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The Mandala Book
inside out, outside in, Perpetual change - Jon Anderson - Perpetual change, from The Yes Album, by Yes, 1971
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know - Donald Rumsfeld - speaking at a U.S. Department of Defense news briefing at the Pentagon, February 12, 2002
Introduction
This page started off as a Claude produced reproduction of an Excel spreadsheet I have been putting together in order to pin down the precise meaning of as many sectors of the Mandala as I am able to. The Mandala itself is necessarily a complete guide to everything that can be, given the premise of Virtualism. The difficult task is to comprehend what the role is of each relationship that it represents. That is a task that I can only take so far, and potentially may make mistakes with, the problem being that beyound the early stages nothing is either straightforward, or tangible, so a certain amount of imagination and reasoning must be brought to bear on the problem.
Note very Bene: In everything that follows on this page, we are trying to get at modes of existence, which can be thought of as an extended dualism in which there are factual states, real states, perceptional states, and personal states. What there are not are the values of such modes of being. Value will give the extension of such modes, but beyond counting dimensions, which quickly becomes very difficult, we don't want to be worrying too much about such distinctions. NB. the use of personal here is to mean the subjective whole, a state of inner emptiness that is defined by the coming together of the hologram boundary that is perception. This coming together is the formation of the heart of the icon as NATO star, the points of which extend to the hologram data points.
Each quadrant must be viewed as a modal layer of Existence that both intermingles with the other layers, and is no more than a different perspective on the facts of what exists. The driver of difference is a very true form of paradox, that comes in four flavours, each corresponding to a state of being, and forming its own complementary reason for the other states.
Because the potential for emergence driven by paradox has the scope for extrinsic, or intrinsic, extension, or even a turning into, relations that may be simple at one level are able to connect in complex manner at another level. The complexity comes down to the quantity of dimensions that are involved.
The page is organised in what at first sight may appear to be a perverse sequence - reverse order - but the reason for this is to emphasise the fact that at alternate levels of the Mandala, the process runs either clockwise, or counterclockwise. The quadrants turn inwards to produce the fundamentals of what exists, and then reverse order to produce the next level of what existence does. The following tier is perhaps the meaning of doing, but whatever it is, it is a more complex order of existence, and because the whole thing behaves like a fractal, it doesen't stop there. What comes next? That is what this process aims to discover.
The two targets for this page are to pick the best words to describe each sector, and to identify each sector for what it truly is. The start is relatively easy - all things start with being - but each sideways change at Tier 1 is a turning into the three extended dimensions of the previous sector. Each produces something quite novel, but entirely predictable, at least it is hoped to be so if we are to understand it. At extrinsic turns it is something more of a reflection, with what emerges being a novel instance rather than a novel kind.
My interpretation of what it all means is not necessarily the last word on the matter. This is just my best guess at my own opinion, in many ways a moveable feast. So what is laid out here must be subject to an amount of haggling with the world at large, and will certainly be tinkered with by me as I realise new or better ways to describe each sector.
The important thing to grasp is that the Mandala is not Existence, it is only a map; the words that describe the Mandala are not Existence, they are pointers, a certain amount of hand waving in the general direction of Existence. There are many things that I know I do not know, and certainly very many things that I don't even know that I don't know. My explanation has to be a starting point in many conversations about the precise meaning of each sector - something that looks very much like an endless task.
Index
- Sequence
- Q1 - Fire - Factuality
- Q2 - Earth - Difference
- Q3 - Air - Change
- Q4 - Water - Possibility
- Q4 - Water - Possibility
- Q3 - Air - Change
- Q2 - Earth - Difference
- Q1 - Fire - Factuality
- Summary
Objectivity Tier 1
Subjectivity Tier 1
Subjectivity Tier 2
Objectivity Tier 2
Sequence
The sequence arises due to the mechanism of paradox, whereby each state necessitates the other states, and together define an order. The problem for questions of time and causation is that it is difficult to say which comes first, only that all are necessary and that the sequence itself is somewhat paradoxical in appearance, just as the concepts of inside and outside are two sides of the same coin, in the manner of being and non-being.
It is a requirement of explanation to start somewhere, and traditional to start at the beginning, but is non-being the beginning, or is it actually being - the two are inseparable, a fundamental relation that is there in, or not in, everything. Time itself is problematic, and only really comes into its own with the completion of the circle, after separate changes have made possible the essence of time which is a comparison, a rate, a ratio of one change to another. But time is also interspersed with every other state, and what we are left with is the Mandala as an illustration of how it is each state mixes with every state, and ultimately the order itself is something of an imposter - pick any order and a case can be made.
However, our experience and tradition dictate that the order starts with being, the facts of what has been, of what is certain. The 'Once upon a time there was ...' This is the orthodox of the past, which I identify as elemental fire, and colour red. It could as easily start 'In the beginning was the void ...', or as in the Rigveda (Mandala 10, Hymn 129) 'Then, there was neither non-existence nor existence;Neither the realm of space, nor the sky which is beyond...'. Each state is separated by a paradoxical relation, so Reality separates from the being of Fact by the hyperdox of boosted, relative space, and the change of hypodox subtracts from the fact and the reality, because the reality is a fact, and finally we lose whatever it was that made reality real, gave change and a perception of individuality, before or all the while, adding to the facts of being.
The orthodox is Nature's way of avoiding paradox, except that paradox is unavoidable. Everytime Nature bumps into more than three dimensions, trouble occurs, and that is the grain of irritation that produces the pearl.
Our order then is Red, Yellow, Blue, Green; is Fire, Earth, Air, Water; is Orthodox, Hyperdox, Hypodox, Anodox. It could be argued otherwise, but the argument is pointless and circular. And can and should be read both ways. Originally, I thought that the Mandala was analogous to a counting system, and it sort of is, but not really. What it is closest to is a web of interlocking circles that expand outwards, each reversing the order of the previous layer/tier of sectors. Even the concept of tiers and layers of sectors is a bit loose, because we are dealing with mostly invisible connections and causes, so while the Mandala has strict layers within its own logic, the tiers only indicate a different order of complexity, and perhaps tiers have been omitted where they ought not to have been.
Each Quadrant below (Fire, Earth, Air, Water) emerges as Tier 1, and carries its own Tier 0 intrinsic State, but also three extrinsic states of Signs (the coloured swatches), and each Sign into its three Decans (the small coloured chips), matching the elemental colour order used throughout the Mandala. However,
NB. Most of all, none of this is intended as a replacement for Science, rather as a stepping stone towards solving the Hard Problem, and other equally hard problems. Ultimately it allows us to answer that Time is the addition of individual experience to the orthodoxy of the factual past. Bearing in mind that in this context 'experience' means subjective fact, not solely a sentient experience.
Q1-Fire - Factuality Tier 1
Being is the inevitable counter to non-being, almost Hegelian, except that where Hegel has the one vanishing into the other, Virtualism has an emergent relationship of sameness and difference, increasing the distinction between the two as Existence emerges in its full glory. Being is the initial fact of Q1, which is in total the totality of all facts, but initially being is unity, and then the separation of sameness that is duality, and so on, each fact birthing a new integer as an eternal fact, each fact replacing the previous facts, yet all facts remaining, such that every number, and every interval is identical with all numbers and any number. A case without which mathematics, and even simple arithmetic would be impossible. In Virtualism there are only a finite quantity of integers, though that quantity is always increasing. If N is that quantity, any interval can only be partitioned by N, hence the granularity of Existence is becoming ever more detailed. The rule is N = N + 1
Being - Factuality
A mode of being as the completeness of non-being - a state that bootstraps and partitions as the Number Line and
mathematics. However, the state of being is a relational state, it is the relationship. This means that the fact is
not dependent on the node actually being - we see an initial fact with a null node - and this is found to be the case
for all facts, i.e. once they come to exist, the fact no longer requires the node that made it exist, at least not
in the same state. All facts persist, so the factual node also persists. But beware, some facts are more true than
others, and some facts are more real than others.
Factuality accrues all facts and holds them forever, and is threaded throughout the Mandala.
The initial paradoxical fact of a relationship between non-being and being, between nothingness and the unity
of completeness. Unlike Hegelian vanishing into, this is a relation of both sameness and difference - both are
entire, yet one is and one is not, a hyperdox of duality that partitions the unity of Existence with difference.
.
The intrinsic of being is relation, and in the first instance rational number.
In Q1 being extends outwards as mathematics, but the fundamental, the first dimension of being is the number line,
which will become fundamental to everything, but it too has an intrinsic that extends inwards because each number
is an eternal fact as soon as it is birthed - its fact is what all number is at that stage, so every number must
relate to all other birthed numbers, which is what we experience, and this gives Existence ratios, a hypodox of all
potentials that are only there when measured. In this, numbers are quantum objects.
The Number Line - Earth - 1D.
A partitioning of being as two valued hyperdox forces the repeated addition of integers, each a number like all the
prior integers, each an eternal fact both the same as, and different from, each other; overdetermining what it means
to be a number.
Area - Air - 2D.
Division/multiplication as folding - a form of change, Addition and subtraction from extrinsic rotation. Extending Area
Volume - Water - 3D.
The consequential new gap, there is always a space for going into 3D volume
Q2-Earth - Difference Tier 1
Difference arises as the separation caused by the hyperdox of multiple values of difference, that result in the boosted nature of relative spatial relations.
Difference - Reality
In turning into Factuality, Being becomes the objective boosted state of Q2 Reality.
Boosted space as volume is populated by incompatible difference via rotation from fact, caused by overdetermination
of hyperdox
In Q2 the points are boosted and separated
The fundamental realities of Q2 are particles of the Fermion type, i.e. protons, neutrons and electrons, plus a
number of other particles, but not Bosons. The important feature that these share is each kind being identical to
others of its kind, and each being excluded from being in an identical quantum state by the Pauli exclusion principle.
. Each such point of reality is known by the extrinsic relations it forms, so a simplistic view of what exists is an
object defined by extrinsic relations, but that has many kinds of internal relations that can be induced by experiment.
This would probably seem an outrageous claim to any physicist, but given the quantum nature of reality, the story
told appears to be far too classical to be the whole truth.
The intrinsic of reality is boosted space
In Q2 whatever it is numbers do in Q1 becomes hyperdox giving space, and some intrinsic characteristic. The
question is the intrinsic within the parts, or within the emergent space? The answer is clearer when we consider
Q3, but even here in Q2 each relation between point ends as the node of a point, so all those extrinsic relations
determine the inner void of Q2 as relativistic curved space.
Q2 is objective so the gap is objective between the points. If there is a field, this is it, but it is only here
because of the numerical points that force it to emerge.
Many Worlds of probable objective quantum states, making this the first stage in the resolution of difference,
with instability adopting the appearance of choice to find relation.
The consequence of probability is possibility, the full range of the local emptiness of space.
Energy/Mass/Momentum, the objective factual state that emerges from the separation of all boosted things.
Q3-Air - Change - Perception Tier 1
Becoming subjective is the perspective that results from turning inwards from boosted reality. That second turn is the second factor of i, bringing -1, a subtraction that must add elsewhere. A negation of objective fact is precisely what subjectivity is; it is also the adoption of a perspective at the far side of the relation, at the point of addition, whare the subtracted value goes, and where it is perceived. This is a quantum change that in taking place determines the outcome of the probabilities that summed to the scope of possibility that allowed the change to take place.
Change - Perception
In turning into Reality, Being becomes a perspective on Reality froming a subjective state.
The changing internal perspective formed by separation and caused by the underdetermination of partial states of
hypodox forming internal void as anodox.
Intrinsic change as perceived by extrinsic change.
In Q3 change is a consequence of Quantum change, the intrinsic change of reality conferring a perspective
At Tier 1 perception is the inner consequence of ejection and reception of quanta.
revaluing objects internally, and creating new relational fact as the inside of change.
Each received quanta is like a dot, a solitary point of perception.
The intrinsic of change is perception
Q3 is subjective, quantum change gives perception and creates inner perspective
The non-determined Future as inner void. Many worlds define a sum that is the empty extent of possibility.
The Wave Function as collapse of potential adding to the classical fact of what is, that remains to form the past
Many Worlds collapsing adss to Hyperdox of classical position, leading to gravity
Q4-Water - Self - Decay - Non-being Tier 1
Is it correct to describe Q4 as decay? Is it even correct to start with Q4? The reasoning is that without the state of possibility nothing can change at all. Time itself is the intrinsic of change - the ratios of change in the way that the intrinsic nature of number is the ratios of number, Time is the bare bones of subjective experience. It is only by contrasting such experience, thereby making it objective, that Time becomes a measure of events. Subjectively, there is no measure, only the individual experience. But every perception we have is a perception of something that no longer exists. All perceptions are of the past because they are perceptions of something separated by difference. So Q3 may be the perception the reality of our neural correlates of consciousness, but these are all history, gone in Q4. Perhaps it is Q3 that includes time passing, while Q4 has time past, though strictly, only the personal past. If Q3 begins the process of loss, Q4 brings the possibility of nostalgia.
Void - Individuality as emptiness
In turning into Perception, Being becomes the unboosted state of Q4 Experience. The separate parts of perception
are forced by perpetual change to divest themselves of separation, forming the whole of subjective being.
Change necessitates decay, as anodox is shaped by hypodox, ceasing to be what was and shaping what possibilities
may be. To form the incomplete void the parts must be let go of. In Q4 we see decay as the loss brought on by
change moving on, which necessitates the eventual end of what is as a relation of parts, the parts are voided
from the relation, leaving just the facts of sameness and difference as abstractions that may accommodate a
range of facts within their nodes, if those potential facts are more or less similar to the original nodes.
At Tier 1 we see the turning into the intrinsic of perception, the becoming of the self within the being.
NB. This is not the self without the thought, but that the inside of perceiving any kind of activity is the
creation of self. That is, inside the sequence of changes at Q3 resides the self of Q4, the heart that is also
the whole self, a defined absence that as with any anodox is the sum of possibility, and is defined by the facts
of the individual past.
The intrinsic of decay is time as the past
At Tier 0 the totality of decay combines in much the same way that integers combine to form ratios - all decay
being a version of decay, and separating objects. Hence the intrinsic is the ratio of one passing against another,
one clock against another, and the emergence of the past
unboosting of matter. Even particles must make choices.
Awareness by inclusion of the past
Individual reality
The Road Less Travelled, i.e. by one individual. The subjective experience and personal meaning.
Choice - the change that results from the personal perspective is the choice made.
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