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measurement
Using a camera, emo and ero could be defined as the
difference between two images taken shortly after each other.
Differing pixels would be emo, same pixels ero. For example,
a ball that rolls down a slope would itself not be emo
as a physical object, but emo would be the area the ball
spawns between the two images (excluding the middle if
the ball is uniformly colored).
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A camera can only register ero and emo, and thus only
transitions ero↔emo, while transitions that would cross
between in and out would not be part of the picture.
Measurements inside might be performed indirectly by
measuring brain activity outside, or maybe by focussing on
what is recurring inside and thus in a way stable inside, on
maybe often abstract insights (eri) of a logical nature.
The most basic form of eri might be pairs of opposites,
which could maybe be assembled to form more complex
concepts, possibly inspired or guided by zodiacs and similar
cultural concepts.
leads
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Even if a formal model of the elements defined in terms of
in/out and rest/move and their transformations grew into a
‘scientific way of doing metaphysics’, as aimed at in Kant’s
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able
to Present Itself as a Science, it would essentially be air,
something that rests inside the mind (eri). It would not be
complete without also including the other three elements in
some form, say, in performance art, or whatever.
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Moreover, it would likely not be possible to deduce the whole
world from the definition of elements alone, at least doing
so would likely be as hard as finding a theory of everything
in modern science. Some additional, a priori unprovable
assumptions would be necessary to synthesize the world.
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The concept of a “ball” is a priori much more complex than
comparing two images, which becomes evident once you try
to program computers to recognize (3-dimensional) items on
2-dimensional images. How a ball comes to be in the mind
appears to require a lot of interaction with the environment
(often quite early as a child), and in the end it is philosophically
not so clear whether a “ball” is rather a natural thing,
something that objectively exists, or instead rather a purely
abstract cultural creation useful for interaction with others.
See also Kant or Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
The above definition of emo↔ero appears thus fundamental,
but is possibly already different from immediate experience of
the world in which a rolling ball is never seen as two crescents.
It reminds also of the shadows in Plato’s Cave, which even
remind of the souls of the dead that dwell in Hades as shadows,
as depicted in Homer’s Odyssey. In other words, the
above definition might already project reality onto something
in which crucial information might already be lost, or not.
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Could maybe only activity cross between in and out, but not
elements ? Would activity travelling from in to out transform
both eri to emi and ero to emo ? That would at least be
consistent with a camera only recording ero and emo.
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In a harmonic oscillator, two kinds of energies are transformed
into each other. For example, for a mass on a spring, the
energy in the spring transforms into the kinetic energy of the
moving mass and vice-versa. This gives the motion of the
oscillator four special states, when either of the energies is
extremal. And the motion between these states is periodic,
thus overall reminding of the circle of elements.
However, the natural pairing of extremal states of a harmonic
oscillator is opposite states in the cycle, which naturally fits
rest/move in the elemental circle, but makes it hard to relate
two pairs of adjacent states to opposites like active/passive
or in/out in a natural way.
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The four elements can be grouped into 3 different pairs with
opposing attributes, including maybe these:
rest/move |
in/out |
passive/active |
bind/release |
wet/dry |
cold/hot |
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soft/hard |
heavy/light |
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malleable/brittle |
inert/swift |
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mixed/isolated |
dense/thin |
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collective/individual |
dark/light |
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female/male |
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moon/sun |
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night/day |
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un-/conscious |
Some pairs on the right have a historically patriarchal touch,
which however still partially reflects nature.
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As of early July 2024, it turned out that some basic perceptions
around the core idea here might have been flawed. Not
sure at the moment how far reaching, but most likely reduces
it all to just some interesting details around the respective
themes but is not a fundamentally new approach to life and
the world. Accordingly, unless I could magically recover the
previous magic, I will probably not adapt the rest of this site
except in this lead here, and mostly let things be.
The problem is the perception of inside. While the perception
of outside resembles a movie screen, inside things are different,
even though you can imagine things from outside and
definitely inside more flows than outside on average, which
means also that the equivalence of elements defined in terms
of in/out and rest/move goes quite far in mirroring Aristotle’s
views, it does not go beyond, simply because inside thoughts
seems to move more quickly than feelings, and with feelings
associated with water and thinking with air, it apparently
all falls apart, emi and eri switched, and hence apparently
no relation to the zodiac or what is described under ‘mixed
feelings’, instead just different fragmentary ideas, which are
interesting at times, but apparently not beyond that.
Maybe I should dance Sirtaki on the beach now…
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