Cause and Effect := Event and Change in State

I greatly enjoyed discovering essays and thoughts of Arthur Young, for example, at : http://www.arthuryoung.com/essays.html, in which he makes a wonderful case for the quantum paradigm shift having not happened yet, in part due to our wild penchant to retain the security of the objectivity that appears to come with the classical and relativistic storylines. In one of his essays he refers to Einstein having converted our thinking from a point to an event diagrammed in ASCII art here as:

       past ____________^___________future

but which Young points out the event, for instance, the Civil War, is actually a change of state:

             past________+------------------future

more like where there is  stepwise change of state.   Elegant of him, huh?

Replication and merging pan-psychism and emergence

One of the benefits of the vaporous little scientific trial theory of consciousness I am advocating is, apparently, it is real enough and geometric enough and positioned appropriately enough and perhaps both new and old enough that by fitting nicely into the hole it DOES support a growing array of useful visualizations.  It's small enough to learn and strong enough to carry the load.

I mean, on one side is the quantum and quantum gravitational imagery whose level of detail is

Sliding the boundary in mathematical-physics.

One of the compelling advantages of  going through a paradigm shift and then noticing that "reality is ~structured duality" is, at various moments thereafter, other tectonic plates in the contemporary terrain can and do slide about, theoretically, or potentially resulting in incredibly useful, yet highly unsettling new perspectives.  It is as though we tie off the bungee,  trudge out past the thin ice warning markers  and swan dive, soon arriving safely,  disconnecting some ~60-odd levels of organization below the ill-formed, shattering crust.

The six orientations of a water molecule ( binary tetrahedral unit) within an enfolding field

It turns out, given that a water molecule is tetrahedral-like and has two positive and two negative vertices, or regions, that within an enfolding field, each molecule that forms can do so in one of (at least) six -- a small number of -- different ways.

n              n             n
\   n          \   s         \   s
 \ /            \ /           \ /
 / \            / \           / \
s   s          s   n         n   s

s             s            s
\   n         \   n        \   s
 \ /           \ /          \ /
 / \           / \          / \
s   n         n   s        n   n

Thinking of the new noun.

An early task in the budding science of consciousness is to think the new thought and discover the new noun that can be swapped into place for "consciousness" thereby properly defining the science. Not to belabor the point, the new word is "structured duality", getting us to the "science of structured duality", which is to say, an accurate and informative statement that allows us to now move forward.

For those new to this discussion it might helpful to take a moment to consider consciousness as, and as akin to the new phlogiston. That is,

QGEM: Quantum Gravitational Enhanced Meditation: An introduction to quantum gravity

So, here we are in the early 21st century riding along on a complex soliton  wave curving into the  more unified scientific models.  For lack of a better phrase, we might just as well call the emerging, more unified model  "quantum gravity" due to the upheavals last century in quantum mechanics and  so-called relativity.  Things are compressing and expanding again  as the classical model peels away revealing the underlying non-linear, non-classical, more unified  features.

It's a disquieting thought, to try to come up to periscope depth and face this paradigm shift in science. It's awkward, inconvenient,

More on the structure of water from SLAC via World Science

" THE WORLD SCIENCE
"Dance restaurant" theory of water takes shape
Aug. 14, 2009 Courtesy SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and World Science staff

Everyone knows water -- it shapes our bodies and our planet. But de­spite this abundance, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery. Com­pared to other liquids, water has strange properties that are still poorly understood.

Recent work at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and universities in Sweden and Japan, though, is shedding new light on water’s molecular idiosyncrasies, offering insight into its odd properties.

How water molecules arrange themselves in the substance’s solid form, ice, was long ago established: the molecules form a tight “tetrahedral” lattice, with each molecule binding to four others.