Universal Canvas: Before Time Comes

Betsy Calabaza
2 min readDec 11, 2020

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But I can’t let you go
If I let you go
You slip into the fog

  • Kate Bush

In category theory a functor or functor is a function from one category to another that takes objects to objects and maps to maps so that the composition of maps and identities are preserved

The words category and functor were borrowed by mathematicians from the philosophers Aristotle and Rudolf Carnap, respectively.

Experience is always where it needs to be. Time is how we get catch up to experience.

One thing about the superficial aspect of conversation is that the first goal is to create the social atmosphere equivalence of a blank canvas for the other person to express themselves. In contributing to the blank canvas, all natural depredation is lulled. Reality is a perpetual blank canvas. But we see each other with depth. Heavy paint covering us. With all the paint, it’s respectful to make space for the other to contribute their own strokes.

When referred to the superficial aspect of conversation, I’m talking about the part of conversation that at the surface everyone can experience. Beneath conversation, each participant has their own unique, infinite perspective/horizon. But the point of conversation, of converging as people, is that the unique and infinite is materialized and conjured up with witnesses. The witnesses become citizens. Citizens with non-trivial role in the participation and disbursement of underlying reason conjured in social gathering. The participants transform from witness to citizen from, at first, being entranced into the conversation and then by defining themselves within the trance. In the trance, the underlying reason, the underlying math is experienced and materialized.

Once out of the trance, the very same geometry that had you intoxicated is seen as a matter of fact. It always follows logic. The undeniable is used as a foundation for mapping the rest of reality, even yourself. In this realization, we become a citizen. We have a definite limit to who we are in front of these people. My limitless underlying is stopped and the borders of the State are met.

Burden of Society — The thought that some members of society should literally be turned to nothing, nihil, so that the “real” society can prosper. Such a vacuum is impossible without ripping society to shred. The only burden society has is to look after all its citizens.

Sensualizing Experience — We imagine that all of experience is sensual. We experience it without any intermediary. Everything is sensual and we can’t escape it. But within it we can discriminate; the “we” that can only be defined by discrimination; a ghost? As an intermediary, sensuality is catered to our expectation. Experience the sensual before the experience happens in anticipation; us hidden inside what is expected. Sensualize experience into being experience with apprehension. Apprehend sensuality from experience. Map all three and you’re in the moment. This “you” inside the expectation-seed, blooming as time and experience become one.

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Betsy Calabaza
Betsy Calabaza

Written by Betsy Calabaza

blooms — crazy rants masked as abstract experimental philosophy. s/o CS Peirce

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