Thursday, September 25, 2008

Where we could be...

If the interval can be described as a break down of perception: a point where ‘volumes emerge from surfaces’ (Manning), where from a purely perceptual level things become a moving blur, a continuous trace, a tonal vibration, where matter seems to be expanding, then here we may have located a vector where two states of perception merge.
There is the perception of what we know, who we are, where we are going, etc. We could call this a conscious perception, which is continually working in relation to a more prescient or unconscious perception, defined as, where we could be.
Where we could be, is perhaps the slightest glimpse into a potential of prescience, a glimpse, a yearning, an attachment to a greater metaphysical system, or what is referred to as the Plane of Immanence. From the physical perspective, our thoughts process perception, make sense of the physicality of the world around us. Yet during the interval, as perception breaks down, does it also expand, infinitely, and during this expansion, it’s potential is also infinite, even if it only for a fraction of a second.
What I am trying to relate is that as physical movement has a quantum counterpart, realized by the waves it displaces, as a natural behaviour of molecular systems, do thoughts also have a similar quantum counterpart? Are thoughts themselves defined by a quantum relationship to the perception of space?

2 comments:

Erin Manning said...

I like this idea of the quantum as interrelated with both the physical and the virtual. I know little about the quantum theoretically, but it works for me as an idea of how (as we'll see in the Time Image) the virtual and the actual are surfaces of the same volume (the crystal).

RTS said...

Yes, by thought I do mean the virtual. As we want to avoid the
'metaphysical' I agree we need a rigourous study of how quantum molecular relationships vector with
both the actual and the virtual.
If as you say, the virtual and actual are surfaces of the same volume, is this volume (the crystal) a hologram, where every part contains the whole.