7.22.2012 Last year I wrote about phylogons. Now the phylogons have reappeared in a more complicated and twisty form. It is as if the single phylogons I saw were isolated cases of moments in time. They appeared to be the reductionist atoms of consciousness. But in the context of our waking life, the phylogon is not so simple.

Out in the field, the wild phylogon twists, turns, moves, spreads out, and creates vortices. A vortex is a persistent structure made of moving things; like water rushing through a whirlpool.

The vortex is a good model for consciousness. The presence that we point to as our self persists in the mind as a stable structure formed by a flow of new thoughts.
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