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Originally Posted by JAK  Analogies, graphics, and models assist us in understanding difficult and complex concepts. But they may not be "spot on", as they say. Plus, if they are accurate, there should be a way to transform from one idea into another. In other words, what Felix is trying to do is what I also need in order to be satisfied with the model. |
JAK, you are very right. If the model can't hold up to modern data and insights then the model is not worthy of mentioning ever again. One reason I am very happy with Felix and your request is that I do not have to do this alone; we've got all the needed intellectual property right here on ToeQuest to establish this feet.
But also forgive me, I have seen the pyramid in so many different ways already, as indeed being complete and irrefutable (but also in some respects as only giving the conceptual format), that I do not need to get involved in having to deliver all and each utmost specific detail.
As I stand, the model cannot be taken down, but it has its limitation in use. However, what is easy to overlook is that it does include and overcomes actual separation. So beware when asking for actual connections between everything, when everything contains separation on the most fundamental of levels. Relationships is the best you can get, and the model, conceptual only as it may be, provides that for the scientific data as well.
My book is called
In Search of a Cyclops and it is possible that there is a little bit of a Cyclops (of believing in unification) in you. I am not saying you are, but for sure I cannot address the part inside you that you not address yourself.
To mention Nobody one more time; in ancient Greek mythology Odysseus and his crew were captured by a Cyclops on an island of Cyclops. They were kept in a cave, where the Cyclops also kept his sheep. At night, an enormous rock was placed in front of the exit by the Cyclops, so no one could escape. The only reason Odysseus and his men were able to escape was that he had introduced himself (on a whim) as Nobody. So when they punctured the only eye the Cyclops had when he was asleep in the middle of the night, making him blind as a bat, the other Cyclops came to his door, hearing all that screaming, and shouted through the enclosed doorway to find out what had happened. The Cyclops answered that nobody had hurt him, nobody was trying to escape, and they should prevent nobody from leaving. The other Cyclops did not understand that nobody was a real Nobody, and left. Then, since the Cyclops also had sheep, he had to roll the rock away in the day time to let the sheep out to graze in the field. He touched the sheep with his hands to make sure he only let sheep out, but Odysseus and his men were hanging off the bellies of the sheep to get out of the cave.
Thank you for your sharp mind, JAK.