What if it were all real?
Ah, what a wonderful world we have created here for ourselves. We allow trees to exist and agree that the leaves should be green and they are. But we don't exactly agree on what green is and so leaves come in many shades. And that's OK. What a strange place it would be even if we only had the extra large box of crayola crayons from which to create a living universe. It's not that crayola has done a poor job or anything its just that I prefer colors which are a bit hard to pin down. There are, in fact, many people who are paid to invent colors. This may not be a suprise to you being the educated car buyer that you are, but are you aware that there are an equal number of people employed at NAMING the colrs that have been invented? Yes. Cadillac has an off-white vehicle with the thrilling title, "Antelope Fire Mist" which is, actually, beige. It is important to pump it up a bit when asking those prices and considering the age of the average Cadillac buyer it is no shock to think they may need a bit of a kick now and again.
So I set about on the grueling task of naming all the colors of water and found that there are as many colors of water as there are colors, plus three, and that to name all the colors that are possible would require an enormous amount of money from some auto industry giant or a fathomless grant.
It seems much easier to operate within a framework of some sort than to try and capture the whole at once. Playing chess without the chess board is a chaotic endevour at best; albeit infinitely playable. Consider your Bishop moving ahead three feet only to find the Queen is somewhere in the general vacinity of Cleveland. So we increase our scope in smaller increments over time as we become comfortable with the self-imposed limits and frankly, get bored. The ancient Chinese concieved of a dual universe of interaction between Yin and Yang. A broken line and a solid line. By stacking a solid line on a solid line or a broken line on a broken line or a solid line on on a broken line or a broken line on top of a solid line we come up with the four fundemental forces of nature. Stacking a third line produces the famous 8 trigrams that describe the elements of nature. When the Trigrams are stacked we achieve the 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching from which, it is said, all the possible combinations of events can be expressed. But what happens when we stack hexagrams? What if we stack and stack lines broken and solid until they resemble a tree? A car? Digital technology tells us that a certain combination of many broken and solid lines (0's and 1's) will look green. And so it does. We agree.
There are 12 notes in the western musical scale. A possible 24 in Indian music. But reality will not be confined to this man-made scheema. Imagine music of a hundred notes; a million. They are there already. But the whole is too much to grasp at once so we limit our perception. Reality is a collective huntch. Let's agree it all looks and sounds like this; and it does.
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