Echo Theory & Misc. Ideas

Summary:

Cuil Theory can be brought down to earth and explained reasonably as mirrors reflecting mirrors.

Echo Theory & Misc. Ideas

Isaac Sanford 16 Oct 2012 07:09

[Editor's note: These ideas conjured up by Jacob Bird and Isaac Sanford]
The theory of Cuil details a method of quantifying abstractions from reality. "Abstractions" being the key word, indicating that whatever Cuil is made, expresses itself as a contrast sources from a given situation. This is the accepted premise. It is no stretch to state this mathematically as:
C=n/x
Where "C" is the Cuil level, "n" is the Cuil degree, and "x" is the given situation, or root, or reality.
There comes an issue of expressing C in terms of the observer's new reality experience before another layer is made clear. This is to say that upon entering "n/x," the abstraction must be re-labeled to constitute the new experience, and can be state as follows:
C+1= n/(x/n), the trend continues…
C+2= (n/n)/(x/n)
C+3= (n/n)/(x/n)/n
C=4= (n/n)/n/(x/n)/n
The suggestion being that these layers are not arbitrarily created, but a pre-existing inevitability which an observer makes manifest as it explores. Necessarily, for these layers to exist they must continually bounce off of the increasingly distant reality, being comprised more and more of stacking Cuil layers. I am calling this the "Echo Theory of Cuil," because the effect can be simulated in reality by placing two mirrors facing each other. If this Echo Theory has any validity to it, then the Theory of Cuil becomes something akin to peeling away layers of an onion while stacking an onion-layer house of cards on top of it. Each successive layer of Cuil reveals more about the innate nature of a given moment and situation by layering symbolic abstractions on top of each other.

Another idea:
If zero Cuil is an unreachable, perfect ideal, then why include and surpass it with negatives? An alternative to using the modern system of mathematics (in which the concept of zero is the only innately abstracted integer, presupposing a "something" for which there is a lack instead of representing a truer nothingness) involves never reaching zero. Anything less than 1 becomes a fraction, split further and further from symbolic unity. In this way we would be suggesting that there is only greater or fewer layers of Cuil to a given quantity, as mankind's hyper-realities are really just another form of abstraction from reality.

Last:
If the Echo theory holds any logical water, then the inclusion of irrational numbers might be like stating that the observer itself is also a "mirror," and as the observer crosses each threshold into a new Cuil layer, it simultaneously delves deeper into itself.
[Editor's note: For this last bit I haven't reviewed my hypothesis, so I'll leave it to the community to validate as you see fit]

Alex McCormick (guest) 02 May 2013 04:39

I should like to add that these new "layers" should not be thought of as layers, but entirely new dimensions or variables in the situation. I had, when originally pondering the mathematics of Cuil Theory, considered the thought that each increase in the Cuil level adds another variable to the equation that solves for the quantified reality coefficient. Although, quantifying reality is a difficult thing to do. Perhaps the equation solves for a probability relating the likelihood of the event to the rules of our reality. Anyway, I like way you have the equation set up, but it is troubling because the "n" values would all cancel out. That is why I propose that each increased Cuil level add a variable to the equation such that C(sub)0=x/n(sub)0, C(sub)1=n(sub)1/(x/n(sub)0). This of course explains it using your model, which serves as a good way to initially visualize the concept. However, I feel that the equation would be much more complex and changing. Each variable would be dependent on the previous. As you progressed from one Cuil level to the next, the reality would become continually more complex until another variable entirely was changed, i.e. the linearity of time. If something this monumental were to be changed the entire equation would change. This also assumes that the increases in Cuil level correlate to the same changes in every reality. I don't personally believe that they will. If present reality were represented as a point in a 3-D matrix. Now you move exactly one Cuil level (represented here as a distance, although it should not be confused as one) away. In which direction do you go? It could be any direction, resulting in a line segment connecting two realities. The second reality could be anything in an infinity of possibilities. This is one reason that I associate Cuil Theory with the Multi-verse Theory.

As far as the negative Cuil debate goes, I think that there should be negative Cuils. Again though, this situation must be thought of in three dimensions, with the points being an infinite number of realities. Travelling from one reality to another may require an abstraction from that reality (if it were more than one Cuil away). Travelling back would require the same negative Cuil abstractions, similar to vectors in physics. However, the Cuil abstraction from reality to reality does not travel linearly from point to point in this proposed 3-D matrix. Imagine that the "density," for lack of a better word, of this matrix fluctuated throughout the matrix. This would mean that it would require a different way of travelling to move from point A to B when compared to the movement from B to C.

I doubt that the concept of this is physically imaginable. I am currently struggling with the concept myself, but wanted to offer my interpretation. I will continue to attempt to solve this riddle.