Here we are in Lifecycles

Welcome

Since we started our conversations, I have had the feeling that we keep circling around lifecycles - human, natural, ecological, even hydrological.

We both know that these are not separate questions, but rather an opening spiral: similar patterns appearing again and again, at different scales and with increasing dimensionality.

Perhaps this page can become a place to unfold some of those patterns together.

Not to force them into one theory, and not to assume that everything is the same, but to look for what can still be perceived within the limits of our human capacities: where cycles begin, what sustains them, where they become constrained, how they transform, and what allows them to continue.

Since getting to know you, I have come to see that this becomes especially interesting when we observe it together - one plus one is not simply two.

So I would like this to be a shared inquiry - a place where we can follow the spirals as far as they want to open.

 Open question:

I don't know where to place this, so I'll place it here:

The transition point is where the system's internal dynamics become visible while the process is still ongoing.

Imagine an egg. Based on your preparation, you think you know - or expect, or hope - what will hatch from it: a chicken, or a turtle, whatever you had prepared for. Most of the time, something reasonably close to what you expected appears.

But how surprised would you be if a dinosaur came out?

There is clearly a mismatch. But the mismatch does not mean that the creature that emerged is an error.

Now I'm forcing myself to stop here - just stop writing - because it is getting more and more detailed and interesting, and I want to leave you room to see how you think about it.



Okay, I failed, I can't help myself - look, when you experience such a mismatch (dinosaur instead of turtle), perhaps it came from hidden states (variables) that were there during the preparation time (it resonates with what you mentioned in Observation Debt - so perhaps this counts as a conversation with you, do you see? Anyway...), or perhaps some other, not perceivable layer influenced the outcome - is the dinosaur closer to the chicken than to a turtle? 

Phylogenetically, yes

And the next cycle has begun.

こもれび

The scene of realisation.

Where I had been living for such a long time, my shelter, where reality itself became as fine as it could be, thus liveable...

Lifecycles


I made this drawing on the wall about two years ago

It began as a mandala, but there was no plan for what it should become. I simply followed the drawing as it developed, and somewhere during the process it started to take this form. I left it unfinished.

I still do not fully understand how it arrived here.

Now, as I come closer to the idea of lifecycles, I look at it differently. The forms seem to emerge, open, transform, return, and continue into one another - as if the drawing had already been circling around the same question before I had formalised it.

Perhaps it was a lifecycle all along.