Percy and Red: a Dialogue
Percy: Room 5 prepares us for the transition into three-dimensional Abstract Space. A big warning. Abstract linearity has two main components: writing and time. It's easy to forget the power of the latter, and very difficult to break it. Because we are conditioned to think of the past as behind us and the future ahead.
Red: Well, that's understandable.
Percy: I know. Just keep this in mind, because to break the cognitive distortion of linear time we will jump to various points in the 4D fabric of Abstract Space. And the primary tool for this plotting is the Navigational Quadrant...let's head on in and meet it.
Red: Huh...this opening appears larger...
Percy: The Navigational Quadrant is based on the old maritime instrument that triangulates bearings off celestial bodies. I've updated it for Abstract Space, where the bodies we triangulate off are Concepts/Object pairs. Take a look up on the Big Screen. See anything familiar?
Red: So...I see the Propaganda Portal up top. And I suppose the anchor represents the paired Object -- the territory of the trade infrastructure.
Percy and Red: a Dialogue
Percy: Room 5 prepares us for the transition into three-dimensional Abstract Space. A big warning. Abstract linearity has two main components: writing and time. It's easy to forget the power of the latter, and very difficult to break it. Because we are conditioned to think of the past as behind us and the future ahead.
Red: Well, that's understandable.
Percy: I know. Just keep this in mind, because to break the cognitive distortion of linear time we will jump to various points in the 4D fabric of Abstract Space. And the primary tool for this plotting is the Navigational Quadrant...let's head on in and meet it.
Red: Huh...this opening appears larger...
Percy: The Navigational Quadrant is based on the old maritime instrument that triangulates bearings off celestial bodies. I've updated it for Abstract Space, where the bodies we triangulate off are Concepts/Object pairs. Take a look up on the Big Screen. See anything familiar?
Red: So...I see the Propaganda Portal up top. And I suppose the anchor represents the paired Object -- the territory of the trade infrastructure.
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Capability Circuit
The Perception Perimeter Torus
Percy: Hi Red. How was your trip through The ADHD Torus?
Red: Well, that was a trip Percy. HyperFlow. Kinda intriguing...but Outside/Inside Minds.
Percy: Yeah?
Red: Well, kinda offensive...
Percy: I take it you scored as an Insider?
Red: I think you knew I would. And so I am an unprincipled office-dwelling careerist? Look, I also think ADHD is a totally absurd concept. But to invert it and insult anyone who doesn't have your type of brain? You are going to piss some people off.
Percy: No doubt. I hope you recognize that it's just an exercise in mirroring and negation...so what do you think of the view from up atop the Socratic Bridge?
Red: Yeah. I'm a little annoyed with that too...he had me contemplating that writing is our false God.
Percy: Great! Keep contemplating. So the bridge spirals around the Circuit of the Mind, where we now sit. Down below is...
Red: Another Round Hall?
Percy: Yep. Within the Capability Circuit. We are about to enter its first Torus, the Perception Perimeter, which will establish the broad parameters of both this Circuit and that of the Setting. In reality, the Setting is an objective external environment, entered with an appropriate Capability to reach a defined Goal.
Red: But...we aren't in reality. You call this the Illusion.
Percy: We are preparing to enter Abstract Space via the Illusion. But don't know what it looks like. Yet.
Red: Is that why those two ellipses are translucent?
Percy: Yep. We're about to meet the tools that will plot coordinates on those ellipses, and the space between them. The green outer ring is Abstract Space. To perceive it objectively, we will build and test a set of mapping tools -- the Capability -- within the orange space between the Mind and the Setting. This experiment is designed to narrow that gap until the Mind meshes seamlessly with the Setting. Follow me down the spiral bridge. The Perception Perimeter Torus has six rooms...let's enter Room 1.
The Perception Perimeter Torus



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