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Wednesday, 25 May 2016
'Eyes' forming within the flux function like a circular reflector or transformation surface so that the macrocosm outside the boundary is perfectly reflected inside it. The infinity of the outside is an ultimate horizon common to all its points of view, but on the inside its reflection is a single point, the impossible origin point at zero, a point distinguished only in its relation to the transformation which itself is not distinguished in its own space. The transformation surface in this metaphor is transformed onto itself, not in an invariant manner, but with one or two isolated fixed points relative to given direction of attention. If we can imagine such a formation in a space of events as illuminated by, or conceived in, a centreless consciousness then it invites the phenomenology of a self, of self-consciousness, without this being intrinsic to that consciousness. This is one way of trying to understand the precipitation of a self as a virtual centre or subject of experience with a peculiarly inviolable constancy. Another version might liken it to a moire pattern formed when two centreless patterned fields are superimposed. This again might be related to the tension perceived in a dissonant chord which seems to pull towards a resolution. These analogies do not present a picture of how this world might come about in a world of pure unobserved objectivity, if the latter were not a absurdity, but rather seek to jar something lose in our unreflectively assumed metaphysics.
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