Friday, November 11, 2016

Ponderings on Systems, States and Habits

Thinking a lot about Rupert Sheldrake's morphogenic field theory and how our current social state and habitual behaviors have influenced the state of politics we mourn today. "Habits are subject to natural selection; and the more often they are repeated, the more probable they become, other things being equal. Animals inherit the successful habits of their species as instincts. We inherit bodily, emotional, mental and cultural habits, including the habits of our languages." Sheldrake


The psychic, biological and environmental state of people today is ruled by habitual indoctrination through pharma, fear and media propaganda. A populus that is just barely getting by in the comfort of cable television and permanent internet vacations becomes equally detached and dehumanizing. A new era of loneliness placated by brightly colored pills and realms of fantasy that trigger dopamine and seratonin by Pavlovian beeps on the smartphone. Heads bathed, deep conditioning, rub in ecstasy. Forgetting foggily yesterday's woes for today's satisfaction. Temporary and circular. A feed back loop, historical repeat, conversing with people around the country these last days is a similar sentiment. We have all been here before. The film 'Groundhog Day' rings in my gut. What's more is the cumulative nature of the present condition. All aspects that Were, are Now.  
"the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion" Einstein   

Reviewing the situations with additional information, new perspectives and insights can help form strategies that utilize the interdependent nature of the problems at hand. At times the disconnected or seemly absurd has in fact a very affective link to potential solutions. The butterfly effect, quantum entanglement, spooky action at a distance is in fact us. 

Once we began to take these notions into account we will more easily understand and improve the social fabric, environmental relationships and experience our being hood wholistically. 

We can also look into ideas of siNGɡyəˈlerədē/
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noun: singularity
  1. 1.
    the state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular.
    "he believed in the singularity of all cultures"
    synonyms:uniqueness, distinctiveness
    "the singularity of their concerns"
  2. 2.
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    a point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole.
  3. 3.
    a hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence and other technologies have become so advanced that humanity undergoes a dramatic and irreversible change.
    "maybe the singularity just happened, and we didn't notice"
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Or perhaps we are living in a simulation. Can we figure out how it works without knowing what it is? Finding solutions without recognition of cause and effect seems arduous so I propose reconsidering our perspective and approach in order to move out of this looping affect we appear to be recreating. 


“There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are. Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.” 
― Chögyam Trungpa

Morphic Fields: A Summary

The hypothesized properties of morphic fields at all levels of complexity can be summarized as follows:
1. ​They are self-organizing wholes.
2. ​They have both a spatial and a temporal aspect, and organize spatio-temporal patterns of vibratory or rhythmic activity.
3. ​They attract the systems under their influence towards characteristic forms and patterns of activity, whose coming-into-being they organize and whose integrity they maintain. The ends or goals towards which morphic fields attract the systems under their influence are called attractors. The pathways by which systems usually reach these attractors are called chreodes.
4. ​They interrelate and co-ordinate the morphic units or holons that lie within them, which in turn are wholes organized by morphic fields. Morphic fields contain other morphic fields within them in a nested hierarchy or holarchy.
5. ​They are structures of probability, and their organizing activity is probabilistic.
6. They contain a built-in memory given by self-resonance with a morphic unit's own past and by morphic resonance with all previous similar systems. This memory is cumulative. The more often particular patterns of activity are repeated, the more habitual they tend to become.