26. Resonance as the fundamental mechanism
Resonance is the fundamental mechanism that makes recognition, stabilisation, organisation and emergence possible in the EC/HE theory.
When a new relation arises through the Experience Circle, it must immediately be understood in the light of what is already understood. Resonance expresses the degree of correspondence between the new relation and the existing structure of KNOWING.
A relation does not resonate because it resembles something previous, but because it can be integrated into the established understanding without creating a break in the whole. What resonates can enter into further understanding. What does not resonate appears as unease, contradiction or new differentiation that must be understood.
Resonance is therefore not a process in which KNOWING seeks, evaluates or chooses. KNOWING is the static and fully updated totality of all established relations. Resonance simply expresses how well a new relation can be integrated into this totality.
Attractor Dynamics describes what happens next. Resonance is the correspondence. Attractor Dynamics is the lawfulness that causes certain relations to be stabilised, strengthened and to acquire organising force in further manifestation.
The stronger the resonance a relation has with the existing structure of KNOWING, the greater its capacity to enter into new relations, form new attractors and contribute to further emergence. Resonance is therefore the fundamental mechanism that drives KNOWING towards ever greater integration, coherence and understanding.
Resonance can also be observed directly in human experience. Certain people, ideas, books, places or pieces of music are immediately experienced as right, meaningful or familiar. Others are experienced as foreign or difficult to integrate. This is not necessarily due to agreement, similarity or preference, but to the degree of resonance between the relational structures that meet. People often describe such experiences with expressions such as “that feels right”, “that fits”, “I recognise myself in that” or “this feels true”. In the EC/HE theory such experiences represent direct manifestations of resonance in practice.
