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chrislofting
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When I look at the star constellation of Centurus I will see a bright star called 'alpha centuri' When I move from this naked-eye perspective to using binoculars suddenly this star in no longer a single star but what is called a binary system, there are TWO stars, alpha alpha centuri and beta alpha centuri. When I swap the binoculars for a telescope so the binary becomes trinary in that out pops proxima alpha centuri.
The point here is on different levels of resolution can serve as levels of meaning. Thus at the naked-eye level, call it level 1, I can make patterns in the sky that form into constellations. Move to level 2, binoculars, and a new world opens up for possible additions of more constellations! Move to level 3, the telescope, and there is a flood of 'lights' available to make patterns of 'meaning'.
This issue of resolution is also present in the I Ching (in that it is present in our brains as we focus on generals and particulars, wholes and parts).
The I Ching at its highest level of precision is a system of 4096 generic qualities that can be recruited and have their names relabeled to describe a particular context.
The 4096 dodecagrams (12-line symbols) are at the level of the telescope where high detail becomes available. When we move to the level of binoculars the 4096 give way to 64 dodecagrams where these reflect more stable forms than the others and where these dodecagrams can be compressed into the static hexagrams. What this reflects is these 64 dodecagrams, compressed to hexagrams, are like 'strange attractors' where the other dodecagrams are attracted to these 64, the 64 are as such 'invarient' when we move from dodecagram to hexagram reprensentations, all that happens is these invarient qualities are more 'diffuse' more widely distributed to 'enclose' all of the other dodecagrams - now expressed as changing lines in the hexagrams.
Move to the level of the naked-eye and the 64 dodecagrams 'collapse' into 8 dodecagrams. These are found to be compactable to 8 hexagrams that are in turn compactable into 8 trigrams.
This level of resolution brings out the 'brightest stars' of the I Ching system where as we move from naked-eye to telescope so these stars remain bright but the finer resolution brings out their companions.
When we view reality from the level of the eight trigrams we are in fact viewing the world from the brightest stars of the dodecagrams such that all findings will 'circulate' around these dodecagrams - thus deriving hexagrams from moving line trigrams will also show which of these eight hexagrams/dodecagrams those hexagrams are associated with.
The set of hexagrams that are 'naked eye', reflecting the extensions of the qualities of trigrams into hexagrams and on into dodecagrams are: 01, 02, 19, 20, 33, 34, 61, 62
At the binocular level it is the full set of 64 hexagrams (compressed dodecagrams) that reflect 'bright stars' of the full set of dodecagrams with the original eight from the naked-eye level still functional but now more concentrated within themselves.
At the telescope level we have the 4096 dodecagrams that can be considered as the 'bright stars' of an underlying level of detail that has over 16 million qualities - a little too much for us to consider!.
With compression of 12 into 6 into 3 the level of naked-eye uses trigrams as qualities but general. Binoculars use hexagrams as qualities. Telescopes use dodecagrams as qualities (compressed into *changing line* hexagrams).
The 'Quick I Ching' operates from the level of the naked-eye, it serves to give an approximation of a situation, it helps to show which of the 'brightest stars' of the dodecagrams is 'controlling' a situation (and so the set of 01, 02, 19, 20, 33, 34, 61, 62)
The usual I Ching operates at the level of the binocular and on into the levels of the telescope but by compression of dodecagrams and as such still lacking in clear resolution limited to 'hexagrams with multiple changing lines' which in fact translates to a specific, unchanging dodecagram that is the 'base line' for deriving meaning in the I Ching. It is this level of high precision that is in need of clear differentiations. (e.g. ongoing work at http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting/64dodecagrams.html )
We CAN work from the level of naked-eye (as the Quick IC works) and can derive more details from asking more sets of three questions at that level and combining results. Move to binoculars and we work with six questions. Move to telescopes we work with 12 questions - a much harder process! The overall ICPlus focus is to flesh-out all levels of meaning derivation and so three-layered dodecagram system useful for any context.
Chris.
http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting
The point here is on different levels of resolution can serve as levels of meaning. Thus at the naked-eye level, call it level 1, I can make patterns in the sky that form into constellations. Move to level 2, binoculars, and a new world opens up for possible additions of more constellations! Move to level 3, the telescope, and there is a flood of 'lights' available to make patterns of 'meaning'.
This issue of resolution is also present in the I Ching (in that it is present in our brains as we focus on generals and particulars, wholes and parts).
The I Ching at its highest level of precision is a system of 4096 generic qualities that can be recruited and have their names relabeled to describe a particular context.
The 4096 dodecagrams (12-line symbols) are at the level of the telescope where high detail becomes available. When we move to the level of binoculars the 4096 give way to 64 dodecagrams where these reflect more stable forms than the others and where these dodecagrams can be compressed into the static hexagrams. What this reflects is these 64 dodecagrams, compressed to hexagrams, are like 'strange attractors' where the other dodecagrams are attracted to these 64, the 64 are as such 'invarient' when we move from dodecagram to hexagram reprensentations, all that happens is these invarient qualities are more 'diffuse' more widely distributed to 'enclose' all of the other dodecagrams - now expressed as changing lines in the hexagrams.
Move to the level of the naked-eye and the 64 dodecagrams 'collapse' into 8 dodecagrams. These are found to be compactable to 8 hexagrams that are in turn compactable into 8 trigrams.
This level of resolution brings out the 'brightest stars' of the I Ching system where as we move from naked-eye to telescope so these stars remain bright but the finer resolution brings out their companions.
When we view reality from the level of the eight trigrams we are in fact viewing the world from the brightest stars of the dodecagrams such that all findings will 'circulate' around these dodecagrams - thus deriving hexagrams from moving line trigrams will also show which of these eight hexagrams/dodecagrams those hexagrams are associated with.
The set of hexagrams that are 'naked eye', reflecting the extensions of the qualities of trigrams into hexagrams and on into dodecagrams are: 01, 02, 19, 20, 33, 34, 61, 62
At the binocular level it is the full set of 64 hexagrams (compressed dodecagrams) that reflect 'bright stars' of the full set of dodecagrams with the original eight from the naked-eye level still functional but now more concentrated within themselves.
At the telescope level we have the 4096 dodecagrams that can be considered as the 'bright stars' of an underlying level of detail that has over 16 million qualities - a little too much for us to consider!.
With compression of 12 into 6 into 3 the level of naked-eye uses trigrams as qualities but general. Binoculars use hexagrams as qualities. Telescopes use dodecagrams as qualities (compressed into *changing line* hexagrams).
The 'Quick I Ching' operates from the level of the naked-eye, it serves to give an approximation of a situation, it helps to show which of the 'brightest stars' of the dodecagrams is 'controlling' a situation (and so the set of 01, 02, 19, 20, 33, 34, 61, 62)
The usual I Ching operates at the level of the binocular and on into the levels of the telescope but by compression of dodecagrams and as such still lacking in clear resolution limited to 'hexagrams with multiple changing lines' which in fact translates to a specific, unchanging dodecagram that is the 'base line' for deriving meaning in the I Ching. It is this level of high precision that is in need of clear differentiations. (e.g. ongoing work at http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting/64dodecagrams.html )
We CAN work from the level of naked-eye (as the Quick IC works) and can derive more details from asking more sets of three questions at that level and combining results. Move to binoculars and we work with six questions. Move to telescopes we work with 12 questions - a much harder process! The overall ICPlus focus is to flesh-out all levels of meaning derivation and so three-layered dodecagram system useful for any context.
Chris.
http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting