It must have been somewhere in the nineties, when the internet became affordable for "normal" people, and techies like me were picking personal domains rather than going for the free website providers. selfaware.com was the one I chose back then, and it basically was just a bunch of pages about stuff I loved, like music, movies, and other areas. Looking back now, I notice that my domains over the years moved along with my inner being.
But isn't selfawareness just another form of feedback that creates interesting behavior? Just like putting two mirrors opposite one another, humans are a sort of mirror stuck in between the external reality and their internal representation of what they know about that outside reality. But this was also around the time that a sudden vision occurred in my life. Nothing grand, because people get visions all the time, but the clarity of this made me grab the handrails of the stairs I was on at that moment: overlaid on my normal field of vision was an image of soap bubbles, with the sudden association that it signified the universe in its infinite nature. Not something finite, but endless in both the impossibly large and the infinitessimally small!
The interesting thing about that image is that the soap bubbles are all connected, but each pocket of air is contained by one layer of soap molecules. In between those layers of soap molecules is a single layer of water molecules, and these water molecules are all connected, even though the pockets of air aren't...