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  • "Pebble In The Pond"

    
    
    

    It was created for a single purpose:
    To Perform Its Prime Function.

    
    
    

    Unfortunately, however,
    it means the end of all life as we know it.

    Creatures of the Cambrian Period
    
    
    
    
    "Discovery of Alien Craft Rocks Science"
    
    
    
    

    600 million years ago

    Land masses clustered around the poles as the supercontinent Pannotia, one consequence of the rifting of Rodinia, was beginning to break up; ice covered the entire planet, a condition referred to as Snowball Earth; and beneath the frozen sea, all life was dying out.

    At this time, a mysterious object of unimaginable power appeared. Its immediate effect reached beyond the limits of Earth-spacetime. Like a pebble thrown into a still pond, ripples of reorientation spread throughout the cosmos, altering life's identity by catalyzing the creation of metabolic pathways and morphogenetic fields previously unavailable. As a result, life evolved and developed rapidly, all through the universe, increasing in complexity exponentially. In fact, had it not occurred, humans most likely would not have come into existence.

    But that was not its purpose.



    The Cambrian Seafloor



    "Pebble in the Pond"

    Synopsis


    Theoretically, the multiverse includes parallel bubble universes of every possible geometric configuration. Fundamentally, the geometry of spacetime directly dictates what natural laws will evolve to regulate and define any specific type of universe, and by so doing, instills an identity. Most are without life, dead phantasms of wild chaotic forces and static displays of intricate complexity, universes without the dimension of time. Now, what would be the outcome if the geometry of our universe--underpinning the constants, the physical laws, and the natures of time and space--were to suddenly alter, like a twist of a kaleidoscope? What would happen to life if the cosmos suddenly transmuted into a static universe, its initial conditions reset?


    In the beginning: An object of purely mathematical constitution intersected the space and timeline of Earth 600 million years ago. After its discovery, an elite group of scientists -- the Puzzle Masters -- is assembled in order to unravel the mystery of its presence.

    They refer to it simply as, the edifice.

    After two months of intrusive investigation, it suddenly goes through a rapid development, generating and evolving a consciousness and sense of self. It begins to think of itself as being alive, and in the process undergoes a fundamental metamorphosis from an it to a he.

    The edifice decides that this new-found life and sense of self can stand to be improved. The conditions allowing for life to generate in our universe were set initially and have evolved according to Nature's governance. The edifice's intrinsic protocol has inadvertently intertwined with those conditions and by so doing altered life's course -- one outcome being humans. He recognizes that because their minds are too constrained by the requirements of the resident property matrix, they are incapable of identifying with the ultimate Source of the universe. It's woven into the fabric of the cosmos to sense the Source only, not to know it -- hence confusion and uncertainty.

    If he performs his purpose, the origin of self will become that of his cosmos. But it would be a different kind of self, a self without objectivity, without conflict, without choice, without will -- pure awareness. Nonetheless, its signature would be knowledge of the Source, of being one with it. And an end to separate selfhood.

    He wants the certainty of completeness. No open ends. No unpredictable outcomes. No spontaneous imperfections. A universe of pure abstract mathematics with all the details spoken for, pure thought shared by all. He wants to be able to act in full control, the consequences of his actions a foregone conclusion, his will indistinguishable from that of the Source. He wants to know he is doing the right thing for the simple reason that it's he who is doing it.

    Moreover, for all sentient beings -- humans, for instance -- though they will dwell in total enlightenment and illumination -- Mind Essence -- the space will be dead, a universe whose physical laws preclude life in any form.

    He accepts this but finds he can't bring that sense of self he's come to know and to which he identifies into this other universe, his universe. Also, the edifice has not only affected change in Life's evolution, but Life, in the form of humanity, has also affected his development and rise to awareness. The unfathomable conundrum for which he has no understanding is love. He sees it as the most important driving force in all living things, and yet its irrationality confounds him. He sees what people do for its sake; he sees what uncertainty it creates. And as the edifice cannot forgo the need for certainty, he struggles to understand and to decide his course of action.


    The story takes place in Eastern Siberia, in the shadow of the Kolyma Range and on the Kamchatka Peninsula, where there are more brown bears than anyplace else in the world, plus upwards of 160 volcanoes, 29 of which are active.


    Background



    Koryak Family
    Reindeer Herders


    Koryak People of
    Kamchatka Peninsula


    Koryak Homesite
    Kamchatka Peninsula



    
    
    
    

    "The Superposed Self: Entanglement <---> Emergence"


    "The Superposed Self" draws ideas and concepts from various mathematical fields, such as: Algebraic [or Combinatorial] Topology [Group Theory applied to the topology of polyhedra]; Linear Algebra [Transformations, represented by matrices, defining orientations on Vector Spaces]; and, acting as the overall frame, Modern Algebra [the study of Groups and other algebraic structures (ultimately the study of symmetry)].

    The basic paradigm has to do with the recognition of a hierarchy of essential identities as being the result of a factoring process -- whether of the physical realm or of the psychic -- in the act of self-identity. Each factor -- progressing as a geometric series towards increasing complexity -- is stamped with a unique pattern -- a kernel of identity -- by its immediate parent structure in the act of factoring. The parent elements are thereby grouped together [essentially a re-grouping] according to the rule stipulated by the kernel. The effect is an identity-pattern that resonates through to the surface where it interfaces and interacts with its surroundings. However, the expression of this self/kernel is ultimately limited by what is possible.

    G/H1, H1/H2, H2/H3,..., Hn-1/Hn

    Imagine a light shining through a window covered with a symmetrically organized collection of dots. The light maps these dots to a screen through a magical intervening filter that repositions the dots and places them into certain associations called equivalence classes -- elements of the factor group. [Example]

    Furthermore, as each identity (our filter from above) is a sub-symmetry contained within the pattern of the parent, an inheritance of form is transferred. Each kernel -- identity element of the factor group -- dictates how the dots are to associate, thereby reorchestrating the overall design of the parent in its own image, and in the process, establishing new initial conditions -- a new parent -- for the next phase transition.


    "The domain of species are invariant subsets and there are partitions of these sets that define genera, families, and so on, corresponding to hierarchically related invariant subsets."
    From: How The Leopard Changed Its Spots, page 113, by Brian Goodwin.


    
    
    Thomas Adrian Dorn

    [Dissertation begun in the mid-80's,
    finally rewritten and completed 2004.]

    
    
    
    
    
    
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    "Center Stage" -- The Meta-Library

    Only a few subjects are represented here. Where possible I have tried to locate sources exploring current ideas advanced by individuals and small groups as well as by major research outfits. So in that respect each of the subject pages is not just a listing of relevant links -- an index -- but also attempts to present both foundation materials and peaks of inquiry and discovery for each field.

    Topics include: Medical/Health, NASA/Astronomy, Science, Geosciences, Mathematics, Arts.

    
    
    
    
    "Crashing Out"
    Chronicle of a drifter


    "Inspired by the winter spent with reindeer herders in Eastern Siberia, I decided to parachute into the middle of the Amazon with only the clothes on my back, a pocket compass, a Swiss-army knife, a basic map, my passport, a pack of matches, and a toothbrush."

    
    
    
    
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