John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readSep 8, 2020

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"Also, I should probably add that I see these concepts inherent in manifestations (i.e. concept emerges with its manifestation, while at the same time it guides the process of its own manifestation, because it is inherent in the system as the inevitable outcome of previously manifested states, in other words — each concept and manifestation naturally follow)."

So feedback between the energy driving it and the patterns manifested?

"concept emerges with its manifestation,"

So you say the concept is emergent? The form of the wave is only emergent as the total energy driving it peaks?

"while at the same time it guides the process of its own manifestation, because it is inherent in the system as the inevitable outcome of previously manifested states, in other words — each concept and manifestation naturally follow)."

That the particular wave is inherent as concept, or the dynamic of the process creating it results in the particular wave?

As I see it, the patterns are emergent, like cellular automata. The only way to know is to process the input. We can assume after, that the result was inherent all along, but if the process doesn't occur, then there is no output.

There is no structure, pattern or concept to the void. It is only after the fluctuations build up and start to interrelate, that the feedback starts creating ever more complex patterns, from which we distill, as sentient, reflective organisms, the concepts we use to predict further patterns.

So it seems to us that concepts are fundamental to the patterns, because we see them repeated, yet that is post hoc. If we were to boil a body down to its most stable form, we have the skeleton, not the seed from which it rose.

So it is a bit of a tautology to see the patterns as concepts. They are both form, whether real or abstracted.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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