The University
THE UNIVERSITY
IS THE MORPHIC FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS
BU PROFESSOR’S PROFESSOR: me
(self appointed)
Everybody talks the talk; nobody walks the walk.
The university is the morphic field of consciousness.
This is a kind of elaborate sign-use tautology: an elaboration on the sentence sounded out (actualizing the verbal tokens of the text.)
“University” says “universe”. As (the) universe is to whatever is contained in the medium of space-time-gravity, with light, so (the) university is to whatever is contained under (“taught”) its name. Containment in the first case is physical; in the second, conscious (“informational”). These are metaphysical polarities running through the bandwidth of conscious awareness under sign-use (S*).
From Einstein, if I understand him, comes the awareness that what is experienced as gravity is a Form (Gr. “morph”) of space and time, a dyad whose natures are separated by modes of measurement of enduring objects. In consciousness the duality of this dyad is overcome in the unity of sequential/simultaneous orders under number signs. That is to say, in experience, space is distinguished from time by then distinction between what is ,easured simultaneously, through hypothetical extension of three intersecting straight lines perpendicular but not parallel with each other, from any given (the three-dimensionality of body-perception up-down, left-right, in front-behind) point on the globe (planet earth). Newtonian science, and Kantian transcendentalism assumed these were pure forms, empty of any content in and of themselves. The objects each contain are three dimensional enduring pieces of matter, ranging in scale of size from galactic units and beyond, to the clusters of matter called atoms, molecules, cells, organisms, societies – and their processes. As soon as the description of objects in space reaches process, the measurement of them “in time” opens up as a defining dimension neither perpindicular nor parallel to the other three lines, but as a non-spatial line “through” all points the other three intersect. “Process” is process “of”, on “in” something undergoing it. “Time” is an object’s extension as a continuity through a non-spatial dimension or “medium”. Because of the transitive, asymmetrical structure of the before-after relation (cf. B. Russell), it can be deduced that nothing can precede or succeed itself: time “runs through” individuals bestowing its unique sequence on them. And simultaneously, in space. It is the morphic field of their unfolding.
As light is the presence of the past in the morphic field of space/time/gravity of earth, so the ‘atmosphere’ of the university is the morphic field of consciousness of its ‘globe’. The ‘globe of consciousness’ that contains the processes of a group*, can be defined as the field of S*, where S* is any sign used in actual communication. The global shape is constructed by taking the seven-token levels of (textual) content as the units along the line of a radius, making a series of circles-cum-cyles-cum-circumferences via the developmental movement through a three dimensional organism (with human anatomy) as orders of universe of discourse (the seven S*)
IS THE MORPHIC FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS
BU PROFESSOR’S PROFESSOR: me
(self appointed)
Everybody talks the talk; nobody walks the walk.
The university is the morphic field of consciousness.
This is a kind of elaborate sign-use tautology: an elaboration on the sentence sounded out (actualizing the verbal tokens of the text.)
“University” says “universe”. As (the) universe is to whatever is contained in the medium of space-time-gravity, with light, so (the) university is to whatever is contained under (“taught”) its name. Containment in the first case is physical; in the second, conscious (“informational”). These are metaphysical polarities running through the bandwidth of conscious awareness under sign-use (S*).
From Einstein, if I understand him, comes the awareness that what is experienced as gravity is a Form (Gr. “morph”) of space and time, a dyad whose natures are separated by modes of measurement of enduring objects. In consciousness the duality of this dyad is overcome in the unity of sequential/simultaneous orders under number signs. That is to say, in experience, space is distinguished from time by then distinction between what is ,easured simultaneously, through hypothetical extension of three intersecting straight lines perpendicular but not parallel with each other, from any given (the three-dimensionality of body-perception up-down, left-right, in front-behind) point on the globe (planet earth). Newtonian science, and Kantian transcendentalism assumed these were pure forms, empty of any content in and of themselves. The objects each contain are three dimensional enduring pieces of matter, ranging in scale of size from galactic units and beyond, to the clusters of matter called atoms, molecules, cells, organisms, societies – and their processes. As soon as the description of objects in space reaches process, the measurement of them “in time” opens up as a defining dimension neither perpindicular nor parallel to the other three lines, but as a non-spatial line “through” all points the other three intersect. “Process” is process “of”, on “in” something undergoing it. “Time” is an object’s extension as a continuity through a non-spatial dimension or “medium”. Because of the transitive, asymmetrical structure of the before-after relation (cf. B. Russell), it can be deduced that nothing can precede or succeed itself: time “runs through” individuals bestowing its unique sequence on them. And simultaneously, in space. It is the morphic field of their unfolding.
As light is the presence of the past in the morphic field of space/time/gravity of earth, so the ‘atmosphere’ of the university is the morphic field of consciousness of its ‘globe’. The ‘globe of consciousness’ that contains the processes of a group*, can be defined as the field of S*, where S* is any sign used in actual communication. The global shape is constructed by taking the seven-token levels of (textual) content as the units along the line of a radius, making a series of circles-cum-cyles-cum-circumferences via the developmental movement through a three dimensional organism (with human anatomy) as orders of universe of discourse (the seven S*)
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