| We explored the temporal aperture model as inspired by an
antenna aperture engineering metaphor. The temporal
aperture as a consciousness analog was described as an opening
through time. The body and mind with its temporal aperture
integrates a stream of consciousness whose initial form is
that of a broad based scintillation, a vast spray of binary
pulses which are integrated to construct the working
definition - or illusion if you will - of day-to-day
existence. To paint a better picture, the digital
pathway that brings you this essay is a scintillated
stream of data - an expansive spray of binary ones and zeros -
not unlike the form proposed for entire functioning of mind,
body, and soul. Brain and body control functions are likewise
scintillated binary data that is continuously integrated -
just take a look at the nervous system and neuronal
communications. A stream of ones and zeros to control
eye blinks, fingers typing, heart beating, and thoughts about the possible nature of consciousness.
Across a temporal aperture extent, the streams most likely
are managed as a "spread spectrum" phenomenon not
unlike a modern radio system analogy. The streams are
made apparent and coherent when a "key" is provided
in the form of a cognisance means. Essentially, a "key" is nothing
more than a directed packet of knowledge.
By way of example, all life forms have a key for the data
associated with managing sexual contact. Sentient beings with
eyes have keys for visual data management. A complex human
being has many keys related to survival skills, aesthetics,
mathematic concepts, and on and on. This collection of keys
defines the extent of a given temporal aperture.
But following up on the continuum idea proposed earlier, it
is proposed in our metaphor that the scintillated data streams
for more esoteric data such as that commonly considered
paranormal, mystical, or spiritual are always present in
our existence. They are not accessible however due to a lack of
keys. A laptop computer brought into my house will never
have access to my home network until I type in an encryption key. The moment I do that the new machine can
access the Internet and local hardware of which it was
previously "unaware". Actually, the computer
broadcasts the fact it has a key, and the network host (say a
common $50 Linksys wireless router) acknowledges it to allow a
connection. A gay man's sexual key is said to radiate as
"gaydar". A shaman by working definition has
keys to certain transcendental streams they may engage with
for solving particular worldly problems. And so on.
The drive of curiosity is the built-in psychological
mechanism by which all animals including and especially humans
initially collect the keys by which the temporal aperture will
grow to at least a minimum extent for survival. As
day-to-day problems through the millennia cause severe
limiting situations, i.e., life threatening scenarios by
predators, etc., the collection of more keys is thereby forced
with a concomitant increase in average temporal aperture
extent - evolution.
The nature of the everyday keys that define existence and
even make it fun sometimes is taken for granted and normally
not contemplated by their "owner". However, we
intend to take the closest possible look at the idea of
consciousness stream keys in the context of temporal aperture
and the spread spectrum radio system analogy. For our everyday
experience the keys are nominally added through learning in
the common sense of the word. Acquiring keys for more marginal
stream acquisition such as those associated with psi events,
mysticism, or spirituality is a much more interesting issue. Assuming
that our key metaphor is valid, who wants to carry around a
huge key ring, so to speak? Could there be such a thing as a
Master Key? Or, how could we attain the largest possible
temporal aperture extent with the minimum key count?
What is required in this context is to search for the maximum
commonality across cognized objects in the temporal
aperture. By asking what object or event #1 has in
common with object or event #2, we can potentially require
only one key to access, i.e, cognize, both situations. And so
on. Use of metaphor and analogy is the way this is done with
the hazard that such logical processes can be fallacy
minefields. Nevertheless, we must accept this risk in
testing analogies and metaphors to help discover
commonalities. This methodology is "on trial" right
here in the construction of Open Mystic. The person who first discovers some one
common trait in all events and objects across all dimensions
and all time would have the Master Key. This is at best
an asymptotic ideal never to be reached by any human form at
least.
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