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...