Claudio Abbado in Memoriam (26.06.1933 - 20.01.2014)
Gustav Mahler, "Adagietto", Symphony No 5
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Gustav Mahler, "Adagietto", Symphony No 5
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Visualization of the Internet data at the AS level. A plot of all nodes, ordered by their k-shell indices. The legend to the left denotes degree, and the legend to the right denotes k-shell index. from: Shai Carmi, Shlomo Havlin, Scott Kirkpatrick, Yuval Shavitt and Eran Shir, "A model of Internet topology using k-shell decomposition", Proc. of the IEEE |
Clusters refer to the accumulation or movement of objects or ideas to positions of proximity to one another. Such clustering may involve one or more center attractors. Clustering seems to involve some sort of attraction that brings objects or ideas together.
Jos Leys, Kaleido 4D |
Berndnaut Smilde, Nimbus II, 2012 |
M92 globular cluster |
Gary Larson |
Krebs cycle: citric acid |
Cycles are repetitions in space or time, such as, circulations, waves, repetitive routines, etc. Interactions of cycles and arrows create spirals or helices.
Golden statue of Nagarjuna at Samye Ling Monastery. |
1. If subjects and their objects, things and their attributes, and causes and their effects exist independently as we habitually take them to, or exist intrinsically and absolutely as basic element analysis holds, then they must not depend on any kind of condition or relation. This point basically amounts to a philosophical insistence on the meanings of independent, intrinsic, and absolute. By definition, something is independent, intrinsic, or absolute only if it does not depend on anything else; it must have an identity that transcends its relations.We now have a context for understanding emptiness with respect to codependent origination: all things are empty of any independent intrinsic nature. This may sound like an abstract statement, but it has far-ranging implications for experience. We explained in chapter 4 how the categories of the Abhidharma were both descriptions and contemplative directives for the way the mind is actually experienced when one is mindful. It is important to realize that Nagarjuna is not rejecting the Abhidharma, as he is sometimes interpreted as doing in Western scholarship. His entire analysis is based on the categories of the Abhidharma: what sense would arguments such as that of the seer, the sight, and the seeing have except in that context? (If the reader thinks that Nagarjuna's argument is a linguistic one, that is because he has not seen the force of the Abhidharma.) It is a very precise argument, not just a general handwaving that everything is dependent on everything. Nagarjuna is extending the Abhidharma, but that extension makes an incisive difference to experience.
2. Nothing in our experience can be found that satisfies this criterion of independence or ultimacy. The earlier Abhidharma tradition had expressed this insight as dependent coarising: nothing can be found apart from its conditions of arising, formation, and decay. In our modem context this point is rather obvious when considering the causes and conditions of the material world and is expressed in our scientific tradition. Nagarjuna took the understanding of codependence considerably further. Causes and their effects, things and their attributes, and the very mind of the inquiring subject and the objects of mind are each equally codependent on the other. Nagarjuna's logic addresses itself penetratingly to the mind of the inquiring subject (recall our fundamental circularity), to the ways in which what are actually codependent factors are taken by that subject to be the ultimate founding blocks of a supposed objective and a supposed subjective reality.
3. Therefore, nothing can be found that has an ultimate or independent existence. Or to use Buddhist language, everything is "empty" of an independent existence, for it is codependently originated.
9 | Nervous system: consider one or more closed organizations that intersect with a living organism and its cognitive domain, expanding it. |
9.1 | A logical observer distinguishes the nervous system only within the living organism and interprets sensory surfaces and effector surfaces as “inputs” to and “outputs” from the nervous system that match “outputs” from and “inputs” to a world “out there”. |
9.2 | A paradoxical observer interacts with and tentatively distinguishes the activity of the nervous system as “nerve” impulses that encode only “how much” not “what” the living organism “perceives”. |
9.21 | Since everything “perceived” translates into nerve impulses, the nervous system does not discriminate (distinguish) between impulses coming from an “outside” world and those originated “within” the nervous system (“inside” or “outside” blend into “inside and outside”). |
9.22 | For this same observer, the encounter with other observers triggers the invention of a tentative world “in and out there”. |
9.23 | While some of these observers adjust, share, and thus “confirm”, tentatively the invention, others do not. |
10 | Environment: logical observers distinguish the intersection of their cognitive domains as a common dwelling and call it their environment. |
10.1 | The distinction of an environment appears to these observers as an invitation to extract or deduce further distinctions. |
10.12 | These further distinctions appear to these observers as processes (events in time) that produce components (objects in space) forming open networks of processes and components that exclude these and other observers. |
10.2 | Language and communication emerge in this way from the activity (of processes) in the nervous system and thus, the logical observer invents a world “out there” independent of the observers. |
10.3 | Since processes, components, open networks of processes and components, and an environment neither define nor maintain themselves, logical observers may only distinguish (extricate or deduce) them from organizationally closed unities (paradoxical context), which will appear open and no longer organizationally closed (nor paradoxical) for these observers. |
10.4 | Paradoxical observers interact with and tentatively distinguish an environment as a world “in and out there”, through which they may, with some difficulty, relate to logical observers. |
Lyrics ©2001 Rammstein. Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, aus Alle warten auf das Licht fürchtet euch fürchtet euch nicht die Sonne scheint mir aus den Augen sie wird heut Nacht nicht untergehen und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn Eins Hier kommt die Sonne Zwei Hier kommt die Sonne Drei Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen Vier Hier kommt die Sonne Die Sonne scheint mir aus den Händen kann verbrennen, kann euch blenden wenn sie aus den Fäusten bricht legt sich heiß auf das Gesicht sie wird heut Nacht nicht untergehen und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn Eins Hier kommt die Sonne Zwei Hier kommt die Sonne Drei Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen Vier Hier kommt die Sonne Fünf Hier kommt die Sonne Sechs Hier kommt die Sonne Sieben Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen Acht, neun Hier kommt die Sonne Die Sonne scheint mir aus den Händen kann verbrennen, kann dich blenden wenn sie aus den Fäusten bricht legt sich heiß auf dein Gesicht legt sich schmerzend auf die Brust das Gleichgewicht wird zum Verlust lässt dich hart zu Boden gehen und die Welt zählt laut bis zehn Eins Hier kommt die Sonne Zwei Hier kommt die Sonne Drei Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen Vier Und wird nie vom Himmel fallen Fünf Hier kommt die Sonne Sechs Hier kommt die Sonne Sieben Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen Acht , neun Hier kommt die Sonne | Unofficial Translation ©2003 Jeremy Williams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, out Everyone is waiting for the light be afraid, don't be afraid the sun is shining out of my eyes it will not set tonight and the world counts loudly to ten One Here comes the sun Two Here comes the sun Three It is the brightest star of them all Four Here comes the sun The sun is shining out of my hands it can burn, it can blind you all when it breaks out of the fists it lays down hotly on the face it will not set tonight and the world counts loudly to ten One Here comes the sun Two Here comes the sun Three It is the brightest star of them all Four Here comes the sun Five Here comes the sun Six Here comes the sun Seven It is the brightest star of them all Eight, nine Here comes the sun The sun is shining out of my hands it can burn, it can blind you when it breaks out of the fists it lays down hotly on your face it lays down painfully on your chest balance is lost it lets you go hard to the floor and the world counts loudly to ten One Here comes the sun Two Here comes the sun Three It is the brightest star of them all Four And it will never fall from the sky Five Here comes the sun Six Here comes the sun Seven It is the brightest star of them all Eight, nine Here comes the sun |
Vladimir Kush, Sunrise by the ocean |
Transformations; change; leaps; shifts; sequences of stages; dilemmas and decisions.