1st Base Theory, or Reality Within Jello Theory

[rabidpigmy]

[Warning: Dense pseudo-philosophical mumbo jumbo ramble coming from a bored n00b that would best be viewed with care and suspension of intelligence, or not at all (for overtly sensitive types), or printed and burned in an office disposal can.]

I submit to you for your critique an idea that I've been tossing for quite a while now. The idea is that there is a core to reality, which from here on will be refered to 1st Base. 1st Base is primal and chaotic smattering of stuff, though it may also be envisioned as a ball of jello. This stuff is the stuff that gives rise to the basic bits and pieces of matter. It is probably pure energy, and when given any perceptable order gives rise to what appears to be a field. And from this field arise the spikes that are the forms we've come to 'percieve.'

For that matter, perception itself is an imposition of order. A translation of the information which arises out of this field, and it is twisted and molded into what is reality. At the root of this issue is the idea of imposition of order - a characteristic of consciousness, and a part of survival in a world full of fluxuation and flowing information. Some information must be cut off like fat to keep reality optimal. In a way, consciousness itself is a manifestation of this information, though at the level of our existence we can neither see this root nor really grasp these terms. In effect, we cannot know the Self, because there is none - the Self is merely an spike in the mass of information looking back upon itself blindly. Or something like that.

Our consciousness is basically a tool. It is a tool to organizing the world so that which our forms may come to survive in what would either be absolute chaos with information flying everywhere. It arises out of a brain, which itself is a form of condensed stuff that conducts the very energies that may or may not be a semi-direct manifest from the 1st Base. Of course, the tool has its abilities to handle abstract information, and in this process we impose further order by imposing further abstractions upon the world at large. Things like ethics are mere imposition of order, and are necessary to the extent that it keeps your neighbor from scooping your eye out with a spork.

Is 1st Base a god-thing? Unable to percieve it, we seek to capture it in such a label. It is perhaps better to say it is simply existence, or reality itself. At its base level it is chaos, but at larger levels it is percieved as having more and more order. This being a result of our ability and need to impose this order in an attempt to wrap our consciousnesses (which are essentially arising out of this very thing) around it.

In theory, I believe that the universe is simply a higher level, and that if one were to actually go beyond this the grand level one returns right back to 1st Base. 1st Base is, in effect the beginning and end, or the bottom and the top, or the inside and the outside of reality. It is, in essence reality itself. Also, simply looking out at the universe from our perspectives we can only percieve harmony and flow, when in actually looking from the outside in we may percieve the disharmony and conflict that arises. The forces are partly there and partly results of our own imposition of order.

In sum, if 1st Base is jello then Manifest Things are the crap forming and moving inside the jello. If it's a field, Manifest Things are the spikes and mountains in the field of stuff. Something like that. It's still in the works, aka. things pop up, change, return, and disappear. And it is very much a conglomeration of ideas from the likes of Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, other Pre-Socratics, and Lao Tzu if those help at all in envisioning or painting a picture.

Any thoughts, comments, flames, gestures, or non-related things?

[LMNO]

Question:

What's your point?

I mean, if you're gonna postulate an unprovable thing like firet base, and then relate it to Plato's Cave and the Law of Fives, then you should probably have a conclusion.

That is to say, what do I do with this, if it proves viable?

[hunter s.durden]

I thought this was going to be about gettin' broads.

[rabidpigmy]

There is no point really, and it serves no purpose. Not much of philosophy does, or maybe all of it doesn't. It's just crap for crap's sake.

[LMNO]

Try mixing a little pragmatism in with your philosophy. That's how we got a lot of the BIP Material.

For example, your third and fourth paragraphs could easily be expaned upon as to how it actually affects your life, and what you can do about it.

[rabidpigmy]

I thought this was going to be about gettin' broads.

I've yet to string together a really long, tiring contrived intellectual theory about how to get girls. That'll come around sometime...eventually. Or possibly never.

Try mixing a little pragmatism in with your philosophy. That's how we got a lot of the BIP Material.

For example, your third and fourth paragraphs could easily be expaned upon as to how it actually affects your life, and what you can do about it.

I think I may be approaching that stage. I'm just starting from 1st Base and up. 1st Base then 2nd Base.

[P3nT4gR4m]

This thread needs more Abbott and Costello