![]() In general, do we find true patterns, do we make patterns, or is it a dance? I'd argue that much tends to get overlooked or categorized as meaningless, but which is not. In doing so, it pares away what are considered minor or insignificant for parsimony (Occam's Razor) and articulation (modelling) purposes. The analytical, scientific approach to reality distills salient factors in phenomena in order to assign causality. Where do those come from? Why are they patterned at all? How do I see any light at all in total darkness? Why doesn't the lightshow continue or are not available at any time to me in that situation? If they are purely subjective, do they really exist? Am I "making them up?" Am I taking random inputs or errant sense data and intrinsically patterning them myself? I sit in contemplation underground in a closed room in total darkness with my eyes open for 35 minutes before daybreak, and there is almost always a period during my contemplation when thoughts and recognizable images leave me, and I get a colored, pulsating, somewhat repeating patterned (but not from time to time), fractal lightshow that's difficult to describe or to represent artistically. I don't want to dredge-up old arguments from past threads about whether all of existence is material (and all of non-existence is immaterial), but my personal practice this morning got me thinking about this thread. ![]() Toward the beginning of this thread, Ed said that if a hum exists, it could / should be able to be measured. ![]()
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