Deeply moved by two encounters yesterday: the reflection available within the envelope of time, and the quote Caladonia brought to the Playasbeing group “Consciousness is the choice of which abstractions we experience out of an infinite number of ways of slicing the continuity of the universe. It’s the feeling of existence that is the choice” (www.jaronlanier.com/zombie.html) . Within the envelope of ‘enough time’ I could reflect with pleasure, curiosity and openness about a conversation I was chatlogging (playasbeing.wik.is/Chat_Logs/2008.08.17_1300) and that added dimension of space for reflection seemed to add a glow of potential, evolving meaning that felt awesome. And the Lanier thought helps in glimpsing the relationship between human consciousness and the infinite: the multi-dimensional universe and human necessity to ’slice’ it, sort of reducing its continuity into ways which the human mind can comprehend. Another aspect from the Lanier thought is that Nature does not have nouns, but as humans we need nouns for our ’science’; but nouns which are arbitrary distort the continuity of the universe. My experience of these encounters led to dreams of openings, explorations, and creative uncertainty. All in a for me remarkable 24 hour period.
