by thigle » Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:18 am
i think that pointspace view is possible. it is not a question of whether such a being can survive, being just nothing - a point. life doesn't dwell exclusively within 3dimensions anyway - without life we would be just heaps of rotten & unaware meat already. I disagree on the fact that points have no internal structure. abstract points, perhaps. but actual points, we don't know. they might be internal symmetry spaces. the presupposition that space is indivisible is unholdable. we never tapped under planck scale. zenon was making fun of this. feynmann was not sure on continuity of space, and thought it discontionuous. einstein used his cosmologocal constant to get rid of discontinuity popping out his equations.. weyl wrote whole book on presuppositions in calculus. the nothing (point) and infinity are diadic.
the structure of points under planck scale might well be spinor, or twistor-like. check out for exemple hu.wu: 'spin as primordial self-referential structure driving quantum dynamics, spacetime & consciousness'
pointspace-view is when the whole FOV, not just pi, but 2pi(or even more), is given at once, front & back copresent, (or left&right, or whatever halves of sphere of vision you have, depending on greatcircle orienting the vision). it is widening the FOV until meeting the horizon of vision & then beyond until the initial sight-direction is inverted. compare this report by robert bruce, describing phenomenon of what he calls "spherical vision". (note also that critchlow in his 'order in space' calls and models points explicitly as 'spherepoints'): quote:
...In the physical body ... 220 degrees of vision, ...can only see in front of us, but not behind, above and below at the same time. In the Astral body...MORE than 360 degrees of vision ... can see on all sides at once. ... Spherical vision. During projection, habit forces us to focus our attention in one direction only, where we feel the forward part of our vision is. The view behind, above, below, left and right is still there, and seen all at once, but it can not be assimilated by the brain, all at once. This goes against the brains lifelong habit of frontal vision. Spherical vision is like being one huge multi faceted eye that can see in all directions, up, down, left, right, front, back, but all at once!
In the astral body...no physical organs, i.e., eyes. You are a non-physical point of consciousness floating in space. You are also unaffected by gravity and other laws of physics. In this state there are no ups or downs, backs or fronts, left or rights... only lifelong habit that tries to force ... perspective... during projection.
... important to understand spherical vision, if you are to operate competently...
any [single-pointed] concentration is a training[or mind-gymnastics] in point-like perception. which allows for full experience of nonĺocality.