Another contradiction...

So I spent a whole post trying to make the reader envision a four dimensional model of... (of what?)... possibilities.  I started with the bell curve, proceeded to a three dimensional nipple, converted it into a three dimensional sphere, and then caused it to move in time and space.  But this, in and of itself, is nothing new.  It is complex, but not entirely outside of experience. We are familiar with something similar.  

But let's take a point on that ball. Every point on that ball is just another ball.  And every ball is just another point on a bigger ball.  This is also complex, but not outside of our experience.  It is the theory of each of our solar system being just an atom in the larger solar system.  I don't really want the reader to think about it that way, but I am trying to make it seem more concrete by using familiar examples.

So now take the balls within balls, points flowing in and out between balls and the balls all moving...

And realize these are only the construct and possibilities in YOUR imagination.  Each person, every animal, every blade of grass, every living thing (we can debate the guardrail theory of the living universe later)  has a set of possibilities.  They float around and bump into everyone else's possibilities.  In fact, they are not balls at all, but the balls stretch, elongate, flatten and fatten as they move.  As your range of possibilities are limited for whatever reason, or expanded for whatever reason, the shape of the constructs making up your world changes into unrecognizable shapes.  You could say they were no longer shapes at all....and you would be right.

In the smaller person, this means that decisions, actions and possibilities are not this or that, or even one side of a three dimensional continuum or not.  Rather possibilities are limited by what you can imagine as a possibility.

Of course, now you tell me, "But I cannot fly!"  True enough.  because in a more complex system possibilities are also limited by what OTHERS imagine as a possibility.  In its most elemental form this can take a physical shape, as when people are violent and limit the freedom, actions and possibilities of others.  In a more intellectual sphere it can include manipulation and coercion.  It could be unfeeling and unthinking.  The universe itself might just not have thought about us flying yet.  It doesn't really matter to some extent.  Some possibilities are foreclosed at some times.  The point also is some are opened at some times.

So back to the visuals. We now have possibilities that are floating around seemingly at random being pushed and pulled, and decisions and issues that no longer resemble in any way what we can imagine based on our understanding.  Think about it.  Who knows what the biggest problems were to the dinosaurs?  Their issues have been lost in the mists of time.  For years, people have worked on freeing their mind and imagining better futures.  Even working along those small cross sections of temporal issues that will disappear.  This is a good thing.  We all want to make our part of the universe as we perceive better and there is no higher purpose.

Or is there?  Based on this ebb and flow model, working within the confines of the cross sections of temporal issues does NOT anticipate the movement of the world.  It does NOT plan for anything "better", but only something marginally not worse than stagnation.  This is where it gets tricky.  We must identify and share possibilities.  We cannot simply theorize in our ivory castle.  We need to bump our thoughts into others and force our collective spheres of possibilities into an egg, a pancake, a decision tree with nodes and spikes and, ultimately, press it into the next collection of possibilities that it will inevitably become.

Part of that process is simply seeing the possibility.

Oh, and by the way, the trick is on you.  By the time you have read this....my world of possibilities has already forgotten it and moved somewhere else.  Thanks for listening.