Source of Triadic Dualism


	First Source for Triadic Dualism
	Suppose we have a triangular association of mutually aware vertices. Each vertex is connected to both other vetices. Each vertex can send a signal to either of the other vertices. Each vertex can note the arrival of a signal but not the particular vertex from which the signal was sent. Each signal which is received at a vertex is then passed on as a signal to another vertex, although with diminished intensity so that the series of signals eventually dies out. There is also an occasional external stimulus which causes a vertex to emit a signal to some other vertex. From the outside we would be able to distinguish definite series of triangularly repetitive and diminishing series of signals. There would likewise appear to be two clearly distinct directions of signal sequences; we could call them clockwise and counterclockwise. From inside the system, where each or any vertex was only aware of signals received from another vertex, the situation would be entirely different. A vertex would not know whether a series of signals was proceding in a 'clockwise' or 'counterclockwise' direction, which would originate a duality of awareness. And since a vertex would not be able to distinguish between its neighbors as sources of signals, neither would it be able to distinguish itself as a source of signals, giving rise to a triadic indistinction. Thus the awareness of each vertex would exist in a state of ambiguity or symmetry which we can call triadic dualism. This analysis was in fact the source of the original recognition of triadic dualism thirty years ago, although I then supposed that, as part of a general theory of consciousness, the vertexes were neurons synaptically connected to each other. Neither the analysis nor the neural supposition would now be necessary for the recognition of triadic dualism since it has so many appearances to direct observation. It just happens to be where it started.
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First Source for Triadic Dualism