Parallax — perspective changes everythingThe Parallax Identity
The relational nautilus — cover figure of The Carpet Is Moving Under You
Construction site

Book in progress

The Carpet Is Moving Under You

The spine as agreed. Chapters with links are drafted; the rest are waiting. This book is live while it is built.

Enter the book

Dedication

What you will find in this book is beautiful and worthy information. I trust this information will be of value.

The observation from the parallax identity is that the floor is missing, that the carpet is moving under us - as Bob Dylan wrote in "It's All Over Now Baby Blue".

The reason the floor is missing and that the carpet is moving under us is up to us as human beings.

May the reader find the missing floor.

Before the Threshold — why this book exists

  1. ·Why Consciousness At All — the questions that ask for this book

Threshold — writing section

  1. ·The Threshold and the four meaning-placing junctions

Introduction — Movement One — The Cost of Thought

  1. IHigher Order Thinking is Expensive write the chapter
  2. IIWhat is Evolution & Why is Brain Power so Expensive? write the chapter
  3. IIIHigh Price of Diverting Energy & Resources to Higher Order Thought write the chapter

Introduction — Movement Two — The Paradigm Turns

  1. IVQuantum Paradigm Replaces Newtonian Paradigm write the chapter
  2. VPeriod of Incommensurability – the Kuhnian Gap write the chapter
  3. VIMapmaking Ancestors: Rebuilding Ships Burnt to the Waterline write the chapter
  4. VIIEntering the Quantum Paradigm:, Everything Repaid Which Was Owed write the chapter

Introduction — Movement Three — The New Rules

  1. VIIIBrain-Bending Scientific Wierdness write the chapter
  2. IXTo Grok or Not to Grok, That is the Question write the chapter
  3. XSetting Sail for an Unknown Continent: All the Rules are New Rules write the chapter
  4. XINeuroplasticity: We Physically Become What We Think & Do write the chapter
  5. XIIWriter as Socratic Guide – As a Citizen Scientist, Not an Expert write the chapter
  6. ·The Floor Is Missing write the chapter

Introduction — Movement Four — The Deep End, Marked as Such

  1. XIIIEntering Into Kuhnian Incommensurability write the chapter
  2. XIVEinstein’s Spooky Action at a Distance? write the chapter
  3. XVEssay as An Architect of Human Cognition write the chapter
  4. XVIAn Impossible Tale: Stranger in a Strange Land of Non-Trivial Zeros & Stair Stepping Primes write the chapter
  5. XVIIExtraordinary San Francisco Philosophical Incubator write the chapter

Opening

  1. 0The floor is moving (scaffold)
  2. 0·No frozen light (the passage in the opening)
  3. 0aThe shape behind (where this book stands)
  4. 0bThe map-makers (lineage scaffold)

Part I — The Reach

  1. 1The Carpet Is Moving Under You

Part II — The Architecture

  1. 2The molecule in water
  2. 3The pairing: beyond flatland
  3. 3bThe living chain: code to fold in living tissue
  4. 3cThe full geometric case
  5. 3— The terrain: a companion map

Part III — Charge: the simple physics that is not flat

  1. 4aThe near field
  2. 4bThe charged membrane
  3. 4cThe electrostatic protein
  4. 4dFields in development
  5. 4eThe bioelectric body
  6. 4fThe magnetic sense, held open

Part IV — The Razor's Edge

  1. 51/137 — the razor's edge
  2. 5aThe sheet that knows its geometry
  3. 6The placeholders
  4. 6bThe second wave: the instrument witnessed in hardware

Part V — What Persists

  1. 7The relational replicator
  2. 8Who are we, why are we here

Appendix

  1. AThe map-territory gap — four faces, one structure

Plates

  1. PThe plates — transparent figures superimposed