on what is and what is not...
when rereading my stuff on E and Y i realized that i never made clear what they really are. to say that they are such and such a thing only removes the problem of definition to another term. i simply accepted the impossibility of fully defining any term in a way that would remove all ambiguity or fuzziness. while i still believe those things to be true, it still makes sense to give it a try, see how far i get, and learn from the experience. when i did so, interesting problems came up and i have found solutions that fit within the existing framework of EYflo. and that makes me happy :)
the spoon bends because neo bends. the little boy was blindingly white because neo is blindingly white...
i'll get straight to the point: E is real, Y is not real. they both exist in some sense, but things that exist in Y are unique to that person's i so any questions of existence are rather moot. the class of similar Ys of multiple i's is not real and it does not exist except separately as Y unique to each i. in other words, "universals" do not exist and are not real. as such, even as a construct, the concept of universals is fundamentally disruptive to philosophy and to language and to the entire game of life. it is disruptive because in any application whatsoever, it serves as a non existent, non real, completely meaningless premise. included in the mythical realm of universals are "rights", "categories", "human nature", the "supernatural", etc. so we won't even give it the dignity of discussion. perhaps when i'm feeling dirty i'll stoop that low.
as for the natures of constructs: all E and Y are constructs. a construct can be real or unreal, but it certainly exists in some domain. in the domain of E, it is placed in relation to the existing geography of constructed Es - the physical world, to put it extra-crudely. so a tree falling in a forest does not produce a "sound", but it does disturb the motions of air molecules and the dirt of the forest floor. the tree's E adds to the larger E of the physical world. for it to be sound, for it to receive a verbal description at all, it must become Y. so to say that word "tree" is a tree would not only be intuitively absurd, it would be a confusing of E and Y, violating a pretty basic principle of EYflo. so the question is, why is this distinction important? it is important because science and art depend on a separation of the real and unreal. you can't sell painting that exists only in your head, and a verbal description of a phenomenon is not scientifically testable (except for its linguistical value).
however, it's not simply all that. E and Y naturally interact all the time. and both are constructed. so to say that something is "real" today is not guarantee that it will be real tomorrow and vice versa. that is why, although the distinction is useful, it is a transient, and is itself a constructed, truth.
are numbers real? what about code, or language or functions? as universals, they are not real, nor do they exist. but as arrangements of E parts, they are real instantiations of flow. in other words, the number 3 does not even exist, but the arrangement of three flowers in a painting is real and exists. the number 3 can exist in a fundamentally different form as an unreal Y. in other words, my 3 is not your 3. and there is no universal concept of 3 that we both access somehow. that is as absurd as divine inspiration and moksha.
so it should be plain that i reject metaphysics as being in the realm of philosophy. it truly belongs in mysticism or worse, religion. EYflo may appear to be metaphysics, as it is a highly scalable model that could even scale to outside our experiences. but such overextension is purely play for the mind and in no way constructive as it is outside the realm of science and art. it may seem awfully convenient to reason that a rule may not apply to something not discovered or made, but consider how arrogant it was of the chinese to assume that their nation was at the center of the world or for christians to overextend their theology to judge other cultures. in other words, i fully subject antihumanism and EYflo to its own principles. which means that everything i have written so far is at best, an unreal Y that approximates reality, and at worst, the letters on your screen are the only thing real about it.
the real puzzle, for a while, was the nature of i. not me, i. by definition, it is a point in space time, a singularity if you will, that then accretes identity (accretion disks ftw!) E and Y. so it is separate from E and Y, but it does not seem to really exist. the analogy of a singularity (i.e. black hole) is appropriate because at its very core, it doesn't really "exist" in a sense that we are used to. we won't even go into questions of "real". i have an answer, but it'll come later. for now, i really need to work on cleaning up this terrible writing. can you tell it's really fucking late right now? well if i had no clock, actually, i wouldn't be able to tell. 'cause in this g-dforsaken corner of the earth the sun doesn't shine more than 8 hours! and the radiator makes scary noises, and i have wear gloves outside, and FROZEN WATER FALLS FROM THE FUCKING SKY!!! oh, but let me tell you about radiators! they're these steel containers filled with a volatile, clanking, whistling gas that these CRAZY northerners call STEAM. one look at these monstrosities and you can discern its purpose immediately. it has segmented steel parts, and they are generally placed one in each room of a building, and they are filled with a volatile substance. THEY'RE FUCKING BOMBS! every night, i wonder when the government will finally decide to wipe out the populations of all the major cities of the north by exploding these well-positioned bombs as we sleep. oh and did i mention having to wear gloves? it's a cruel joke. even with gloves, i come home with fingers moving at glacial speeds - my average minesweeper times have risen from 70 to well over 78 seconds on expert ;_; and it happens just as i was closing in on the 60 second mark all this quarter ;_; okay, wow... i should just shut up and go to sleep >_<...
the spoon bends because neo bends. the little boy was blindingly white because neo is blindingly white...
i'll get straight to the point: E is real, Y is not real. they both exist in some sense, but things that exist in Y are unique to that person's i so any questions of existence are rather moot. the class of similar Ys of multiple i's is not real and it does not exist except separately as Y unique to each i. in other words, "universals" do not exist and are not real. as such, even as a construct, the concept of universals is fundamentally disruptive to philosophy and to language and to the entire game of life. it is disruptive because in any application whatsoever, it serves as a non existent, non real, completely meaningless premise. included in the mythical realm of universals are "rights", "categories", "human nature", the "supernatural", etc. so we won't even give it the dignity of discussion. perhaps when i'm feeling dirty i'll stoop that low.
as for the natures of constructs: all E and Y are constructs. a construct can be real or unreal, but it certainly exists in some domain. in the domain of E, it is placed in relation to the existing geography of constructed Es - the physical world, to put it extra-crudely. so a tree falling in a forest does not produce a "sound", but it does disturb the motions of air molecules and the dirt of the forest floor. the tree's E adds to the larger E of the physical world. for it to be sound, for it to receive a verbal description at all, it must become Y. so to say that word "tree" is a tree would not only be intuitively absurd, it would be a confusing of E and Y, violating a pretty basic principle of EYflo. so the question is, why is this distinction important? it is important because science and art depend on a separation of the real and unreal. you can't sell painting that exists only in your head, and a verbal description of a phenomenon is not scientifically testable (except for its linguistical value).
however, it's not simply all that. E and Y naturally interact all the time. and both are constructed. so to say that something is "real" today is not guarantee that it will be real tomorrow and vice versa. that is why, although the distinction is useful, it is a transient, and is itself a constructed, truth.
are numbers real? what about code, or language or functions? as universals, they are not real, nor do they exist. but as arrangements of E parts, they are real instantiations of flow. in other words, the number 3 does not even exist, but the arrangement of three flowers in a painting is real and exists. the number 3 can exist in a fundamentally different form as an unreal Y. in other words, my 3 is not your 3. and there is no universal concept of 3 that we both access somehow. that is as absurd as divine inspiration and moksha.
so it should be plain that i reject metaphysics as being in the realm of philosophy. it truly belongs in mysticism or worse, religion. EYflo may appear to be metaphysics, as it is a highly scalable model that could even scale to outside our experiences. but such overextension is purely play for the mind and in no way constructive as it is outside the realm of science and art. it may seem awfully convenient to reason that a rule may not apply to something not discovered or made, but consider how arrogant it was of the chinese to assume that their nation was at the center of the world or for christians to overextend their theology to judge other cultures. in other words, i fully subject antihumanism and EYflo to its own principles. which means that everything i have written so far is at best, an unreal Y that approximates reality, and at worst, the letters on your screen are the only thing real about it.
the real puzzle, for a while, was the nature of i. not me, i. by definition, it is a point in space time, a singularity if you will, that then accretes identity (accretion disks ftw!) E and Y. so it is separate from E and Y, but it does not seem to really exist. the analogy of a singularity (i.e. black hole) is appropriate because at its very core, it doesn't really "exist" in a sense that we are used to. we won't even go into questions of "real". i have an answer, but it'll come later. for now, i really need to work on cleaning up this terrible writing. can you tell it's really fucking late right now? well if i had no clock, actually, i wouldn't be able to tell. 'cause in this g-dforsaken corner of the earth the sun doesn't shine more than 8 hours! and the radiator makes scary noises, and i have wear gloves outside, and FROZEN WATER FALLS FROM THE FUCKING SKY!!! oh, but let me tell you about radiators! they're these steel containers filled with a volatile, clanking, whistling gas that these CRAZY northerners call STEAM. one look at these monstrosities and you can discern its purpose immediately. it has segmented steel parts, and they are generally placed one in each room of a building, and they are filled with a volatile substance. THEY'RE FUCKING BOMBS! every night, i wonder when the government will finally decide to wipe out the populations of all the major cities of the north by exploding these well-positioned bombs as we sleep. oh and did i mention having to wear gloves? it's a cruel joke. even with gloves, i come home with fingers moving at glacial speeds - my average minesweeper times have risen from 70 to well over 78 seconds on expert ;_; and it happens just as i was closing in on the 60 second mark all this quarter ;_; okay, wow... i should just shut up and go to sleep >_<...