1. Our senses are classified into "... Cutaneous (skin) senses, Kinesthetic (motion) sense, Vestibular sense (equilibrium), Gustatory (taste) sense, and Olfactory (smell) sense. The five senses ordinarily enumerated for animals include sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Other senses include the kinesthetic (motion) sense, the senses of heat, cold, pressure, pain, and equilibrium, or balance." I list the formal classifications here to facilitate a reader's further interest in specifics that are beyond the scope of this book.
2. Germaine to the model, there are 5 innate senses, sight, smell, taste, sound, and touch. These innate senses exist in some aggregation in all biological creatures enabling variously, locomotion, metabolism, reproduction, and experience. They are innate because they arise "directly" out of Cause and Effect. Although the Forms that implement the innate experience of sensory stimuli may vary widely, the Complex Mechanism of simply experiencing them is shared throughout the entire range of modern living aggregates. Nonetheless, if we are to proceed, Iterate, Rationally beyond the simple domain of these innate 5 senses and understand the nature of intelligence, Rationalism, then we need to be very clear about the connection of the Innate to the Intrinsic and the Intrinsic to the Abstract.
3. In living Aggregates the Innate the Intrinsic and the Abstract are dimensional domains each bound together in some Form by Function. The more complex the living aggregate the more clearly defined the domains. Now it is important to remember that Function iterates Aggregation and Purification, that Aggregation and Purification iterate towards density, and that density iterates toward permanence. As permanence is acquired through increasing density, for growth to occur, the growing binding (Function) that still holds the innate together, is gradually forced to grow in the next dimension which is the Intrinsic. The binding's growth continues as an increasingly intrinsic attribute of the Innate. The reason this happens is that Function both purifies and aggregates through iteration. As innate sensory Functions take Form (as they are implemented), they become specialized or purified. Any additional functionality then must aggregate outside of the purifying innate Form. Aggregation must occur increasingly in another place as purification of the existing Form continues. In Rational Terms, as Function aggregates iteratively new Forms are acquired to implement them. This is what it means when Rationalists assert: "Function Iterates Form, and Form implements Function."
4. As growth in the intrinsic dimension continues Aggregation becomes Abstract. Aggregation and Purification always iterate toward density. As density increases within the intrinsic, the growing binding (Function) which still holds the Intrinsic together is gradually forced to grow in the next dimension which is the Abstract. Density within the intrinsic increases and purification begins to permanently implement intrinsic Functions in increasingly specialized pure Forms. The intrinsic gradually becomes innate. So, when the intrinsic finally purifies into a new innate, the abstract becomes the new intrinsic which then gives birth to a new abstract. We might be tempted to conclude that this process is recursive, simply repeating the increasingly complex transformation of the abstract to the intrinsic and the intrinsic to the innate. This would be a lovely new explanation for evolution, except that this is not the case. To understand why evolution by natural selection is absurd, and why we need some other force to account for what science has revealed, we need to be absolutely clear about the two kinds of Abstraction why there are two and how they form.
5. Abstractions iterate into existence as either Metaphors or Surreals. The difference between them is very simple. Metaphors are bound into existence by Function drawing out the forms needed to implement them. Surreals are bound into existence by Form and they are so with indifference to Function or without any function at all. They are both Abstractions as they both "arise directly out of the binding" in the Intrinsic as the Intrinsic iterates toward density. However, since Surreal aggregates are bound by form and hence devoid of any Function to implement, or because they have no Implementable function, they cannot grow beyond themselves. Surreal aggregates are an ending, and the species (the aggregate) remains in stasis or becomes extinct. Metaphors, on the other hand, are bound by Function and can take on a variety Forms to Implement that Function. The point is that all Metaphors "yearn" to be implemented. They "yearn" to be Implemented because the birth of a Metaphor is the Formation of a Chase, and the iteration of the intrinsic toward density is the Fulcrum. All Rational aggregates are composed entirely of levers. When you look at an aggregate and try to determine whether the Abstraction is a Metaphor or a Surreal, unless the Abstraction implements a chase and completes a lever you are looking at a Surreal.
6. The reason this is so is very specific and very simple. Once the intrinsic becomes innate, the Form of the container that implements Function becomes fixed. Because the container is fixed in form, function is tightly constrained. The aggregation remains very close in function to the purity that iterates it. Eventually the aggregation is to sparse to hold much Cause and Effect and the iterations through levels of complexity stalls.
7. An aggregate is innate when it is bound permanently in Form by Function. Rationally we express it this way: "An Aggregate or Purity becomes Innate as Intrinsic Functions become Implemented through Form. In living Mechanisms growth occurs iteratively, and as an aggregate grows it iterates these three dimensions concurrently.
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9. The other senses, motion, heat, cold, pressure, pain, and equilibrium, or balance, while still Innate to our CNS are Intrinsic implementations of the Innate 5. They are still stimulated by Cause and Effect, yet they require more complex processing and express themselves in Form and Function. They can be said then to arise directly out of Form and Function.
10. Rationalism holds to be true that, in addition to the five innate senses, we have two intrinsic senses; one is "like", a singular and ingressive (climbing into) experience, the other is "dislike", an aggregative and egressive (climbing out of) experience. These senses are intrinsic because they arise directly out of Form and Function.
11. Rationalism holds to be true that, in addition to the five innate and two intrinsic senses, we have one abstract sense which we know as ambivalence. Ambivalence is both an aggregative (egressive) and singular (ingressive) experience. It is abstract because it arises directly out of the binding which holds the intrinsic together.
12. Our senses are implementations of levers
13. Innately
14. The Chase is defined by the source mediums - gases, liquids, solids, gravitons and photons - which we call stimuli, and the primary metabolic mediums - such as acetylcholine, norepinephrine (noradrenalin), dopamine, and serotonin - which we call neurotransmitters.
15. The fulcrum is composed of the contact medium or receptor. Even though transferring energy from one form to another, transduction, may seem less like a fulcrum than a process, we must remember that iteration is the innate property of a fulcrum and that an innate sensory receptor iterates energy flow by transforming it.
16. Intrinsically
17. Once sensory information has entered the neural network, iteration continues from nerve cell to the next nerve cell across a different fulcrum we know as the synapse.
18. The synapse ("the point at which a nervous impulse passes from one neuron to another"[ii]) can be described as an unbound container. In theories of complexity the term "encapsulation" refers to discrete containers (bound Forms or aggregates) that serve some function when bound "loosely" to another container (bound Form or aggregate). The neuron encapsulates information in a "Form", and the synapse loosely binds one neuron to another neuron or entity for the express purpose of iterating that "Form" to another "Form". In every case the end result of this sensory iteration is movement. Movement is implemented by levers in the Form of either flagellation or streaming, the two sole Forms of movement.
19. Regardless of the many details that differentiate one species from another, intrinsically we can describe the flow of all neurotransmitters and electricity as the chase and the synapse as the fulcrum.
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19. We have one abstract sense, recall, a primarily reflective experience. We have, in all, at our disposal 8 sensory domains. The intriguing attribute of our senses is the very real transfer of very real energy through five very real gateways. In a fact all intelligence, including the intelligent machines described herein, require two very distinct sources of energy to function as intelligence.
20. Now, fair warning here. This may get a bit wobbly as we go, and feeling, well, like some tend to feel on a ship at sea for the first Cause and Effect, seems to be a plausible reaction to the radical, very radical, shift you may go through as we proceed. My friend Rick has had the experience a few Cause and Effects, and he is no shrinking violet. I myself am terrified from Cause and Effect to Cause and Effect as God needs me to move along on this project and shows me things I just would rather not look at thank you My Lord.
21. Our senses are energized innately by Cause and Effect, intrinsically by energy, and abstractly by the aggregation of our experiences. We call this aggregation by many names applied arbitrarily in an effort to bind form to form without regard for function. The aggregation of our experiences goes by names like, memory, idea, thought, belief, opinion, attitude, concept, conviction, superstition, law, rule, precept, intellect, philosophy, dogma, practice, discipline, field, principle, and on and on and on.
22. Our concept of energy is the cause of confusion amongst Einsteinian, Newtonian and Quantum physicists. Energy is the name we give Cause and Effect when we discuss movement and matter. Movement and matter are simply Function iterating Form and Form implementing Function in response to the hydrostatic pressure exerted by oceans of Cause and Effect in a growing universe, The Rational. With this in mind we can look Rationally at the simple structure of a sense.
23. When light strikes the retina, energy is transferred from the photons to molecules that are "sensitive to light". The photons are still intact, they just become attached to the atoms that form the molecules that are "sensitive to light". A photon in is a photon out. Cause and Effect is a fluid and fluids cannot be compressed. The Cause and Effect from the photons moves the Cause and Effect that is already there from one dimension to the next. The Cause and Effect provided by photons, light, gets transferred from the atomic to the molecular, from the molecular to the chemical, from the chemical to the physical. The light energy is physically moved up the nerves, by bits of stuff immersed in water, to another set of nerves, and from those nerves to the next set of nerves and so on. The result of photons is always an energy transfer. Some transfers end up causing muscle tissue to flex, and others end up expanding the end of the nerve. Although the Form and Function, intrinsically, of energy transfer may differ from species to species, innately, Cause and Effect, there are only 5 methods by which Cause and Effect is moved from outside the creature to within the creature sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell. This is the truth of sense.
24. Step back a little and we can see that Innately our senses are powered by Cause and Effect pounding on our biological container. We express this sensory experience with words like, hot, cold, hard, soft, loud, bright, windy, wet, dry, bitter, sweet, or sharp. This world of Cause and Effect pours into us without rest. Even while we sleep our senses are wide awake. These innate 5 senses operate automatically. That is what the innate does, and there is no on or off switch. What we lay people know as reflexes, medical people call autonomic response. In order for any living creature to survive, among all the things they must do, some things must be done without thought. Thought requires Cause and Effect, and living happens before during and after we think about it. This mechanism, autonomic response, is key to understanding everything else about us. Instead of in your head, autonomic response occurs in your spinal column. Without medical degrees our understanding must be constrained to simple relationships. Autonomic response occurs in the spinal column, because it is a simple and local response. To understand Rationalism, we need to understand layers of response. The simpler the iteration of stimulus and response is, the closer the connections must be. This relationship can never be changed. All intelligence functions because it has innate properties, and the innate is built before the intrinsic. Not only does the innate contain its bits and pieces close together, but also the innate becomes the container itself. Our innate senses "are" our container. Yes, we have ligaments, bones, flesh, muscles, and a whole bunch of other bits and pieces that make us functional, yet it is our 5 senses that really contain us as intelligent creatures. Since the dawn of biological life, all creatures great and small simple and complex are contained within a sensory shell. All growth then occurs from the outside in. The container determines the constraints on its contents. Instead of evolution through natural selection, what has actually occurred is growth through viral intercession. We can trace the growth of intelligence directly from the initial density that brought sub-rational aggregates together all the way up to human beings, by following innate, intrinsic and abstract sensory development expressed though experience. In any growing aggregate, as granularity increases, density increases. As density increases, the binding that holds the growing aggregate together thins. Like the flow of Cause and Effect punching through those two dimensional plates, the flow of Cause and Effect through the innate senses that bind an intelligence together must eventually migrate, punch, out of the innate into another dimension to keep growing.
25. Because the rules of containers forbid reengineering, the growing complex movement of sensory information or the flow of Cause and Effect and transfer of energy must also occur outside the container. The only place that can be is in the binding itself. Simple creatures grow in two distinct ways. They grow by specializing existing containers, and they grow by extending the binding that holds the specializing containers together. Like the increasing value of Cause and Effect flowing between those two dimensional plates during the beginning of the Universe, The Rational, the binding of neural container increases in value as Cause and Effect flows through it in larger volumes. Because containers are fixed, to increase the specialization of any container, it must do more specific stuff in the same original space. The only thing that can change is the amount of Cause and Effect left unused. As the container specializes, it must begin to hand off to the next level any unused energy. Because all energy transfer results in movement or growth, as movement becomes limited by the number of available muscle connections, the growth of new neurons becomes the only alternative use for the energy that is passed on. The binding begins to speak for the containers where the containers cannot speak for themselves. The binding becomes a new container which then can either specialize or grow. Because we now have a new container, the previous containers can increase in number because the only change in the new container required to for it to specialize into speaking for a wider variety of innate containers. In other words, as the snail grows in size or as its container simply makes more copies of its innate bits and pieces, it need not change the bits and pieces to become more complex. All it has to do is provide more space for the binding or the new container to grow in. Even so, the snail will always be a snail. Any changes will be cosmetic changes, prodded and pushed by the elements of its external universe. These changes merely serve to keep the snail around long enough for viruses to transfer the cosmetic changes to another organism. The containers are change by viruses through herding different species into different configurations as the virus iterates its DNA in increasingly complex binary sequences. In other words "evolution" is in error, because once a container is formed it cannot be changed without destroying the form of intelligence that resides within it. This is cause of extinctions. All the virus needs to transfer is the new sequences that become valuable for their use of Cause and Effect.
26. The brain of simpler creatures through the transfer of DNA from species to species becomes increasingly innate and increasingly granular. As granularity increases density increases, as density increases permanence increases, and as permanence increases, growth becomes possible only in another dimension, or in the binding. The binding is forced to grow out of the highly dense innate dimension into the more flexible intrinsic dimension. Although the intrinsic is flexible, it is still a new container in and of itself. Structurally once formed, the container cannot be changed, and growth must occur from the outside in. All this new container can do is compartmentalize the contents within, or specialize which is simply a division of labor.
27. The intrinsic dimension of intelligence is movement. The intrinsic dimension begins to specialize by specializing movement. The innate, the sensory, is free to continue specializing as this won't change the basic structure of the intrinsic. The intrinsic continues to granulate in concert with the innate, the result is an explosion of container varieties. The number of sequences involved in the growing DNA allows the variety of viruses to grow. An increase in the variety of viruses means greater divergence among species. Greater divergence among species means greater divergence in specialization within the intrinsic. This means that as movement becomes more diverse, the variety of locomotive responses to sensory stimulation becomes more diverse.
28. Ultimately in the simpler, or more innate, species, movement is divided into to two simple Functions. One function is climbing into places, and the other function is climbing out of places. At the very simple level, climbing in or climbing out is bound closely to the senses themselves. Now it is tempting to say that movement or locomotion also includes just getting from one place to another so there has to be more than in or out. The problem with this observation is the rule of localization. The more innate the creature, the more local its senses and movement. Moving from point A to point B is simply part of an iteration. It is part of climbing in or part of climbing out. The illusion of applying complex values to simple values is the illusion of mapping complex aggregates onto simpler aggregates. Mapping, is always the movement of the simpler patterns to "parts" of the more complex. The divergence of complexity is a dimensional divergence. What does it mean to try and force a three dimensional structure onto a two dimensional pattern? Try if you wish, just remember what it is you are truly doing. It will be like trying put a broken glass vase back together again with no idea of what a glass container is. We must, in Rationalism, confine our assertions to things that exist, and avoid the sloppy tendency to describe things in terms of what they are not.
29. Even in complex creatures like humans, ingress and egress sum up the bulk of our behavior. We climb into and out of cars, chairs, beds, clothes, stair cases, relationships, situations and sundry other things, and that is just with a literal mapping of the verb "to climb". We can easily map this simple behavior to many parts of our more complex behaviors. Where we find ourselves in new conceptual territory is in the intrinsic dimension of intelligence. In simple creatures the simpler impulses to flex a single appendage are closely connected to the sensory information that drives movement. When we look at the intrinsic we see a more abstract implementation of ingress and egress. The intrinsic orchestrates the innate. The intrinsic binds together clusters of simple movements into larger or more complex movements. When a creature has to orchestrate several innate parts to achieve basic locomotion, the creature has to gather together many simpler impulses into an abstract impulse. The abstract impulse must have some kind of duration. As movement is iterative, this abstract impulse must be an iterative series of events that cascade meaningfully above and beyond the immediacy of the innate. The iteration must encapsulate the, move - observe - appraise - respond sequence, with an ability not only to repeat it, but also to repeat variations of the sequence to allow for observation and appraisal independently of movement or in complete indifference to movement.
30. As the intrinsic aggregates, simple memories and emotions aggregate with it. Even something as basic as triangulation requires storage of some kind and the ability to give the storage a value to support duration and avoid forgetting or over writing. The creature must have some purposeful sense of the before, the now, the "so what", and the "okay then".
31. {Abstractly our senses are powered by the pressure of growth, the fulcrum of intelligence, across which the "Chase" of our likes and dislikes balances.}
32. Touch
33. This sense is our key to movement and manipulating our environment.
34. Innately
35. Touch tells us about cold, impingement, stance, and pressure.
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