18. IDEALIST EMERGENCE
When understandings are related to each other, new relational differences simultaneously arise.
Between existing understandings a new understanding does not immediately arise — but something unknown, something not yet interpreted. And this is in THE EXPERIENCER’s experience identical to what happened when the first quale arose: something appears that is not understood, and that must therefore be read.
The emergent gap is thus experienced as the fundamental quale in a new configuration. It is focused on, read and interpreted through the Experience Circle (ES) — but this time not from a zero point, but in the context in which it arose. The quale is the same. It is the context that is new. And it is the context that makes the understanding that arises appear as something genuinely new.
The result is a new understanding — with the fundamental quale replicated in a new constellation. This is how KNOWING grows: not by filling an empty space with content, but by the same fundamental quale continuously appearing in ever new accumulated configurations. It is always the same at the bottom. It is the constellations that make it experienced differently.
This new understanding enters KNOWING and immediately establishes new relations — which in turn give rise to new ununderstood differences. The process has no natural stopping mechanism.
Idealist Emergence describes this continuous dynamic. Emergence is not something that happens in addition to KNOWING. Emergence is the way KNOWING develops.
The mechanism that drives this process is the Experience Circle. It is thereby even more central than has so far emerged — for it is not merely the description of how experience arises, but the very engine of the universe’s development.
Seen from the perspective of KNOWING, the Experience Circle can therefore also be understood as an Emergence Circle: the same mechanism that brings forth and experiences the universe — simultaneously. This is discussed further in point 33: Emergence as necessary reorganisation.
