Notes From The Field

Think of reality as one continuous sheet rather than a pile of separate things. That sheet never tears; it bends. Every “thing” you notice like a person, a rule, a storm, an idea is just a local bend in the same sheet, like a wrinkle or wave. When a bend holds for a while, we…

Process philosophy did us a favour. It let us say the world is not made of fixed stuff but of happenings. Whitehead’s ideas about occasions and becoming gave real grip to that thought. I’m grateful for that turn, and any clumsy reading here is on me. Within the folded-field framework, instead of starting with many…

Relational ontology was a big step forward. It broke the old habit of treating things as little atoms bumping about. It said, sensibly, that what we call “things” are stitched together by connections. I’m grateful for that move. But here’s the rub. Even when relations come first, the picture still sneaks the relata back in.…

Let’s reconsider technology and our economy in the frame of the fold field. I see technological systems as powerful amplifiers of the field’s curvature. They extend our perception and action, but in doing so, they reconfigure the field’s entire geometry. Take digital networks. They accelerate resonance across huge distances, creating a kind of global synchrony…

As I said two days ago, the field does not just describe science, but also systems, experience. I think science is obvious as the idea of the field is already well understood there. So in the next couple of days I want to apply the folded-field to an area not related to science: political power.…

Before I move on further I want to show that the concepts of this blog are useful and not just nice metaphors. Let’s take a dying language as an example application of the folded-field. The old way of thinking, the node-link frame, is just so mechanical and broken. It treats language as a tool that’s…

Yay, I kept it up for a week! Ok, instead of a recap I want to clarify that I know there’s a real danger in what I’m doing. When I use a word like ‘fold’ to describe everything from science, cognition, art, ethics…. it risks becoming meaningless. It could just be me using the terms…

In the last 5 days I have presented the core principles of the philosophy I want to explore, let’s call it the Folded Field, a new metaphysics that replaces old divisions by proposing reality is a single, self-modulating field whose dynamics like curvature, modulation, and resonance form the basis for everything, including matter, consciousness, and…

Today I want to explore different steps in the cycle. Because every fold radiates waves of modulation, their interactions naturally produce interference patterns. When these waves align, you get constructive interference, which is just coherence. This is how complex systems and structures emerge. When they clash, you get destructive interference, which dissipates order but, just…

So, how does this field actually work?First, we have to shift our thinking from ‘being’ to ‘behaviour’. When I call reality a field, I’m thinking of existence as activity before substance. Everything starts with intensity. Every fold begins when there’s a difference in intensity, like an uneven distribution of potential across the field. This isn’t…