Alignment ③ description in place

i was going to write about alignment out there, but ended up writing about consciousness, and about time

Moving on from Alignment ① prep where I mention a few prior usages, and Alignment ② definity where I place some 'defining' uses of 'alignment' within a worlding context. This begins the actual description of alignment by looking at its origins in animal notions of our place.

The full list of these thinking-out-louds will be found at Alignment under [taphonomy of worlding].

Alignment ③ description 3.1 place

In ① prep and ② definity I’ve begun outlining a way to look at how we world the self among others doing the same, more or less.

In ② definity I outlined how important it is to remember there are always at least three elements in this description of what we do. These three elements have an order, th eline has a process. But that we often forget or take for granted, the first which is a point-of-view or POV. The POV is basal.

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In language use the POV is often located by using pronouns, those ‘prepositions’ which indicate ‘what’ is said in relation to the speakers and their co-respondents, and others.

I said, she said, they can’t hear us.

This is not about consciousness per se, nor what even preferences are displayed. This description includes but does not assume it. The same is said of those other later doubled-down versions of the POV: self-consciousness/consciences etc.

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In large part this essential element, the point-of-view, is about place. I have not thought of a better term than point-of-view, but it at least assumes a position.

This place is not yet in relation to other places.

Place is the immediacy of surroundings to a body. For the most part I’ll refer to animal bodies, because this is the most apparent to us. So this is a zoocentric description. I leave other animals to argue the case for mycocentric or botanocentric moves, but this type of animal born 'place' should hold for those more imaginative descriptions, initially, in any case.

With these provisos in place we can now look at "alignment descriptions" as a move towards a theory of how we world as a self among others.

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If I, as a POV, have an immediate place, then in alignment with that obvious but difficult thing to raise, as it is so strongly assumed as to be invisible, then things around us have their 'own' place.

This is in part how we begin to suspect agency in inanimate things. But this comes later, at the moment we are barely aware of our own agency, we just act as each to ourselves. We survive.

Growth and multiplicity is our initial success, numbers then aggregates, followed by gastrulations into internal complexity and differentiations, just as sex couples and is followed by tissues playing organs, while niches allow dimorphism and species, as those successful numbers become populations and populations differ.

By that potted poetic history of evolution I am underlining consciousness is not required to have a POV. But one does need a place, even if that place is not yet very distinct from the body.

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I suspect when we talk about the necessity of consciousness, as the primary or originary thing in various philosophies and worldings, we are just over extrapolating (aligning) what is obvious to a self-conscious inquirer into the world, even if their belabouring here confuses more than explains.

Ⓐ I would add that whenever we circle back to consciousness in our inquiries, we are really discovering we have forgotten the place of the point of view, thus we remain in mystery and think egocentrically that consciousness must have some critical part to play in cosmology, but really we have just remembered something important.

While mysteries can be rejuvenating, they can be also a type of a process of embalming our preferred or habitual alignments.

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Alignment ③ description 3.2 placings aligned or at least timed

I have just describe the place of our alignments. It is from here that we place other places, in placings.

These alignment themselves appear as out there, mostly still in our place on our own time.

Most of the complexity of our alignments is hidden from us as we forget our selves in this process, while we worry about our place in the world. This is why the self-consciousness of 'me' comes so much later.

The body is liable to be eaten by others nearby but not far away, i.e. inside and smaller or outside and bigger than us, all the while we must maintain our form in its place, acquiring sustenance providing both energy and the constituents of our body. Those who survive delineated body and place more and more (as animals).

The tides of time day us from night into morning. The place times our movements of day into night. We repeat what works, and call it habit, aligning memory with action. When we align that greater rhythm with reward we call it health. Its good body is a place we live in success and reproduction.

Around us everything is in flux or repetition, that is, a thing moving in change, or in cycle out there. Threat or opportunity.

So the first learning arises in re-enforcement of the same thing re-occurring, change but not change, and in that repetition our place is located by timing.

This is the first selfing in the world.

In our honour we then perceive this in the processes recurring to us, that are around us, near to us but not quite us, as ourselves. In this misapprehension we move, and we see in our lack of control, these things in our notice and concern, as not us, and we feel in this disparity another notice: the beginnings of the world. And in this comparison of those other things (good and fearful) now in the world where we self, we can allocated to these other things their own place/time.

(Which in time we often remove the thinginess from, and so some of us prefer to think of them as ‘objects’ out there and nothing to do with us).

Everything thus has its place, in reference to our place. In this “places of places” time, just like the POV, is subsumed (to be recollected on occasion as seasons just as the POV is recollected as consciousness).

Thus time is often more apparent (useful) to us than our POV in our alignments.

However, we still tend to place more emphasis on a thing's location in space (space being the extrapolation of our alignments of place now time has been so readily incorporated into our place (composed) just as place had sublimated the POV.

So, the body remains a place, not primarily so much as originarily. Its secondary or derivative nature is its cause (of creation, or creature-li-ness).

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Thus, just as we often circle back in our enquiries to consciousness because we fail to understand animal logic and the sublimation of a POV and a body into place (see Ⓐ above). We have a Ⓑ where a similar thing happens to time and we collapse it into place, bu reality of rhythms and other POVs with their own places, will time the arrival of the world.

Out there: the lines out there we make ‘em line up because they are lines of our own nature. Or so we prefer to say.

"Fig. 1 Early human development (you started out this way!), an example of development of organisms." from 'Chapter 7: Producing Form: Development' of Inanimate Life by George M. Briggs

Crossposted at whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com.