Transforms and Operators, Part One
Static Pattern Engineering has roots in engineering, chemistry, computer science, and cognitive science. The two most useful and powerful constructs from SPE (and I could argue, in these associated fields) are those of the transform and operator (in order of decreasing power). An operator is an embodiment (in the physical, virtual, or cognitive domain(s)) of a function that, when acting on a static pattern in a certain state, results in another state without transformation. A transform is an operator that results in transformation. The result of a transform is a change to the identity of the static patterns involved in the operation — often the operation is not reversible (and in many instances it is not even desirable to reverse a transformation).
The difference between an operator and a transform is analogous to that between a physical and chemical change in chemistry — in the former, the operation changes the form or state of the substance(s) without changing their underlying composition or identity. In physical or chemical changes, it is interesting to take note of the role of energy in the change: if the amount of energy doesn’t meet or exceed the activation energy required for a chemical reaction for the system (defined by the reactants, catalysts, and surrounding environment), then a chemical change will not happen but often a physical change will.
In static pattern engineering, our primarily interest in operators and transforms occurs in the cognitive and virtual domains. When applied to consciousness, operators (and the operations they embody) are useful for studying effects and for leading static patterns (design concepts, knowledge systems, representations of physical or virtual systems, etc. etc.) through changes for refinement and toward reification in the destination domain. Transforms (and the transformations they embody) often result in the creation of something entirely new in consciousness.
The role of resonance is powerful, because aided by resonance, ordinary operations can become transformations (similar to how heat or mechanical energy along can lead to a chemical versus physical change). This fact is why resonance (and the discovery of points of resonance in each individual) is important in the application of static pattern engineering processes: resonance often invokes transformations in consciousness. Therefore, ordinary operators discovered in the study of static pattern engineering, when applied to resonant material, can become transforms. Unfortunately, at this point in time, there haven’t been any absolute universal transforms discovered (although a couple of candidates are under consideration) — that is, operators that are guaranteed to produce transformation in any system with any individual(s) involved. The discovery of these universal transforms (or at least close approximations to them) is one of the top five goals of SPE.
Unlike purely mathematical constructs in a computational system or purely physical agents in a chemical or physical system, a transform or operator is as much about the underlying operation embodied as it is about the construct that embodies it. I will delve into more details in this series about this enigmatic statement; however, for consideration, note that a person can act as an embodiment of an operation or transformation. I bring this up as a complex case to note that at times, what apparently seems to embody a transformational event or operation can be mistaken as possessing the ability to produce that operation (and the transformational event) when it simply provided it at that moment. Because this requires a much larger discussion about operation embodied and embodiment of operation, I will postpone that until later.
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