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2.2 Reconciliation
Cybernetic
paradigm for example, offers interconnected patterns of neural networks
in various and constantly changing configurations, similar to the
mapping and mystical paradigm of ‘pohon hayat’. It relates to mental
models of reality built through various associations ofmm patterns or
representations. It allows humans to create and recreate in forming new
patterns of thinking, much like the sprouting of new branches on a tree.
Artworks, design and other creative disciplines increasingly
reformulate multi-dimensional models or patterns of thinking due to
efficient information flow and exposure. Technological advances have
accelerated contacts and created webs of overlapping networks or
multiple realities as well as virtual connections through new media.
Cyberspace,
as used by William Gibson in his novel “Neuromancer” describes a
composite new space that encompasses patterns in both extremes of scale –
the vast macro and global network of telecommunications, and the
miniscule or micro space in the microchip with the ever increasing power
to store, interconnect and manipulate data. It is not far from the
mapping of micro and macro branching and sub-branching of ‘pohon hayat’
and the overlapping micro and macro modular units of Islamic art,
Buddhist mandala and Indian kolam. They reflect a quantum map of higher
energy in its sustainable state.
Brain
studies and human cognition reveal similar fractal (branching) or
tree-like networks of neural patterns. Split-brain and whole brain
theory, multiple intelligences and radiant mind-mapping reflects
multi-dimensional tree-like patterns, connectivity, growth and
expansion. Information in living organisms (including cells) is based on
the branching and sub-branching concept of systems and sub-systems that
are organized into a network of interconnected hierarchies.
We
are increasingly shifting into a lucid space in which forms are
beginning to be taken over by information (or patterns of thinking).
Are
we ready to embrace information age where awareness of our thinking or
the working of our brain (mind) is our next frontier?
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| Conceptual maps, based on quantum models, Hasnul J Saidon. |
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