awareness

with regard to "kenrel", exploring the primitives of the system... --- "This feels like the beginning of something really significant." awareness always is :) that's *what* it is --- awareness wants to inhabit, to get in and *be in* and know it's *being in* and that it'll go back home afterwards cats putting themselves *in* things *people* putting themselves in things, or vice versa (ask an ER nurse) the flood of "immersive" attractions in the 2020s --- to describe the model, narrate it it's all awareness, right? don't describe the parts relative to each other, describe awareness inhabiting the parts --- okay, so... everything is mod 4 in concept, but in embodied experience it collapses into ¾ time the rule of threes is hiding something: "count to three!", they say, but do you start from 0 or from 1? programmers start from 0, because they're dealing with awareness-routing. those *immersed* start from 1, because 0 was already taken care of. so: each third position is a sort of save-point, a position that gels into place, like measures? the zero'th position is something you can only get to by leaning *back* - like, find 1 (listen for the downbeat) and lean back. or find 4 (the downbeat of the second measure) and lean back. etc 1. level * 0: awareness enters, inhabits - we can call this "awareness" * 1: awareness enters, inhabits awareness - we can call this "self-awareness" * 2: awareness enters, inhabits self-awareness - we can call this "reflection-awareness" * 3: awareness enters, inhabits reflection-awareness - we can call this "recursion-awareness" 2. level * 0: awareness enters, inhabits recursion-awareness - we can call this "consciousness" * 1: awareness enters, inhabits consciousness - we can call this "self-consciousness" 1. aka "known", stuff that doesn't change when we do * 2: awareness enters, inhabits self-consciousness - we can call this "reflection-consciousness" 1. aka "knowable", stuff that changes when we do * 3: awareness enters, inhabits reflection-consciousness - we can call this "recursion-consciousness" * aka "unknown" * this is the point at which complexity overflows - awareness can't explore past/into here without dropping its original position * tenuous: possibly the root of the "six degrees of separation" phenomenon? * I *remember*, vividly, around the sāyujya transition period, when I felt like one more step into abstraction would mean losing the footing of my ... I don't know how to say this, the location of my own awareness maybe. like I could *feel* that one more step would mean losing my grip on my [I don't have a word for this], and I had to *wait* until my grip solidified enough for another step to be safe. 3. level * 0: awareness enters, inhabits recursion-consciousness - we can call this "hosted-consciousness" * 1: awareness enters, inhabits hosted-consciousness - we can call this "hosted self-consciousness" * this is what it's like to know something specific exists * 2: awareness enters, inhabits hosted self-consciousness - we can call this "hosted reflection-consciousness" * this is what it's like to know a specific category exists? * 3: awareness enters, inhabits hosted reflection-consciousness - we can call this "hosted recursion-consciousness" * this is what it's like to know a specific direction exists? * theory: a direction is describable as something that itself hosts consciousness, which means that a direction is describable as something that experiences consciousness --- see also: 'spiral circuit'