If you spend a little time looking around The Squiggle Sense, you will find much information to ponder.

There are a host of terms and abbreviations to learn, some perhaps quite exotic and some frustrating: a host of scientific~philosophical concepts to think about that will hopefully pique your curiosity and tempt you not only with the prospect of grounding philsophical ideas in scientific inquiry, but most importantly, to awaken your squiggle sense.

Because it’s there alright. Actually, you would be hard pressed to do without it, even though you mightn’t be aware of its actions directly.

The complementary nature of the human being includes the complementary nature of the human brain~mind, the observer~observing.

Cutting to the chase, because you can find out all the details as we go, the most fundamental scientific laws of microcosm~macrocosm (Quantum Mechanics~Relativity) not only required an observer~observing to have been discovered in the first place, also include the observer~observing’s effect upon them.

In Quantum Mechanics this is codified in complementarity (the complementary nature itself) , whilst in Relativity it is manifest in the importance of the observer~observing’s ‘frame of reference.’

The save-to-desktop message is:

“Now more than ever, it is crucial to study and illuminate the observer~observing’s role in the formation and evolution of  scientific~philosophical knowledge~wisdom that is based upon that very observation.”

In other words, the observer~observing affects not only the outcome of its experiments by such observation, but also affects what the observer~observed chooses to observe in the first place.

While this may sound like a rather rudimentary philsophical conundrum, which it happens to be, remember we are talking about science here as well, our ‘hold on what at least seems to be real, if our senses aren’t being deceived.’

Now it begins to get really wierd: if by choice or by chance an observer~observing get’s stuck in what we call an ‘either/or’ mode, it’s observational prowess will in that case become greatly occluded, it’s senses will be deceived!

This occlusion is more or less severe depending upon what kind of life ‘experiment’ the observer~observes.

In the case where the observer~observing wishes to understand it’s own complementary nature however, either/or thinking is quite catastrophic, resulting in a waning interest in the whole endeavor! It is rendered invisible – nothing to observe, the observer moves on to a new focus of attention.

We are saying that such blindness has always been an ubiquitous threat to human enlightenment, that is occasionally transcended by individuals who, following many different traditions in as many cultures, do there best to overcome this affliction we could call squiggle sense blind in the same context as we do color blind or night blind.

How to do this? Well, one thing that is crucial is to avoid either/or thinking.

Another is to make sure we always remember to include the observer~observing’s role in our theory~experiments upon the complementary nature. This is paramount. We do this by proposing that when you study (think about) the complementary nature, with it’s complementary pairs ( ie. it’s squiggles) and its coordination dynamics, you are using your squiggle sense:

We say, “The Squiggle Sense is a sixth sense of the complementary nature.”  We say, “the squiggle sense is an observer~observing the complementary nature.”

Finally, we suppose that the observer~observing the complementary nature with their squiggle sense is an inextricable complementary aspect of the complementary nature, at least of the complementary nature of the human brain~mind.

To sum up, in theory and in practice, experientially and experimentally, we are always dealing with  four aspects: 1) the complementary nature 2 ) complementary pairs (squiggles)

3) coordination dynamics 4) the squiggle sense (observer~observing)

The picture above is one way to sum things up to give you one version of ‘the big picture’, the overview. All of these aspects are inextricable, dynamic and complementary. In TCN book we explain the relationships of TCN, CP and CD. Now we are adding TSS, the squiggle sense.

Okay, now take a look at the figure above. It is a tetrahedran with what we call the four aspects ‘TSS’, ‘TCN’, ‘CP’ and ‘CD’ written at the vertices. Again, TSS = The Squiggle Sense, TCN = The Complementary Nature, CP = Complementary Pairs and CD = Coordination Dynamics. In the center of the tetrahedran is the squiggle sign (~). This tetrahedral view of the four aspects is helpful because it suggests that the four aspects are  intimately related and organized as some kind of pattern integrity.

(The choice of tetrahedran was an arbitrary one by us. Whether there exists any more profound role of tetrahedral geometry  itself, as R. Buckminster Fuller believed remains an open question.)

Mainly, this view does a good job at showing possible relationships between the aspects we require ourselves to explore.

If each of the four aspects squiggle with the remaining three, and count them up: you get six possible complementary pairs.

THE FOUR ASPECTS

THE SIX COMPLEMENTARY PAIRS

TCN~CP
TCN~CD
CP~CD
TSS~TCN
TSS~CD

THE TWELVE OBSERVATIONAL STRATEGIES

TCN~CP [TCN of CP, CP of TCN]
TCN~CD [TCN of CD, CD of TCN]
CP~CD [CP of CD, CD of CP]
TSS~TCN [TSS of TCN, TCN of TSS]
TSS~CD [TSS of CD, CD of TSS]

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FOUR ASPECTS

(TO BE CONT.)