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The Grid

We appear

as we learn

To Be, To Change, To Have Direction,

as one intercommunication

within this Magic Sea

Starfish are happy when they have their little tube feet solidly on the sea floor. © http://www.thread-of-awareness-in-chaos.com/order.html

The 4 phase process of becoming requires four basic conditions.

There must be focal points for behavior - particles, atoms, stars, molecules, bacteria, cells, concepts. This is the property of To Be. We observe beings as individual objects and measure their position in space with 3 Cartesian coordinates (x,y,z). We divide these coordinates into appropriate units (light years, kilometers, meters, centimeters, etc.).

 

There must be change in position. Beings move relative to other beings from one position to another.

We observe this change and it becomes our awareness. The refresh rate of our nervous system, about 1/25th of a second for humans (but different rates for other organisms) is our interval of awareness.

We measure change using clocks and describe it as time.

Starfish, like this Choriaster granulatus, have a much slower interval of awareness than we do. © http://www.thread-of-awareness-in-chaos.com/order.html
Schooling fish, like these amberjacks, move together in smooth harmony. © http://www.thread-of-awareness-in-chaos.com/order.html

There must be directionality.

Beings  move in a direction relative to other beings. Directionality is the change in change and we observe this as motion in a direction, spin, polarity.

We measure directionality as relationships relative to other objects and define them as having fitness, relationships, relevancy, meaning.

There must be intercommunication.

Beings  exchange information with each other.

We observe this as collisions, lasting relationships, patterns of behavior between beings.

We describe intercommunications by cognition and systems theory or by other logic systems.

Clownfish establish a communication system between themselves and between their anemonie. They identify themselves to the anemonie by special chemicals in the mucus covering their scales. © http://www.thread-of-awareness-in-chaos.com/order.html
Concepts use eyes to determine if their responses have the expected outcome. © http://www.thread-of-awareness-in-chaos.com/order.html

There must be an observer; a mechanism of feedback or reference to determine if relationships and intercommunications have the expected result.

There are no priorities to these four aspects of reality; none come before or after or higher or lower than any of the others.

They are all facets of a dynamic flow createing itself with a 4 phase process of becoming.

We invented measurements as a grid to overlay on our perceptions, to describe and help us consider, consciously, the world around us. We can sumarize the measurements, the perceived events, and the basic facets like this:

 

MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

PERCEIVED EVENT

  BASIC FACETS

X,Y,Z COORDINATES

OBJECT IN SPACE

TO BE
TIME INTERVAL OF AWARENESS TO CHANGE
FITNESS

MEANING

TO HAVE DIRECTION

SYSTEMS THEORY

PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR ONE INTERCOMMUNICATION

VIEWPOINT

THE OBSERVER

REFERENT

 

Auger shells are perfectly adapted for sliding through sand. They seldom emerge from their sandy sea. © http://www.thread-of-awareness-in-chaos.com/order.htmlBeings appear as we learn To Be, To Change, To Have Direction is one interaction within This Magic Sea. And by appear, I mean they evolve from one form to another, come within perception range, and are manifested from one interval to the next.

I  appear, evolving from instant to instant, derived from an unbroken growing of awareness over the past 3.6 billion years, manifested as atoms enter my being to form my bacteria whose dance becomes my cells whose communications become me in the singular now of existence.

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Go over a chart of the Thread of Awareness to see how To Be, To Change, To Have Direction fits into the overall process.

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