Circular configuration of cognitive phases framing toroidal experience?

Cognitive Osmosis in a Knowledge-based Civilization (Part #7)

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The schematic animation above was adapted from a previous exercise in configuring the set of 10 Zen ox-herding pictures into toroidal form (Circular configuration of cognitive phases framing toroidal experience? 2017). This gave rise to the following animations in the context of a more general argument which included specific references to the ouroboros (Zen of Facticity: Bull, Ox or Otherwise? Herding facts and their alternatives in a post-truth-era, 2017).

Animation of simplest torus as container for dynamic cognitive relations
10-fold pattern of Zen bulls (also .mp4, .wrl and .x3d versions)	8-fold BaGua pattern of trigrams (also .mp4, .wrl and .x3d versions)

Reproduction of the above animations here is justified in that they suggest an adaptation of the schematic animation of the ouroboros with respect to what is "encountered" cognitively when the "head" travels around the toroidal form. This is particularly appropriate to the extent that the animations above are specifically concerned with subtle cognitive processes.

A version of the schematic animation can therefore be produced to include a succession of scenes "through which" the head passes -- suggesting a succession of such processes. Similarly such use of scenes would allow the imagery associated with the cosmological depiction of the ouroboros (mentioned above) to be presented in another adaptation, most notably to highlight that scaled argument in relation to powers of 10 -- in 12 phases from 10^-25 to 10³⁰, variously depicted otherwise (Scale of the Universe: powers of ten, 1977).

Experimental combination of ouroboros schematic animation with 10 Zen ox-herding images
Ourobouros through images	Images within ouroboros	View of image within ouroboros
Adapted from Zen of Facticity: Bull, Ox or Otherwise? Herding facts and their alternatives in a post-truth-era, (2017)

Rather than the option of increasing the diameter of the scenes around the torus (left above), a different approach is possible. The scenes can be positioned within the torus as shown in the earlier animations (above centre), namely to be traversed through movement along the torus -- but within it. Further options are to vary the diameter dynamically between being visible only within and enlarged as shown above.

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