“ Here’s a condensed rundown:
Time doesn’t exist independently of consciousness. Time is our understanding of regularity as a property of many different natural patterns, not an ontological inevitability.
Neither does space or energy. They are all experiences rather than substances or objective conditions.
Energy is electromagnetic on the outside, sensorimotor on the inside.
Consciousness is the inflection point of sensorimotor-electromagnetism.
The sensory channel of that inflection point acts as an aperture regulating the flow of pattern-recognition - dilated aperture = lower threshold for sense-making, broad tolerance for ambiguity and metaphorical interpretation. Contracted aperture = literal interpretation, skeptical expectations.
The motive channel acts as an aperture regulating the flow of impulse control. I see this as more of a containment of chaotic, conflicting desires so that the control is in the limitation of active principles rather than reception of passive sensory principles/meanings/images.
Both channels are bi-directional i/o ports which modulates traffic into and out of the psyche, often with feedback loops linking perception and projection. The motor or power channel is a temporal syntax of cause and effect, character and destiny, willpower, foresight, strategy, etc. The sensory channel is acausal, multivalent, layered, simultaneous, qualitative, interpretive, archetypal. Sense is the noun of what consciousness is, Power is the verb of what it does.
The sense channel is suited to photography and light metaphors - focus, image, reflection, projection, resolution, f-stop, magnification, etc. The power channel works well with classical physics - electromotive force, induction, coupling, evanescent waves, circular polarization, angular momentum, frequency, etc.
Consciousness is an awareness of awareness - the neurological sense-power which represents a complex living organism as a single entity.
Life is a meta-macromolecular sense-power. Chemistry is an atomic sense-power. Physics is a mathematical sense-power.
The sense and power channels both contain their own inherent ontological bias. A worldview steeped in sense bias is mystical, magical, solipsistic, and naive. A power-biased worldview is mechanistic, literal, and cynical.
The success of the objective, power-biased worldview since the Enlightenment has given rise to a deep psychological rift wherein the subject dissociates with it’s own subjectivity, and objective consensus knowledge is privileged to an absolute degree over first hand direct experience.
The consequences of this filter through all institutions and organs of civilization, as quantitative financial abstractions are elevated, inevitably and automatically, above concrete qualitative experience. Our business model does not include our health, sanity, or evolution as a culture but instead is concerned with extracting formulaic knowledge to reproduce past successes. This has the net effect of converting more and more of the efforts of real people into self-perpetuating digital ownership texts while insuring that there is less and less of anything that can be done to stop it.
I know that sounds pretty Unabomber there. I don’t want to overstate the dire need for a radical worldview change as it may in fact be a self-correcting phenomenon. To me it seems clear that the next worldview must pick up where both science and religion leave off, and reconcile the best of sense and power while transcending the limitations of both through understanding of their roles and perspectives. What we need is an appreciation of a cosmos based upon order and participation - of mutual consent rather than top down coercion or bottom up causality.
