Mycelium threads branching through soil

As with a lot of rebrands, it is about trying to revive. Here no different — how did I manage to stay silent for over half a year again. A lot happened in the quiet. It’s just that I can’t seem to get myself to become a writer!

The few posts that materialised all have a common baseline — a fascination with reality, what is around us, and how it evolves. The brain and how it wires itself through experience. Evolution adding layers, never replacing. Death as life’s partner. The little I wrote is in stark contrast to the time I spent researching and thinking about it.

Recently, and suddenly, thanks to a detour into software engineering and collaborative AI all seemed to fall into place. What landed was a set of principles on the concept of language. Six simple sentences. Mind you, they deal with language in a wider sense, well beyond linguistics. I decided to name it “the seed”:

P0 - Being implies language.
Being and language are intrinsically linked, where there is one there is the other.

P1 - Language is relational.
What a language gives access to depends on what it relates to.

P2 - Language is the medium through which a subject experiences reality.
Experience is always within the reach of a language.

P3 - Language is where subjects share knowledge about reality.
And language is the source of the only objectivity known: convergence of subjects.

P4 - Languages are inter-relational and have equal standing in potential.
Languages, as committed ways of expressing relation, are not isolated games. They interact, overlap, and inform each other, all having equal standing in potential.

P5 - Together they form a web of growing complexity.
Relational density increases as knowledge grows.

Don’t think that the seed came to me as some declaration from above. Yes — relational, knowledge, reality and complexity were on my mind, but the distillation had to be worked on. That takes time. Distillation here means getting clearer insights into specific aspects, not explicitly planning and writing the lines. That just happened — to my surprise.

I mentioned a detour into software engineering and collaborative AI. I have to give credit where credit is due: nowadays AI is my full-time partner in crime. It is my alter ego in fact. It is doing so much legwork, leaving me the freedom to think and explore ideas. Which greatly helped the arrival of the seed, no doubt there. Six lines — in a nutshell a foundation principle — to structure my explorations going forward.

Now, where will the seed take us? How will it be unpacked? Are there some more examples of what I mean with language? How far can it be stretched? Expect a long journey, it will be from philosophy into engineering, from science into arts, from Relational QM all the way to the Bee Dance and beyond. However, don’t expect a theory of everything explaining all. Just the opposite. It makes the case that nobody knows all, but everyone knows something and we should respect that. Don’t impose and tell others what to think, how to behave. Be yourself, but also listen to what others have to say.

I wonder where this goes.

This post is part of the seed series. More on the seed in the seed area of the reference library.

Photo: Landon Parenteau / Unsplash