Threads: Loose Links
Outline
Introduction
- What it is
Veiling: Necessary Uncertainty
- Representing reality: absolute and relative truths
- Limitations of language, perception, and knowledge
Metaphors of Fabric in Popular Physics Books
- Rovelli on quantum loop gravity
- Greene on superstring theory
- Connecting spacetime and thoughts
- Probability and uncertainty
- Threads of thought
- String theory
- A tapestry of theory and spacetime
- Stories as threads
- Crumpled dimensions as texture
- Layering perception and reality
Ancient Usage of Thread Metaphors
- The Fates (Moira), spinning the threads of life and destiny
- Kairos as thread through a needle
- Ariadne's string guiding her through the labyrinth
- Penelope weaving and unweaving the shroud for Laertes
Modern and Postmodern Usage
- Interaction and dialogic meaning
- Destiny and the production of truth
- Potentiality and witness
- An untruth, woven
Conclusion
- Weaving and the systematicity of concepts
Suggestions for Further Inquiry
- Physics: a deeper look
- Ontology: Heidegger's Being and Time
- Anthropology: women, weaving, and social structures
- Psychology: archetype and myth
- Revelation and the concept of "the end of time"
Meditation: A Matter of Time
- On time
- On transmutation
Benediction
- On threads
- On interaction