Oh man I kind of wish I could go back in time and wipe out all the cringe stuff I wrote when I was trying to figure things out (like why did I need to pull in Godel or reify my confusion?). With that said, here’s some updated thoughts on holons. I’m not really familiar with OOO, so I’ll be going off your summary here.
I think I started out really not getting what the holon idea points at, but I understood enough to get myself confused in new ways for a while. So first off there’s only ~1 holon, such that it doesn’t make sense to talk about it as anything other than the whole world. Maybe you could make some case for many overlapping holons centered around each point in the universe expanding out to it’s Hubble volume, but I think that’s probably not helpful. Better to think of the holon as just the whole world, so really it’s just a weird cybernetics term for talking about the world.
The trouble was I really didn’t fully grasp the way that relative and absolute truth are not one and the same. So I was actually still fully trapped within my ontology, but holons seemed like a way to pull pre-ontological reality existing on its own inside of ontology.
OOO mostly sounds like being confused about ontology, specifically a kind of reification of the confusion that comes from not realizing that it’s maps all the way down, i.e. you only experience the world through, and it’s only through experiencing non-experience that you get to taste reality, which is an extremely mysterious answer trying to point at a thing that happens all the time but we literally can’t notice it because noticing it destroys it.
OK. So far it seems to me like we share a similar overall take, but I disagree with some of your specific framings and such. I guess I’ll try and comment on the relevant posts, even though this might imply commenting on some old stuff that you’ll end up disclaiming.
Cool. For what it’s worth, I also disagree with many of my old framings. Basically anything written more than ~1 year ago is probably vaguely but not specifically endorsed.
Oh man I kind of wish I could go back in time and wipe out all the cringe stuff I wrote when I was trying to figure things out (like why did I need to pull in Godel or reify my confusion?). With that said, here’s some updated thoughts on holons. I’m not really familiar with OOO, so I’ll be going off your summary here.
I think I started out really not getting what the holon idea points at, but I understood enough to get myself confused in new ways for a while. So first off there’s only ~1 holon, such that it doesn’t make sense to talk about it as anything other than the whole world. Maybe you could make some case for many overlapping holons centered around each point in the universe expanding out to it’s Hubble volume, but I think that’s probably not helpful. Better to think of the holon as just the whole world, so really it’s just a weird cybernetics term for talking about the world.
The trouble was I really didn’t fully grasp the way that relative and absolute truth are not one and the same. So I was actually still fully trapped within my ontology, but holons seemed like a way to pull pre-ontological reality existing on its own inside of ontology.
OOO mostly sounds like being confused about ontology, specifically a kind of reification of the confusion that comes from not realizing that it’s maps all the way down, i.e. you only experience the world through, and it’s only through experiencing non-experience that you get to taste reality, which is an extremely mysterious answer trying to point at a thing that happens all the time but we literally can’t notice it because noticing it destroys it.
OK. So far it seems to me like we share a similar overall take, but I disagree with some of your specific framings and such. I guess I’ll try and comment on the relevant posts, even though this might imply commenting on some old stuff that you’ll end up disclaiming.
Cool. For what it’s worth, I also disagree with many of my old framings. Basically anything written more than ~1 year ago is probably vaguely but not specifically endorsed.