Proteins fold into shape via a spontaneous physical process – mainly tensile stress and springiness – so as to fit neatly and tidily into the serpentine squiggle.
You might call it a type of reflex tendency that achieves a simple result, somewhat akin to Ockham’s razor. Nature has a tendency to be symmetrically simple even if there is an underlying complexity.
Algorithms convert this simplicity into the complexity of numbers, which satisfies the ego of acolytes. Science is heading in one direction; into information as supplied by electromagnetism. The problem with that was approached awhile back, in that all data to the brain is electrochemical (HB62/1)
As was said in P149 the numerical compulsion achieves sameness – identified with sexual neutrality (see Godard WeekendP103). Capital achieves sameness because it’s not so much capital as “goods-all”. We buy goods with money and the goods become increasingly similar and linked to electromagnetism.
The future according to Biden is electrical – which “they” identify with green. However, that future is not physically real since the physical is like proteins; springy and sinuous, reflexing into shape with a power and zest.
Whereas sameness is neutral and appeals to the ego, physical reality is strong and with a primitive simplicity. To be more particular, “springiness” achieves time and space; the shape is produced in a certain time-span.
Living things live in time so that they are springy at a deep level (Bruce Lee, the flexible bough is supple and bends with the wind). Numbers and electromagnetism are not living in that sense.
As has already been hinted at, Einstein’s spacetime continuum is a direct descendent of Newton’s light-box experiments (C4-C6). In the physical reality of living things, there is no continuum in that the shapes of things – such as proteins – are broken-down in decay in a sequence from past (life) to future (death).
The spacetime continuum can only exist when there is no decay and so no regeneration – which isn’t on the living planet Earth. The mathematical theories counter the natural reality, as Einstein’ quote seems to bear out.
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” (meaning the mathematical universe can be a fantasy).
I don’t want to badass Einstein, but the mathematicians that are attracted to the theory give it a bad name or, to quote Albert,
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
In nature, time and space are extremely tidily stratified in multiple successions as is blatantly apparent in the scientific study of peatlands (fens, bogs) and their associated woodland areas. All wetland areas have plants growing in the permanently saturated (anaerobic or deoxidised) and therefore very slowly decaying peat.
Fens have strong growth over thousands of years on top of groundwater sources. A common transition has been found from watery marshes to peat-rich fens, and from fens to Sphagnum bogs fed by surface water (rain, streams).
The most obvious mechanism for this sequence is that the growth of peat in fens eventually grows higher than the source of groundwater, and therefore can no longer grow as a fen.
Tim Conrad, HB8
This is a typical natural development in time and space that has the strength of physical reality (water, minerals, plants, animals). Physical reality is a mixture of life and death, which is often found in common dirt – loam, prairie.
As has been noted before, the physical reality is pathogen-destroying and cleansing. There is always a balance between dirt and cleanliness, as for example was apparent in the sequel to Red Nails.(HB108) where Valeria’s bath comes after stench-laden treks through fungi-infested caverns.
There is a sequence from dirt to cleanliness; obviously you can’t have a continuum where one is both dirty and clean! The power of nature is in this sequence of cleansing. Bill Gates’s pathogen-killing toilet (HB31)converts these physical rhythms into a technical illusion of hygiene. In terms of electromagnetism, the powerful rhythms of a physical reality are replaced with the reality of a reflection – an illusion of “smart machines”, a hall of mirrors (HB20).
Where the physical rhythms are respected, one has mineral waters and Roman Baths (HB2). The strength and cleansing aspects are respected in resplendent settings that are full of psychic luster.
The sorcerous parallel reality of the ego is akin to the Black Sun of Noto (HB122 etc). There is a conversion of physical rhythms into electromagnetic impulses (that attract the ego of acolytes). The grandeur of the Roman Baths and mineral baths of yore that respect natural rhythms are lost in the mists of time.
A conversion of physical rhythms into “smart” products – see “clean meat”. The media, as the talking heads of modernism, tend to promote these advances (DT)
Translation: you don’t know your ass from your elbow (see cuts of meat etc. HB59). In the final analysis, everything could be electrochemical excitations to the brain. The primitive, unthinking nature of dreams and rhythms is lost to time – or to the loss of time in our experience.
The modern order is built on the lack of universal rhythms. These are replaced by talking heads expounding on the reality of a reflection. The traditional reality is based on universal rhythms that are unthinking (the dream of the universe), which are apparent in the grandeur of the prairies that harbour the great herds of yore.
This is time and space in the traditional sense that things change over time (as opposed to a continuum). Dirt changes to cleanliness in the loam of the fertile plains.
There is no such thing as universal hygiene as this is simply weakness and lack of change (whereby one thing turns into another). See Buffy quote on metamorphosis of buffalo manure dried fuel for fires on the range. Traditional people live in this mode whereby the great plains and forests cleanse the dirt and are fertile.
In this situation, the symmetries of nature are somewhat obvious. It is almost the ideal of the Old West. The rhythms and movements of the body are in-tune with the external situation. The sense of spirit is akin to traditional beliefs; as was noted of Hyboria in HB106 the beliefs in fertility goddesses justify the people’s practices and hence the information they value. Beliefs are true in terms of proportion and basic symmetries.
People who live in this mode cannot be told what to do; their bodies are sufficient justification. So it is quite like the old Indian way of living and hunting and herding, but also of the white men and women who pioneered the west.
The theme of people who are different types sharing a basic affinity (as with Howard’s Outremer P11) comes into the 80s comic Journey by Messner-Loebs.
Journey #8
In the first case, the first thing MacAlistaire and Crawfish do on meeting is to fight! It sets the tone in that the people tend to be friendly – but not that friendly. They are suspicious and nowhere is this more true than in Crawfish’s relationship with his Algonquin bride Sparrowdark.
In any case, why should living be easy? Is that not the great modern lie to lull is into a false sense of security?
There is a sense of rivalry and chivalry that underlies these old-time rustic relationships. They are not that close, but are drawn together by affinities of custom and the basic situation of being in the wideness of nature.
Universal rhythms are fertile – somewhat in the same sense as is sanctified at Newgrange (P140). Inductive experiment has slowly replaced the old gods and goddesses of nature. Well, actually, the goddesses that still exist are human!
ROCKIN’AND ROLLIN’ cotton picking Anna Mae who became Tina
“There were a number of difficult experiences that could have shattered me, but instead became fuel for my journey, propelling me upward.”
'After surviving years of abuse, I knew I had an innate resilience I could tap into. If I could increase that, I knew I could become unshakably happy and make my dreams come true.’ (Daily Record)