Pi (1998) Reaction: From Infinity to Duality

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I just watched Pie, the first film by Darren Aronofsky, for the second time. I have thought deep into many concepts tonight, and have come up with a new ratio: the ratio between opposites and infinity. I will try to explain this as carefully as I can, because the Illuminati is considering recruiting me.

We humans have 2 normal eyes, and a Third Eye. We use the 2 normal eyes for logical, physical thought about the tangible realms. We use observations made by this set of eyes to process our physical world. We use logic to see. However, all we see with these 2 eyes can be likened to Plato’s metaphor of the Cave. The observer, who is inside the Cave, can never conceive of the true outside world. It is incomprehensible.

Everything we see in our quasi-3D, 2-eyed world is logical. We can use measurements to quantize all sort of data from our physical world. The physical world is filled with apparent opposites, on/off states, 1s and 0s.

It is binary.

Our Third Eye takes us out of this binary cave and places us into the infinite realm. What we cannot quantize is emotion. Emotion is infinite.

The Third Eye is our view from above. It’s feed comes from outside of Plato’s Cave. We can use it to see the simplicity of our 2-eyed, 3D world, the underlying patterns behind it. We use our Third Eye to perceive the duality. This outside processing is not logical, no; it is emotional.

We use emotions to perceive logic. Consciousness powers the facilitation of data between our 2-eyed and Third Eye systems. This communication occurs between duality and infinity. Our consciousness is the mediator between these two realms.

Consciousness, as far as we know, can only access one of these realms at a time. For this is why we cannot be both asleep and awake, both alive and dead. We can only be one or the other. We can only switch between duality and infinity; we cannot be both at once.

The path between duality and infinity is a spiral. This spiral is the vessel of creation in this realm. Followed outward, a spiral creates an infinitely expanding pattern from a single point. Pure emotion. Conversely, if we follow a spiral inward, we reduce an infinitely large pattern to that single point. That single point the final step before the void, which exists between infinity and duality. Pure logic. This point is brought up in Pi, when Max and Sol are playing Go and discussing probability. Sol states that at the beginning of a Go game, there are seemingly infinite possibilities for the arrangement of the pieces. Max, however, counters that right before the end of the game, there is only one possible move left.

Throughout nature, we find examples of the golden ratio. Life follows this sequence as it expands. Can we retract life with that sequence? Can we switch from emotion to logic? Is logic truly death, or is it life, as something else?

If consciousness is a light switch, life is when the the switch to ON and death is when the switch is OFF. Life is emotion. Infinite. Death is logic. Binary. The switch itself, the in-between, is consciousness.

How can we become fully aware of consciousness itself? We must reduce consciousness to pure logic. This will be the death of consciousness, yes, but also the awakening of a new understanding of the ratio between the infinity and the duality.

We must create a new state within the void that exists in between the ON/OFF state. We must enter this state and exist within it in order to achieve a true understanding of the link between the two most important opposites.

By reducing emotion to logic, we can understand the in-between. Pi postulates that we can do this with numbers.