Change

The pattern is made apprehensible through change. Without change there is only everything, shapeless and unmoving.¹ But it all moves. All the things change, at different speeds, along different paths. From the pattern of these changes the countable² variety of existence arises. Understanding becomes possible and meaning is made manifest.³ Time is a measurement of change,⁴ the impact of the pattern. Things change, but we are the ones that give change meaning. Measuring changes, remembering them, predicting them. Our memory and history reimagining the past. Our science and intuition forseeing the future. The personal and collective construction of models and metaphors from experiment and abstraction. Observers altering the world to know it.⁵ Time and space⁶ understood relative to the one possible starting point: your experience. Your moment⁷ amid the comings and goings of things and ideas, the cycling and evolution of physical and mental patterns. Those who adapt, endure.⁸ Those who deny that all things change engender great suffering.⁹ Things must change, otherwise they would cease to be. The only way to find peace, is to accept changes,¹⁰ neither being anxious for the future, nor nostalgic for the past. Now is the time!¹¹ It is your only chance to experience everything, before it all changes.

1 Because all things are one, 7 must be its own prime mover. Like an automobile engine, the pattern of everything drives from within, rather than pushing from without. 2 A countable set is a set with the same cardinality (number of elements) as some subset of the set of natural numbers. 3 Once discreteness becomes apparent, representation and relation become possible. 4 “Time is a measurement of change” - Physics, Aristotle 5 The observer effect is the principle that the act of observing a phenomenon necessarily changes it. 6 “Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.” - Albert Einstein 7 “Forever – is composed of Nows” - Emily Dickinson 8 “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”, Theodosius Dobzhansky 9 “…change is neither good nor bad, it simply is. It can be greeted with terror or joy, a tantrum that says ‘I want it the way it was,’ or a dance that says, ‘Look, something new!’” - Mad Men, Don Draper 10 "When you've seen beyond yourself / Then you may find peace of mind is waiting there / And the time will come when you see we're all one / And life goes on within you and without you" - “Within You, Without You”, The Beatles 11 “There is no past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.” - James Joyce

4.10, 4.18, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 6.20, 7.x.y.6, 7.x.y.17

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Change

Everything is always changing.