POSTSCRIPT
The very idea that an entity, a self-contained being, can
have meaning of and by itself is physically and psychologically
impossible, non-viable and nonsequitur. "Separate" is not synonomous
with "unique." And unique can have significance only within a framework that supports its self-expression, and nurtures and channels
its growth in a manner conducive to allowing it to help maintain
the hierarchy of embedded systems of which it is an integral part.
Such systems (families) I have described as "symmetric"
fully realizing that this designation is ideal. Any system, be it
human or otherwise, if not attempting to approximate some degree
of symmetry, will try to balance itself through exaggerations and
compensatory asymmetric bulgings localized in defense of macrodissolution. This rationale supports the dictum, "form as function,"
or better yet, "group of functions," in order to appreciate what
it is about the parts that is so vitally important, and how critical
it is for the strength of the system that these parts be free to
realize their potential within its collective frame. The concept
of "nonlinearity" demonstrates the uncertainty inherent in living
systems.
There is a certain topography to spontaneity. Without freedom,
expression is hamstrung. They are inseparable like water and wetness. Without them there is little personal discovery and fulfillment of abilities, talents, emotions, growth, understanding, and appreciation. "Why are we here" must assuredly be intertwined with the
question, "What is the nature of Reality."
We are taught scripts, roles and their commensurate rules
of behavior from day one, programming, separating we, the social
self from we, the real self. A social self is obviously important if
only as a means to procure mutual survival. But, when carried to
extremes in the form of authoritarian environments, be they macroscopic on the scale of civilization and societies, or micro, on
the scale of the basic unit, the family, they serve to create an
almost robotic dedication and submission, a morose, desparing and
stultifying denial of our true Selves. Social systems are intended
to be in the service of and support Mankind, not the other way around.
But even if the latter takes precedence, Nature will not long be
denied. Eventually, inexorably a system's intensification increases
its rigidity; its ossification effect will reach a critical point.
Herein, paradoxically, lies the seed of change.
At these concrete-like roadblocks, walls of infinitely dense
constraints to psychological, social, economic, political, emotional,
and identity rearrangements force dissolution transformations to
spontaneously occur. Transitions from a bankrupt and devitalized
envrionment trigger a state of affairs that may very well be nothing
short of chaos. These times can be most trying for the individuals
involved, and indeed stressful, dangerous and often tragic, of course,
I am no idealist, to be sure.
But chaos can and does, somewhere down the road, reveal an emerging order, subjectively perceived. If anyone or group approaches
the maturity of vision requisite for change, and pertinent to existing circumstances, and are able to differentiate between abstract
systems, mental-construct patterns and the reality these point to
and reference, then there will always be a chance to bridge the transitional 'moment' to rearrange the eco-pattern for the good of the
whole, and for the good of the one.
Mankind's very existence predicates a boundless asymmetric and holisitc will-to-express, a will-to-be Self/self actualized through
the medium of Man as creator and primary actor. Each and every instantaneous universe is one of transition and spontaneity; the creative
Self is ultimately the only reality and the only hope.
Patterns of invariant properties are patterns of simple group
transformations, of functions, a creatively active geometry of Man
in a continuous state of flux. Each function, in turn, forms its own
gestaltic composition series. And, as we probe more deeply into the
nature of that which is accessible to us, we discover yet other similar, self-consistent arrangements.
Physical and psychic realities are structured as a composite
of fractal feedback systems globally connected. The multi-tiered layers of consciousness within which and by which we define our Selves,
and the moment, exhibit processes within processes ad infinitum.
As the Self is both center and outer edge of our experience,
this symmetry-identity spontaneously orders and organizes this
lightning flash we call LIFE.
Mathematics can be defined as the study of "Relationship."
The interrelatedness and interdependency of associated parts for
definition, validity and existence is the essence of a given system.
Relationship has, in fact, more "substance" than the parts themselves.
This is the Why of patterns understood as fundamental.