John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readJul 21, 2024

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As a data scientist you might consider exploring those relationships between the nodes and the networks. The synchronizing, centripetal, gravitational effects drawing structure together, while the radiating energy connects all the dots.

The node is one, the network is oneness.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in. Our little blue dot is in the middle, where the feedback is most dense.

As mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the present going past to future. It is the basis of culture and civilization, as narrative and history.

The evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

It's like a tapestry being woven of strands being pulled from what was woven.

Energy is conserved, because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Suggesting consciousness manifests as an energy.

The digestive system processes the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the patterns, signals from the noise, with the circulation system as feedback in the middle.

Creating this tendency to model everything in terms of the information expressed, rather than the dynamics driving it.

So to get that clearer picture, it s not so much to dig into every detail, but to find the point of reference from which the details in question start to clarify in the ways necessary.

Keeping in mind that there is no overall frame, whether gods, or maths. The models break down over infinities and disappear at zero. Everything in-between is relational. The map can't include all information from the territory, or the signal would be lost back in the noise. Whiteout.

Then you get back to that relationship between nodes and networks, with the various models serving as nodes, points of focus, with networking a function of the energy being exchanged. Both positive and negative. Attraction and repulsion.

Given many of the current models, religions, ideologies, cultures, etc. are going through serious changes and disruptions, it would be useful as to how they function in the abstract, not just in terms of how current frames weather the storms, or not.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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