Chapter 10 - Transforming the Matrix
The pre-agrarian man and many after didnt fully understand the
concept of creation. Something was not made, it was simply used,
consumed, enjoyed. Until man had learned to cultivate, he was unable
to understand how greatly he could control his environment. His
ability to control his surroundings would rise far beyond what he
had understood was possible before he understood he could cultivate
land. The agrarian mind had a basic knowledge of transformation. He
knew that one thing could be changed into another by way of some
process. Such as seeds transformed by a process eventually became
bread.
Previous to the agrarian way of life, however, transformation was
a simple process, which was barely understood and applied to the
creation of limited tools. As with most of the early mans knowledge,
his basic understanding of the transformation process came from
observing his surroundings. Summer transformed into Fall, Winter
into Spring. As he learned to use tools he also learned the
transformation process. He discovered that a tree limb could be
transformed into a spear, a rock into an arrowhead, an animals hide
into clothing. Fire transformed food and the temperature around him.
The process of transforming was one that allowed man to create tools
out of existing materials.
The learning process during this time did not change the base
matrix, but made the matrix grow and function easier.
The idea of creation somewhere grew out of transformation. This
idea was much more unique. This addition to mans though matrix
allowed him to realize that rather than simply whittling away
something, new solutions could be made by combining or creating
materials. Straw and mud, sticks and skins became houses. Weaving,
which is itself a matrix was discovered. The creation of something
by addition was discovered. I theorize that because man was
transforming one thing to another, he was able to see that hidden
somewhere within everything was an ability or use which may be
unforeseen. Such as the ability of a branch or stick to become a
spear. The stick always had the ability hidden within it, but once
whittled down the spear became apparent.
Mans discovery of the transformation process gave man the ability
to look for hidden treasures within the objects surrounding him. The
concepts of I wonder what would happen if &? and How would I
make something to &? In other words, How would I better my
environment, (or advance the matrix) if I transformed something?
This natural process of building tools eventually gave way to the
idea of creation. This idea of creating something verses
transforming something is what dragged man out of the Stone Age and
into the age of modern man. Call it curiosity if you like, but
knowledge, gathered for the sake of knowing, is not the reason man
created. He gathered knowledge to advance his matrix; he gathered
knowledge to create solutions.
Of course this new idea of creation was even evident in the lines
of the Bible. In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth. He didnt transform them as he did Adam from the dust. He
created them from nothing. This new radical idea that something
could be created or transformed led man on an eternal quest for
knowledge. The quest of searching for hidden secrets within his
environment which would lead to control over the environment itself.
This search for solutions through creation and transformation are
the bases for all the sciences of today. The ideas of transformation
were evident in the study of Alchemy in which man wished to
transform lead into gold, an idea which eventually led to modern
chemistry. Finding the hidden secrets created many new discoveries.
Discoveries often create as many questions as they answer. More
often they give rise to new ways of discovering. Such is the case of
the way we create solutions. We always try to solve our problems
that advance the current matrixes by using the best methods
(systems) we know to be available. Nowhere in matrixing is this as
evident as in mathematics and spatial thinking.
Mathematics is one way in which our perception is always enhanced.
Each time a new system of mathematics has been realized a new
foundation is added to the matrix. A new process for solving
problems is added to thought. Quantum leaps are realized toward the
god-like state because of advances in the way we perceive and
understand our surroundings. Almost all cultures have had some form
of math even in the most pre-historic of times. The earliest
recorded hieroglyphics demonstrated counting of herds and hunters.
Numbering and adding two plus two appear to be as natural to man as
the development of language.
Because he had a lack of knowledge base to draw from, originally
man had to rely upon his perception. Counting was as easy as looking
at how many fingers he had (at the current time). Addition and
subtraction often could be performed with a knotted cord. Spatial
relations however appeared to be more difficult. In the beginning
man had only two experiences to draw from for spatial relationships.
Gravity is vertical and the horizon stands at a direct right angle
to it. In other words, if I look out at the sea, I see a flat
horizon. If I drop a plum line (string with a weight attached) it
will intersect the horizon dividing it into four equal sections.
Until something changes in the environment, or the matrix changes
man sees the world though the perceptions of the current matrix.
These are the very limitations which we all have to work with.
The matrix drastically changed when the wheel was discovered in a
time somewhere before 3000 BC, in what is now southern Russia.
Perhaps a man saw a round rock rolling down a hill. Perhaps it was
created when someone tried balancing on a log. How it was discovered
is not as important to matrixing as is the discovery itself. The
discovery of the wheel would not have been so dramatic if it were
simply the discovery of the object itself, and even the use of the
wheel. The discovery of the concept of wheel is what caused a leap
in our knowledge base and therefore a new formation of the matrix.
This new way of thinking was the creation of spatial thought.
The concept of a wheel becomes a model for other aspects of the
matrix. Not only do inventions such as the grinding wheel for wheat,
the axle, and water wheel spring forth, but the concept of rotation
enters into mans problem solving tools. Man was for the first time
able to look to the heavens and realize that it was possible that
the sun, moon and stars were rotating around the earth in a circular
fashion. This solution may have been incorrect, but the solution was
one that fit into the then current matrix, which included the
ability of objects to travel in a circle. The charting of the
movements of the celestial bodies allowed man not only to gain
significant control over his planting seasons which moved him toward
the god-like state, but to allow him to travel by sea letting the
heavens be his guide as well.
In modern science the natural motion is that of a straight line.
Once in motion an object will stay in motion. To the Ancient Greeks,
however it was not linear, but circular. The wheel gave way to a new
way of circular thinking which was absorbed into the matrix. Once
absorbed an idea becomes evident in the creation of the matrixes
around it. The circle made an entrance into the Architecture for
example. You can find it in the amphitheaters, the columns, and the
arch. This idea of spatial relations based upon the revolution of a
circle eventually gave way to Ptolemys scheme of the cycles of the
sun and moon. The tracking of the heavens gave ships the ability to
plot a course. Euclids mathematics of geometry and possibly
Pythagoras translation of movement into numbers would not have
existed except for the circle.
The point here is not to give a lesson in history, but to
demonstrate how the very concept of thinking is a matrix, which
moves along taking changes from thinking into the surrounding
matrixes of the environment. If ever there is a drastic change in
mans thinking, the matrix will reflect those changes throughout it.
Such changes within the matrix become particularly evident when the
viewing the changes in mans comprehension of mathematics. The
creation of the circle led to many new and interesting matrixes
because it allowed man to think and create in a new way. But most
importantly it offered a new method to solve problems which in turn
would move him closer to the god-like state.
Many such changes have created new matrixes and crushed the old
ones. By looking at a transforming matrix we can see that if
something doesnt fit into the new matrix, it either changes so that
it does fit, or it will eventually fall to the wayside. This holds
truth for all matrixes: past, present, and future.
So in our picture of the grand matrix we can see that even though
it continually develops and changes, it does lose one formation as
it transforms into the next. On a macro scale these changes may
become known as such things as The Renaissance, The Industrial
Revolution, The Space Age, or The Computer Age. Each age losing many
of the minor matrixes which fit so well within the previous matrix
as it developed new matrixes which advanced the matrix even further.
On a micro scale we see products such as the horse and carriage
being replaced by the automobile.
When a radical new way of thinking proves superior to a past
method, right or wrong, it replaces its predecessor. Such was the
new thinking matrix of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, Newton, and
Einstein. Each added enough new information to change the matrix in
a way that caused many of the previous matrixes systems perished.
Each of these great minds thought outside of the current matrix,
thus expanding it.
Matrixing:
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