1 March 2020

Existence and Difference


Over on UoD a single webpage has now become three:

1
existence
exists

2
existence exists
as difference?

3
existence exists as difference
that makes a difference



Page 1 (currently) represents the universe — all space-time existence — as ongoing visual noise. I’m not suggesting that the cosmos = chaos, it doesn’t, I merely wanted to convey the raw fact of existence existing (bits of black/white).
I’m not implying that the universe is round either, a circle or sphere is just the least committal shape — yet does shape itself have any meaning if there is no-thing outside it?

Screenshot of UoD



Page 2 (currentlyis a simple interactive that starts to convey the inter-relationship between three ‘entities’; white, black and grey.
They exist, but is it because of their intrinsic nature or the nature of their difference — or is this itself a false dichotomy?

Screenshot of UoD



Page 3 (currentlydevelops this idea further, introducing differences in scale as well as precision/fuzziness.
I’m trying to convey the causal relationship between any entity and what-it-is-not: entity and identity.

Screenshot of UoD




Note that when and where there is no white/black to differentiate from, only grey similitude results ~ no-thing-ness.
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