Perceptual Details

Such information differences make!

An anomaly is a difference. A deviation. Some noticeable variation.

Ponder this for a moment: there is no information in sameness.

Where a fog obscures vision beneath and behind a gray cover of “all-alikeness”, nothing can be seen. All the differences that might inform one’s senses are unavailable. There is only fogginess.

Undifferentiated space presents a sameness of vacancy — emptiness, no perceptible differences.

Something manifests only where perceived differences occur. And depending upon the complexity of that something, it too comprises many contrasts. Coloration. Texture. Heft, or weight. We perceive those various types of information in different orders of complexity. The attentive orders, M0…M10, catalog degrees of elaboration that characterize these different levels of information organization, from the simplest to the most complicated. Read more . . .