Reality creation by intention & Reverse Engineering
Let me start with Reverse Engineering.
This design strategy was explained by Sadie plant (in: Understanding media) where she wrote about Marshall McLuhan’s vision on this as follows:
“The process of beginning at the end of any operation, whatsoever, and of working
backwards from that point to the beginning, was not merely a discovery or invention to
be added to the list, it was: “The invention of invention itself.”
I have been using this principle myself in the project I graduated on at the art academy. Where I became aware of the, hardly used, possibilities of Virtual Reality. So I started at ‘the end of the operation’ by experiencing these virtual worlds that already existed. I noticed they were mostly based on copying reality. Created by people from a technical background. So often, to me, the technology was more advanced then the content.
I noticed how these Virtual worlds created reality experiences by projecting environments around me and moving them. So I got the impression that I was moving through them myself while I was never leaving the place. And at a technical level it were just coloured dots on a screen changing colors. Creating the impression of a projected moving environment. Now I am starting to understand this this process is similar to the way we create our reality experience as well. Always being in the same Here, creating the illusion of moving in a physical universe.
So, Reverse Engineering. It’s a profound method to find new ways. Very often innovations are done by copying something that already exists in a different way.
As a computer is a combination of a calculator, typewriter and tvscreen.
Which can still be seen in our current day computers. When we design a new computer, we’ll most likely start from this basic form again. Instead of reinventing it.
Even my ipad still has the ‘qwerty’ keybord (referring to the first few keys on it) that was created because typist became so skilled that they were to fast, and the typewriters often jammed. So they scrambled the letters to prevent this. (if I heard the true story about that)
The point is that we very often go on in existing lanes, instead of starting all over again in another way. Which can be very helpful to say the least. It offers us to set an intention to transform problems we found in our current lane. And use it to do better.
Now this is what I’d like to use when creating a new car.
Going back to the essence, (relatively!) effortlessly transporting one or more human bodies and goods I suppose.
And see what can be a way to do this better than we are doing this with our current cars.
Where our current cars can be a wonderful and powerful inspiration for what we do and don’t want in our new design. When we know what we don’t want, we can look into a different direction towards what we would prefer, with knowing What we know now. And in this we can be grateful for the problems we see, for they can become starting points for better. Acceptance & Gratitude are very powerful tools for change.
Because I have a strong feeling, that if it would be possible to move ourselves, comfortably, fast, anywhere we want to go in freedom, that most people prefer this. Instead of the traffic jamming, frustrating, oil consuming (and thus war creating), disturbing, polluting, killing vehicles that they are now. The only reason I can imaginevwe would not want to change this would be that we believe it cannot be done. Which is not true.
Well and there could be the excuse that oil companies might not like it. Well that’s too bad for them then. It’s up to them to make an honest turn with us or become the next dictator to be removed from this stage. The control and power that are demonstrated by them, are based on a false assumption of who all of us really are. Once ‘they’ awaken (& they will) they’ll realise they have made a mistake. Or to put it differently, we all created a shared experience that is ready to be changed in a better alternative for All of us.
So let’s turn the key to ignite our new engine!
Kim Passie (com)Passionate Living 