Beautifully reminiscent of neural networks, the rhizome, and Indra's net.




Thread and tapestry, part 1 of n.https://twitter.com/neurosocialself/status/1251046838968258563 …
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Cerebellum | Along with motor coordination, cerebellar systems may be involved in emotional reactivity. It functions largely outside the realm of conscious awareness. There are more neurons in the cerebellar cortex than in the rest of the brain combined.https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1224772924445380608?s=20 …
"A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo." Deleuze and Guatarri, A Thousand Plateauspic.twitter.com/Q3dHYr4VWM
"Young Pilgrim, to find the awakening you seek, turn your gaze inward now toward the landscapes of the mind." Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtrahttps://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1238524390188277768?s=20 …
"We form a rhizome with our viruses, or rather our viruses cause us to form a rhizome with other animals." Deleuze and Guatarri, A Thousand Plateauspic.twitter.com/VckDp92dUj
Natural neural networks are complex and distributed yet connected systems integral to learning, providing an efficient means of information processing. Artificial neural networks are a biologically-inspired programming paradigm utilized in machine learning, simulating the brain.pic.twitter.com/85ZcpsQEJs
Forest of synthetic pyramidal dendrites grown using Cajal's laws of neuronal branching. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000877 … One rule to grow them all: A general theory of neuronal branching and its practical application.pic.twitter.com/SesGo4Bh1X
Whether natural or artificial, neural networks are multi-dimensional webs of communication, stitching together patches of data to enable pattern recognition. Their behavior is accounted for by rhizomatics, a philosophical approach to organized knowledge complexity.pic.twitter.com/xDlJtbufDQ
The rhizome is a multiplicity, a non-linear network of nodes. Sharing common roots underground, rhizomatic offshoots emerge above soil as seemingly distinct sprouts. From the Greek term rhízōma, 'mass of roots.'pic.twitter.com/mmkcN9kn7B
Rhizomes are characterized by underground internodes, regions of the buried stem between individual nodes. Rhizomatic plants send out roots from node bottoms and generate new shoots from node tops.pic.twitter.com/5RdWali8uZ
The Avataṃsaka Sūtra and its commentaries via the Huayan school of Buddhism paint a rhizomatic image of interpenetration, a macrocosmic reflection of the microcosmic realm and vice versa.https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1228751924943392768?s=20 …
The full title "Mahāvaipulya Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra" refers to a meditative manifestation of infinite integration on all scales.https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1209700357720330243?s=20 …
Like an endless set of Russian nesting dolls, but completely transcending spatiotemporal norms, realms upon realms are contained within each other.https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1245782553224601601?s=20 …
Microcosm encompasses macrocosm as much as macrocosm encompasses microcosm.
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The Avataṃsaka Sūtra chronicles the visionary experiences of contemplatives as they encounter intricacies in the interstices and interwebbing of Indra's net, an infinitely vast, fractal, cosmic tapestry and map of the mind.https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1245353571953987585?s=20 …
Reminiscent of patterns in Indra's net, Diffusion Tensor Imaging uses magnetic resonance to track the flow of water in tissue. Providing maps of neural pathways, it measures brain network connectivity among white matter microstructures and axon tracts.pic.twitter.com/OQ86xnpklH
Network integration allows for seamless transition between fragmented and defragmented states. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1227743093685805056?s=20 …pic.twitter.com/raNnzuLMG4
The Avataṃsaka Sūtra depicts meditation among the infinite variety of contemplative undertakings, which are inextricably embodied practices. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1221465479941775360?s=20 …pic.twitter.com/ZHznBz5eDC
Across all scales, the meditator cycles between paradoxical psychosomatic states. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1249418096521015296?s=20 …pic.twitter.com/0ZYil8YBun
In the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, meditation functions as mediation between the macrocosmic and microcosmic. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1242902928475611136?s=20 …pic.twitter.com/TUDUksmnNT
Integrated embodiment through contemplative practice enables the manifestation of myriad phenomena in the same way that a rainbow is created by light refracted through a prism. https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1208605774475223040?s=20 …pic.twitter.com/CqEnstLSiy
Deleuze (& Guattari) envisioned thinking as rhizomatic—a complex unity with neither beginning nor end—extending beyond the limitations of arborescent linearity.pic.twitter.com/0EKV7UjOTb
"We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicals. They've made us suffer too much. All of arborescent culture is founded on them, from biology to linguistics." Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateauspic.twitter.com/SewN9s2jLG
In place of unidirectional, dualistic, hierarchical modes of arborescence, Deleuze & Guattari enter rhizomatics. The rhizome becomes an image of thought, a network of multidirectional vectors growing unpredictably, forming plateaus in an interwoven system of dimensionless unity.pic.twitter.com/eXYsrKDyid
"Nothing is beautiful or loving or political aside from underground stems and aerial roots, adventitious growths and rhizomes." Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateauspic.twitter.com/QoyBfblJQN
For Deleuze (& Guattari), the rhizome comprises a decentralized network and distributed system of immanence allowing for temporally and spatially immediate connectivity between nodes.pic.twitter.com/vEAYYjRihC
"Chaotic Connectome…the first microetching ever produced…is of an abstract neural landscape. This piece was initially developed to illustrate the depth of complexity of any given region of the brain through designating specific sets of neurons to different reflective channels."pic.twitter.com/YWfP5H2DX9
Indra's net reflects a connectome of cosmic proportions, both macrocosmic and microcosmic.https://twitter.com/NoaidiX/status/1209165934851584000?s=20 …
"Self Reflected offers an unprecedented insight of the brain into itself, revealing through…reflective microetching the enormous scope of beautiful & delicately balanced neural choreographies designed to reflect what is occurring in our own minds as we observe this work of art."pic.twitter.com/dJb2uiJp0e
"Thought is not arborescent, and the brain is not a rooted or ramified matter. What are wrongly called 'dendrites' do not assure the connection of neurons in a continuous fabric." Deleuze & Guattaripic.twitter.com/ODdyMosVP6
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