THE BLACK WHOLE
Images are how we tell eachother what’s
inside of us.
Like a dream the image can represent a
detail or the whole – which of those it is, is open to interpretation.
What’s inside of us as image is the sum
total – or variously a small detail – of what we know about the world. It is
relative to our conceptual constructional capabilities and what we are focused
on at the time.
Sometimes like radio, within the flow of
images we pick up ideas and our internal representation system creates an image
for us to review the idea we’ve encountered. Sometimes a specific image (often
made by an artist, designer or architect) communicates a new idea that we
experience with a degree of excitement: Fashions are the eddies and surface currents
of this exchange.
Fascination is the state a non-digitally
enabled person, or a non-velocitised person, experiences when the flow is
simply, ‘The Flow’. When a person has negotiated the 360 stream of images, as
with a swimmer who has come to terms with the coldness of the water they are in
and it no longer bothers them, swimming within the flow is the ability gained
by acceptance of temperature and soon the temperature becomes not only
negotiable, but forgettable as a factor.
New ideas are formed from the artists ceaseless
enquiry into the nature of things. Occasionally there is no enquiry at all –
simply an insight revealed into the nature of what is coming, through an image
in human consciousness.
Moving and still images perform different
tasks in human consciousness. Still images – idee fixee – are apposite and
definitive reflections of adoptable and attractive concepts. The caught and
stolen glance, the desirable car, the palm tree against the blue sky
representing freedom and release, the prison bars that indicate incarceration.
These are ideas of yearning – even the last which is about a yearning not to be
limited, which is where its power lies. Images or ideas like this reflect species
concepts that everyone aspires to or are inspired by.
Aspire, Inspire, Expire – all are developed
from the root word Spire (spi/ray in Latin pronunciation) which means breath.
Potent Iconic images, like a crucifixion
are redolent of more than desire. They are of species intent: martyrdom for
those that are affected by the image to benefit from, the deep spiritual smile
that always says there is more to know and so leads the viewer on to want to know
whatever that smile denotes; the images of people en masse in tears that tell
us this is wrong – or right.
Moving Images perturbate intention, They
utlise the iconic functionality of still images in an onward flow from before
and after the iconic moment. These shift us into and through the moment of most
potent affectation. They functionalise the still iconostasis of the deep idea
and render it into movement. The definition of
an iconostasis is
a screen decorated with icons that divides the sanctuary of a church from other
areas. It
is the wall of images that is found in very traditional churches to separate
the priests from the lay community. It is the divide which those that engaged
in theoretical behavior – the naming and categorizing of ideas and things
create power for themselves. They know and at a price they will tell us who do
not know. But the priests are gone. We are sufficiently velocitised to change
the rules of the language based game.
An
Iconostasis was a dividing wall of images – which are themselves insubstantial
and not a wall at all. They can be moved through at speed.
The theories of the moving image – not
those of film theorists who seek a relationship between their local (in time)
meaning and the performatory qualities of the content and form of moving images
in a material sense - but those theories
of the highest practitioners of movement and the frame can speak to us about
the relational function of the moving image. By relational, in this sense I
mean how the stutter of the image says something to us different from the
statically viewed image. Our eyes saccade when we sweep our gaze across a
scene. They fix points like photographs many times a second as they weep yet we
perceive this a flowing gaze.
Investigative Cinematographers (like Conrad
Hall who is now deceased) know that each frame within any shot should be of
photographic quality. If a camera pans across a scene, even the dead space
between the subjects of the front and the end of the shot, should be of
photographic quality – meaning each frame should be capable of being viewed as
a photograph – even if abstract it should be a good abstract, not an unconsidered
one. Cartier Bresson was more prosaic. His ‘definitive moment’ was simply the
editorially precise moment which said most about an event. A skill to be
attained by photographers is clearly obtaining the moment which does this.
Most cinematographers do not know the
photographic moment within cinema. In working with moving images one is simply
practicing seeing at 24 frames per second. The only way you can do that is let
go into the act and trust that your biology is up to the task. Thankfully it is
up to a task far more demanding than that. The eye can detect one photon,
certain Buddhists maintain that consciousness can detect one chronon of time.
That the human species – if not all sentient witnessing creatures - being
composed of biological components made from the matter of time and space will
always be enabled to detect the qualities that go towards their construction.
24 frames per
second or 24 miles per hour – the first is our preferred frame rate for
receiving a series of images to communicate information within this period of our
development, the second our top speed whilst running. The first is Perceptually/biologically
cognate and also velocitised through eye motion with a maximum saccade of many
divisions of a second.
“The peak angular speed of the eye during a saccade reaches
up to 900°/s in humans; in some monkeys, peak speed can reach 1000°/s. Saccades
to an unexpected stimulus normally take about 200 milliseconds (ms) to
initiate, and then last from about 20–200 ms, depending on their amplitude
(20–30 ms is typical in language reading). Under certain laboratory
circumstances, the latency of, or reaction time to, saccade production can be
cut nearly in half (express saccades). These saccades are generated by a
neuronal mechanism that bypasses time-consuming circuits and activates the eye
muscles more directly”.
Our running speed
is at least 3600 times slower than our attentive gaze when spliced up by the
saccade – so in effect this may be 3,600,000 times slower at it’s greatest
division. Buddhists when asked about the duration of the chronon (the smallest
fragment of time) say the Buddha said it was a 48 millionth of a second - -when
asked how he knew this his monks said ‘he counted the parts’.
So at this point
in our evolution we are being asked to discern the nature of information at
much higher speeds that we’ve experienced until this moment – but from the
biology it would seem we have already the built-in equipment necessary to
absorb that information – but perhaps not read it through being armed with
practice derived from language, writing or reading. Each of these behaviors filters
information through our interpretative centres which require time for
processing for use by higher brain finctions. The Tiger that approaches at 24
frames per second was understandable and interpretable – the approaching cue or
clue that relates to some expressed desire or preference within a world which
is information enabled directly to target YOU, is not interpretable at millionths
per second. It is not interpretable, but it is absorbable to the deeper mind. ‘Absorbable’
in the sense that we can judge the nature of the flow of images and act
appropriately.
So within the rapidity of the flow of
images of the 21st century we are enabled to see these one by one –
despite the fear of latter 20th century theoreticians such as
Baudrillard, Virillio et al that the image would finally have no meaning at all
– we can distinguish beneath operative consciousness what each image means and
does to and for us because our equipment, our biology is set up to perceive
meaning without end.
How can this last statement be
substantiated?
Evolutionists surmise that we evolve by
exploit our ability to adapt – we humans above all animals – and it is because
we are an open and not a closed system, this itself is the proof. We know we
learn biologically – and our minds conceptualise reality based upon our ability
to evolve. It’s a virtuous circle, a functionality which all animals have.
Most of the ideas that flow through species
consciousness are relevant to the temporary eddies that play out for each
nation or race. Even the mention of race is problematic because the concept can
be used politically, but actually, in real terms, humans can split up and
categorized into races – just like plants and animals.
Species ideas are deeper, more paradigmatic
in either being the rails that guide the train, or points that control the
switches that guide the train into new landscapes. Sometimes ideas deliver us
from metaphor and instead of travelling through a landscape we come up above it
to take in the whole. Given that that idea was expressed in language – it’s a
metaphor – but one can leap off the idea into meaning outside of metaphor,
providing we have experience in the ability to conceptualise outside of
language. If you understand this statement then you can utilize this ability.
So like this paper that you are reading,
all that is perceived is fed through the filter of consciousness which itself
has a set of constructs governing its operation. If you use text you’re
operating through the theoretic centre: the centre of language and dialogue and
so as one resides there we often experience the world as an inner interpretive
dialogue. Art and events in the World are to be interpreted to deliver meaning
and significance to the perceiver. But things have moved along in terms of
their velocity such that single standard acts of interpretation do not alone
deliver a useful grasp of what is happening. Now we need engage a higher
function that can operate at a velocity greater than biological function.
To interpret you need filter what is
perceived through developed evolutionary functionality: the senses and the
common sense to all the other senses: mind. Mind itself is constructed of a set
of functionalities such as discrimination, intellect, discernment, analytical
powers and many more as yet too subtle to have been described separately. So
far Vedantic Philosophy has made the best study of the separate elements of
mind in its pursuit of the suspension of the interpretive mind, though certain
forms of Buddhism have identified the conundrums of the intellect sufficient to
create humour around the thinking brain or mind. Each of these separate
functionalities developed over time to makes sense of a world by a sentient
creature moving at most at 24 miles per hour. Now not only do we move very much
faster (planes trains and automobiles) but the image flow itself is velocitised
so that we may be standing still but the image flow is rapid (and any combination
thereof).
The functionality of the moving image
itself is developing so that we have higher frame rates of capture and display
– no longer is a film shot at 24 frames per second and played back at that rate
in cinema (significant that our top biological speed is 24 miles per hour which
is an inverse multiple - roughly 3600
times - slower than the frame rate we like to view images within – 24 times
per second). Instead a 200 frame rate of capture can be shown at 200 frames –
or 48 fps capture can be seen at 48 fps delivery. There are now shorter gaps
where there is no image at all. But we’re also developing higher dynamic range
of the image and also higher resolutions. People talk about the better pixel
–the one that contains not just a 15 variations of the colour orange – but 1000.
To our physiological construct there’s a point at which the computational world
is offering us more differentials than can mean anything to us - apparently.
Everything seems to be moving out of our current scale.
We have constructed touch based interfaces
(the typewriter, the touch screen platform) and also – latterly – environmental
touch based interfaces – such as plants that can now control computer
interactions (and plant based energy supply and also computation).
Our whole sensorium must interface with
things that manipulate the world. Are we therefore lacking because we came from
the trees? No. We used to be ‘at one with plants’ as we moved through them now
we are again having to learn that at-one-ness.
Inherent in our sentient design is the
ability to stand each of our intellectual and biological interpretational functionalities
back and allow non-intellectual abilities to take over in complete confidence.
When you drive the car you do not interpret what gear to go into, you have
consigned that ability to below surface consciousness. We are capable of
driving a spacecraft at over 20,000 miles per hour. Providing the context
speaks of the speed (large planets pass slowly past us at massive
accelerations) then we cope. But we also have the functionality to move rapidly
and process rapidly as long as we do not move through interpretable
functionality which of course involves the 24 miles per hour functionality of
the common-sense-mind which unites the various senses. Instead we gaze at
leisure and grasp at leisure what the rapidity of information is telling us
because we have begun to operate the functions that are waking up in us to deal
with speed. An article like this is the begining of the theory of
velocitisation.
It’s the same with rapid evolution of
interface and also – importantly – reading the world that is, making sense of
the world at high velocity. Taking it to its extreme, when you’re viewing at
the speed of light, you become the information you have been witnessed to - you
and it are the same.
Our physicists are telling us that
information is the base quality of the construction of the universe.
Information sits at the boundary of every black hole and is NOT annihilated
within the black hole. It is preserved and a function of the annihilation
process at the centre to retain information at the perimeter. The latest
cosmological donut of thought about the shape of the universe is that what we
see is not what is. Out experience of the perimeter of information of the
universe as a whole – this 3D (plus time), 23 mile per hour reality – is us as 4D
- 6D sentient creatures reading the information back into the material 3D state.
Whatever went in to a black hole can be
reconstructed from that trace element of its passing – it is therefore a Black
Whole.
Just like us.
