Hi Pye,
I agree with your post. This post is just some half baked nit picking for something to do.
Ambiguity: not this (alone); not that (alone); neither and both. Self And Other. World outside; world inside, etc.
With all that mutually canceling, mutually reinforcing ambiguity, the math would add up to "nothing." Nothingness. But this won't work because there is something, there is definitely something (a world, selves-in-it, etc.) Existential sentence #2:
I don’t really agree with what you are saying with the phrases “mutually cancelling”, “the math would add up to "nothing."”
They are completely distinct, thus there are two beings. Content (what is) and Form (the manner of what is). Being completely distinct it would be silly to think of them as being addable or having a cancellation effect.
Still, you have “added” them together, merged them correctly, as being existence.
This would be the same with being. Being is never in a "state" but always a matter of becoming - more of existence disclosed, and more of it disclosed because in our original recognition of a lack (suffering, what we're not and would like to be, etc.), we create i.e. disclose more of being.
No, other than what you call “lack”, being is always in “states”. Though they are not fixed states overall, the majority of the state holds form over time. A state is a pattern or a pattern set, its form that holds consistency over a period of time/existence. Yes causality does mean a continual state of “becoming different”, but as causality is dualistic, it also involves lessening of some kind.
The human being does the same thing: recognizes something (existence), then creates something else, something else to exist out of its lacking. A lacking is something, not nothing.
The becoming, the lack filling, does not have to be novel, a new type of pattern. The bulk of our existence is circular, combining becoming and lessening.
By definition alone can it be brought forth from nothingness.
No, it can only evolve or expand from something. I’m not saying this recognition of a lacking to be filled is not a continually new, but that it is an emergent property (for us at least). Being lacks (wants), then gains (does) what it lacks and equalises (is sated), then loses (does not hold), then lacks, gains etc til death. A crest lessens to a trough, which gains to become a crest.
The recognition of a lacking is a recognition of something
All patterns of being, given the right circumstances, will increase what is contained in that overall pattern, its overall flow of being over time, by consuming other patterns. Thus becoming is intrinsic in existence.
The problem is that in its becoming more it becomes lesser. This is because it is not driven by its pattern to become more, but by the content that causes the pattern of being. The content within the pattern being lesser than external content, is forced to become increasingly circular and inwards flowing – and as it increasingly does so, it ceases to reach out to the same extent as much of the lack is being fulfilled via the circular pattern (of internal patterns that share/swap becoming and lessening thus are stabilised).
The content is the driver of gravity and equalisation, is intrinsic in all being, it is what content does and is – “need to fill lack” can’t be only an emergent property. In our complex patterned terms, this lack I have to fill with wine, women and song, is just an emergent level of complexity, of this very same absolute intrinsic nature of reality.
How nature fulfills its continuous inherent lack is by continuous inherent expansion of content (time as energy), and more expansion just means more lack.
Content, as it expands acts like a wave – it rolls forward pushing what is in front of it away. This is what fundamental causality is – expansion + the resistance of existence.
A wave can only form from expansion first pushing a form, so content is pushing, or by a compression caused by a collapse of equalised form, a structural falling inwards causing a freedom of gravitational movement, a freedom to expand inwards.
Content expansion, being a process, is also fundamental form, however form also evolves and is thus also emergent existence. Non-expansion, compression, is caused by a collapse of forms that have emerged.
