What is reality
if explanation is but a version
of the seemingly real
– when “Everything we call real
is made of things that cannot be regarded as real”.
(Niels Bohr)
When from the bowels of ‘the physical’,
extending into states of perception and knowledge,
obtain realities and seeming realities
that do and do not define the nature of the universe
– because the seeming, the knowing and the awareness
do not feature as the underlying action?
Mike Laidler
Everywhere and nowhere
A repository of all things
actual and hypothetical.
A force to reckon with
turning upon each moment
– inevitabilities from ineffabilities;
everything replete
of what is to be
and not to be.
Mike Laidler
Nature ravished
– wildernesses of neglect.
Truth in soundings
of narrow narratives.
Rhetoric of rectification
– ‘calculated crisis’.
The victim of assault
branded as the assailant.
Mike Laidler
Idea of nature
Ideal of proof
Culture of causality
– beginnings without meaning
eventualities without purpose
prognosis of entropy.
Objective understanding
– rationale of reductionism
evidence as explanation
confirmation by default.
Quantifier of the unseen
Diviner of the unknown
Premise of truth
Promise of control.
Mike Laidler
‘To be or not to be’
Cause AND effect
Formation
– the shaping of change.
The potential for necessities to come
The possibility of alternatives
Continuity
– parts to the whole.
The how
that posits an explanation.
The why
that asks.
Mike Laidler
Fine differences
making a difference.
Mother of causality
– of open possibilities.
Unfathomable ‘explanation’
of nature’s resourcefulness.
Certainty of uncertainty
and all it entails.
Mike Laidler
Initiation
– causing to be caused.
The beginning of beginnings
Power to change
– cosmic licence:
form to function
function to purpose
purpose with intent.
Choice in action
– the impersonal personalised:
evolved self-interests
derived beliefs
competing doubts.
Nature nurtured
– noble reach
to higher initiatives.
Mike Laidler
Field of forces
Solid space
Theatre of eventualities
Nexus of nexts.
Visible dimension
of change
– of things
‘made to matter’.
Mike Laidler
Oblivion conquered
Fact recognising fact
Being aware
– knowing that anything less
is tantamount to not being.
There we stand
in a presence
not of ourselves
but for us to become.
Mike Laidler
Gift of being
Presence of purpose
Tree of transformations
– from physics to phenomena
motion to motivation.
Denizen of diversity
– the Eden of evolution
towards meaning as a need.
Mike Laidler
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