The Problem with Numbers

Numbers are an artificial abstraction created to quantify our reality, not a natural aspect of our environment. There are no numbers or straight lines laying around or floating around anywhere. We assume because someone told us mathematical information, we believe it. Numbers are used to quantify our environment. Mathematically the gestalt leap of including the "zero" is wonderful. As for as I can tell numbers are analogous to holding rocks in your hand to verify cattle in someone's pasture or amaranths of oil in a ships hold. (or fractions thereof)

In our overzealous haste to quantify our environment, we overlooked intrinsic aspects of that environment. We started counting things and numbering them, assuming control over them and reverifying it. We really knew what was going on. And we could prove it with math! It's like the theory of mind, in engineering. A beautiful human trait, but fallacious. As soon as we label something, we limit our ability to further know it. I'm going to use two different definitions here. To know somethings means to accept it without question and to understand it means to have actually separated it into parts to realize how it works. To understand something completely, you will have to destroy it. As for as I can tell, we understand a whole lot. We don't actually understand electricity, but we know how it works. Verified every time you flip that switch. I don't understand completely why light bends going around a star, but I could make a gravity lens with the proper conditions. What I'm getting at here is, you don't have to understand something to know it, to utilize it. You don't have to keep questioning things to utilize their value, holistically. In the endeavor of quantification you miss the truer aspects of reality. Its the quality of your environment that is relevant. Thats what gives it its true value. I REPEAT. Its the quality of your environment that is relevant. Not the quantity.

Mathematics goes on whole numbers (like counting rocks). Its easy to make that assumption. Seems logical. Look at the wall. The distance to the wall is three(rocks). Now that we've quantified it. We're done assessing value. We assume we know that. We own it, as it were. The knowledge and the space. Assumption. I say it's not the volume of that space that gives its relevance. It's the quality. What's happening there, is what makes that place unique in all the universe, any-when. When you start to qualify things, places, whatever. You may start to really know something. You don't have to understand something to know it. I'll expound on that again. Let's say you're my friend, and I accept that. But if I don't, I might want to understand what makes you my friend? Why are you my friend? What makes you different than someone else? To understand. So in my quest to understand, I destroy you and some other people taking you apart looking for the friend aspect of you, what makes you different. If I would have accepted you as my friend without question, we'd be ok, but mans inquisitive nature, overlooks the qualitative aspect verifying quantities. I should have just said, "I know you're my friend, accepted it it without question." To me, thats the difference between knowing and understanding.

Back to the distance between you and the wall, three rocks. If you'll picture the surface of the ocean, you'll start to get at what's going on in that space. The qualities that make it unique. There are many waveforms interacting and passing through there. Numbers can't accurately quantify those qualities. Any attempt to actually do this changes its very nature. Accepting it and utilizing it as is, may be the new order of the day. The actual value of that space may be realized. Put your hand out towards the wall, palm facing the wall. Between your hand and the wall are many waveforms interacting, resonance, harmonizing and dissonance, thats the nature of our universe. These are its relevant qualities. It's like music. That is a more accurate depiction. If you could multiply a G chord by a C, it would be a better form of mathematics.You could more accurately quantify, asses value to that space by its qualities. Numbers are abstractions and resonant factors are actual.

More in the numbers quandary, soon. I'm not done, at all!

My conditioned teaching and learning has limited my ability to know.

The Problem with Language

The language we use to define our reality is limited by its very definition. We assume we know something because a word defines it. Consider the source. Who made up that word? Why? Did they have expert knowledge? By accepting that word, and its definition, you're limiting your ability to further understand anything about that, whatever. Do men really have the ability to describe anything not man. Personally I don't think people can accurately describe themselves , much less anything else. The language I'm using now is predominately noun based, it's a quantitative language. I think a qualitative or verb based language may more accurately describe your environment.


I believe what is going on around you is more relevant than the things around you. The relationship between things is more important than the things themselves.


Let's go back to the beginning of the development of language, the why of it. The language was developed to control our environment, to assume we know something, to assuage our fear of the unknown. To live without fear, to live longer, to feel good, not scared. To assume. Once something is defined, you think you know it, you understand it, you can predict its behaviour. You can survive. Once this happens though, you instantly limit your ability to know it further. So in early mans' overzealous haste to define his environment fueled by the need to survive and furthered by the notion that this newly acquired knowledge would also increase the quality of life. He overlooked the true nature of his environment and limited future knowledge. Where is the need to know if you think you already know something? A tree for instance, man describes a tree from mans' perspective, limited. Did you ever consider how the tree would describe itself to you? That might be a more accurate definition. You might say trees don't talk. How do you know? Have you ever been a tree? Well they don't speak English in way that you can currently understand and your definition limits your need/desire to further your knowledge. You assume you already know. Trees were around before men, I wonder what they would be preferred to be called? Have you ever called someone by the wrong name? Repeatedly?


Everything in your environment has the ability communicate the same way you do, by the means of waves traveling through the environment. You assume because you're not currently hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling or tasting it, its not happening. Really? If you look at things in your environment from their perspective you start to realize that everything might be a bit different, that your understanding and your ability to understand are limited by the definitions of the words, assumptions and the language itself. These are all abstractions, constructs of the human mind, an excellent tool, but self-limited and not natural, found in nature. A rock might have a life and you might have to sit with it for a few billion years to get this through your tiny little skull.


Action or verb based languages seem to me to more accurately define the environment, Whats going on. Its the relative characteristic of the environment that accurately depicts the qualitative aspects, the relationships things have with each other. I believe that's more important than the things themselves. Before you read this, as for as your concerned I didn't exist, you didn't know I existed. Now there is a relationship that we have based on this communication,that's the value. This can be expressed as a mathematical equation. But I also have a huge Problem with Numbers.

Quantum Mind

While going over the collapse of wave function, I had a thought about the mind in regards to conscience and quantum variance and the complementary aspects of potentiality vs actuality. It occurred to me that the unconscious and subconscious mind are playing out all possibilities for the next best possible future and then actualizing it. The Quantum Hussy.
Earlier I was inclined to think that there was some form of quantum variance in the brain, ( electron tunneling ?) then looking at the system differently , holisticly, I could see the action was taking place regardless of the mechanism.