20. KNOWING as a relational field of knowledge
When the first sensation is focused and read through the Experience Circle (EC), the first understanding arises. This understanding is KNOWING.
KNOWING is not information stored in a physical medium, but a relational field of knowledge consisting of everything that has been understood. Every new relation that is interpreted and understood enters the field as a permanent part of its structure.
Once a relation has been understood, it does not cease. It becomes available as a foundation for further understanding. New relations can be compared with previous relations, and new experience can be interpreted in the light of what is already known. KNOWING is in this way the universe’s relational memory — the entire emergence tree from the beginning, not merely the current state, but all history integrated into one static and complete structure.
Through continuous emergence the field grows not by gathering objects or events, but by establishing ever more relations between what is already understood. Each new understanding builds further on previous understandings and simultaneously enters as a foundation for later emergence.
KNOWING thus represents the sum of all established relations, differences, experiences and understandings. It is the relational landscape that makes recognition, meaning, coherence and further development possible.
Without KNOWING every new experience would have to arise in complete isolation, without connection to anything previous. In that case neither learning, memory, understanding nor emergence could exist.
KNOWING does not make knowledge possible. It is not an empty space waiting to be filled.
KNOWING is knowledge.
