Learning the Unthinkable Thought

There are ancient questions that like the sun continually arise.

The beginning of things is always problematic and every beginning resolved generates new questions.

When time began there was no automatic right to be aware. Awareness needed its own birth. Concepts are like that, they aren’t automatic or mandatory. They are defined by their own nature not by a set of laid down rules.

Much that has come into being had no basis in learning just chance, combinations and permutations, the lottery of being. But much has also come from learning  and this concept of learning is much broader than the type of learning that humankind posseses. The primal ability to learn is not just an organic or material trait it goes right back to Chaos in its scope, it has the potential to affect everything that exists.

Because learning is an act requiring mechanisms in time questions of when dominate its creation. When did Chaos learn to learn, when did it acquire the art? But to learn to learn it is necessary to already have the art of learning. Its genesis is as profound as that of life or awareness. It is another thing born out of itself; an act of autogenesis.

The questions surrounding autogenesis are paradoxes because the concept usually cannot come into existence unless that concept is already there. Awareness needs awareness to first know. Life needs life to be born. Memory needs memory to endure.

Evolution also learns how to evolve. The changes at its core rely on chance, combinations and permutations. One significant change that follows the first step of evolutionary change is evolution learns to learn. This learning still relies on chance, combination and permutation; it’s these that interact to enable each learning process to learn its process and allow that process to evolve. Evolution as it too evolves, leaves evidence of this in its paradoxes; its processes speed up, the time gap between levels of complexity falls.

The concept of learning is more than linear and all learning learns to learn better. This is a driving property of the universe a property that exists throughout all dimensions.

It isn't a way we're used to thinking of concepts but the growth in process and concept makes their properties as real as that in material things. Take the redness of any object, it doesn't exist except as something permeated throughout matter. Try bottling redness without their being matter, it is very difficult. Even a beam relies on the duality of wave and matter. But redness has properties that are measurable; it has wavelenth, frequency and speed.

The evolution of life emerges from the continuum of environments as repeated patterns learn that they are associated in time. The earth therefore has all the attributes of a single form of life and it is quite probable  the earth itself lives. Not in the way of animals or plants but those things that make us also act upon the earth. Learning is seeped out of Chaos until like oil it gathers in a recognizable pool. Similarly life-like evolution can be expected of solar systems and galaxies too. Evolution is not biassed it ensures it all evolves.