Patterns of Awareness who Guide Us
Patterns of Awareness who Guide Us
Communications create, and are created by, patterns of awareness who guide us.
Communications create, and are created by, patterns of awareness who guide us.
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Concepts exist embedded in networks of communications that create them and are created by them.
They act within the parameters set by these networks. The network parameters depend on the horizons of perceptions of the beings within them.
Beings with the most distant horizons of perception act as guides to determine the behavioral possibilities of whole ecosystems, but the guides must perceive and react within the existing network of behavior, creating new patterns of behavior through a process of slowly modifying their own perception, memory and response.
Behavior guides for any single being are woven by the myriad capabilities of the other concepts creating the flow of information through the web of communications.
An Octopus is able to roam freely through a coral environment and, in selecting its prey and constructing its burrow, alters the distribution of organisms on the reef and even growth patterns of the coral. But the behavior of an octopus depends on the behavior of corals that construct the terrain through which the octopus moves and in which the octopus concept has evolved over millions of years.
A coral colony, like all living systems, is a communication web made visible by the activities of the coral.
Carbon, oxygen and calcium molecules, taken from the sea water by the coral cells are used for a variety of biochemical needs and then some of these are forced out of the cell membranes to form a crystal skeleton under the coral flesh.
The combined communications of the coral cells, integrated by the genetic memories and timed by environmental stimuli, results in the specific structure of the skeleton.
The skeleton, attached to the sea floor, extends up into the sea, recording the coral's behavior moment by moment. It's delicate design resembles a fractal image because it is a fractal image, a set of specific relationships solved again and again by the intercommunications of perception, memory and reaction.
Like a fractal image built by the constant shift in position of points mapped in imagined space, the coral skeleton appears as each molecule of calcium carbonate, crystallized by the coral behavior, occupies a slightly different position than the one before it. The pattern emerges in an intricate design as beautiful as a snowflake, but as permanent as a rock.
The skeleton is a record of past behavior of the coral and all the other creatures associated with the growing coral colony. The existence of the skeleton alters the future of the reef in its vicinity. It changes how the nested layers of living molecules, cells, tissues, polyps, colony, ecosystem behave. All aspects of the coral colony are controlled by the lasting, cumulative effect of its previous behavior.
The coral colonies communicate with each other and with other beings (fish, mollusks, algae, echinoderms, etc) to form coral reefs. The reefs interact with the sea, land, and atmosphere to form larger structures, like atolls. The structure of the atoll exists as the combined behavior web of all the various coral reef plants and animals. Its passes, surf zones, lagoon, islands and other structures are created by the reef creatures over millions of years, and these structures then control the environment for the individual reef creatures - forcing them to exist in certain areas and behave in specific ways.
The feedback system weaving through the nested layers of communications guides each successive series of perception, memory and response. This recursive system of information flow is itself linked to controls based on the capabilities and characteristics of each layer of the network. The result is a control network of recurring patterns of structure and behavior.
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