Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
White Papers
Epistema
An epistema is a map of ideas. Each word is an idea. An epistema may be a map of all words. An epistema may include the words of all languages. It includes meaningful combinations of words, and meaningful relationships with all other words and word combinations. Epistemology is the study and development of that map. And for that study, frames of reference are relative to one's self or social self or both, as one's own metaphysical view may be added to the map with equal station to any other aware of their own inalienable authority. Finally, an epistemologist must be therefore, a cartographer of ideas, howevermuch the territory of those ideas has been explored by others.
The conscious is the light of day. Intuition..moonlight, and the subconscious mind..ordered matter, but dark as night. An epistema is tetrahedral..fundamentally, four dimensions because it usually does not become a map until zero, infinity, envisoned I, and measures of change become an idea, and when they do, the epistema moves like a radiant globe, drawing nourishment from its sun and moon.
Anything given for apprehension of the cognitive mind is inherently self aware, but how well would the vast quantum mechanics of the universe function if everything was self aware? As it is, however much a modicum of the conscious configures subconscious matter, the nature of its energy must facilitate creative activity with the ability to bind elements, unbind them, and maintain systems of them.
The idea of mind'body is fraught with many problems and problematic assumptions when the mind is perceived as wholly unconnected, irresolutely disconnected from the body..even though the body facilitates the living. And while alive, it seems less problematic to assume that ideas exist as configurations of matter. This would account for an idea's apparent weightless property. If thoughts are also configurations of matter, and when a bit of matter becomes self aware, does it become so, at the cost of being able to sense, in anyway the matter it is? And in the moment that a bit of matter unselfaware and passive becomes selfaware and active..does it immediately set itself to the task of developing its own epistema?
Given that a portion of self'aware matter has become seriously separated, lost, or freed..that the self'conscious matter must be subsequently occupied with survival is axiomatic, as well as the preservation of its epistema. And could the written form be only one form of many through which an epistema may exist, survive, and persist? And while an idea may be a configuration of matter, does that configuration linger on, in a finer form..published as it were, in someone's empyrean realm?
This proposition as to how an idea may exist responds to the revulsion of the notion that 'something spontaneously generates from nothing.' So it may seem, but as an effect that surely does not preclude the possibility that idea is incarnate also in a substance made of a very fine form beyond the sensitivity available measure it. This would also make an idea seem weightless, and apparent that this weightlessness, like magic, having become newly self'aware, indeed nourishes the realm and is nourished by the realm within which it exits.
It is not difficult to imagine a process by which undifferentiated self'awareness, and even perhaps joined later by highly evolved supernatural configurations of past lives, may attach itself to the senses of a new born..and through experiences after incarnation and transfiguration add a new frame of reference, or refines an evolving frame for the general metaphysical order of things.
The effect of this input so far, is manifestation of matter itself. If all matter is one state of consciousness or another, then each system of order is one metaphysical point of view or another within the universal epistemological field. Too many points of view of order, then too much disorder or degrees of freedom. Too few points of view of order, then too much order and too few degrees of freedom. The entire epistemological field of the universe of diverse metaphysical points of view must be constantly adjusting to maintain some degree of freedom that works for the system..adjusting or fine tuning perhaps, with varying degrees of limited senses that ultimately feed it.
The universe is apprehended only through one's epistema, which is, in general, created by paths of light and enlightenment. The shape of the universe is created by paths of light. Space cannot exist without light. Light cannot exist without space since all random energy is argued to be..the hinterspace between diverse metaphysical systems. Chaos then, can be thought of as being the interference patterns from colliding ordered systems, especially those points of view that are remotely connected, and subsequently can not communicate well enough to avoid occupation of the same space.
Is the shape of space relative to the path of light, space, and perceiving eye along that path and its gravitational relationship with all else? Does the shape of the universe vary accordingly? Are there as many shapes of the universe as their are points of view of it? Is the shape of the universe relative to the traveled path of the reference body by which space is perceived and measured, and as vast from a single frame of reference, as one's iocentric nature thinks itself to be vastly aware? If matter is one state of consciousness or another, then cognitive points of view must be considered..yet, since each point of view has the same capability to shape the universe, what the shape of the universe is, becomes moot. Nevertheless, however the universe is shaped, for the universe to be, must a portion of it be selfaware to account for the order that be?
An epistema is psycho'physical. To be self aware is dangerous to any life that depends heavily on instinct. For those who become self aware, with each success brings a greater dependency on instinct..and greater and greater resistance to become self aware about anything..until there is no desire to be self aware at all. Therefore, construction of one's epistema must be done, and done carefully. It is the only thing it seems, that accounts for the order that be.