I was randomly checking out some of my former students’ sites on Facebook this morning and I notice one former Mason student’s ‘favorite quote’. Here it is:
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius.
This is similar to what was/is on my mind. At least the thought is from Classical Greece, so I have a way to perhaps connect it to this mystical vision Thales is supposed to have. I don’t know that a sharing of souls, even momentarily would have to be only with a friend though. Isn’t it possible that it could happen between two strangers on a train or plane? The glance one gives to the other and that is quickly returned is frozen in one’s memory. No reasonable explanation other than fancy. This is a human event people are witness to during the lives. It is real. The explanation is only a hypothesis, at least I would hope it would be, to keep this mystical vision in the field of reason rather than one of faeryland and fantasy.
You see, you already have a classical pillar to stand on, so to speak. The next step is to first put the sketch into words.
I am feeling better about this as we have followed through other concepts the same way. My mind just needs direction, that’s all.
"What is this in the eye of mind? A lizard green with no front legs and its back shaped as a human left index finger. Within the finger is a single right crystallized human eye peering at my face?
The lizard is staring right into these four strange, volcanic-like cauldrons. The largest the size of a thumbprint to the lizard’s left, the next cauldron is the size of the index finger, and the third cauldron is the size of the small finger, with one cauldron left in the row the size of the iris of a human eye with the cauldron pressed out from the back of the head of a green snake-like creature not connected to the other three. Amazing this is to see.
And centered below a long thin, skinny finger, like that of an old hag pointing at the second cauldron, the one to put the index finger in. The face of the lizard staring down at the cauldron looks angry. Why would one place his finger in a volcanic cauldron in the first place? No doubt the finger does not want to be placed there. Yet, the long thin, hag-like finger points, as if directing the lizard with the human eye on its back.
What a strange and unnatural scene is this? It is an omen to be sure, but how to understand such visions? I have had them before in life, but never one such as this. Why, even as I observe wide-eyed the largest of the cauldrons appears to have developed two legs forward and two in back, as if giant white spider leaping or running away from this strange scene."
How’s that?
Eyes, green lizard with no front feet, index finger, volcanic cauldrons, a green snake and white spider, along with another, a hag-like index finger pointing up. I see how you came up with this, but believe me it is out of the blue or unconsciousness or something else. I like the nouns, they give the vision weight. And, at times I could feel lines of MacBeth creeping across on top of the vision. MacBeth’s words when he sees the witches. I felt them overseeing this writing as it was being written. Very odd. But now it is done. I need a break.
Take it, but put this in the post before. – Amorella.
You and Carol had lunch and watched last night’s recording of Human Target one of both your new favorites. The dining room shade just broke, that is, the line holding the middle section which means you have to take the shade off and take it in for repair. Carol says to wait because you have had tendonitis for a few weeks and cannot stand on a stool and easily balance with your right heel as it is.
I will work on it when she is not around. Once it is unlatched from the top all we have to do is take it over to the shop. The real world stays right in here. We were going to Cleveland tomorrow, now it is rescheduled for Sunday. At least I have the CD of chapter two ready for Aunt Patsy and Uncle Ernie. I can work on chapter three and have it finished by the time we return from Kim and Paul’s. If it is completed before I can work on the audio draft for this chapter. Always something to do when objective reality is not that important.
Mid-afternoon. Carol suggested Five Guys for supper which you quickly agreed to after having one of your favorites, a bowl of baked beans and a chopped up dog lightly sprinkled with grated cheese for lunch. Now to part two, then we will splice them together.
I am staring at the diagram Amorella, but I am not sure where to begin. I don’t even remember what lead to this in the first place. The Wheel was a concept I was using in an earlier novel about the Druids. I got about a hundred pages into it and stopped. Nowhere to go. I think this is supposed to be like a schematic, a process, the sharing of souls at work, that kind of thing, a metaphysical engine of sorts.
As these books deal with the unconscious mind, let’s start with it. Triangular Mind A on the left and Triangular Mind B on the right have their unconsciousness (which is outside the triangular body) connect with the human spirits of the Living as well as the Dead, however, each connection with each individual spirit is separate. The consciousness of both is also connected outside the triangular body. Within the triangular bodies is a fractionalization of the other’s soul next to the person’s own soul. The souls are deeper than both consciousness and unconsciousness. An outer entrance to each soul is connected by ‘soul waves’ which you would today assume to be a quantum-like conjunction.
A quick trip to Wikipedia and I find: “The conjunction fallacy is a logical fallacy that occurs when it is assumed that specific conditions are more probable than a single general one.” And:
“Quantum mechanics, Bayes' theorem and the conjunction fallacy” by R. Franco
In the present article we consider the conjunction fallacy, a well known cognitive heuristic experimentally tested in cognitive science, which occurs for intuitive judgments in situations of bounded rationality. We show that the quantum formalism can be used to describe in a very simple way this fallacy in terms of interference effect. We evidence that the quantum formalism leads quite naturally to violations of Bayes' rule when considering the probability of the conjunction of two events. Thus we suggest that in cognitive science the formalism of quantum mechanics can be used to describe a \textit{quantum regime}, the bounded-rationality regime, where the cognitive heuristics are valid.
From: arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0703222
Shall we continue now?
I need to see connections, Amorella, and I understand the fallacy. Doesn’t the story need to be reasonable in its approach?
This is not the end result orndorff, I am going over your diagram, wording it out, that’s all. One step at a time, boy. Now, in the schematic engine you have immortal spirits and immortal messengers that deliver the ‘soul waves’. Again, they are separate entities not interconnected, the same as with the living earth spirits and the dead earth spirits.
The living earth spirits and dead earth spirits are connected to Probability while the immortal spirits and immortal messengers are connected with coincidence. Probability holds the physical and mental process of the two, living or dead but the vision lies in the field of the immortals.
I did not see that. Strange that I would have created the diagram this way. I would have thought the vision would have been above, intuitively but here it is below.
You drew this two dimensionally but it will be better if you see this as a single horizontal line, a telephone line, if you will, between Mind A and Mind B. One of your main components, as I see it, is that a ‘vision’ is basically accidental as you have it listed as coincidence.
That’s true. I feel that is the case. Otherwise, where’s the free will?
Is this your personal experience?
I like to think that if I fell into a communication metaphysical it would be accidental. At one time some many years ago I thought I might communicate with aliens, but I was around junior high school. I thought I would try, I did try by some sort of mind reading – that is, opening my mind to receive a message or to have one pop up on my short wave radio. Childhood fantasy. I guess I dreamed it up after hypnosis too, in a fun sort of experimental way, and eventually that lead to what I am doing right now. All of this writing is experimental, that’s the reason for the notes. There is nothing accidental about it as far as I can see, and more to the point, it is not metaphysical either, but as it has always been about the human spirit to me, it is spiritual in orientation. No real angels need apply. It is back to keeping to the basics, to thoughts no imagination first. Thoughtful imagination I can accept. I guess the middle of this telephone line of sorts would be a line of quantum entanglement.
So, we will need to reduce the original concept here.
I suppose, but still, it is clearer in mind than it was just looking at the diagram.
Post this, then soon off to an early supper at Five Guys. Later, dude. – Amorella.
Home and the news is over. You feel ready to work. Let’s go to it.
You have finished scene sixteen. Post it and we are done for the night. – Amorella.
Scene 16
Thales sat on a bench near the seven steps leading down into the small stone cut pool in the a nearby garden park just one block south of Lyceum and Eleusis Streets on Plaka Street which runs east and west, parallel to Lyceum. The park sets just behind the Temple to Athena on the corner of Eleusis and Plaka. He stared down into the clear water in the small stone walled pool. In an unspoken moment –
What is this in the eye of mind? A lizard green with no front legs and its back shaped as a human left index finger. Within the finger is a single right crystallized human eye peering at my face?
The lizard is staring right into these four strange, volcanic-like cauldrons. The largest the size of a thumbprint to the lizard’s left, the next cauldron is the size of the index finger, and the third cauldron is the size of the small finger, with one cauldron left in the row the size of the iris of a human eye with the cauldron pressed out from the back of the head of a green snake-like creature not connected to the other three. Amazing this is to see.
And centered below a long thin, skinny finger, like that of an old hag pointing at the second cauldron, the one to put the index finger in. The face of the lizard staring down at the cauldron looks angry. Why would one place his finger in a volcanic cauldron in the first place? No doubt the finger does not want to be placed there. Yet, the long thin, hag-like finger points, as if directing the lizard with the human eye on its back.
What a strange and unnatural scene is this? It is an omen to be sure, but how to understand such visions? I have had them before in life, but never one such as this. Why, even as I observe wide-eyed the largest of the cauldrons appears to have developed two legs forward and two in back, as if giant white spider leaping or running away from this strange scene.
Thales’ vision sat worded on a front page of time. On the backside of the same page, a mirror image of this same vision rested itself comfortably into the mind of sleeping Merlyn during the first year of his death some thirteen hundred centuries later. “Thales” murmured Merlyn in his sleep. He was thinking of another Thales, one Merlyn had studied in life, the philosopher from Miletus, who lived between 624 – 546 BCE, one of the first to use deductive logic in the Greek tradition.
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Thank you, Amorella. What a strange conclusion with Merlyn and Thales.
I will respond to this in scene seventeen. After that we are back to the regular dialogue among the characters.
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