Originally Posted by
Gilly
Personally I'm of the belief that every dimension of existence/experience is "reaching" into the next. Physical life forms as we think of them have 3-dimensional coherency/consistency and attempt to "reach" into the 4th dimension, which is the one we perceive ourselves most accutely as navigating. A fractal is kind of like a ray's equivalent of a human perceiving time; it's the dimension that their very existence suggests the necessity of (a ray exists in one dimension, but it travels in two), and it is through interaction with some being or entity or form of existence that is beyond itself that it comes to be projected into, rather than exist in as itself, the dimension above itself. Humanity's "fractal" is our sense of our evolution as a species, which, IMO, is the next step in the "evolution" or, more precisely, the progressive organization of matter. However, given that the brain is already in itself a quantum computer, we could very well accomplish this individually; hence the extant struggle between individuation and the collective will. Our collective unconscious is acutely aware of this divide, that a choice must be made to attempt progress in either one direction or the other (collective or individual) and I think it is the mission of our current psycho-social stage to decipher where our best bet lies. But perhaps this is the answer in itself? Or perhaps our extant failure should speak. I could go on.