Jeremy, this held me transfixed, first to last. You are a brilliant writer but conceptually ... I really don't have words ... the way you tie things together ... Apparently, I must just say thank you. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Linda! I’m so grateful that this post resonated with you. I’m going to be publishing a quick “visual guide” to this essay within the next few days. Keep an eye out for it!
Personally I am leaning towards various realms co-existing and time is definitely not linear but cyclical - as in a spiral - there is nothing new under the sun.
That’s a great article, David! Thank you for sharing. I’m glad this post resonated. It’s been sitting in my chest for some time now, though I suspect you understand that experience fully.
Jeremy, seriously, this aligns with one of the sci fi stories I'm working on. Here is my protagonist describing the experience of time she's learning from her foster mother who is a member of the host species on a planet where humans are the aliens.
"I float in a glimmer of T’holin temporality where metaphors of rivers and arrows fall short. The Best Now lights my brain with vining fractals of rainbow Fibonacci spirals as if time itself is alive. SsLissa-khin would expect me to follow the Best Now outward and inward, backward, and forward, upward, and downward, bringing the shadows of my past and the mists of my future into the light of the present, attuning me to this planet’s dialectic of hope and despair."
This is wonderful, Kathy! Keep sharing. I’m fascinated by how much these concepts are resonating and how you have been always-already cogitating them in your own ways and methods this whole time.
Interesting and I don't know what to make of it, or even where to start to contemplate it. I will allow it to sit in full for awhile, and allow it to simmer within me until it comes clear. I do like the illustration and how you worded it.
I was playing at the AI a few weeks ago doing concept art. I don't use it much except to drop an occasional thought in image form. A lot of time the AI takes the reins, as I express a thought and allow it to run wild with it. You know that I have no illusions about AI. It is not intelligent. It is an aggregate program that recognizes symbols, groups them accordingly, and regurgitates a result, which may or may not have a bearing on truth, or the subject matter asked about. I had been using the same model for quite some time now, so it probably aggregates everything that I ever put into it. That is my qualification for what occurred.
My thoughts were on the calamities all about us right now. As you say, there is a lot of destruction and rubble, and not much in the way of encouragement forward. My query to the AI was a very random "What will come of all of this?". It spit out an image of me as I usually portray myself, standing in front of a crowd of people - all types of people. With the caption "The Remnant will Endure". Don't want to clutter up your feed with visuals, but I can DM you a copy. It has been the only time that I've gotten weirded out from using AI.
Jeremy, this held me transfixed, first to last. You are a brilliant writer but conceptually ... I really don't have words ... the way you tie things together ... Apparently, I must just say thank you. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Linda! I’m so grateful that this post resonated with you. I’m going to be publishing a quick “visual guide” to this essay within the next few days. Keep an eye out for it!
Very thought provoking. Interestingly I recently sent you an article including reference to Quantum Entanglement.
Quantum Physics and Entanglement have been a fascination of mine for a while.
This article applies
https://www.astronomy.com/science/what-is-quantum-entanglement-a-physicist-explains-einsteins-spooky-action-at-a-distance/
Personally I am leaning towards various realms co-existing and time is definitely not linear but cyclical - as in a spiral - there is nothing new under the sun.
That’s a great article, David! Thank you for sharing. I’m glad this post resonated. It’s been sitting in my chest for some time now, though I suspect you understand that experience fully.
Jeremy, seriously, this aligns with one of the sci fi stories I'm working on. Here is my protagonist describing the experience of time she's learning from her foster mother who is a member of the host species on a planet where humans are the aliens.
"I float in a glimmer of T’holin temporality where metaphors of rivers and arrows fall short. The Best Now lights my brain with vining fractals of rainbow Fibonacci spirals as if time itself is alive. SsLissa-khin would expect me to follow the Best Now outward and inward, backward, and forward, upward, and downward, bringing the shadows of my past and the mists of my future into the light of the present, attuning me to this planet’s dialectic of hope and despair."
You give me much to learn, absorb, and ponder....
This is wonderful, Kathy! Keep sharing. I’m fascinated by how much these concepts are resonating and how you have been always-already cogitating them in your own ways and methods this whole time.
What a joy it is to be understood.
Interesting and I don't know what to make of it, or even where to start to contemplate it. I will allow it to sit in full for awhile, and allow it to simmer within me until it comes clear. I do like the illustration and how you worded it.
I was playing at the AI a few weeks ago doing concept art. I don't use it much except to drop an occasional thought in image form. A lot of time the AI takes the reins, as I express a thought and allow it to run wild with it. You know that I have no illusions about AI. It is not intelligent. It is an aggregate program that recognizes symbols, groups them accordingly, and regurgitates a result, which may or may not have a bearing on truth, or the subject matter asked about. I had been using the same model for quite some time now, so it probably aggregates everything that I ever put into it. That is my qualification for what occurred.
My thoughts were on the calamities all about us right now. As you say, there is a lot of destruction and rubble, and not much in the way of encouragement forward. My query to the AI was a very random "What will come of all of this?". It spit out an image of me as I usually portray myself, standing in front of a crowd of people - all types of people. With the caption "The Remnant will Endure". Don't want to clutter up your feed with visuals, but I can DM you a copy. It has been the only time that I've gotten weirded out from using AI.
Please send me a copy! This image is very, very resonant. But I suspect that comes as little surprise to you, my friend.