the timboucher experience

First stab at putting these thoughts into a specific shape which I’ve been dwelling with for quite some time. It’s not meant to be a hard and fast set of axioms so much as its been a handy guidebook for me to navigate experiences:

1. A human being is one example of a perceiving center.
2. Within animism, panpsychism & hylozoism, it might be said that all things, all points of view are perceiving centers.
3. A perceiving center is a field of potentiality, a perceptual field.
4. A perceptual field may be filled or activated through, with or by experiences.
5. When occupied by experience, a perceptual field takes on states: perceptual field states or experiential states.
6. The available field states with which a particular entity or perceiving center may be occupied are determined by the characteristics of the entity. In humans, it seems to be our body, sensory organs and nervous system which determine what specific bands of the experiential synaesthetic spectrum which we are able to perceive and the manner in which we are able to perceive it.
7. Other entities with differing perceptual instruments will, necessarily, have access to different bands of the experiential spectrum, thereby achieving field states differently than humans.
8. As experiential field states modulate from one to the next, a perceiving center experiences what we think of as the passage of time.

And that’s as far as I’ve gotten… Now some cool pictures!

And a couple miscellaneous links. One from September of 2008 where I wrote that the notion of an “operating system” would eventually be replaced by the more robust “ontological system”, and something that crossed my mind before falling asleep last night: traditional angelic hierarchies - how do these relate to AI and ubiquitous computing metaphors?

• Good Collective Identity Quotes
• What Have I Done?
• Centers of gravity in the dis-unified mind
• Transmission of Perceiving Centers, Continuity, State Management
• The Importance of Surveillance In Ubiquitous Computing