Relationship as Substrate

If the note is a verb and the body is a verb, then what holds them together is not a third object but a relation. The substrate is not the stage on which things happen; the substrate is the happening — the field of relation that allows a string and an ear to be the same event, briefly, in two places.

This is the claim Universal Quantum Relationship Psychology states in its plainest form: relationship is not what beings do after they exist. Relationship is the condition under which anything coheres long enough to be called a being. The string requires the air. The ear requires the string. The listener requires the listened-to. None of these terms survive in isolation; they are co-defined or they are nothing.

Quantum mechanics has been pointing at this for a century without quite saying it: entanglement, contextuality, the observer-inside-the-system. Music has been saying it for far longer, every time a drone holds a room together long enough for the melody on top to mean something. The drone is the audible substrate; the melody is the audible figure; neither is real without the other.

This is the floor the rest of the book stands on. Part III will count the ratios. Part IV will ask what civilization does when it remembers them.

All our existence in space time is a relationship — as is the existence of non-living material as well — literally everything interconnected in relationships.

This profound recognition takes us back to the definition of information as energy which opens this book.

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The next section goes into great detail on the physics and mathematics of sound. I have little facility in either math or physics, but have learned to appreciate the manner in which these ground what would otherwise be fanciful excursions of the new age variety. I have learned just enough to have learned what they feel like, and to appreciate a rigorous proof, in whatever form it arrives.

In the final analysis mathematics, like music, like computer code, is simply another language to learn to think in. Way back in the dark ages of the 20th century, necessity required that I learn Basic. I learned and painstakingly constructed a website which, to my fascination, coded for video and earned compliments from leading music promoters. But I never touched code again, as learning other languages is not my strong point, and I rely on DAI agents to write the code — which they are amazingly talented at doing.