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Vision-Space: What does perceptual structure indicate with respect to cultural development, the maintenance of social orders and communication between world-views?   Abstract:  

The  assertion  is  that  the  explicit  and  implicit  ‘takes’  on  reality  and  the  way  they   are  mediated  by  mind  are  central  to  the  operations  of  perceptual  structure  and   so  are  evidenced  within  the  phenomenon  vision.    The  central  factors  governing   the  underlying  perceptual  structure  combine  and  extend  to  govern  behaviours   involved  in  cultural  development  and  the  formation  of  world-­‐views.       I  don't  see  this  relationship  akin  to  somehow  ‘balancing’  two  opposed  systems.   The  implicit  and  explicit  can’t  be  reconciled  as  such;  they  are  and  remain,  distinct   as  they  are  cascaded  and  mediated  by  mind  to  form  experiential  reality.       Are  the  major  conflictions  between  East  and  West  reflections  of  clashes  of   peoples  aligned  to  different  formulations  of  perceived  reality  based  on   perceptual  preference  with  the  East  aligned  to  more  firmly  to  implicit  belief   systems  and  the  West  increasingly  to  explicit  materialistic  approaches  and   technology?       In  the  light  of  the  isolationism  that  extends  from  extremist  world-­‐views,  we  need   to  understand  perceptual  structure  in  order  to  understand  and  defuse  cultural   conflict.  It  is  not  enough  to  wait  for  the  pendulum  to  swing  we  need  to  actively   pursue  a  hands-­‐on  understanding  of  the  phenomenon  and  issues  involved.     For  instance,  these  factors  are  also  not  evidenced  in  our  current  information   communication  technologies.  We  need  something  of  a  Renaissance  in  twenty   first  century  ICT’s  developing  architectures  that  do  conform  with  perceptual   structure  into  which  all  the  worlds  cultural  systems  can  find  orientation,  input  to   and  benefit  from.                                

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© Copyright PAC 2015   The  assertion  is  that  the  explicit  and  implicit  ‘takes’  on  reality  and  the  way  they   are  mediated  by  mind  are  central  to  the  operations  of  perceptual  structure  and   so  are  evidenced  within  the  phenomenon  vision.1  The  central  factors  governing   the  underlying  perceptual  structure  combine  and  extend  to  govern  behaviours   involved  in  cultural  development  and  the  formation  of  world-­‐views.    

    I  don't  see  this  relationship  akin  to  somehow  ‘balancing’  two  opposed  systems.   The  implicit  and  explicit  can’t  be  reconciled  as  such;  they  are  and  remain,  distinct   as  they  are  cascaded  and  mediated  by  mind  to  form  experiential  reality.      

                                                                                                                1  Jupe  J.  2005  (2013)  PAC  (ERA)  Replicating  the  Underlying  Structure  to  our  Presentations  of   Vision  in  Images,  www.pacentre.org  

 

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    The  structure  of  the  phenomenon  of  vision  involves  processes  of  dynamic   juxtaposition  achieved  by  a  complex  system  of  composition  and  modulation  so   an  image  advancing  ‘balance’  is  not  really  using  the  right  metaphor.  Vision  is  a   controlled  hallucination  involving  conflicting  ‘takes’  on  reality  from  which  we   derive  experiential  reality.  This  is  what’s  involved  in  an  act  of  observation.  It’s   also  what’s  involved  in  an  act  of  objectivity.2  We  cannot  assume  3rd  party   objectivity  remote  from  our  perception  of  it.    

                                                                                                                2  Jupe  J.  2014  PAC  (ERA)  The  Ontology  of  the  Experiential:  What’s  involved  in  an  act  of  objectivity?   www.pacentre.org  

 

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      If  this  is  the  case  then  perceptual  preference  involving  the  three  factors  (implicit,   explicit  &  mind)  both  scales  and  builds  predetermining  the  way  we   communicate,  develop  our  social  systems  and  interact  through  them.  The   specifics  of  the  core  arrangements  stabilise  to  found  our  cultural  and  value   judgements.  The  arrangements  define  our  sense  of  individuality,  cultural  identity   and  allegiances  forming  our  cultural  pallet.  While  these  factors  turned  forces,   tend  to  build  and  deepen  they  must  to  some  extent  also  react  and  evolve  as   external  influences  are  encountered.          

 

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  In  previous  Vision-­‐Space  presentations  I  have  attempted  to  consider  what  the   implication  would  be  for  our  perception  of  reality  if  we  possessed  an  atypical   perceptual  structure.      

 

Vision-Space: Health implications of non-perceptually structured content and screen technology http://youtu.be/6gizIuLL9mg Vision-Space: Typical and atypical perceptual structures Potential links to ASD and stroke related conditions http://youtu.be/Pss3UOoiuyQ

Situations  were  a  significant  and  prolonged  deprivation;  say  a  particular  sensory   input  at  a  critical  stage  of  neurological  development,  lead  to  permanent   disruption  to  a  key  neural  pathway.    This  set  of  circumstances  would  intuitively   appear  to  be  linked  to  ASD  related  conditions?  This  has  yet  to  be  verified.  If  as   Vision-­‐Space  suggests  the  modulation  of  data-­‐potentials  forming  independent   explicit  and  implicit  ‘takes’  on  reality  need  to  be  successfully  modulated  by  mind   in  order  for  us  to  be  objective,  relate  to  others  and  so  communicate,  then  we  can   consider  that  atypical  perceptual  structures  are  likely  to  lead  to  very  different   formulations  of  reality  that  will  subsequently  govern  behaviours  and  hence   world  views.  

 

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    Could  typical  perceptual  systems  conforming  to  normal  parameters  also  become   aligned  or  biased  towards  one  or  the  other  ‘takes’  on  reality,  implicit  or  explicit   and  subsequently  build  systems  and  cultures  reflecting  that  dominance?  Could   this  be  the  leading  constraint  with  respect  to  cultural  development  where  entire   peoples  or  nations  become  enmeshed  and  so  identifiable  as  distinct  cultures?  Are   the  major  conflictions  between  East  and  West  reflections  of  clashes  of  peoples   aligned  to  different  formulations  of  perceived  reality  based  on  perceptual   preference  with  the  East  aligned  to  more  firmly  to  implicit  belief  systems  and  the   West  increasingly  to  explicit  materialistic  approaches  and  technology?     If  as  Vision-­‐Space  suggests  there  are  essentially  three  powerhouses  involved  in   the  operations  of  perceptual  structure  involving  the  two  visual  pathways  each   with  their  distinctive  computational  process  and  mind  reliant  on  their  input,   then  mind  can  self-­‐organise  along  different  lines.  Does  mind  constantly  and   consistently  mediate  the  two  ‘takes’  on  reality  or  does  it  listen  to  one  more  than   the  other?  To  what  extent  do  environmental  considerations  even  factors  such  as   climate  help  to  ‘load’  the  dynamics  of  mediation  one  way  or  the  other  leading  to   persistent  bias  and  so  bias  to  the  development  of  cultures  with  opposing  world-­‐ views?     Engaging  with  this  type  of  extreme  extrapolation  from  a  simple  combination  of   factors  into  complex  cultural  interplay  is  fraught  with  difficulties  if  not   absurdities  and  can  only  at  best  provide  us  with  six-­‐mile  high  generalisations  at   the  point  of  delivery.  It’s  important  to  remember  that  vision  is  diagnostic  in   nature  and  hence  one  way  (Thanks  Jan  Koenderink!).    If  this  is  the  case  then   there  is  little  point  trying  to  reverse  engineer  the  specifics  of  visual  awareness    

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© Copyright PAC 2015   back  to  events  taking  place  on  the  retina.  However  it  may  be  possible  to  jump   from  generalised  experiential  encounter  (an  understanding  of  experiential   reality)  to  our  relationship  to  light  to  better  inform  our  approach  to   measurement  and  so  to  our  understanding  of  retinal  function  and  the  processing   taking  place  within  the  visual  pathways.  The  proposition  is  that  this   understanding  would  scale,  the  same  would  be  true  of  cultural  formations  and   the  decisions  that  individuals  make  with  respect  to  international  relations.  What   can  be  considered  to  be  vague,  contradictory  if  not  simplistic  at  the  high  level  can   be  traced  back  to  fundamental  physiology,  namely  the  ‘what’  and  ‘where’   ‘characterisations’  for  the  two  visual  pathways,  the  much  maligned  left  and  right   hemisphere  relationship  together  with  the  required  overseer  ‘mind’  controlling   their  mediation.       If  Vision-­‐Space  theory  is  correct3,  we  need  to  look  very  closely  at  the  onset  of   light  to  our  brain  tissue  as  biological  systems  and  then  to  the  neural  processing   leading  to  the  self-­‐organisation  of  mind  in  a  effort  to  understand  how  to  become   aware  of  what  currently  remains  a  ‘covert’  neural  processing  system.  The   implicit  aspect  of  neural  processing  is  covert  precisely  because  the  explicit   approach  to  reality  adopted  by  science  is  neither  involved  in  its  formation  nor   encounters  it.  This  lies  outside  G.  Bateson’s  notion  of  ‘information’  and  positions   information  as  that  which  takes  place  between  a  receiver  and  a  sender  sharing  a   common  code.  If  we  truly  wish  to  understand  the  nature  of  ‘experiential  reality’   and  ‘perceptual  structure’  then  we  can’t  escape  the  requirement  to  face  and  deal   with  the  experiential  first  hand  free  from  assumptions  about  the  nature  of   information.  Vision-­‐Space  theory  suggests  that  the  implicit  form  of  spatial   awareness  is  not  just  a  ‘difference’  to  be  realised  but  also  the  ‘realisation’  of  a   difference.  Implicit  spatial  awareness  is  a  manifestation  and  we  together  with   our  biology  can’t  be  extracted  from  the  presentation  and  it’s  realisation,  this   covert  data-­‐potential  being  prior-­‐to  the  formation  of  ‘information’.     Only  with  this  ‘in  hand’  can  we  hope  to  understand  how  to  go  about  making   observations  and  generating  information  that’s  truly  and  fully  meaningful.  So   actually,  we  need  to  undertake  more  subjective  evaluation  to  understand  how  to   direct  investigation,  not  less  for  fear  of  falling  foul  of  some  ‘clarity’  threshold   required  to  make  a  start.  The  requirement  to  ‘generalise’  based  on  subjective   evaluation  in  an  attempt  to  understand  our  cultures  is  as  inevitable  as  it  is   unavoidable  and  pertinent.       I  have  essentially  slept  walked  through  these  issues  as  Vision-­‐Space  has   developed.  

                                                                                                                3  Jupe  J.  2005  (2013)  PAC  (ERA)  Having  the  Courage  of  Your  Perceptions,  www.pacentre.org  

   

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After  years  of  education  I  finally  went  back  to  the  beginning  to  start  again!  1986  

  Beyond  throwing  out  everything  I  had  been  taught  and  starting  free  from   learned  prejudice  I  have  not  been  ‘in  control’  of  this  process.  Development  has   been  essentially  ‘hands  free’.  It’s  not  the  result  of  premeditated  intention  and  as   far  as  I  am  aware  is  independent  of  any  ‘belief’  structure.  I  can  declayer  myself  to   be  essentially  humanist  or  atheist  having  been  exposed  to  organised  religion  at   school.  What  a  performance!     Vision-­‐Space  attempts  to  model  visual  awareness  ensuring  that  it  addresses   experiential  reality  and  our  perceptual  structure  as  biological  systems  over   notions  of  optical  projection  and  intervention  from  the  supernatural.  It’s  by   carefully  looking  at  the  nature  of  experiential  reality  that  I  have  become  ‘attuned’   if  that  is  the  right  word,  to  the  influences  that  govern  its  formation  and   attributes.       As  my  all  too  slow  and  cumbersome  development  as  an  artist  took  place  I     ‘posted’  some  of  the  concurrent  world  events  and  which  ‘penetrated’  this  rather   inward  looking  activity.  I  was  quite  ‘unaware’  of  just  why  it  was  ‘necessary’  to   consider  them  alongside  the  activities  I  was  focused  on.  At  the  time  they  were   just  ‘context’.    

 

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Natural  Causes?  (Pol  Pot,  dies  1998  of  natural  causes  in  Cambodia?  A  man  ‘responsible’  for  2m+   of  his  fellow  countrymen’s  lives  and  for  impoverishing  his  country?  Can  we  understand  this  as  an   attempt  to  impose  a  purely  ‘implicit’  system?  Was  this  a  natural  phenomenon?  

     

 

  Chaos  and  Night?  (Tiananmen  Square  1989,  an  implicit  system  moves  to  stamp  out  a  call  for  a   more  democratic  house.  The  system  has  since  tried  to  adapt  and  permit  activities  that  admit  of  a   more  explicit  approach  to  the  economy  to  dramatic  effect.  Can  the  duality  be  controlled?  )  

   

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Russia?  (1991  Former  USSR  dissolves  through  economic  crisis  to  end  the  cold  war  it  could  no   longer  afford  to  sustain?  The  explicit  stand  off  was  maintained  through  the  cold  war  to  an  orderly   stand  down  –  will  the  positions  re-­‐form  when  funds  become  available  to  finance  the  opposition?     May-­‐be  we  won’t  be  so  lucky  next  time?)    

Relief  flight?  (Somalia  +  Kosovo  1990’s.  What’s  in  play  here?  How  to  respond  to  these  very   different  situations?  What  explicit  action  to  take?)      

 

 

 

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  Relief  flight?  (Somalia  +  +  Kosovo  1990’s.  What’s  in  play  here?  How  to  intervene?)    

 

  Do  this  in  remembrance  of  me?  (Srebrenica  1995:  The  former  Yugoslavia,  Bosnian  War.  Christian   right  wing  nationalists  organise  the  round  up  and  massacre  of  Muslim’s  from  the  community,  a   process  termed  ‘ethnic  cleansing’.  Concentration  camps  back  in  Europe.      

 

 

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Crossing  the  Line?  (Syria  2013:  Authoritarian  regime  gasses  it’s  own  population  in  brutal  civil  war   as  the  world  watched,  handcuffed  as  a  consequence  of  action  taken  in  Iraq  and  amid  clashes  of   ‘national  interests’?)     If  anyone  is  interested  as  to  why  there  is  a  10-­‐13  year  gap  in  painting  production,  it’s  because  I   had  to  sacrifice  the  studio  to  write  the  patents,  have  these  analysed,  raise  the  required  seed   investment  and  form  the  companies  to  oversee  the  creation  of  the  first  perceptual  technology:   Vision-­‐Space.4  

  I  just  could  not  get  my  head  around  the  thought  processes  that  generated  the   extreme  situations  that  were  taking  place.  At  a  conscious  level  I  considered  the   linkage  to  be  simply  references  to  inexplicable  events  that  occurred  ‘in  my  time’.   Their  inclusion  also  proffered  some  relief  from  the  confines  of  my  main   preoccupations  that  were  frankly  pictorially  rather  feeble  given  what  I  had   turned  my  back  upon.  These  subjects  allowed  me  the  chance  to  deploy  some  of   those  former  paradigm  picture-­‐space  techniques  to  save  my  blushes!  As  Vision-­‐ Space  has  matured  into  a  viable  system  (a  new  form  of  illusionary  space)  it  has   become  possible  to  stand  back  from  the  entire  enterprise  including  the  ‘news   items’.  I  can  start  to  form  a  rather  different  view  of  their  contribution  and   significance.  It  wasn’t  random;  there  was  a  genuine  linkage  that  I  just  couldn’t   address  at  the  time.  These  subjects  were  examples  of  situations  where  the   dynamic  interrelations  between  the  explicit  and  implicit  ‘takes’  on  reality  had  for   one  reason  or  another  broken  down.  They  may  not  relate  well  pictorially  but  do   so  on  another  level.                                                                                                                     4  The  Vision-­‐Space  patents  are  now  ‘lapsed’  as  the  UK  certainly  does  not  possess  the  cultural  strength  to  

develop  paradigm-­‐shifting  technology.  There’s  absolutely  no  ‘appetite’  for  taking  on  such  scale  hence  no   investment  models  or  relevant  business  skills/experience.  The  West  is  a  culture  reliant  on  the  ‘explicit’  and   wedded  to  2D  pictures,  detail  and  conventional  3D  (stereo  fusion)  and  consequently  has  little  interests  in   developing  an  ‘implicit’  rendering  system.  

 

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Vase  and  Screen  2009.  If  the  painting  is  viewed  in  a  large  mirror  the  depicted  scene  becomes   experientially  spatially  salient  (akin  to  traditional  3D  in  spatial  effect  without  the  need  for  visual   aids).    

  So  with  Vision-­‐Space  articulated  in  paintings  and  through  postprocess  software5   this  paper  is  a  first  attempt  at  a  180  degree  about  face  to  fearlessly  if  not   recklessly  point  the  beam  ahead.  I  am  encouraged  in  this  pursuit  by  others  such   as  Iain  McGilchrist  who’s  book  The  Master  &  his  Emissary,6  a  thorough,  honest   and  comprehensive  look  these  issues,  puts  the  case  for  the  West’s  overreliance   on  the  explicit  ‘take’  on  reality  and  the  possible  longer-­‐term  consequences  if   unchecked.  The  derivation  of  the  perceived  ‘imbalance’  is  taken  back  to  ancient   Greece  where  the  integrated  approach  of  Heraclitus  is  replaced  by  the   segregation  initiated  by  Plato.     This  separation  of  the  absolute  form  the  eternal,  which  can  be  known  by   logos  (reason),  from  the  purely  phenomenological,  which  is  now  seen  as   inferior,  leaves  an  indelible  stamp  on  the  history  of  Western  philosophy   for  the  subsequent  two  thousand  years.   Iain  McGilchrist  (Ch  8  The  ancient  world)     The  view  is  taken  that  the  West  has  become  over  dependent  on  its  technologies   that  are  the  result  of  close  liaison  between  mind  and  the  explicit  take  on  reality,  a   relationship  that  is  now  running  out  of  control  with  positive  feedback  having  a   seriously  detrimental  cultural  effect.  In  his  view  the  situation  requires  ‘re-­‐ balancing’  with  the  window  of  opportunity  closing.                                                                                                                     5  Open  source  code  is  available  on  request.   6  It  was  a  relief  to  pick  up  this  book  when  published,  as  I  realized  that  I  was  not  going  to  have  to  

make  the  case  myself!  Something  I  would  no  doubt  have  made  a  totally  unconvincing  hash  of!    

 

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Left  hemisphere:  dependent  on  denotative  language  and  abstraction,   yields  clarity  and  power  to  manipulate  things  that  are  known,  fixed,  static,   isolated,  decontextualised,  explicit,  disembodied,  general  in  nature,  but   ultimately  lifeless.     The  right  hemisphere:  yields  a  world  of  individual,  changing,  evolving,   interconnected,  implicit,  incarnate,  living  beings  within  the  context  of  the   lived  world,  but  in  the  nature  of  things  never  fully  graspable,  always   imperfectly  known.     Iain  McGilchrist  (Ch  4  The  Nature  of  the  two  worlds)  

  While  it’s  impossible  not  to  identify  with  the  encyclopaedic  tableau  envisaged  by   McGilchrist  his  approach,  as  a  neuropsychologist  is  necessarily  that  of  an   observer  looking  in.  He  is  not  engaged  in  the  investigation  of  the  experiential   first  hand  as  is  the  artist  and  so  is  unable  to  envisage  a  pro-­‐active  way  out  of  the   current  situation.  The  suggestion  is  that  we  must  await  the  ‘rebalancing’  over  a   significant  time  scale  and  take  the  consequences.     Vision-­‐Space  identifies  that  it’s  possible  to  conceive  of  ‘perceptual  technologies’   that  actively  address  the  stated  deficiencies  inherent  in  the  prevailing   development  paradigm.  We  can  overcome  the  positive  feedback  loop  if  we  can   grasp  the  fundamentals  of  perceptual  structure.  Note  that  I  envisage  the   situation  as  a  deficiency  in  our  conceptual  understanding  of  the  nature  of  reality.   What’s  required  are  technologies  that  incorporate  a  working  understanding  of   the  dynamic  mediation  of  both  the  explicit  and  implicit  by  mind.  The  current   deficiency  is  manifest  in  all  our  current  technologies  that  in  turn  generate  stimuli   devoid  of  the  ‘implicit  take  on  reality’  and  which  tend  towards  encouraging  our   further  isolation  from  a  core  element  of  experiential  reality.       The  ‘implicit’  processes  are  still  functioning  at  a  neurological  level  in  all  of  us  as   we  encounter  the  real  environment  and  we  should  set  about  identifying  the   factors  involved  in  order  to  manifest  and  deploy  a  new  paradigm  in  data   handling  and  information  display.  This  active  process  is  different  from  waiting   for  a  pendulum  to  swing  to  re-­‐balance  the  equation;  we  need  to  set  out  in  pursuit   of  an  understanding  of  perceptual  structure.  We  need  to  take  control.  In  order  to   bring  this  about  we  have  to  understand  more  about  the  computational  systems   involved  in  the  generation  of  perceptual  structure  and  why  they’re  there,  both  in   terms  of  the  attributes  they  afford  us  and  what  this  tells  us  about  the  way  we  are   embedded  within  the  universe  as  biological  systems.       Much  of  the  background  to  this  is  dealt  with  in  previous  Vision-­‐Space  articles   and  presentations,7  so  let’s  consider  the  possible  implications  of  typical   perceptual  systems  exhibiting  dominance  for  either  an  explicit  or  implicit  ‘take’   on  reality  lining  up  to  face  one  another.  Does  this  lead  to  incomprehensible   scenarios  and  power  struggles  amid  feelings  of  vulnerability,  betrayal  and   disbelief  leading  to  a  lack  of  trust  and  naked  unreserved  aggression?  Is  the  result                                                                                                                   7  List  of  online  presentations  and  articles  for  download  from:  www.pacentre.org      

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© Copyright PAC 2015   barbaric  behaviour  justified  in  terms  of  the  preservation  of  honour,  cultural   identity,  national  destiny  and  the  presumed  ‘right’  to  prevail  irrespective  of   consequence?       To  contemplate  this  and  how  to  avoid  such  confrontation  we  need  to  be  capable   of  considerable  degrees  of  empathy,  an  order  of  empathy  beyond  that  which  our   perceptual  system  readily  generates  within  a  dominant  core  arrangement,  the   deployment  of  empathy  that  transcends  the  system  in  which  we  reside.  Of  course   we  also  have  to  set  aside  hatreds  however  ingrained.  I  think  this  becomes   relatively  easy  once  the  artificial  ceiling  posited  by  the  dominance  between  mind   and  an  individual  ‘take’  on  reality  is  seen  for  what  it  is;  a  natural  phenomenon   with  a  natural  cause.  The  difference  becomes  explainable,  understandable.  In   short,  we  are  required  to  understand  the  current  scenario  within  one’s  own   culture  alongside  a  tacit  requirement  for  redress  and  attainment  at  home  in   order  to  progress.  Once  that  is  in  place  then  it  becomes  possible  to  empathise   with  a  culture  requiring  the  same  type  of  adjustment  but  involving  different   factors.  Why  is  this  not  an  insurmountable  problem?  Because  each  culture   ‘requires’  the  attainment  of  dynamic  integration  within  their  core  arrangement   in  order  to  continue  to  survive  and  thrive,  so  the  ‘solution’  to  each  culture’s   shortcomings  actually  lies  in  the  attributes  developed  within  the  opposing   culture.  We  have  to  learn  how  assist  each  other  to  undertake  this  process.     Vision-­‐Space  fully  recognises  this  scenario  as  it  plays  out  in  the  mechanics  of   perceptual  structure  and  in  the  formation  of  experiential  reality.  What’s  missing   from  western  technology  is  awareness  and  knowledge  of  the  implicit  and  how  to   apply  that  in  order  to  make  use  of  it,  or  in  other  words  realise  its  potential.  In  the   West  we  have  lost  contact  with  our  ability  to  contextualise  our  world-­‐view  in   relation  to  our  ‘explicit’  activity  that’s  now  to  a  great  extent  prescribed  by  our   technology.  To  attain  fully  immersive  technologies  however,  we  are  going  to   have  to  understand  the  ‘implicit’  and  what’s  actually  involved  in  an  act  of   observation.  Engineered  solutions  for  information  display  based  on  just  the   explicit  are  not  going  to  cut  it.  Saliency  is  not  a  matter  of  increasing  resolution  or   bandwidth,  neither  is  it  a  conventional  3D  issue!  Our  systems  simply  can’t  detect   or  handle  this  elusive  ‘implicit  reality’.  Where  is  it?  In  contrast  what’s  missing  in   some  Eastern  social  and  belief  structures  and  so  inhibiting  their  development  is   an  ability  to  make  the  most  of  their  resources  and  control  the  situation  without   resorting  to  suppression.  This  will  involve  involvement  with  other  cultures  and   systems  that  appear  alien.  The  (natural)  fear  being  that  any  explicit  control   diminishes  the  cultural  or  religious  bedrock  (belief  system)  on  which  the  implicit   system  is  founded.  The  implicit  system  has  to  acknowledge  other  implicit  and   explicit  systems  and  develop  mechanisms  of  working  with  them,  this  is  culturally   challenging.  It’s  the  fear  of  a  cultural  take-­‐over  by  the  explicit  through  trade,   culture  and  technology  that’s  driving  hatred  of  the  West  and  we  in  the  West  just   can’t  understand  the  problem  because  we  can’t  ‘see’  or  ‘quantify’  the  threat  we   pose.  After  all,  our  technology  works,  our  people  seem  broadly  happy  with  the   system  they  live  within  that  creates  it.  What  need  for  the  implicit?    

 

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© Copyright PAC 2015   Some  neuroscientists  see  the  right  brain  as  essentially  pointless  as  it  can’t  detect   its  contribution  with  technology  developed  by  the  explicit  mind-­‐set.  The  right   hemisphere  appears  to  be  for  the  most  part  silent,  unnecessary,  however   psychologists  encounter  it!  At  an  international  communication  level  this   develops  into  being  more  than  a  situation  to  be  overcome  by  more  ‘open  trade’!   The  mechanisms  underpinning  global  trade  are  themselves  perceived  to  favour   the  West  as  they  were  forged  and  remain  managed  by  explicit  processes  and   technologies.  Unrestricted  trade,  without  adaptation,  will  be  seen  as  a  cause  of   friction  and  not  the  route  to  greater  understanding.  In  the  West  we  have  to   acknowledge  that  the  operations  of  our  systems  imposed  on  a  global  basis,  are   heavily  biased  by  our  explicit  cultural  take  on  reality  and  are  in  need  of  review.   Otherwise  trade  and  offers  of  assistance,  military  or  otherwise,  will  be  perceived,   manipulated  and  presented  within  implicit  social  systems  as  invasion  by  proxy   and  by  stealth  in  pursuit  of  cultural  dominance.       We  all  need  to  understand  the  mix  of  the  core  factors  that  underpin  our  own   cultures  in  order  that  we  can  appreciate  the  inherent  strengths,  preferences  and   shortcomings  of  our  respective  systems.  Then  we  can  contextualise  other   cultures  as  being  simply  the  result  of  the  same  biological  systems  controlled  by  a   shared  perceptual  structure  generating  different  cultural  expressions  deserving   of  and  requiring  respect  and  understanding.  Each  culture  actually  possesses   what  the  other  needs  to  maintain  a  healthy  outlook  on  the  world,  ensure  its   diversity  and  it’s  ability  to  develop  a  functional  multicultural  environment.  This   self-­‐knowledge  will  enrich  world  culture.  In  the  process  the  anxieties  that  feed   the  tensions  at  the  political  and  religious  level  should  ease.  This  is  more  than  a   win-­‐win  situation.  We  must  affect  this.    

 

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Escape  to  Eilat?  2001    

 

  I  was  privileged  enough  to  take  two  holiday’s  in  Eilat,  Israel  when  my  children   were  young  in  order  to  escape  the  worst  of  the  English  winter  (to  those  who   have  no  notion  of  ‘dull  and  dreary’,  that  was  a  luxury!).  Apart  from  the  obvious   benefits  of  being  a  tourist  on  holiday  I  was  also  curious  to  experience  the   situation  on  the  ground  in  this  troubled  environment.  Eilat,  situated  at  the  head   of  the  Red  Sea  on  narrow  strip  of  land  extending  up  into  Israel  is  a  stupendously   beautiful  place.  From  Eilat  you  can  see  Egypt,  Saudi  and  Jordon.       The  settlements  around  Eilat  were  at  the  time  low  rise,  calm,  demure  and   appeared  to  form  part  of  the  landscape.  They  ‘presented’  as  natural  extensions  of   the  environment.  This  ‘belonging’  only  comes  with  the  centuries  and  the   development  of  a  culture  in  sympathy  with  its  surroundings.  In  contrast  Eilat   was  being  developed  at  a  fearsome  rate  into  a  serious  Western,  if  not  American   style  holiday  resort.  Putting  aside  the  emotive  history  of  nation  building  and  land   acquisition  for  a  moment,  there  was  a  clear  clash  of  cultures  and  while  we  had  an   unforgettable  time,  I  have  to  say  I  felt  uncomfortable  and  part  of  an   unsympathetic  intrusion  into  the  landscape  and  possibly  to  the  lives  of  those   nearby.  I  doubt  that  ‘an  impact  assessment’  was  made  taking  into  account  the   interests  of  neighbouring  settlements!  I  realises  this  is  a  trivial  example,  what’s   evoked  here  is  a  situation  that  exists  with  development  projects  the  world  over,   but  these  generally  occur  within  stable  national  boundaries  or  with  close   neighbours  that  share  deep  cultural  references.  With  planning  and  dialogue  it’s   possible  the  mediate  the  situation.    

 

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© Copyright PAC 2015     In  the  broader  context  of  Israel  and  Palestine,  if  we  consider  the  pioneering  spirit   of  America  as  a  ‘young’  country  and  the  way  it  has  asserted  itself  over  it’s   landscape  (think  Miami  and  Houston!)  and  then  consider  the  linkages  with  a   ‘young’  Israel  asserting  its  newly  acquired  territorial  rights  and  developing   economy  within  an  area  that  had  been  under  dual  cultural  occupancy  for   centuries,  it’s  a  situation  that  without  very  careful  choreography  with  respect  to   the  interests  involved  at  the  outset  would  be  bound  to  develop  into   straightforward  hostility?  A  hostility  that  once  entrenched  had  any  number  of   potential  avenues  to  feed  itself.  As  we  know,  largely  due  to  the  pressures   prevailing  at  the  time,  there  was  effectively  zero  choreography  and  consequently   maximum  affront  visited  upon  the  Palestinian  interest  that  had  little  option  but   to  formulate  some  sort  of  oposition  in  light  of  the  betrayal.     In  the  most  general  terms  the  implicit  system  and  culture  sees  self  as   interconnected  with  everything  else.  It’s  inclusive  of  everything  that’s   appreciated  to  be  part  of  the  system,  extending  across  the  system.  If  something   isn’t  aligned,  the  system  struggles  to  comprehend  it,  indeed  all  ‘else’  is  alien  by   definition  and  categorised  together  as  extraneous,  for  example  –infidel,   barbarian,  out  side  the  set.  Peripheral  vision  detects  anomalies.  In  general  all   organised  world  religions  and  national  identities  fall  into  the  ‘implicit’  category.   There  can  be  little  surprise  then  that  they  struggle  to  contextualise  one  another.   Whose  God  is  it  anyway?  In  contrast  the  explicit  system  encounters  the  world  in   fragments,  boundaries  and  in  detail  that  together  build  a  picture.  The  explicit   mind-­‐set  looks  to  apportion  land  and  demark  national  boundaries.  The  approach   handles  decontextualized  quantities  one  at  a  time  and  then  looks  for  a   relationship.  Performing  this  explicit  deed  over  land  with  dual  imbedded  and   interwoven  implicit  cultural  occupancy  in  clear  favour  of  one  interest  group  to   leave  the  other  to  fight  for  its  existence  was  beyond  inappropriate.  As  we  know   the  situation  at  the  time  at  the  end  of  the  Second  World  War  generated  the   conditions  under  which  the  fateful  decisions  were  taken  in  order  to  try  to   alleviate  the  Jewish  question  where  hands  were  forced  in  part  by  Jewish   terrorism.  This  set  up  an  enduring  situation  where  the  cultures  operating  under   a  secular  and  explicit  take  on  reality  were  and  are  still  seen  to  be  responsible  for   an  injustice  visited  upon  an  implicit  culture  that  must  then  look  to  its  interests   through  its  strengths.  There  are  then  those  that  look  for  power  through   protraction  and  intensification  exploiting  the  situation  at  the  cost  of  those  they   represent.  Integrated  coexistence  within  one  nation  based  on  a  mediated   scenario  in  line  with  perceptual  structure  and  mutual  respect  for  each  others   belief  systems  that  are  of  course  related,  is  just  a  dream  until  the  peoples  decide   that  they  have  had  enough  and  draw  fixation  for  themselves.  Take  control  and   stop  being  re-­‐presented  by  those  determined  to  exclude  or  subjugate.       I  choose  the  Islamic  faith  for  obvious  reasons  as  representative  of  an  implicit   system  where  a  religion  aspires  to  control  politics,  economics  and  social  order  as   a  theocracy  and  where  some  are  looking  to  enforce  this  on  a  global  basis.   Judaism  is  not  much  different  in  outlook  but  has  different  coping  mechanisms  

 

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© Copyright PAC 2015   and  lacks  the  global  domination  aspiration.  I  know  next  to  nothing  about  these   faiths  and  am  not  interested  in  them  beyond  their  ability  to  serve  as  examples  of   eastern  implicit  systems  with  embedded  extremist  elements  adhering  to  the   notion  of  theocracy.  I  claim  no  in-­‐depth  understanding  of  the  religions  and  deal   with  the  issues  at  the  six-­‐mile  high  altitude  where  the  characterisations  of   implicit  and  explicit  can  perhaps  hold  some  meaning.  At  the  six-­‐mile  high   altitude  the  grain  is  not  even  high  enough  to  delineate  the  various   denominations  of  the  Christian  or  Jewish  religions!  So  in  contrast  to  the   extremist  Islamic  contingent  the  Christian  church  (another  implicit  structure),   can  be  characterised  as  playing  a  more  conciliatory  role  in  most  Western   societies  where  politics  and  economics  dominate  in  secular  states  with  liberal   social  values  amid  multicultural  aspirations  including  millions  of  Muslims  and   Jews.  Here  implicit  belief  structures  are  managed  within  a  national  context  so  we   can  assume  that  a  degree  of  ‘mediation’  between  the  explicit  and  implicit  is   enacted.  So  there  are  serious  question  marks  as  how  a  theocracy  could   participate  within  a  multicultural  society  as  all  other  structures  within  that   society  would  remain  outside  the  set,  outside  its  collective  ‘reality’.  A  blasphemy   within  a  theocracy  can  be  delineated  as  punishable  by  death  and  that  law   enacted.  But  that  law  does  not  hold  for  a  territory  or  just  its  system,  it’s   considered  ‘reality’  justified  by  God  and  extending  across  the  universe!  Salman   Rushdie  has  been  a  victim  of  this  nonsense.  A  theocracy  as  with  a  dictatorship   evokes  divine  right  or  absolute  right  and  by  definition  can’t  acknowledge  secular   controls  or  freedom  of  speech  as  they  negate  its  core  beliefs  and  so  its  very   existence.      

   

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  So  the  belief  umbrella  of  a  theocracy  is  extended  to  all  who  declayer  themselves   members  or  for  our  purposes  here  ‘Islamic’,  wherever  they  are  in  the  world.  The   system  crosses  national  boundaries  and  continents  where  allegiance  is  to  faith   first.  The  mantra  implies  that  any  action  that’s  deemed  to  be  a  threat  or  an  attack   on  a  Muslim  constitutes  an  attack  on  all  Muslims  and  the  system  to  which  they   form  a  part.  This  is  obviously  more  than  a  statement  of  solidarity  it  forms  a   significant  element  of  the  belief  structure,  its  membership  appeal  and  hence  its   strength.  It’s  also  the  mechanism  through  which  those  wishing  to  impose  a  global   theocracy  are  exploiting  the  Islamic  faith  and  faithful.       A  very  great  deal  of  power  resides  at  the  centre  of  such  a  structure  that’s   essentially  non-­‐accountable  to  secular  authority  and  will  resist  its  imposition   with  a  membership  that  spans  the  globe  and  is  unaware  of  the  conceit.  Within   the  structure,  as  long  as  actions  and  deeds  can  be  ‘aligned’  with  the  general   structural  tenets  of  the  religion  there  is  an  implicit  freedom  to  operate.  Once   taped,  just  one  charismatic  individual  considered  to  embody  its  essence  could   control  considerable  segments  of  populations  remotely  presenting  an  attractive   target  and  prize  for  the  power  crazed?  It’s  the  calculated  summoning  up  of  this   mass  conditioning,  usually  by  taking  control  of  an  existing  system  and  using  it   parasitically  by  inadequate  and  misguided  people  that  needs  to  be  understood,   controlled  and  where  possible  the  abuse  prevented  from  seeding.      

 

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© Copyright PAC 2015   Hitler  was  of  course  a  trained  artist  …as  am  I!  Accessed  by  an  individual,  the   ‘implicit’  is  usually  used  creatively  and  positively  in  the  celebration  of  life.  In  the   euphoria  associated  with  nationalism  and  religion  individuals  en-­‐mass  abdicate   their  personal  responsibility  to  critically  assess  situations  for  themselves  in   favour  of  the  vision  supplied  by  the  centre.  They  become  ‘bound’  to  the  system,   which  is  more  than  being  ‘supportive’  the  system  becomes  them  as  they  are  of   the  system.  I  guess  it's  a  great  relief  to  be  a  member?  No  need  to  fixate  and  draw   focus,  no  need  to  mediate  just  follow,  the  explicit  having  been  taken  care  of.     Inherent  in  most  implicit  structures  is  the  potential  to  set  up  subsidiary  centres   within  the  system  as  long  as  the  basics  tenets  are  adhered  to.  Not  difficult  in  the   case  of  religions  once  a  few  ‘golden  rules’  in  obscuration  are  mastered.  Once   established  the  centre  is  essentially  powerless  to  act  upon  these  sub-­‐sets  as  they   become  indistinguishable  from  the  system,  to  the  system.  The  structure  is  self-­‐ similar.  Once  established  these  new  centres  can  grow  in  influence  with  their   activities  accepted  as  being  a  product  ‘of  the  system’  and  so  the  system  naturally   ‘works’  to  defend  or  justify  their  actions.      

    Consequently,  there  is  little  in  the  way  of  ‘a  process’  to  deal  with  extremism  from   within  the  operational  structure  of  an  implicit  system,  a  situation  that  opens  it   up  to  exploitation.  As  a  consequence  the  implicit  system  is  almost  incapable  of   determining  and  facing  down  aspects  that  need  internal  redress  as  such  action   would  imply  that  the  very  system  to  which  all  belong  is  in  need  of  redress.  In  the   case  of  the  Islamic  faith,  it  is?  This  is  not  intended  to  be,  and  is  not  an  anti  Islamic    

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© Copyright PAC 2015   statement,  it's  a  valid  observation  about  he  nature  of  ‘implicit’  structures  and   hence  the  rationale  of  theocracies.  It’s  something  that  all  implicit  systems  should   be  aware  of  from  belief  systems  to  nationalist  organisations.  Condemnation  of   the  actions  of  embedded  individuals  performing  acts  of  terrorism  or  racism  is   not  good  enough  unless  reform  is  embarked  upon  within  the  system  to  isolate   and  so  prevent  the  source  of  the  abuse  for  the  future.  The  implicit  system  by   itself  is  not  sufficient.  It  is  not  a  stand  in  for  ‘reality’.      

    The  proposition  here  is  that  the  holistic  nature  of  an  implicit  system  mirrors  the   holistic  right  brain  take  on  reality  so  is  entirely  natural.  If  Vision-­‐Space  theory  is   correct  it  mirrors  the  nature  of  the  field  structure  that  plays  out  as  contextual   vision  (known  under  the  term  ‘peripheral’  vision).  We  have  to  assume  that  these   processes  are  ubiquitous  in  sensory  perception,  sensory  integration  and   probably  other  mental  systems  including  memory.  It’s  likely  that  they  are   Bayesian  in  a  nature.  The  associated  neural  processing  may  be  ‘covert’  but  its   contribution  to  experiential  reality  is  very  real.  Attention  in  peripheral  vision  is   holistic;  the  entire  structure  forms  a  web  alert  to  vibrations  or  anomalies  and  is   attended  too  as  one  structure.  Within  the  phenomenon  of  vision,  the  field   structure  of  peripheral  vision  detects  unidentified  encroachment;  the  situation  is   then  handed  over  to  the  explicit  system  through  a  saccade  where  the  threat  is   properly  identified  through  fixation  and  decontextualised.  A  detailed  analysis  is   then  swiftly  carried  out  with  appropriate  action  taken.        

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    A  heavily  implicit  system  lacks  and  actively  opposes  the  explicit  toolset  required   to  perform  the  necessary  task  driven  actions  to  address  its  internal  situation.  It’s   powerless  to  clean  up  its  act.  A  form  of  paralysis  sets  in  where  ideological  and   cultural  reform  appears  to  be  required  to  take  even  a  simple  step  that  would  be   deemed  ‘obvious’  and  acted  upon  almost  instantaneously  by  an  explicit  system.   In  this  context  we  can  perhaps  understand  that  the  very  last  thing  that  can  be   countenanced  is  the  West  suggesting  or  providing  the  ‘explicit’  guidance   required  to  distinguish  irregular  activity  from  the  legitimate  as  it’s  the  West’s   explicit  fragmentary  take  on  reality  that’s  identified  by  the  implicit  as  alien  and   posing  a  threat?     In  contrast,  the  explicit  system  can’t  begin  to  consider  what  could  be  wrong  with   defining  more  and  more  detail,  establishing  greater  clarification,  the  removal  of   unwanted  ‘noise’  that  serves  no  purpose,  the  elimination  of  the  distraction.  It   would  fail  to  pick  up  encroachment  from  within  the  contextual  environment  and   understand  the  related  signals  as  it  attends  in  detail,  or  focuses  on  its  designated   task.  There  is  little  in  the  way  of  contextual  spatial  awareness  as  the  implicit  web   or  field  structure  is  not  wired  to  conscious  awareness.  It’s  been  discarded  or  is   ignored  in  order  to  freely  pursue  its  explicit  goals.  Multiculturalism  within  an   educated  community  with  a  sound  legal  framework  must  be  manageable?   Because  the  system  rigorously  looks  at  the  detail  in  everything  it  can’t  be  missing   anything  significant,  can  it?  The  explicit  mind-­‐set  refuses  to  even  countenance   the  possibility  that  it’s  actually  operating  partially  blind.  The  same  is  true  of  the   implicit  system.    

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© Copyright PAC 2015     This  is  of  course  not  to  say  that  the  implicit  take  on  reality  is  not  operational  in   everyone’s  experiential  encounters,  it’s  just  that  the  linkage  is  not  being  made   between  experiential  awareness  and  our  conceptual  systems.  The  implicit  is  not   actively  involved  in  the  formation  of  strategy  or  the  planning  of  actions  or   attended  to  in  the  design  of  technology.  Such  suppression  actually  leads  to  gross   inefficiency  just  as  processing  events  in  a  linear  fashion  quickly  leads  to   information  overload.  The  solution  is  sought  in  terms  of  ‘in  house’  efficiencies,   working  faster  or  for  less.       The  West’s  behaviour  towards  cultures  centred  in  the  implicit  is  often  autistic  in   nature.  The  explicit  is  heavily  task  and  delivery  orientated  so  obstacles  to  its  on-­‐ going  activity  defined  as  ‘progress,’  must  be  resisted  or  countermanded  if  the   economic  benefits  the  explicit  engine  clearly  provides  are  to  continue  to   manifest.  Control  of  the  system  is  achieved  by  controlling  the  apparatus  and   systems  the  people  use  to  deliver  product.  The  imposition  of  our  ‘enlightenment’   to  an  implicit  system  is  considered  disrespectful.  Note  the  ‘personalisation’  of  the   impersonal.     1. The  terrorist  act  was  initiated  in  the  implicit  system  that  feels  culturally   threatened  by  the  imposition  of  explicit  systems  and  technologies  from   which  there  appears  to  be  no  escape.  To  the  explicit  systems  the  attack   comes  out  of  nowhere  without  warning  or  justification.  So  as  the  smart   bomb  takes  out  the  individuals  deemed  to  ‘be  responsible’  for  the   terrorist  act,  the  implicit  social  order  responds  with  sorrow  for  the   ‘Martyr’  of  Islam  and  incomprehension  with  respect  to  a  culture  that   thinks  that  the  solution  to  its  problems  lies  in  harming  the  Islamic  world-­‐ view  and  belief  system.  It’s  obvious  to  those  within  the  system  that   another  will  take  his  place.  The  West  would  need  to  kill  everyone  one  by   one,  with  these  remotely  controlled  smart  bombs  to  defeat  the  system?     2. In  the  same  way,  as  the  explicit  system  experiences  resistance  to  its   commercial  operations  supported  by  its  political  apparatus  it  observes   the  brutal  beheading  of  Western  individuals  as  a  tragedy  for  the  family   concerned  and  evidence  of  barbaric  behaviour  on  behalf  of  individuals   mislead  by  their  culture  or  a  perversion  of  their  culture.  It’s  bewildered   that  those  concerned  are  still  maintained  within  the  Islamic  faith  and   appear  to  receive  its  tacit  protection.  Why  don’t  they  take  action  to   prevent  this  horror  exacted  against  a  system  that  brings  advancement  to   so  many?  The  West  looks  on  in  amazement  as  these  pointless  and  horrific   acts  are  performed,  as  they  clearly  don’t  touch  the  explicit  systems  they   were  designed  to  harm.  They  only  heap  shame  on  a  world  religion.     Each  position  is  incomprehensible  to  the  other  unless  we  consider  the   perceptual  roots  that  gave  rise  to  the  systems  and  how  each  is  inherent  in  the   other.  However  extreme  the  apparent  dislocation  is  between  the  views  acted  out,   the  proposition  is  that  they  have  evolved  from  very  small  differences  in  the   arrangements  of  the  core  elements  of  a  self-­‐organising  perceptual  structure.  In  

 

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© Copyright PAC 2015   the  absence  of  an  effective  collective  mediator  at  the  level  of  cultural  interplay  to   match  the  role  that  ‘mind’  plays  in  sensory  perception,  one  take  on  reality   squares  up  to  the  other.  We  are  doing  all  this  to  ourselves,  how  stupid  is  that?   We  simply  don't  have  enough  of  an  overview  to  deal  with  and  manage  the   situations  that  arise  naturally  in  our  house  and  then  play  out  across  the  globe.              

 

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© Copyright PAC 2015   Infidel?     Islamic  State,  Abu   Bakr  al-­‐Baghdadi   summons  up  the   implicit?  The  implicit   can  be  harnessed  to   the  flip-­‐side  of  the   creative  act:   unrestricted   destruction.  The   puppet  masters   mistakenly  believe   that  they  are  both   justified  and  in   control  –  Their  power   is  delusional,  a  vanity,   as  the  implicit  can’t   be  controlled  once  set   free?  The  ‘subject   matter’  in  the  panels   forming  the  triptych   is  to  be  found  as   much  in  the  context   as  it  is  located  at  the   focus  of  attention.   The  context  is  not   pictorial  infill.  

 

   

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© Copyright PAC 2015   Multicultural  states  cannot  be  ‘tyrant’  or  ‘theocracy’  friendly  on  an  internal  basis.   Those  resident  in  multicultural  states  and  belonging  to  faith  systems  that  are   sympathetic  to  these  conditions  will  need  to  adjust  and  accept  that  faith  is   secondary  to  the  state  and  that  their  belief  system  forms  only  part  of  a  tapestry.   Voting,  practicing  their  religion  and  holding  a  passport  should  be  conditional  on   acceptance  of  some  basic  tenets.  Immigration  should  be  subject  to  the  relevant   education  being  in  place  to  culminate  in  complicity.  There  is  little  point  in  setting   out  to  ‘fight  terror’  instigated  from  within  a  belief  system  such  as  Islam  without   addressing  these  issues  at  home  first.  There  has  to  be  more  to  being  a  citizen  of  a   multicultural  society  than  being  present  within  it.     World  religions  do  not  have  a  right  to  deference  and  the  Muslim  faith  is  just  one   of  many.  Religions  have  the  right  to  try  to  contribute  to  make  multicultural  states   better  places  to  live  in  pursuit  of  their  agendas  but  those  agendas  are  not   separate  from  the  state  in  which  they  are  resident.  There  is  no  implicit  God  given   right  to  be  apart  of  a  multicultural  secular  society.  It's  a  privilege  that  can  and   should  be  withdrawn  from  any  organisation  or  individual  that  finds  itself  unable   to  support  and  contribute  on  that  basis.     It's  the  structures  in  the  form  of  organised  religion,  put  around  the  implicit  that   sets  up  the  potential  for  conflict  between  systems.  Organised  religions  with  their   associated  ideologies  and  dogmas  may  seek  to  define  and  control  the  implicit  but   they  are  actually  incompatible  with  one  another.  As  long  as  that  is  understood   then  it  becomes  eminently  possible  to  practice  a  religion  without  fanaticism  and   so  exclusion.       Multicultural  societies  should  be  quite  unequivocal  and  look  to  enforce  this  level   of  control  and  acceptance  over  all  implicit  belief  systems  operating  within  them.   The  ‘flowering’  of  Islamic  State  should  deliver  some  clear  indicators  as  this   affective  hijacking  of  a  world  religion  has  the  potential  to  form  a  genuine  threat   to  Western  multicultural  societies.  Blasphemy  is  an  unnecessary  social  faux  pas   to  be  endured  and  so  rendered  toothless.  Satire  is  a  valid  tool  in  keeping  a   multicultural  democratic  society  buoyant  and  it  also  has  that  capability  to  shine   enough  light  upon  religious  structures  to  reveal  their  shortcomings  and  the   motivations  of  those  that  command  their  flocks,  which  is  of  course  why  those   attempting  to  subvert  multicultural  secular  societies  target  their  court  jesters.   The  satirist  confronts  and  reveals  the  conceit.     Vision-­‐Space  theory  suggests  that  we  may  need  to  think  again  with  respect  to  the   specifics  of  McGilchrist’s  interpretation  of  the  explicit,  implicit  and  mind   relationship.  While  the  West  has  indeed  developed  a  strong  conscious   connection  with  the  explicit  take  on  reality  I  think  the  major  catastrophes’  of  the   twentieth  century  are  actually  a  case  of  the  unaccounted  for  and  often   suppressed  ‘implicit’  getting  out  of  control  as  opposed  to  the  overly  strong  bond   between  the  mind  and  the  ‘explicit’  take  on  reality.  This  is  not  just  a  change  of   emphasis  as  it  suggests  that  instead  of  setting  out  to  weaken  the  mind’s   connection  with  the  explicit  we  need  to  establish  just  what  the  ‘implicit’  is  all  

 

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© Copyright PAC 2015   about  and  reengage  with  it  in  a  positive  controlled  manner  in  line  with  the   operations  of  perceptual  structure.  What  are  the  computational  processes   involved  in  the  formation  of  the  implicit  take  on  reality  and  so  what  is  it  are  we   missing  from  our  considerations  about  the  nature  of  reality?  We  routinely  fail  to   understand  the  processes  associated  with  the  ‘implicit’  and  so  they  remain   subconscious,  ignored  and  essentially  out  of  reach  so  out  of  effective  control.  It   may  well  be  the  technologies,  economic  systems  and  weaponry  of  countries  lined   up  to  blow  seven  bells  out  of  one  another  are  undoubtedly  the  result  of  a  strong   explicit  connection  with  mind,  but  it’s  the  lack  of  control  over  these  factors  that’s   the  problem.  The  lack  of  control  reflects  not  just  imbalance  in  our  house  it   reflects  a  fundamental  lack  of  perceptual  understanding.      

Attending  the  Gun  -­‐  A  Fading  Memory?  Explicit  verses  explicit,  let  loose  by  implicit  forces  running   out  of  control?  The  European  killing  fields  were  an  entirely  avoidable  catastrophe  with  natural   causes?  What  was  the  point,  what  was  not  in  play  at  the  political  level  that  allowed  it  to  happen,   what  were  we  blind  too  that  imposed  such  an  epic  catastrophe?  

 

  We  missed  something  at  the  start  of  the  first  world  war  because  we  failed  to  take   proper  account  of  a  powerful  contributing  factor  in  the  formation  of  perceptual   reality,  a  very  potent  force  active  within  our  social  system  but  without  a  name   and  not  present  or  accounted  for  within  our  explicit  approach  to  international   relations.  The  implicit  take  on  reality  in  the  form  of  nationalism  could  take   control  of  international  relations  and  there  was  nothing  in  place  to  prevent   escalation  once  set  in  motion.  The  detailed  explicit  political  controls  set  up  to   deal  with  international  relations  were  trumped  and  bypassed  by  irrational   thinking  at  head-­‐of-­‐state  level.  All  that  was  required  was  a  near  meaningless   spark.  This  was  enough  to  put  in  play  the  implicit  forces  bound  up  in   nationalism.  In  failing  to  acknowledge  the  implicit,  how  it  can  be  manipulated   and  motivated  we  failed  to  understand  what  was  required  to  control  and  manage   it’s  excesses.  It  was  also  missing  as  the  fire  burnt  itself  out  with  the  loss  of  15-­‐18   million  lives  (if  we  count  disease)  when  punitive  reparations  were  imposed  on   Germany  to  set  up  the  next  scenario  with  equally  disastrous  results.  This  time  it   was  as  if  the  implicit  force  was  deliberately  summoned  as  opposed  to   inadvertently  let  loose?    

 

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© Copyright PAC 2015   Such  simplistic  reasoning  would  identify  that  it’s  the  ‘dark’  implicit  that   ultimately  holds  the  trump  cards  despite  what  the  explicit  develops  in  isolation   in  the  way  of  faith  books,  constitutions,  treaties,  and  weapon  systems  and  their   controls.  Push  the  implicit  too  far  and  not  understand  how  to  contain  it  and   reasoned  control  will  be  lost.  We  need  to  understand  when  we  are  ‘pushing’  at   this  gate.  This  caricature  runs  counter  too  much  that  has  been  stated  about  the   nature  of  the  ‘implicit’.  It’s  generally  thought  of  and  experienced  as,  benign,   passive,  sub-­‐conscious,  harmless,  peace  loving,  silent,  demure,  dark  and  right   brain  the  acknowledged  seat  of  creativity.  Could  this  condition  of  mind  become   aligned  to  horror  after  sleeping  like  a  dormant  volcano?  Is  there  a  tipping  point   when  the  implicit  system  goes  critical  or  becomes  susceptible  to  exploitation?  At   such  times  or  points  in  history  it  matters  not  what  reasonable  arguments  are   posed  by  the  explicit  system.  Rational  communication  doesn’t  just  breakdown,  it   gets  overwritten,  trampled  on  as  whole  populations  or  segments  of  populations   turn  and  stampede.  If  the  implicit  represents  serenity  at  rest,  when  ‘running  red’   it  would  also  represent  the  single  most  destructive  force  in  human  nature.  With   the  loss  of  control  the  defensive  systems  created  by  the  explicit  loose  their   deterrent  value  and  switch  almost  instantaneously  to  being  ‘offensive’  tools.   When  this  state  is  reached  the  explicit  is  essentially  countermanded  by  the   implicit  and  the  hunt  rides  out.  With  containment  no  longer  an  option  we  are   simply  engaged  and  enmeshed  in  the  destruction  right  through  to  burn  out.  This   is  not  really  the  same  thing  as  to  say  the  fire  was  quenched  or  extinguished,  to   then  be  termed  a  ‘victory’.  War  can  be  thought  of  as  a  natural  event  that   eventually  burns  itself  out.  The  question  is  have  we  learned  enough  about  fire   prevention?  Remembrance  in  November  is  not  enough.  We  need  to  understand   this  force  that  wells  up  from  beneath  us  to  ride-­‐out.     Remember  these  delineations  remain  just  ‘characterisations’.  We  characterise   for  a  reason.  We  accentuate  in  order  to  realise  something  that  would  otherwise   remain  hidden  while  in  clear  view.  Only  with  a  computational  system  for  the   implicit  describing  how  it  operates  in  the  formation  of  experiential  reality  can   methodologies  be  developed  to  deal  with  the  related  social  issues  and  maintain   the  system  in  its  benign  state  to  contribute  supportively  alongside  the  explicit.   Vision-­‐Space  theory  suggests  that  the  implicit  unfolds  from  a  noise  function;  it   ‘presents’  to  us  so  is  alien  to  ‘re-­‐presentation’  with  which  we  are  familiar.  It  can’t   be  touched  or  measured  prior  to  presentation  so  lies  beyond  reach  of  our   existing  explicit  tool  set.  We  are  not  going  to  catch  the  implicit  in  the  explicit  net   however  fine  the  mesh.  To  understand  the  implicit  we  are  going  to  have  to  look   very  closely  at  the  nature  of  the  presentation  of  sensory  phenomena  and  at  the   sensory  systems  that  receive  and  develop  the  related  data-­‐potentials.       We  know  that  the  visual  pathways  are  characterised  with  a  ‘what’  and  ‘where’   functionality.  We  also  know  that  both  pathways  selectively  ‘take’  from  the  other   to  assist  and  justify  the  development  of  their  particular  ‘take’  on  reality.  This  is   not  the  same  as  saying  that  the  processing  systems  are  communicating  with  each   other,  quite  the  opposite.  These  operations  are  more  like  raiding  parties,  taking  

 

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© Copyright PAC 2015   things  that  are  of  useful  to  a  formation  and  then  scarpering!  It’s  not  sabotage   either,  its  covert  operation,  hacking?  The  pathways  are  entwined  to  this  degree.       At  receptor  level  it  would  also  appear  that  the  implicit  data-­‐potential  derives   from  the  rods  in  the  retina  probably  working  in  conjunction  with  other   receptors,  both  intrinsically  photoreceptive  ganglion  cells  (ipRGC)  and  cones  at   photopic  lighting  levels.8  Conventionally  rods  are  thought  of  as  saturated  at   photopic  levels  so  data  transference  is  unlikely  to  be  related  to  chemical   processes  measuring  light  intensity  that  we  already  know  a  good  deal  about.  We   should  be  looking  at  ambient  light  factors  and  for  changes  in  neural  coding   coinciding  with  receptor  transitions  involving  scoptic,  mesopic  and  photopic   lighting  conditions.  Within  the  visual  pathways,  we  should  be  looking  closely  at   dark  light  and  the  way  that  noise  is  retained  and  propagated  through  the  system.   A  process  that’s  likely  to  use  both  internal  (biological)  and  external  (signal)  noise   events  concentrating  on  the  ‘where’  pathway  strongly  associated  with  the  dorsal   stream  through  the  superior-­‐colliculus  and  thalamic  areas  of  the  old  brain  (brain   stem  structures)  and  then  cortical  right  brain  activity.  This  work  should  be  cross-­‐ correlated  with  physiological  conditions  including  ASD,  stroke  victims  and  of   course  with  the  developing  academic  programming  architecture  for  Vision-­‐Space   and  the  stimuli  that  it  produces  for  evaluation.     In  everyday  circumstances  our  minds  mediate  the  implicit  and  explicit  with  great   dexterity  to  provide  the  necessary  impression  of  the  singular  uniformity  of  our   visual  environment  to  assist  in  our  daily  tasks.  Our  cultures  and  social  systems   are  not  as  well  managed.  We  need  to  ‘learn’  how  to  look.  Understand  what’s   involved  in  an  act  of  observation  and  apply  it  at  cultural  and  inter-­‐cultural  levels.   A  good  starting  point  would  be  to  jointly  develop  perceptual  technologies  that   reflect  the  intricacies  of  perceptual  structure  and  in  who’s  architectures  we  can   all  invest,  learn  from  and  deploy.       We  need  something  of  a  Renaissance  in  twenty  first  century  ICT’s  developing   architectures  that  do  conform  with  perceptual  structure  into  which  all  the   worlds  cultural  systems  can  find  orientation,  input  to  and  benefit  from. The   critical  element  that’s  missing  from  our  current  technologies  is  the  implicit  data-­‐ set.  Realising  this  data-­‐potential  is  most  likely  to  be  reliant  on  the  careful  study   of  Eastern  philosophies  and  cultures.  A  ‘collective  mind-­‐set’  is  required  to  ensure   that  a  methodology  for  mediation  is  achieved  between  our  cultural  houses.  This   would  suggest  that  institutions  like  the  United  Nations  operate  under  the  wrong   concept?  We  don't  need  heads-­‐of-­‐state  posturing,  what’s  required  are   perceptually  aware  populations  alongside  a  system  of  cultural  management                                                                                                                  

8  Recent  research  identifies  that  this  is  not  the  case.    

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Tamas  Szikra  et  al.  Rods  in  daylight  act  as  relay  cells  for  cone-­‐driven  horizontal  cell-­‐ mediate  surround  inhibition,  Nature  neuroscience  2014.   Cara  M  et  al.  Rod  photoreceptors  drive  circadian  photoentrainment  across  a  wide  range   of  light  intensities,  Nature  neuroscience  2010.  

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© Copyright PAC 2015   based  on  an  understanding  of  perceptual  structure  and  the  self-­‐organising   nature  of  mind.  We  need  the  overview.   This  is  ultimately  all  about  how  the  light  gets  in.  Take  from  that  what  you  will.   Vision-­‐Space  theory  suggests  that  we  need  to  understand  light  and  how  it  fires   up  the  human  mind  and  soul  and  work  with  that  understanding.  Not  shutter  up   in  our  respective  ideologies  and  cultures  to  square  up  to  one  another  on  a   routine  basis  dressed  up  under  some  notional  ‘national  interest’  or  ‘frustrated   religious  ideology’.  That's’  just  so  twentieth  century!  The  distinctions  that  fuel   the  trouble  are  at  source  actually  as  inconsequential  as  they  are  natural.  They   now  lie  within  our  grasp  to  understand  and  manage  and  that’s  in  all  our   interests.  We  need  to  be  empowered  to  get  on  with  the  production  of  the  base   toolsets,  and  to  pursue  the  research  and  the  development  of  perceptual   technologies  facilitating  a  truly  ubiquitous,  shared,  creative  and  benign  cultural   buy-­‐in.9       John  Jupe  2015-­‐01-­‐18   PAC  www.pacentre.org      

                                                                                                                9  As  a  footnote  it’s  perhaps  understandable  that  in  progressing  the  research  and  development  of  Vision-­‐ Space  I  have  had  to  work  as  an  unfunded  independent  researcher  with  the  smallest  of  budgets  in  the  form  of   investment.  No  gallery  has  shown  interest  in  showing  the  art  work  as  the  discipline  has  been  entirely  taken   over  with  people  illustrating  their  ideas  enabled  by  their  sponsors  both  private  and  public.  

   

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© Copyright PAC 2015   Bibliography   Gilchrist I. 2009 The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Yale University Press, 2009 www.pacentre.org - Jupe J. 2005 (2013) PAC (ERA) Having the Courage of Your Perceptions - Jupe J. 2005 (2013) PAC (ERA) Replicating the Underlying Structure to our Presentations of Vision in Images - Jupe J. 2014 PAC (ERA) The Ontology of the Experiential: What’s involved in an act of objectivity? Vision-Space: Online presentation list Vision Space technology: Vision Space presentation 1: The structure of monocular vision http://youtu.be/AO71a8LzZSg Vision Space Presentation 2: The incorporation of binocular stereo information http://youtu.be/xLY60lm86Mk Vision-Space: Process of information exchange within phenomenal field http://youtu.be/8hmgutPGJmQ Technology evaluation: Vision-Space: Monocular test, car demo http://youtu.be/uRR_Quu6WYA Vision Space: Embodiment demo http://youtu.be/sWZr5q1BtQ4 Vision-Space: Butterfly demo http://youtu.be/Cc00Neu2i2Y Philosophy: Vision-Space and the Experiential ontology http://youtu.be/WJVC48a__50 Visual art: The paintings and their story http://youtu.be/_Tj-r1XtWto Manifesting dark light and setting out a Vision-Space painting http://youtu.be/RJj7OdCzifM Setting out a Vision-Space painting: An up a up date http://youtu.be/HcmGkn5LMk4 Visual cues appearing within the radial structure of phenomenal field http://youtu.be/kYqsdTgI-i4 A still life painting together with mirror, mirrored http://youtu.be/F4J579YCW-8 Exploring Implicit Spatial Awareness http://youtu.be/WMh9j60ERxU Self-reference Pt 1, within spatial texture http://youtu.be/xUGOD1g3dtI Self-reference Pt 2, contributions from memory http://youtu.be/hDDoRGHaOwE Self-reference Pt 3, exploring the extents of phenomenal field http://youtu.be/SarFf6FA8Eg Self Reference Pt 4, painting phenomenal field, accessing the umwelt? http://youtu.be/g8rOhQhcl0A

 

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© Copyright PAC 2015   Physical theory: Having the courage of your perceptions - A physical theory http://youtu.be/NWdK8ZzuHgU Vision Space and dark matter http://youtu.be/MGZFpKDMOak

The scientific approach to understanding the nature of reality is incomplete http://youtu.be/BLFK8rd_QkQ Real-setting, decoherence, visual processing, awareness http://youtu.be/TzbyydODC1E Vision sciences: Retinal processing and the research proposition http://youtu.be/1ZMUPt6Oz_s Primary spatial awareness direct from the light array? http://youtu.be/8wUT0HGNSww Face recognition http://youtu.be/e01yFVlDOBw Mechanobiology of brain function http://youtu.be/WIHbUGeg5UY Health implications of non-perceptually structured content and screen technology http://youtu.be/6gizIuLL9mg Typical and atypical perceptual structures, potential links to ASD and stroke related conditions http://youtu.be/Pss3UOoiuyQ Some deficiencies of pictorial space with respect to the structure of phenomenal field http://youtu.be/i2a5lVz6DBE Retinal Receptor Functions http://youtu.be/XzA7zirZK7s Our self-organizing mind, 1/f noise and a possible role for ipRGC receptor functions http://youtu.be/4xpk9f8M9vo What’s  in  an  artificial  stimulus?   http://youtu.be/9ryFnuFCGys

 

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