267.00 Observer as Tetrasystem

267.01 The unity-at-minimum-twoness of the observed somethingness and the unity-at-minimum-twoness of the observer provide the initial four-dimensional foci of a tetrasystem. Otherness as a noise always has a direction relative to both the vertical human observer’s head-to-heel axis and the horizontal axis of any pair of the human’s two nostrils, ears, eyes, hands, and arms. The two polar terminals of the vertical axis derive from the initial head-to-heel axis of the observer. The diametric axis is generated subsequently and spun horizontally and circumferentially in the observational plane of any two of its terminally sensing facilities. The two polar terminals of the head-to-heel axis and any two of the sensing terminals of the diametric observational axis are intertriangularly connectable to produce the six interrelationships of the inherent systemic tetrahedron of the observer system. The interim orbital repositioning of the observer system totality during the spin cycle inherently occasions the occurrence of the diametric axis in a plane always other than that in which the original axis of spinnability had occurred.

267.02 Tactile: touch omnidirectionally outward Olfactory inward Sight: optical frontally oriented Hearing sidewise Inherent tetrahedral relationship. (See Fig. 267.02A.)

image image Figs. 267.02A-B Observer is inherently a tetra-system. (See Fig. 267.02B.)

Something, Noise

Figs. 267.02A-B Observer as Tetrasystem

267.03Physical self is inherently a tetrahedral observing system with four alternate, “fail-safe,” distance-and-direction-sensing circuits.

267.04 Special case is angularly referenced to the inherent twoness of the polar axis of the system doing the observing, because the observer is a system and the system is four-dimensional. The fact that unity is two (Sec. 513.30) means that an observer is at minimum two, but realistically four, because the observer is a system; and the observed is at minimum two, but being a system, is realistically four. A range-finder is inherently tetrahedral.

267.05 The sensing apparatus and the action apparatus with which humans are integrally equipped are both designed to provide them with angular orientation and the triangulated observation of distance. The two ears, two eyes, two nostrils, two arms, and two legs all prod uce triangulated distance- to-object information. They are range-find ers. Using the distance between any pair of their integral sensing instruments as the baseline of a triangle whose opposite vertex is marked by the external object they are viewing, touching, hearing, or smelling, they sense the relative magnitude of the angles at the sensing ends of the baseline which give s them the sense of magnitude of the complementary third angle at the apex of th e triangle w here the sensed object is located. Range-finding is triangulation. Sensing is triangulation.