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word nor managed to enunciate her underlying reality, though she is everywhere:
hovering in our hydrogen selves, governing all eco-dynamics, seamlessly hybridizing individuals and populations, no matter the species or time frame. Her alterity is
our identity and the similitudes between us redefine the entire scope of ecosystemic
potentialities.
89.2 The Map of Biological Patterns
Solo-dimensionality, or the superego, commandeers the mystery of digits, decimals,
fractions, rational and irrational, prime and peripheral numbers into the interface
of human suasions and collisions. This map of biological patterns explains most of
human history. We know consciousness, from its interpolated first stirrings of rDNA
and mRNA, to be a non-linear continuum on perhaps as many as 40 billion earth- sized,
life-supporting planets
4
. Every metric that might be applied to its emergence or dissipation has hovered around the human bias of cogency and purpose, whereas everything
in-between that which we have analyzed has utterly eluded our purview, much like
black body thermal energy. We cannot safely assume that the invisible, the unknown, is
adapting to new conditions because our apperception is conditional only upon that primary perception whose occupant, a thinker, is, in turn, conditioned upon conditions he/
she cannot control, or apprehend. The brain does. The mind is. We do not see ourselves,
and hence the astonishment of Rembrandt’s “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes
Tulp” (1632), following upon dissection of animals by Claudius Galen (129–199), and
even earlier horrid eviscerations of pigs and monkeys in Alexandria
5
. Such specificities
are not conditionals of consciousness, any more than “insight,” “food,” “mental activity,” “bare bones,” “assistance,” “pre- meditation,” “road-kill,” “paragon,” “paradigm,”
“vastness,” “detail,” “appropriation,” “envision,” “genuine,” “hill,” “body,” or “blue,”
and offer any instruction in the quest toward meaning. Consciousness, in whatever language or mind, has no meaning in and of itself. It is confined strictly to consciousness.
It cannot be illustrated, defined, transmitted, or euthanized. Not that we know of. Our
consciousness of it is still confined within it.
Nor should it be confused with “communication.” The words “fossil,” “spider,”
“dog” have no meaning. And “meaning” has no meaning, as the penultimate
ambassador of this conundrum. Add up all the meaningless (by any mathematical
rule of thumb) and the dilemma is not rectified. That universe a human aspires to
perceive neither exists or does not. We have the tiresome litanies by Parmenides,
Aristotle, and Heraclitus, as well as Nagarjuna, Xuanzang, and their disciples, on
this issue of what actually constitutes meaning, object, transitive, and intransitive
messaging. All such thoughts are weightless, as far we can measure: weightless and
without truth-value.
4 “Habitable Exoplanets Catalog”. University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. 2015.
5 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705678/#:~:text=Neither%20there%20is%20
strong%20objective,is%20nothing%20much%20to%20conclude.“History of Anatomy?” Body
Worlds, https://bodyworlds.com/about/history-of-anatomy/. Accessed February 3, 2020.
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