Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Procrastination and also some other stuff I guess

OK so this is kind of an original theory and it probably isn't well-crafted at all but the idea just kind of stuck one day and wouldn't let go.  There's going to be a lot of assumptions and bullshit thrown around so grab the Febreeze, friends.

As I write this, I wish to throw this up here.  There's a lot of reading I've yet to do, so if some of the connections I throw down here are completely true/false, please let me know.  I don't want to seem like a total moron.

OK, so for the sake of this theory, let's say that there is a second world nearly parallel to ours.  To further this idea, let's say this second world is the world of the paranormal.  The world AmalgamationSage runs around, the world that the Path of Black Leaves runs/ can run through, the world where all super-, sub-, and paranormal activity spawns from, yeah?  For the sake of being coy and bullshitty about this, let's go ahead and call it 'The Other'.

Let's furthermore assume that a majority of that world's mechanics are alien to us in the same way that a large amount of our world's mechanics are alien to beings from 'The Other'.  There's enough to be similar, but not the same.  Your feet don't fly off the ground in most places, there's mostly breathable atmosphere in most places you can get to, etc.

Warning: If you thought the previous paragraphs were bullshit, you're about to be knee-deep in bovine excrement.  Those of you with weak constitutions and/or anger management problems might want to stop reading / never find out where I live and come rain angry fists upon me.

Now then, for the sake of argument, there are three 'Realms' of Perception.  These three 'Realms' are the 'Realms' of Beasts/Plants, Man, and Others.  The 'Realm' of Beasts/Plants reigns over the Primal world, the 'Realm' of Man reigns over the 'Sophisticated' World, and the 'Realm' of Others reigns over the 'Unnatural' World.

Alright, so yeah.  Explanation time.

The 'Sophisticated' World is actually just a way to describe the process of logic and knowledge in day to day life.  We are far from sophisticated, guys.  I say this because our lives are, more or less, rigid.  We have schedules that we follow on a semi-regular basis.  We eat, shower, work, relax, shit, exchange little green pieces of paper, and sleep according to a schedule that we find works for us, and see the world with a sense of order and science.  Trees grow out of dirt, not water.  We're kept on the Earth's surface by a mysterious force called gravity.  We have arbitrary units for everything (time, distance, mass, culture, etc).  We do this because we see the world in a very analytical way.  We dissect everything into categories and lists, like 'Foods That I Like', 'Movies I'd Like to See', 'People I Don't Want To See Today', etc.  It is due to this extremely orderly way we look at the world that the 'Realm' of Man shall also be known as Reason.

The 'Primal' World, likewise, is simply a way to describe the way animals/plants see the world.  It is a place to grow, eat, shit, sleep, etc, just like it is for us, but the amount of order and rigidity is significantly lessened.  Specifically plants, but also animals, can't really grasp the idea of logic and order.  Causality doesn't apply to them.  Everything that is simply is, and those living in the 'Primal' World have to adapt to those conditions.  That isn't to say an animal cannot reason, just not on the level that humans can.  A human can reasonably estimate the amount of time it would take an object to fall from a certain height before it begins it's descent.  Animals cannot.  However, what animals have over us is the ability to act first, think later.  In this light, the 'Realm' of Beasts/Plants shall also be known as Instinct.

The 'Unnatural' World is alien to us.  Enough said.  There is no way to explain the way these things think because they live in 'The Other', and therefore their thought processes are completely alien to ours.  The 'Realm' of Others shall then be known as Unknown.

OK so yeah there's the background ideas.  I guess I should get back to work now.  Talk about implications later.  This lab manual isn't going to write itself, despite my prayers.

Take care guys.

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