What if a broken circle that looks like a line acts like a circle? Not 180 not 360? Zero infinity.
Could the void shatter down inherently predetermined inherent lines just like a crystal? If it did, should anything be expected to arrive arbitrarily? As if by chance unmoved by magic hand?
Because if what gets shattered looses its wholeness. I’d snap first in two from start to finish like broken bread.
As energy moves so too matter. Emptiness into galaxies to planets to trees. Buzzing booming cantankerous concoctions.
If so, consciousness renders sensory symbolic worlds unique to each individual. Bodies broadcasting worlds. Hidden telepathy connected.
Could help explain why there’s more similarity between living things than differences. Wings, fins, paws of one design.
Emptiness’ loss matter’s gain.. The price paid mortality.
If so, making symbolic worlds rise and set. Where unconscious energy explicit matter dance.
Broken down familiar lines. Moving forward. Change changing unchanged.
Let’s try out an “as if” example to see what if anything can be can learned about what it might mean. With so much to do, places to go, people to see, let’s wonder what it’d be like if that wasn’t the case. Would being bored crazy necessarily result?
Would it be like having run out of time yet finding oneself still here among the living? A sort of halfway “out the door” state of consciousness?
Does invoking an “as if” seem to be be able to open the imaginative door to new possibilities while keeping things somewhat unpretentious? Because the modus operandi “as if” takes things into account figuratively not literally?
Since the “as if” recognizes this isn’t the literal truth unlike what happens in the strict equation, “This is that.” As if “this as if that” is adding a unique magical twist (pun intended).
The literal truth is there’s places one needs to go, people to see and things to do. Otherwise we’d most likely be out the door.
How might supposing living as if we’re already goners be of the slightest help? Could it be that by accessing imagination in a way that takes the pretense out of pretend gives awareness extended informational power?
Supposing it took an otherwise metaphysical state of affairs transforming it into a metaphorical possibility. Where a metaphor the has magical power in turn needed to create a metaphysical metamorphosis? Like artists?
Artists out to invoke new realities not represent them. If so, what makes the magic of an “as if” possible?
Could it be because intentionally misidentify what something is has a certain transubstantial power activated when invoking the imagination? Whereas a literalist assumes what something actually is by definition can offer no new possibilities.
Because the equation, “this is that” offers no chance of misidentifying what something literally is. Like everyone knows there’s places to go, people to see and things to do in order to stay alive.
Necessary to make a literalist definition of reality stick because it is based on a one-to-one correspondence between mind and body. A reality found when the mind successfully aligns with what the body perceives.
Implying anything that can be imagined should be considered false reality. Illusion.
If so, it might be reasonable to assume a literalist wouldn’t find imagination invested with transformational power. A power that could challenge the belief that what the mind knows is what the body perceives.
Making imaging what it’d be like if there wasn’t anyone left to see or something to do off the reality grid. An exercise a literalist shouldn’t think worth considering.
All to the exclusion of want to a third alternative to mind and body. Like what if we were living energy beings instead?
Having hatched out of the prevailing worldview cocoon? Like having had an existential rebirth.
Because if we were energy beings as part of a spaceless and timesless magical realm, it’d make little sense to need to go somewhere in order to see people to stay alive. If action at a distance then was possible.
What makes creation, destruction, bondage, freedom, illusion, reality, good, bad, evil, right, wrong, smart, dumb, truth, error, beauty, ugliness, evolution, war, peace, success, failure, knowledge, ignorance, consciousness, being, becoming, anything at all… possible?
These questions all assume that the various states being addressed actually exist. That what’s possible is possible because without question it’s already possible.
If in order to ask if something is possible takes a leap of faith it could be because a presumption of knowledge is required. Since an assumption would be needed to secure a starting point to launch the investigation.
That assumption arising because while it is possible to know, it’s only possible to know in part. Making what’s known a probability problematic. A best guess bet based on what can be tenuously known.
Like if in asking what makes it possible there’s something rather than nothing, the tucked in assumption is that there is already something rather than nothing. When this may or may not be the case.
If so, to ask what makes something possible is to assume that such a possibility is possible. The uncertainty of assuming creates an unintended quandary. Because why bother to ask such questions if what’s under the microscope can only be assumed to exist.
If in asking what makes something possible is rendered sheer nonsense, a remedy might be to put quotation marks mentally around the key items in the question. What makes “reality” or “illusion” possible? A way of admitting such concepts are attempts to make sense out of nonsense.
“Much ado about nothing,” Shakespeare penned. What if Shakespeare didn’t get it right?
He was interested in telling a good story. Not what makes one possible.
If so, what if the playing field between a storyteller and a philosopher could be leveled? Making the storyteller’s story an open door to wonder what storytelling itself is saying about the nature of reality.
The option calls for a choice. To engage or not one’s curiosity.
To sit spellbound or break the spell. Even if for no good reason.
Taking note to ask what makes stories possible seems risky business. Risky because it shifts the burden from entertainment and education to enlightenment.
Could wondering how anything is possible have inherent cultural liabilities? Like what if it impacted the economic imperative and political narratives?
Or lead to new possibilities for how to experience experience. Like seeing through the daily media stream with a superhuman type x-ray vision. Rendering the opaque transparent.
Let the naysayers have their day in the court stating matter-of-fact, “It is what it is.” While those who wander aimless in wonder ask, “Is it what it is?”
Not willing to simply go along with those in the know. Having chosen the path of don’t know.
To now ask what makes “possible” possible is like turning the question back in upon itself. To see what might be learned or unlearned.
Down to the bare bone. Questioning even the possibility of being able to ask real questions.
Because if when the question is stood on its head and given a good shake, some lose change might jingle pocket free. Such loss being one’s reward.
