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Our Truth in Perception

There is a funny thing about History when you think about it:

Log plot of Creative Steps (left scale) and Human Population (right scale) before year 2008 (data)

This is a log graph of Creative Steps Leading To Present which is an estimation of the most important creative steps undertaken by the universe to date from our self-referential viewpoint. You will surely note the nearly straight line - this hard fact about our perception of History has been known since the mid-20th century, indeed Heinz von Foerster (one of the grandfathers of cybernetics) spent some time investigating it and furthermore Wikipedia has compiled a similar list at Wikipedia:Detailed_logarithmic_timeline.

Why is this important? If you plot the most important revolutions (as in "major leaps forward") in any sufficiently large field (e.g. music, art, maths etc), you always get around forty milestones. In other words, the human cognitive system tends to "max out" its perceptive capacity at around forty orders of exponentiality

We hold that this is A Power Law Of Connectedness With The Universe and this relationship is used heavily our spatial computer models.

Let us be very, very clear: we do NOT mean that the semiotics of hard facts become transformed by destructuralisation into relativised soft facts like so many working in Poststructuralism are (erroneously) apt to do. For example, the fact that the pragmatics of a signifier (i.e. the signified) change over time does NOT mean that the signifier itself changes: an identical event can, does and indeed WILL have changing meanings without the event itself being in the slightest way different. The one flap of a butterfly's wing on the other side of the world may both destroy and save a civilisation (Wikipedia:Butterfly_effect).

As an example, the statement "the grass is green" conveys the meaning that a particular instance of a grass plant has the colour green. Each of the components is entirely relative e.g. how we delineate the boundary of "grass" is almost certainly human-specific (a cow likely delineates quite a different boundary given it being a food source to a cow), as indeed is the meaning of "green" given its relative structuration upon the human visual processing system. Despite the use of entirely relative signifiers, we hold that the sentence itself approaches absoluteness when perceived from within appropriately structured boundaries, yet still remains utterly relative. In other words, through the choice of delineation of boundaries in an act of self-referential cognition, one creates the paradox of a fact being simultaneously hard and not-hard at once. Therefore, knowledge can be both absolutely true (Wikipedia:Justified_true_belief) and not absolutely true simultaneously.