "lines" contained within...a cube was casually stuck on a shelf in a recent nocturnal dream. Thats not all that interesting, on its own, however. What is interesting, is that the underlying concept conveyed on entry to said "cube" was very similar to the model you proposed in this post...in particular, the idea of "skimming" a representative sample to understand the whole and not be caught in the individual strands or infinite variations of the same sample. I had not, to my embaresment, linked it to the concept of "proportional recap" or the sorceric concept of skimming, until seeing where you were going with the metaphoric construct. Fractal encoding and the concept of "holographic structure" were other gems of technobable (enough to make Geordi LaForge blush) associated with the concept. As was a sad reflection that this was almost useless, as a practical matter, outside the attention of dreaming. But, practical is over rated ehh? hehe.
2nd attention/dreaming is nagual's time. If the 1st attention is a plane of lines, the 2nd attention is a solid (cube, tetrahedron) of planes. The 2nd attention can do wonders due to its extra dimension of action available to it.
Does the concept of a hypercube fit this thematic definition? I ask because what you describe...infinite "lines" contained within...a cube was casually stuck on a shelf in a recent nocturnal dream. Thats not all that interesting, on its own, however. What is interesting, is that the underlying concept conveyed on entry to said "cube" was very similar to the model you proposed in this post...in particular, the idea of "skimming" a representative sample to understand the whole and not be caught in the individual strands or infinite variations of the same sample. I had not, to my embaresment, linked it to the concept of "proportional recap" or the sorceric concept of skimming, until seeing where you were going with the metaphoric construct. Fractal encoding and the concept of "holographic structure" were other gems of technobable (enough to make Geordi LaForge blush) associated with the concept. As was a sad reflection that this was almost useless, as a practical matter, outside the attention of dreaming. But, practical is over rated ehh? hehe.