Space/time: the medium of it all

Space and time constitute the medium in which the universe occurs for us. Energy and information constitute the specific occurrence of that universe for us. While we distinguish them in our speaking, in science space and time do not exist independently. While we have distinguished them in our Western experiential models, space/time are a single phenomenon in contemporary physics. Energy/information is also a single phenomenon in the same way.

Space/time has shape. Energy/information has pattern. It is with patterns that we make sense of our universe. This is generally incompatible with our accepted way of thinking of the universe. We have come to see the universe as though it were amenable to our direct sensory experience. But that universe is mediated by a Western language that can only "see" this particular way.

The source of all material is non-material. If we look at a solid (say a table) we see the material as a whole and solid. If we look closer with special aids, we see that the surface is not as smooth as we thought. As we continue to look in more refined ways, we see there are spaces between the elements but that each of these has a surface.

Aas we continue to look, every surface gives ways to spaces and new surfaces until we get so small that we can no longer say that there is any material or surface. We are left with space, energy and information. But none of these makes sense without the other. As we go deeper into something, it leads us out again. As we move away from the centre, we find it leads us back in. In the case of material you continually move between solid, space, solid, space no matter which direction you go.

We can grasp this phenomenon if we do a thought experiment. Imagine something solid in an absolute sense, that is, something that has no spaces whatsoever within it. Now see if there would be any change or any action within that thing. See if there would be any interaction with the environment that changed that thing. Try and imagine it happening. It can't happen because, without space, there is no interaction, no motion, no possibility. Even for some passive change like rusting, there must be spaces which allow for penetration, interaction, change.

The sensory, material, physical approach equates "structure" with the physical and from there "organization" is physical and rigid even when it exists only on paper. When this is the case, then changing an organization or its "structures" will not make a difference. Why would we ever consider such changes important (to change or not to change) if they can't be the source of more profound change?

Organization, considered as energy/information and patterns becomes infinitely flexible and a powerful source of transformation. Here, organization is "that which makes patterns which are robust and lasting while not rigid." Organization is regularity in communication, information flows, practices, conversations, attractors, etc.

Intelligence, organization and structure are interrelated phenomena. They do not exist independently of each other. They are the energy/information patterns that form more patterns. One way they manifest is as a corporation including all its formal and material "stuff". These are patterns which persist by creating ever more complex patterns.