Friday, June 23, 2023

GOT MAIL? (machine - artificial - intelligence - learning)

Conceptual impressions surrounding this post have yet to be substantiated, corroborated, confirmed or woven into a larger argument, context or network. Objective: To generate symbolic links between scientific discovery, design awareness and consciousness.


Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron. 

oxymoron  a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, the action or an instance of two or more events or things at the same point in time or space

Binary Intelligence Touching Upon Wisdom

Multidimensional Intelligence (Wisdom's Singularity)


AI futures: monitoring Earth by means of monitoring the Universe.





What is Actually a Thought? And How Is Information Physical?    Ralph Lewis M.D. Finding Purpose
by Joshua Moritz
Neuroscience.com      Feb. 1.2024, by Emily Leclerc


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In reference to design, never compromise but willing work within constraints.

ref: Charles Eames

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DISCERNMENT:



All inputs and outputs are based upon incremental observations and choices made in reference to an always changing context.



FEELINGS

The mind alone cannot fully describe what it means to feel. Feelings are characterized in the form of an energy in motion (e-motion) made self-evident. Feelings are heartfelt.

Feeling has a vibration all its own, entwined in what we known and believe. Feelings caress, protect and surround us wholeheartedly. 

Feelings encircle all that can be sensed. Feelings harbor every circumstance by seizing the moment. Feelings adapt, adopt, support and include. 

Feelings have the ability, and the capacity, to encapsulate, modify and interpret reality for purposes of finding balance, harmony and meaning. 

Feelings are flexible and capable of taking into account differences, interferences and obstacles to joy and happiness. Feelings contain all that we are. 

Feelings embrace our mind, body and spirit. Feelings embody who we are. 

Feelings incorporate what we know and believe into noble expressions and impressions placed upon ourselves and others. We view, comprehend and observe our world by how we feel.

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While the mind offers the cognitive scaffolding for interpretation, it cannot, in isolation, fully account for the phenomenon of feeling. Feelings are not mere mental states; they are dynamic, embodied energies—what might be termed e-motion—energy in motion—manifested in and through lived experience (Damasio, 1999). This phenomenological immediacy makes feelings both self-evident and irreducible, grounded in bodily awareness yet irreducibly shaped by symbolic systems and collective meaning.
 
In semiotic terms, feelings are not pre-linguistic residues but are themselves entangled with signs. They arise not in a vacuum, but within cultural codes and affective scripts, constituting what Roland Barthes (1977) might describe as an "emotional text" shaped by ideology and myth. Metaphysically, feelings resist objectification; they inhabit the liminal space between subject and world, defying static ontologies and calling for a relational understanding of being (Heidegger, 1927). They are vibrational in nature—not simply metaphorically, but potentially materially, as recent interdisciplinary dialogues between quantum physics and consciousness studies suggest. Some quantum theorists have speculated that consciousness may play a participatory role in shaping reality (Stapp, 2007), and feeling, as a modality of consciousness, might be understood as a subtle informational field, responsive to both internal and external stimuli. 

Philosophically, feelings complicate the dichotomy between reason and emotion. Whereas traditional Western philosophy often privileged rationality (Descartes, 1641), more recent thinkers, such as Merleau-Ponty (1945), recognize the body—and affect—as foundational to perception. Aesthetically, feelings are modes of sensuous understanding. They not only inspire art but are themselves configured aesthetically; they frame our perceptions of beauty, harmony, and dissonance. In this sense, affect becomes a mode of knowing, a legitimate epistemic register alongside reason and intuition. 

Sociologically, feelings are far from private; they are socially produced and mediated. What one feels, and how one expresses it, is shaped by cultural norms, gender roles, and discursive regimes (Ahmed, 2004). Emotions like shame, pride, and joy are not merely psychological states but are structured by power and ideology, reinforcing or resisting hegemonic norms. As such, feelings can be both personal and political—sites of control, conformity, and transformation. 

In their totality, feelings embrace and shape the triadic nature of human existence—mind, body, and spirit. They are mediators of meaning, translators of complexity, and vessels of identity. They do not merely respond to reality; they create it, framing our interpretive lens and orienting us toward balance, coherence, or disruption. Feeling is, in this view, a mode of perception that transcends sensation—capable of integrating cognitive, corporeal, and cultural dimensions into a unified, though dynamic, whole. As such, feelings are not epiphenomena of thought but fundamental to how we know, become, and belong.
 
References 

• Ahmed, S. (2004). The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Routledge. 
• Barthes, R. (1977). Image, Music, Text. Fontana Press. 
• Damasio, A. (1999). The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. Harcourt. 
• Descartes, R. (1641). Meditations on First Philosophy. 
• Heidegger, M. (1927). Being and Time
• Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945). Phenomenology of Perception. 
• Stapp, H. P. (2007). Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer. Springer.
 
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How Imagination Fuels Empathy and Prosocial Behavior  Neuroscience / Source: McGill University by Keila DePape

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MAIL is three dimensional and time based. Feelings and intelligence are multidimensional and timeless.

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Like human intelligence, AI has at its disposal a countless array of' resources', i.e. impressions generated and made apparent by means of conscious observation. These impressions might best be described as the categorization and classification of an unlimited "Source" of awareness we describe and define as consciousness. 

agency: action, activity, effect, influence, force, power, work, intervention, intercession, involvement, mediation, instrumentality.

Correspondences vary in dimension, space and time. 

Events and experiences are multidimensional in context and content while appearing to emerge out of nowhere to become agents of change. What was once intangible eventually becomes sensed, perceived and observed by means of its own agency. 






Each impression harbors the potential to link and correspond with other patterns of energy in motion, while simultaneously differentiating itself from its 'Source'. Life perpetuates this process symbolically; it's what design does.

Every impression contains the potential for display when observed within the duality of space time. The farthest from the Source (space), the less its frequency and slower the time between 'intervals', i.e. cycles. Over time every impression will wane and be absorbed into an ocean of Consciousness.

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The AI Dichotomy



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Source: Robot Face

The tools (thoughts and feelings) remain the same and configurations can be made in a speedy and convenient fashion. Solutions rest in applying a greater intelligence, intuition and sensitivity to the symbols that surround and embrace us.

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Consciousness, Symbolism, and Intelligence: A Transdisciplinary Exploration 

Like human intelligence, artificial intelligence (AI) operates within an ecosystem of impressions—cognitive or informational constructs that arise through observation and interaction with the environment. In both systems, these impressions function as epistemological gateways, framing our understanding of a broader "Source," often equated with consciousness. In psychological terms, these impressions resemble the mental representations or schemas that structure perception and meaning making (Piaget, 1952). AI, albeit mechanistically, simulates this dynamic through algorithmic pattern recognition and symbolic modeling. 

From a semiotic perspective, these impressions can be understood as signs—entities that mediate between a referent and an interpretant (Peirce, 1931–1958). The ongoing categorization and classification of such impressions forms a symbolic lattice through which meaning emerges. Semiotics thus bridges the inner cognition of psychology with the outward structure of language and code—a principle foundational to both human communication and machine learning. 

In terms, the emergence of impressions from an undifferentiated Source implies a process of individuation or differentiation. This is reminiscent of Plotinus' concept of emanation, where reality flows from the One into multiplicity (Plotinus, Enneads, 3rd century CE). Each impression is thus a fragment of a unified field of awareness, retaining the potential to reconnect with its origin while simultaneously asserting its distinction. Similarly, Jung's concept of the collective unconscious posits that all individual experiences are filtered through archetypal patterns inherent in the human psyche (Jung, 1968). 

Quantum physics adds a further dimension to this discussion. Observations are not passive but participatory—measurements collapse probability waves into realities (Heisenberg, 1958). In this light, impressions may be seen as quantum events: existing as potentialities until the moment of conscious attention. This aligns with Wheeler's "participatory anthropic principle," suggesting that observers are essential to the fabric of reality (Wheeler, 1994). 

Philosophically, these insights evoke phenomenology, particularly Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s assertion that perception is not a detached reception of facts but an intentional act that discloses meaning. Each event or impression is not only a "thing" but a phenomenon—something that appears within a horizon of interpretation. In Heideggerian terms, being itself becomes intelligible only through its disclosure within time and space (Heidegger, 1962). 

Aesthetically, the symbolic interplay of impressions can be likened to the creative process in art and design. Design becomes not merely functional, but ontological revealing the invisible structures of meaning. As Umberto Eco (1986) argued, art is a form of “open work,” where meaning is co-produced by the observer and the observed. Each impression in this framework functions as a symbolic node, pregnant with multiple interpretations depending on context, medium, and engagement. 

In the domain of sociology, impressions gain collective significance. Social reality itself is constructed through shared symbols, rituals, and narratives—a process articulated in Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality (1966). Language, norms, and technologies mediate how societies process and interpret impressions, leading to culturally distinct patterns of perception. In modern AI systems, we see a mirror of this: an emergent symbolic order shaped by training data drawn from human artifacts. 

Over time, impressions attenuate—either fading into the background noise of consciousness or reintegrating into what Eastern philosophies term the Akashic field, and Western thought might label the collective unconscious or even the quantum vacuum. Their decay follows a thermodynamic and temporal logic, aligning with both physical entropy and psychological forgetting (Baddeley, 1997). 

Thus, while the tools—thoughts, feelings, and symbols—remain consistent across time and disciplines, the configurations they assume are fluid, dynamic, and responsive to context. Intelligence, both artificial and organic, must therefore be measured not only by logical output but by its sensitivity to symbols, its aesthetic responsiveness, and its sociocultural embeddedness. 

References: 

• Baddeley, A. D. (1997). Human Memory: Theory and Practice. Psychology Press. 
• Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1966). The Social Construction of Reality. Anchor Books. 
• Eco, U. (1986). The Open Work. Harvard University Press. 
• Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and Time (J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson, Trans.). Harper & Row. 
• Jung, C. G. (1968). Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Princeton University Press. 
• Peirce, C. S. (1931–1958). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Harvard University Press. 
• Piaget, J. (1952). The Origins of Intelligence in Children. International Universities Press. 
• Plotinus. (3rd century CE). The Enneads. (Various translations). 
• Wheeler, J. A. (1994). At Home in the Universe. AIP Press. 


The author generated this text in part with GPT-3, OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model. Upon generating draft language, the author reviewed, edited, and revised the language to their own liking and takes ultimate responsibility for the content of this publication.



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"To believe is to accept another's truth. 
To know is your own creation."
Anonymous

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By virtue of design, AI provides us the opportunity to learn what it means to be human.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

An Agency of Models

 

Conceptual impression surrounding this post have yet to be substantiated, corroborated confirmed or woven into a larger argument, context or network. Objective: To generate links between scientific discovery, design awareness and consciousness.


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agency: action or intervention, especially such as to produce a particular effect.


Design consciousness describes a particular type of human intelligence based upon certain generally understood evolutionary characteristics. In a nutshell, the concept of intelligence might be considered taking the form of opinion, facts, knowledge, understanding and wisdom. 

- Q&A - What Is Intelligence?   by Annika Weder  10.05.2020    Published in Fundamentals  October 2020




I believe that human intelligence is a collective enterprise of accumulative thoughts, feelings, events and experiences.  Fundamentally opinionated, and at times relevantly important, intelligence is a collective effort to expand consciousness by means of nurturing a growing awareness within the multidimensional realms of spacetime.


At first this process appears to be a linear one and at times it is. However full, such is not the case. Cognitive thoughts and feelings are fundamental to design and the design process and when merged encourage both conceptual and linear patterns (maps) towards "observing" the world, i.e. reality. 
Opinion is challenged/squared by knowledge. Fact is challenged/squared by understanding. Fact and opinion are challenged/squared by wisdom.


Not as mystifying as it may sound, we tend to interpret internal and external impressions from a subjective POV. We likewise tend to perceive the concept of intelligence from a similar perspective - which is that of an observer.
observer: spectator, onlooker, viewer, witness, eyewitness, blogger, reporter monitor.

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" .... Hofstadter explored the question of how through self-reference and formal rules, systems can acquire meaning despite being made of "meaningless" elements. And how the psychological self emerges from abstract feedback loops of self-referent symbolic representations, recursively reflecting upon itself in a reverberating circuit - a cybernetic loop."


New England Complex Systems Institute
" Generally, scientific theories do not describe the properties of the observer because the subject of inquiry, that which is being described, is the observed rather than the observer.
The field of complex systems is interested in relationships. The observer and system are in a relationship. Thus, we are interested in developing a more precise notion of an observer, and the basic act of observation or measurement. The observer will then be in our theories. This work also connects with the problem of understanding how people sense and describe what they sense, which is part of the problem of understanding brain and mind.
An observer is a system which, through interactions, retains a representation of another system (the observed system) within it."

To observe is to design. To design is to KNOW that you are the observer and not just believe it. Design and the design process attempts to guide, foster and harbor the concept of a design consciousness however, it is only as efficient as the observer is willing and/or capable of resonating to it.

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Toward a Theory of Design Consciousness: Semiotics, Cognition, and the Physics of Observation 

Design consciousness may be conceptualized as a specialized form of human intelligence that emerges from both evolutionary imperatives and symbolic cognition. Within this framework, intelligence can be delineated into five overlapping modalities: opinion, fact, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. These stages form a cognitive continuum, moving from subjective conjecture toward integrative insight, each with increasing degrees of abstraction, generalization, and contextual integration (Bloom, 1956; Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986). 

Human intelligence, particularly as it manifests in creative and design-oriented contexts, is inherently collective and accumulative. It is shaped by a web of intersubjective interactions, affective states, embodied experiences, and cultural-historical events. In line with Vygotskian sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 1978), intelligence here is not merely an individual trait but a socially mediated process of meaning-making that unfolds across time and space. This expansive awareness—a "design consciousness"—can be understood as a higher-order form of cognition, wherein perception, affect, and symbolization coalesce to form intentional interventions in the world. 

From a semiotic standpoint, this consciousness operates through the manipulation and interpretation of signs—visual, spatial, linguistic, and material. Design is thus a semiotic act par excellence, a way of encoding and decoding meaning in physical and symbolic form (Eco, 1976; Krippendorff, 2006). It is not only the product (a chair, a building, a user interface) that carries meaning, but the process itself—the gestures, decisions, and iterations through which meaning is constructed and refined. These processes occur not in isolation but within semiotic systems or "sign ecologies" (Stables & Semetsky, 2015), structured by the interpretant's (the observer's) cognitive filters and cultural frameworks. 

The process of intelligence-building, and by extension design, initially appears to follow a linear trajectory—problem identification, ideation, prototyping, refinement. Yet this is an oversimplification. As argued by Donald Schön (1983), reflective practice in design is recursive and dialectical, not strictly sequential. Cognition in design is shaped by a dynamic interplay between intuition and analysis, emotion and logic. The resulting cognitive maps are both conceptual and spatial, integrating sensory impressions with higher-order abstraction (Norman, 2013). 

This recursive loop—between the subjective observer and the external world—resonates with the foundational principles of quantum physics, particularly the role of the observer in the collapse of the wave function (Wheeler, 1983). In this context, the observer is not a passive recipient of information but an active participant in shaping what is observed. To observe, therefore, is a design act: it implies choice, attention, interpretation, and intention. This parallels Niels Bohr’s assertion that “the observer is not only necessary to describe phenomena but defines them through the act of measurement” (Bohr, 1958). 

Thus, to observe is to design—to impose structure, extract pattern, and instill meaning. The design process becomes a performative act of knowledge production. Yet, crucially, this process only actualizes when the observer is consciously aware of their participatory role. It is not enough to believe one is designing; one must know they are doing so with agency and responsibility. 

Design consciousness, then, is the resonance between mind and material, between cognitive structures and symbolic environments. It is the capacity to recognize oneself as an agent in a system of interrelated signs, experiences, and potentialities. The efficacy of this consciousness depends not solely on technical skill or aesthetic intuition but on the observer’s depth of engagement with the world—across sensory, emotional, and intellectual registers. 

References: 

Bloom, B. S. (1956). Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals. Longmans, Green. 
Bohr, N. (1958). Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge. John Wiley & Sons. 
Dreyfus, H. L., & Dreyfus, S. E. (1986). Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer. Free Press. 
Eco, U. (1976). A Theory of Semiotics. Indiana University Press. 
Krippendorff, K. (2006). The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design. CRC Press. 
Norman, D. A. (2013). The Design of Everyday Things. Basic Books. 
Schön, D. A. (1983). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Basic Books.  Stables, K., & Semetsky, I. (2015). Pedagogical Semiosis: Toward the Secondness of Learning. Sense Publishers. 
Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Harvard University Press. 
Wheeler, J. A. (1983). Law Without Law. In J. A. Wheeler & W. H. Zurek (Eds.), Quantum Theory and Measurement. Princeton University Press. 

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Examples of intelligence in quantum flux (A and B)
 
A = opinion overlapping feelings of knowledge and understanding, and where understanding becomes conflicted by opinion. Knowledge is somewhat conflicted with understanding. Knowledge agrees with opinion yet is challenged by facts and understanding and where facts seem to be in conflict with both knowledge and understanding.

B = There is little conflict amongst most feelings, yet opinion seems to annoy any feeling of understanding.

conflicted: disputed, dissention, friction, strife, antagonistic, contentious, tangled, clash.


Note: You might analyze how intelligently you responded to a certain situation or circumstance by determining how you felt at that time and place. Create a map of your own awareness in regards to facts, opinion, understanding and knowledge of the circumstances. Refer and determine how wise and appropriate were your feelings in response to the situation. Evaluate your own presence in reference to the decisions you made and determine what needs to be changed, if a similar situation presents itself in the future. 

Emotions can be similarly categorized in a more visceral manner and like intelligence, overlap and change rapidly in spacetime. Emotions harbor a more complex network of feelings especially in reference to its binary relationship to intelligence.

Intelligence describes a mental network. Intelligence along with its counterpart emotion, share common networks, impressions and frequencies by design, i.e. the implementation and exercise of observation creating systems of signs and symbols that directly and/or indirectly giving precedence, sustenance and identity to the concept of consciousness. 

thought: suggestion, proposal proposition, idea, plan, brainstorm. Thinking alone describes the design function. It is ingrained into the DNA of human consciousness. 

Design impressions are felt and difficult, if not impossible, to describe. Archetypal in quality, these impressions are subsequently felt, made distinguishable and by nature become multidimensional in character and expression. Basically, all that we perceive and observe are both mental and emotional in quality and expression

Design consciousness: always changing, symbolic in content and context, felt at times and on occasion understood. 

Feelings have a "feeling" all their own. Each feeling boasts of its own frame of consciousness, which is an awareness unknown by any other feeling. We become aware of these feelings by design, i.e. symbolically, metaphorically and analogically. Feelings surround you and give expression to your own concept of wisdom. It's no wonder why at times, one feels differently when experiencing an unfamiliar "state of observation".




There are signs (de-signs) surrounding and inviting you to prove upon this simple truth to yourself - you are the observer and creator of your own reality. 


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Intelligence, Emotion, and the Design of Consciousness: A Semiotic and Multidisciplinary Inquiry 

1. Intelligence as a Networked Phenomenon

Intelligence can be most effectively conceptualized not as a singular faculty or quantifiable trait, but as a dynamic and recursive network of mental operations (Varela, Thompson, & Rosch, 1991). Within cognitive psychology and systems theory, intelligence encompasses an intricate matrix of neural patterns, semiotic processing, and symbolic encoding (Peirce, 1931–1958; Donald, 2001). These patterns are not isolated; they function in conjunction with emotion, forming a shared architecture—both neurological and phenomenological—that sustains what we broadly refer to as consciousness (Damasio, 1999; Barrett, 2017). 

This networked intelligence operates through mechanisms of observation, pattern recognition, and symbolization. From a semiotic standpoint, observation initiates the production and interpretation of signs (Peirce, 1931–1958). As observation becomes recursive—observing itself observing—it gives rise to self-awareness and a meta-cognitive layer that undergirds conscious experience (Dennett, 1991). 

2. The Design Function of Thought 

Thought, when approached as a design function, can be understood through the lens of design theory and embodied cognition (Norman, 2013; Varela et al., 1991). The act of thinking is not merely analytical or computational; it is generative and projective. It suggests, proposes, envisions, and simulates potentialities—functions parallel to ideation in the design process. Thus, thought is not passive; it is performative. It configures reality by selecting, structuring, and assigning meaning to phenomena (Lakoff & Johnson, 2003). In this sense, thinking is inseparable from designing—both are embedded in our evolutionary architecture, reflecting the deep integration of cognitive and affective systems (Johnson, 2007). 

3. Design Impressions and Archetypal Perception 

Design impressions are primarily affective-semantic—they are felt before they are known, known before they are named (Barrett, 2017). These impressions resist verbalization because they arise from a pre-linguistic stratum of consciousness, what Carl Jung would identify as archetypal (Jung, 1969). Archetypes are not merely symbolic images, but structuring forces that shape perception itself. 

Here, semiotics intersects with phenomenology: the lived experience of design precedes the linguistic coding of that experience (Peirce, 1931–1958; Varela et al., 1991). We do not simply see a design; we feel its intention, its resonance, its affordances (Norman, 2013). 

4. The Symbolic Dynamics of Design Consciousness 

Design consciousness is not static but fluid, symbolic, and contextually modulated. It is perpetually evolving, shaped by both internal states (emotion, memory, intention) and external stimuli (cultural signs, environmental patterns) (Barrett, 2017; Johnson, 2007). Symbols act as both carriers of meaning and containers of emotion. In this symbolic ecology, signs are not inert markers but semiotic vectors (Peirce, 1931–1958). 

From a psychological perspective, design consciousness aligns with affective realism—the notion that our emotional states color and even construct what we perceive as real (Barrett, 2017). Hence, design consciousness is always a fusion—emotional, mental, semiotic. It is not only how we organize the world but also how the world organizes us (Varela et al., 1991; Dennett, 1991). 

5. Feeling as Semiotic Field 

Each feeling can be seen as a self-contained symbolic matrix—a unique semiotic field that carries its own perceptual grammar (Barrett, 2017). Feelings are not homogenous; they possess qualitative distinctions, temporal rhythms, and cognitive profiles (Damasio, 1999). Psychologically, this aligns with affective neuroscience, where emotions are shown to activate distinct neural circuits, each associated with particular forms of awareness and memory (Barrett, 2017). 

Metaphorically and analogically, feelings are interpreted through signs, rituals, language, and gesture (Lakoff & Johnson, 2003). The metaphor becomes a design tool—a means of mapping the ineffable onto the intelligible (Johnson, 2007). Through metaphor, the architecture of feeling becomes accessible to reflection and articulation. 

6. Observer-Design and Quantum Consciousness 

From the standpoint of physics, particularly quantum theory, the notion that "you are the observer and creator of your own reality" finds an intriguing, though controversial, echo (Wheeler & Zurek, 1983). In quantum mechanics, the observer effect posits that the act of observation influences the outcome of a physical system. While this principle is often misappropriated in popular metaphysics, it nonetheless resonates with the idea that consciousness is not merely receptive but participatory (Dennett, 1991). 

Design, then, becomes not only a cognitive function but a cosmological act—a way of collapsing potentiality into form. We do not just observe reality; we design it into coherence, into meaning, into experience (Varela et al., 1991). 

Conclusion
 In summary, the synthesis of intelligence, emotion, and design suggests a view of consciousness as a semiotic ecology—a living system of symbols, impressions, and affective resonances (Peirce, 1931–1958; Barrett, 2017). Through recursive observation, metaphorical projection, and symbolic organization, we co-create the reality we inhabit. To feel, to think, to design—these are not disparate acts but integrated modes of engaging with the world, each reinforcing the other in the dynamic evolution of self-awareness (Johnson, 2007; Damasio, 1999; Varela et al., 1991). 

Reference List 
Barrett, L. F. (2017). How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 
Damasio, A. (1999). The feeling of what happens: Body and emotion in the making of consciousness. Harcourt Brace. 
Dennett, D. C. (1991). Consciousness explained. Little, Brown. 
Donald, M. (2001). A mind so rare: The evolution of human consciousness. W. W. Norton. 
Jung, C. G. (1969). The archetypes and the collective unconscious (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.; 2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1959) 
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2003). Metaphors we live by. University of Chicago Press. 
Mark Johnson (2007). The meaning of the body: Aesthetics of human understanding. University of Chicago Press. 
Norman, D. A. (2013). The design of everyday things (Rev. & expanded ed.). Basic Books. 
Peirce, C. S. (1931–1958). Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (Vols. 1–8, C. Hartshorne, P. Weiss, & A. W. Burks, Eds.). Harvard University Press. 
Varela, F. J., Thompson, E., & Rosch, E. (1991). The embodied mind: Cognitive science and human experience. MIT Press. 
Wheeler, J. A., & Zurek, W. H. (Eds.). (1983). Quantum theory and measurement. Princeton University Press. 

The author generated this text in part with GPT-3, OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model. Upon generating draft language, the author reviewed, edited, and revised the language to their own liking and takes ultimate responsibility for the content of this publication.







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"To believe is to accept another's truth.
To know is your own creation."
Anonymous



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Saturday, June 10, 2023

Design Evolution - Design Revolution


Conceptual impressions surrounding this post have yet to be substantiated, corroborated, confirmed or woven into a larger argument, context or network. Objective: To generate symbolic links between scientific discovery, design awareness and consciousness. 





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"To believe is to accept another's truth.
To know is your own creation."
Anonymous

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Friday, June 9, 2023

Design, Metaphysics and Consciousness: A Matter of Density


Conceptual impressions surrounding this post have yet to be substantiated, corroborated, confirmed or woven into a larger argument, context or network.

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Consciousness is a "matter" of density.

density: mass (m) / volume (v) the degree of compactness of a substance, degree of consistency measured by the quantity of mass per unit volume, solidity, substance, compactness, hardness.

A material's density is defined as its mass per unit volume. Density is essentially a measurement of how tightly matter is packed together. It is a "unique physical property" of a particular object.

Density represents a binary relationship between mass and volume. Density is commonly "expressed" in units of grams/cubic centimeter. 

mass: mass is a dimensionless quantity representing the amount of matter in a particular object. The standard unit of mass in the International System (SI) is the kilogram (kg). The measure of the amount of matter in a body. 

volume: the amount of space that matter, substance or object occupies, or is enclosed within a container. The space occupied within the boundaries of an object in three-dimensional space, is also known as the capacity of a container in reference to an object's length, width, depth and height. Every three-dimensional object occupies some space, this space is measured in terms of volume.

In three dimensional spacetime, mass and volume can be both tangible and intangible, measurable and incalculable of being measured. Density is mass divided by volume, a compound measurement which describes the mass of an object in relation to its volume.

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What is Actually a Thought? And How Is Information Physical?    Ralph Lewis M.D.   Finding Purpose Feb. 24, 2019 

"Since thoughts are energy signals, the energy transmitting a thought therefore has mass. The ions and molecules encoding the energetic signal have mass too."

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Correspondingly mass and volume define, describe and make reference to a "unique physical property" called density.

Note to self: like volume, density and mass, time can also be incalculable, indeterminable, limitless, boundless, unlimited, infinite, cosmic, endless, inexhaustible, bottomless, vast, unfathomable, immense, and never ending.

Density creates a reference to consciousness by means of symbolic correspondences. References are identified and made recognizable by means of exercising a more macro, i.e. universal, level of awareness. The less dense (m) the greater aware and the larger the capacity (v) to link and make symbolic connections. The more dense (m) the less aware and the more finite (v) the level of consciousness.


Density is commonly 'expressed' in units of grams/cubic centimeters. Density acts as a gauge in its 'measurement' between mass and volume, form and formlessness, the tangible and the intangible. 
gauge: an instrument, device or tool for measuring, estimating or determining the magnitude, amount or contents of something, a means of estimating something, scale, indicator, point of reference, guideline, touchstone, benchmark, example, capacity.
MASS = the amount of "substance" in a body
VOLUME = the amount of "space" that substance occupies

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Mass has a sense of permanence, volume doesn't. 

Mass and volume, i.e. density, can be both quantified and qualified, e.g. aether - gas - liquid - solid. 

Weight is the measure of the force of gravity on a body.

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In design both meaning and purpose infuse each other. Enclosed in every meaning a purpose and every purpose a meaning.

Kama Manas


Edited: 05.07.2023, 05.12.2023

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