Nikolai Kingsley

An Old Joke

Q: How many Post-Modernists does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Essentially, this is a question of Identity, or rather, identities, and as such, an unknown quantity - depending on the context; the identities (or rather, structures) involved in this deceptively simple, apparently two-part interaction matrix (or possibly n-part, depending on the number of interacting structures which is, as yet, undetermined) is more representationally a multi-part sub-system which, if we take Bell's Theorem into account, cannot be completely seperated, in a casual sense, from any other structure (or matrix of structures, or sub-system of matrices or set of sub-systems or paradigmatic group of sets). Any effort to take steps towards a solidification of this transparency can only subsume the entire paradigm by one entire enclosure; presenting this over-coded array as yet another array, exponentially more complex. While this may seem like an answer, it is, in fact, only an Apparent Answer; only by causing a division between the apparency and the question from the environment that engenders them and by complete disassociation from all structures contained in that environment can it be seen that while an answer is a valid goal, it is not possible within this context, and that all we can perceive is a possible path towards a virtual answer (or set of answers).

( top )

All work on this site is © Nikolai Kingsley unless otherwise stated.