Re: Bosons As String Bends Cylinder?

Posted by Jfnewell7 on July 20, 2002 at 07:08:56:

In Reply to: Re: Bosons As String Bends Cylinder? posted by moorglade on July 18, 2002 at 15:33:17:

Except that there are also formless meditations, sound meditations, etc. Geometric form is only involved in some of the meditative activities. There are some interesting claims as well, such as one is a very old text, the visuddhimagga, that a state of boundless mind transcends a state of boundless space (I would assume that the state of boundless space is a perception of three-dimensional space, while boundless mind might be a bare glimpse of higher dimensional space, which would feel different from the three-dimensional space, so was called mind). The top state in this series, interestingly, is called the state of neither perception nor non-perception. I interpret this as not a precisely formed percept, but not nothing at all either. In other words, something between structure and nothing at all. Something fuzzy and subtle between the precision of full structure, and nothing at all. The nothing at all is perhaps like what one sees in the experiment to find one's blind spot. The dot just disappears, and it looks like there is a continuous visual field - not a visual field with a perceived gap in it.

But the above is pretty vague and difficult to use in theory. The touching points model seems like it might fold into the current mathematical models of superstrings, etc. better, because one can actual describe how the points are related, as compared with points that are not touching.

Jim Newell

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