Zero Parallax

Understanding how things relate

Zeroparallax, in a nutshell, means understanding.

It means understanding how things relate and how both we and others relate to different things so that we can account for those differences in relationship.

While most of the things that I write about and create and sell are based on my own experiences, at the heart of them all is the idea of understanding. What I'm trying to create and sell is understanding and the ability to acquire it for yourselves.

The better our understanding the better our experiences

Why work to acquire understanding?

It means you aren't dependent on others. It also means you can use your understanding for deeper or better experiences. These in turn can be used to build your understanding so that further experiences build on previous experiences.

And so, the better our understanding-the better our experiences (when we use that understanding).

What is parallax?

So what is parallax?

Parallax is viewing error. Or it's a different in what is perceived based on differences in viewing angle.

One person looks at a clock, the old fashioned kind with a two or three arms that move relative to a fixed back plate, and sees that it's three o'clock. Another person looks at the same clock but from the side and sees that it's two minutes past three. It's not so much that one is correct. (This actually depends on whether the clock is correct or not. If that's the case then if one person is viewing the clock from head on, then he or she is "correct"). What's more important is that the views match, but failing that, understanding how viewing angle affects what is perceived, if each is aware of how the other relates, viewing angle can be corrected for.

The importance of clear reference point(s)

Of course there are dangers here, what if both people correct for each other. Or what if neither person corrects.

And so it's important that there be a reference, something that both can refer to so that they know whether or not to correct for error.

In the army, marching in neat rows and columns, the person at the right front was called the right marker. Unless told otherwise, he/she was the one that we adjusted our position to and maintained our position relative to so that we kept our nice neat rows and columns.

So zeroparallax, or the process of zeroing parallax, is in part based on understanding how we relate. But it's also about having clear references.

With clear references, a group of soldiers can march together in a nice neat squat. But references are also used in other areas, for example when linking pages on the internet, or using an excel spreadsheet or reading the temperature or making any other sort of measurement.

I first learned about parallax in chemistry class. Our teacher was Ms Klobature. She taught us that when measuring liquids using a beaker (or whatever the specific apparatus that was used for measuring was called) we had to view the measurements with the vessel level but with our eyes level with the surface of the liquid. This was the reference position that made all of our measurements consistent because they were made using a fixed reference point. Note, she could have defined it as 89 degrees above the horizontal. The point was if we knew it, and could find it, we could use it, consistently.

So, zeroparallax is about understanding. And at the surface level you could say that zeroparallax is about understanding how we relate, and about understanding relationships in general.

Part of what makes understanding easier is having a general language for describing relationships and as well the things that they relate.

Ideas, relationships and other definitions

Relationship

A relationship is any two connected "elements". These elements are termed ideas

Relationships are the context for change.

The process of creating or breaking a relationship is a change.

Idea

An idea is something that is clearly defined or easy to recognize. It can be real or imaginary. When two ideas are connected, they form a relationship.

Ideas can have gravity. They can also have spin, radiance, or both.

System

A system is two or more connected relationships or ideas. A relationship could be defined as the simplest possible system. A system can be represented by an idea.

Limits

Limits are used to define ideas, relationships and systems. They can be imaginary or real.

Change

Change (or information)is how ideas communicate. For change to be transmitted between two ideas they need to be in a relationship.

Signal

A signal is a definable or recognizable unit of change. A signal is a definable change transmitted between two ideas that are in a relationship.

infinite

The state where limits are removed.

Real space

The space our consciousness occupies when present or in the flow.

Imaginary space

The space our consciousness occupies while daydreaming or meditating.

Analytic space

The space our consciousness occupies when differentiating experiences or reintegrating. The space that we think in. Also the space where ego lives.

Learning

The process of building or constructing a mental model within ourselves.

Mental model

Any model without our brain or consciousness that represents an action, a system, or both.

Habit

A mental model function that can be performed without conscious oversight.

Index

a tool to speed up location of physical things, memories, information, or habits

System Boundary

The system boundary is the limit used to define the extend of the system. It separates the system from it's environment

Inner environment

Defining a system, anything within the system boundary is the inner environment

Outer environment

Bound by the system horizon, the outer environment includes everything that can relate, or be sensed by the system.

System Horizon

The system horizon defines the outer limit of a systems outer environment. This is where the systems ability to sense external change ends.

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