psycho-meta-quantumphysics

The Aneristic Principle is that of APPARENT ORDER; the Eristic Principle is that if APPARENT DISORDER. Both order and disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE CHAOS, which is a level deeper then is the level of distinction making.

[note: on a different view, deeper levels [of reality] is scientifically meaningless as nothing can be drawn about it, as we cannot use any form of symbols or speech to define it. This is called an Etic reality, as opposed to a emic reality [social game]. Once observed, the observed becomes defined by the limits of the observer, hence transforming etic into emic. therefore, nothing can be said of etic reality because it cannot be observed. For now, just forget all that and play along.]

With our concept making apparatus called "mind" we look at reality through the ideas-about-reality which our cultures give us. The ideas-about-reality are mistakenly labeled "reality" and unenlightened people are forever perplexed by the fact that other people, especially other cultures, see "reality" differently. It is only the ideas-about-reality which differ. Real [capital-T True] reality is a level deeper then is the level of concept.

We look at the world through windows on which have been drawn grids [concepts]. Different philosophies use different grids. ["It is hard to imagine that a co-ordination of words (philosophies are nothing more then that) can resemble the universe very much." -Borges] A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The ORDER is on our GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle.

Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one grid with another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a perfect one that will account for all reality and will, hence [say unenlightened westerners] be True. This is illusory; it is what Erisians call the ANERISTIC ILLUSION. Some grids can be more useful then others, some more beautiful thenothers, some more pleasant then others, etc., but none can be more True then any other.

DISORDER is simply unrelated information viewed through some particular grid. but, like "relation", no-relation is a concept. Male, like female, is an idea about sex. To say that male-ness is "absence of female-ness", or vice versa, is a matter of definition and metaphysically arbitrary. The artifical concept of no-relation is the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.

The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow wrong, is the Aneristic illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the Eristic illusion.

The point is that [little-t] truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that [capital-T] Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grid entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.

Reality is the original Rorcshach.






"There are trivial truths and there are Great Truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a Great Truth is also true." -Neils Bohr

"The observer alters the observed by mere act of observing." -Heisenberg's Principle

"There are lies, damn lies and statistics."
-Disraeli

"Is it real son? Is it really real son? Let me know it's real son, if it's really real." -Method Man