Scalability and Perception

It is the pattern of shear over time on the material which provides a visual, intelligible data group. Forms can be apprehended at any scalable size, and not on all material. Textiles, for example, and flattened metals and glass generally do not produce the forms. The forms can also be perceived at any angle or perspective of light to the viewer. Imagine peering into the labyrinth of the Las Caux and think of how the walls of a cave — at an entrance point or length of passage — can appear to show recognizable shapes and forms, on edge, in profile, whether in darkness or light; consider how any angle of perceptual attainment of the forms can cause recognition. Edge-identification is accentuated, in ancient cave art, by the Modern Human additions of two- and three-dimensional paintings and engravings. These Late Paleolithic painting and engraving artifacts—20,000 ya (Las Caux) and 36,000 ya (Chauvet)—are placed on the walls in the Late Paleolithic. In some cases, the shape of the form, or shear pattern (on the surface of the rock) can be small: the size of one articulated animal. In other cases, an entire wall vista at Pech Merle is employed. The intelligible use of the scalability of patterns of shear on specific materials can be seen in metal and woodworking. But rock surfaces, as objects to observe, and things to work with, have escaped our cultural ingenuity throughout history.

The form which carries recognition is scaled through the material, for example, the data on huge or small rocks can be scaled by perception to reveal protomythological forms, as in Marcahuasi Plateau.  (Scaled is taken here to mean intelligible data on a micro-to-macro scale whose boundaries are that of the surface panoramic view, existing there at some specific (scalar) size, for example covering the entire face of a rock or a much smaller area, i.e. 1 square centimeter.) The shape, at each size, carries data, if it can be recovered through perception.

On the said shaped material, any cogent point to create perspective can be chosen. How can this be? The curious nature of finite human perception of reality is that each point can be the exact center. The exact center of what? Each point can be the exact center of the universe.  [Ed.- Mathematicians will argue the opposite: In an infinite, expanding universe there is no center. Yet, humans require directional orientation for observing matter and cannot perceive an uncentered infinity. No matter where you are among the observable galaxies, you would perceive it as a center point, as if you were standing inside a balloon, an observed sphere.]  As such, considering the shape of a rock, a chosen point of perspective potentially can elucidate, by maintaining cardinal directional axes, perceptions of embedded data, or “reality.” A perspective is chosen based on how the surface illumination can best display the surface data.

Can We Recognize It? Civilized actions and recognizable forms can be built by perception-memory on those axes. Since the rock is so encoded, there must be an intelligence which can manage holistic, or gestalt, or multi-layered unified symbolic consciousness, and create the perceive-able multi-layers within the unified forms. Shifting perspective, the unified forms merge into each other as if mutating their physical DNA, into another DNA form.

 

 

 

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