The View and Selection

  A view is a selection space, which the mind may extract selections from. It is like a prospect for which things may be mined or extracted. What the mind does with those selections, depends upon the selections methods that operate on those selections. For example, if the eyes at any given time, have a view, the view itself is the current selection space under view. If symbolism were limited to the selections under this view, the symbolic space would be limited by what the eyes could select from that view. The possible selection methods would be unable to go beyond that view. However one of the features of the eyes is that of focus, rotation and translation of this view. From the view point of the mind, at first, these changes would lose any selections not present in the view by which the mind was limited - because of the eyes. Before quantum mechanics, perhaps, it was seen that these operations would not change the world, but only the view itself.

 To control the eyes, one could make decisions for reasons in the view of the eyes, but if the selection does not exist in the view of the eyes, then it may not fully describe the nature of vision as it is seen by practical experience with one's own mind or others. It would appear then, that searching is not a problem of the selection methods of the selections in the view, but of selection methods of a different view not bound to the view of the eyes. Thus searching assumes that the selection could be beyond the view of the eyes, and may be a basis for the control of the eyes themselves.

 Combining selection spaces one has been exposed to by the eyes before, could be called memory - and provides an expansion of what this input pathway can provide at a given view. So in this way - we might expect symbols to be applied to not first the view, but the memory itself, or in the case of one method of selection, the view first, then the memory, requiring one to know how to alter the eyes, so that the selection may be made.

 The problem however, with the eyes, is that the memories formed outside of the view, may require the movement of the eyes themselves. Rather than the change of the eyes relative to a stationary body, the eyes cannot reach the view without the change of the stationary body. Thus movement of the eyes requires the body to know about memories bound to not only the change of eyes, but the movement of the eyes themselves. This requires more extensive memory, expanding the need for memory and the potential way symbols are used.

 The prime way to consolidate views, cannot be to see all views with the eyes at once, but rather seeing in a more general way that does not require the eyes until they are necessary for selection methods on the view of the eyes. Seeing must go beyond the eyes, and train the body to find selections which cannot exist without the use of change of view.

 This leads us to memory as a larger view, broken up into both orientation of the eyes, but also of the body itself. Memory expands the view of the mind and thus the more the body can expand its memories - it may expand the possible selections it may need to decide upon - and perhaps the selection methods themselves.

 The mind's view would then be a larger view than the eyes, because of memory, and the capacity to extract selections that were once selected in a different view of the eyes. If these memories never had a reason to change, then the memories of the mind would be limited by the capacity to store those memories, select from those memories, and in the case of visiting them not by the memories but the eyes, a need for directing both the body and the eyes to accomplish this. But as we already may know, things do change, leading to a sense of time, by which the memories may no longer apply to what the eyes can see.