Reciprocally Integrated Systems Theory Primer
- What is a "Reciprocal System", and what is this primer about?
- The discoveries of Dewey B. Larson
Brief overview of what Larson discovered: the reciprocal relationship between space and time, and natural units. - The re-evaluation of Larson's original work
Nobody is perfect... Nehru and Peret's updates to Larson to fix some of the flaws in the original work. - Where it ended up: Reciprocally Integrated Systems Theory
Putting it all together from the ground up; Larson's concepts, new concepts added, and tying it all together through systems theory.
- The discoveries of Dewey B. Larson
- Some Basic Questions
- What is "space"?
Where do we get our notion of space from, and how is it applied? - What is "time"?
Where do we get the idea of time from, and how do we normally use it? - How do space and time interact?
The missing link... one cannot exist without the other. - Is what I see the same as what you see?
The subjective nature of truth and reality. - What assumptions do we have when we view everything about us?
Vanishing points, parallelism, the world as a picture. - What have we been trained to see, versus what is actually there?
Identify limits on human perspectives.
- What is "space"?
- Space, the final frontier
- Conventional understandings of the concept of "space"
- Inner Spaces
Stuff that is contained (Western view, form) - Outer Spaces
Stuff outside the container (Eastern view, function)
- Inner Spaces
- The Understanding of "Space" as "Volume"
Taking the 3 dimensions of space, height, width, depth, and getting it back to a scalar magnitude--the idea of a "volume." - "Amounts" of Space
Understanding space as a scalar, in order to connect to time as a magnitude.
- Conventional understandings of the concept of "space"
- Time, the inverse frontier
- Conventional understanding of Time being a "change of space."
The idea of time as duration of a spatial event. - Clock time: past, present and future—where things were, are and will be.
Ways we measure the movement of time, and the problems/assumptions in them. - Unconventional understandings of the concept of "time"
- Inner Times
Contained time... Larson's "time region", inside the box - Outer Times
Eternal time... Larson's "cosmic sector", outside the box
- Inner Times
- Conventional understanding of Time being a "change of space."
- Space and Time working together
Dealing with the ideas of "none" (zero) and "all" (infinity), and do they actually exist?- Limitations of Space
Infinity, Unity, the idea of quantized or discrete space. - Limitations of Time
Eternity, Unity, the idea of quantized time (ticks of a clock). - Removing limits thru Cooperation
Interstitial connections between space and time: " locations."
- Limitations of Space
- The Concept of "Motion"
- Cooperation of space and time
Moving from space and time as "things" to aspects (views) of a "thing". Common analogy: husband (space) and wife (time) become a family (motion). - What goes up, must come down: Inverse relationships
How affecting one aspect always affects the other.- Increasing space/decreasing time
- Decreasing space/increasing time
- Space and Time reciprocally related as Motion
The reciprocal, inverse and conjugate connections to produce motion.
- Cooperation of space and time
- Types of Motion
Moving the concept of motion into everyday experience to see motion in action.- The Idea of "Speed"
How space relates to time as speed; distinguished from velocity (direction). - Inverse "speeds": Energy or Work
How time relates to space as work; magnitude but no direction. - Measuring Motion: quantity versus dimension
Pointing out the difference between magnitudes of motion: motion in 2 dimensions is not the same as 2-dimensional motion.
- The Idea of "Speed"
- What is good for the goose, is good for the gander
- Identical properties of space and time
The isotropic nature of space and time, and how each is the other. Coordinate, vectorial, scalar, dimensional. - Properties of Observation
Location of observer, location looked at, which way is "up". - Two different things, or different views of the same thing?
Moving the object, or moving the observer; agreement of more than one observer. - From Quantity to Volume: Building up space, tearing down time
Space to volume to magnitude to time magnitude to time volume to the idea of Larson's "extensions pace", where space is constructed from time.
- Identical properties of space and time
- A New Understanding of Space and Time
- Time acts and behaves like space.
Aspects are viewpoints and labels only. - Space has 3 dimensions; Time has 3 dimensions.
- We see a quantity of space as “distance”.
- We see a quantity of time as “duration”.
- What we normally see is 3 dimensions of space, and 1 dimension of time.
- Where do we find 3 dimensions of time, and 1 dimension of space?
- Time acts and behaves like space.
- The Universe of Time
Building the universe of anti-matter; the cosmic or metaphysical sector.- The other half of the Universe
- Polarity: Anti-matter
Polarity resolves in zero. - Dichotomy: Inverse matter
Dichotomy resolves in unity. - Reflections in the Mirror: everything in space also exists in time
anti-rocks, anti-trees, anti-people, etc. - Universal cooperation: matter and anti-matter working together
Address particle-wave and biologic.
- Universal Split Personality: Material and Cosmic Sectors
Connecting to Larson's ideas of sectors and levels, and how we perceived them with the human form.- There are two reciprocally-related realms, one based on speed and one based on energy.
- The “speed realm” is the Material half of the Universe.
- The “energy realm” is the Cosmic half of the Universe.
- The two halves overlap each other… we see “speed” and feel “energy.”
- Origins and Viewpoints
Expanding the point of consciousness into a field of consciousness, in order to see just how we see.- Where do we “see” and “feel” from?
- Points of Consciousness and Planes at Infinity
- Ego-centrism: The world revolves around us
- Undefined perspectives: zero and infinity
- Changing perspectives
- Getting Some Perspective: Projective geometry
- What your eyes see
Limitations on visual ranges and depth perception; the 2D snapshot of reality. - What your brain interprets
Re-assembling reality from what we see, and how we do it. - Assumptions in interpretations
What we assumed when we converted the illusion to reality. - Virtual Reality
Computers do the same thing, in reverse... take "reality" into illusion so we can use our physical senses to translate illusion back to our reality. - Reverse engineering the Illusion
The process of creating a virtual illusion; strata of geometry. - Projectors and Screens: Plato's Cave
How the assumptions connect to the strata as a series of filters.
- What your eyes see
- Natural Law
Try to hook the subject, object and viewpoint together from a unity (non-ego centered) perspective and some of Larson's basic concepts.- The Uni-verse starts with Uni-ty
Natural datum. - The Unified Perspective
The default camera and where it points. - Natural Limits of Motion
- Minimum Quantities
Either 0 or 1 (none/omission or one). - Maximum Quantities
Either 1 or unlimited; explain "no minimum" doesn't mean "no limit", but the quantity does not exist at all, so it cannot have a maximum.
- Minimum Quantities
- Man's Law versus Natural Law: Where science goes wrong
Man's Law as a commandment of how things must behave.
Natural Law as an observation of how things actually behave.
How science uses Man's Law in observation, in order to prove theoretical results.
- The Uni-verse starts with Uni-ty
- Making a Scene; Our Illusion of Reality
- Viewpoint + Assumptions + Motions = Scenery
How we assemble all of the above into a "scene", and how it is interpreted. - Know where your camera is!
Can't see where you are going, until you know where you are. - Yin and Yang: a trick of the camera
- Yang: the masculine, hot and straight
- Yin: the feminine, cool and curved
- It's all Greek to me... the Euclidean realm.
How we interpret geometry when the camera hits different assumptions.- Euclid: rectangular geometry
The coordinate world of 'space'; why things move in a straight line. - Euclid's wife: polar geometry
The polar world of 'time'; why things rotation and spin.
- Euclid: rectangular geometry
- Viewpoint + Assumptions + Motions = Scenery
- Now What?
Foundations have been laid; what other paths are available?- Projective Geometry
- Light, Particles and Atoms; chemistry
- Astronomy
- Electricity, Magnetism and Electronics
- Psychology and Human Behavior
- Metaphysics
- Biology and Healing
- Spirituality and Ethics
- Social and Economic Interactions