Philosophy or pH
Gregarious in its absorptions and local presence,
the general definition of Philosophy includes nearly all of nearly
all other gardens. It is here we begin to see the obvious fact
that each of the gardens is more of a perspective upon a terrain,
than a discrete entity. Philosophy is a ‘way speaking of
and exploring ways’, thus it is at least moderately capable
of examining and modifying itself in-process.
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Primarily concerning itself with meaning and the ‘why’
element of questions, Philosophy is considered to be the formal
study of questions themselves — in general those relating
to knowledge, meaning and value. Thus it is uniquely poised to act
recursively based upon its initial inspirations.
pH covers such a vast terrain that from within the
perspective of this garden it is relatively easy to see or demonstrate
how ‘most of knowledge and action’ appears to emanate
from pH, or at least be included in it — regardless of
how simplistic or complicated the processes involved may be. pH
is often concerned with meaning, parsing and relations of terms
— and is a formative element in nearly all formal and many
common ways of knowing.
Philosophy is also concerned with matters of judgment
— comparison, quantity, character and relation — a sort
of physics of meaning, more informally embodied than sciences primarily
because it is commonly encoded in prose, or communicated in action,
groups, or lectures.
The advanced philosophies of Egypt and the modern
sources of western philosophy in the Greeks contain treasures of
profound and unexpectedly advanced understanding. The Philosophies
of Plato, Aristotle, and their peers — the vast majority of
which there are no records of at all — point in a direction
and to a common understanding of philosophy and its sources that
is far in advance of our own incredibly academic children of their
pursuit. It is possible to make so much of so little, that nothing
is visible at all, and in at least one domain there was a standing
admonition against writing: not to protect a secret, but to protect
the vessels who explored those secrets from the dangers and traps
inherent in the tokenization of understanding into forms too frozen
and copyable to grant access to the terrains they claim to hie from.
Selected noticings about this garden:
pH is primarily concerned with a close examination
of the gardens of knowledge, their sources — modes, potentials
and pitfalls. Since this naturally includes itself — it is
fairly difficult to say that pH is not everywhere apparent. pH can
masquerade adequately as other forms, partially due to the quality
we might describe as vast general presence and applicability. ‘Anything’
can be said to be the process or action of a pH-garden, especially
those things that might attempt to deny or co-opt this.
There are many domains, dimensions and scales of function
and relation in which organs of pH are intimately co-evolving. Once
a person is complexly enlanguaged, the very inspiration to ask or
pursue questions derives primarily from gardens pH controls, or
embodies outright.
pH is a second-generation child of early precursor-combinations
of the other gardens excluding science. Now, it is co-emergent with
sCience to a degree, as well as a co-equal sibling of sCience.
In the modern moment, dominant and more tokenized
aspects of pH tend to rule behind the scenes in most if not all
human organizations, having ascended somewhat over sCience by adapting
to be able to better control that from which sCience emerges. pH
and sCience remain in common competition for most of the resources
of terrain and sustenance provided by popular support, but pH has
thus far held the higher ground, in general.
pH has organs which can be far more virulent and openly
predatory than almost any other garden. War and even rape are often
driven by variants of pH that are either pro-isolation, pro-domination,
both, or more. At the same time, it could be said that variations
and assemblies of organs from this garden have the potential to
permanently resolve many forms of conceptually-inspired atrocity
and omnicide.
A ring of sP, pH, aR, sC, and cK in proper proportion
and relation is one of the stated goals of pH, and one of the common
inspirations of its pursuit in human history. pH may be the most
likely garden to actually produce this ‘new child’ as
a garden. It will not do so in isolation of course, but is probably
the best contender — merely because of the pitfalls it may
notice or avoid that other gardens are not really equipped to even
pursue.
