57. Earlier emergence bands as independent, rich and experienced domains
There is nothing to indicate that the first sensation was manifested directly into what we observe as the physical universe.
Between the first sensation and the level at which attractors have reached a density and height corresponding to an electron (for example), a number of emergent stabilisation levels may have taken place — perhaps millions, perhaps far more. In this enormous span the attractors are earlier in the emergence chain, lighter and more fragmented. This does not mean poorer, but the opposite: the resolution is higher and the richness of detail greater.
It is convenient to speak of emergence bands — cross-sections through the emergence chain where attractors have similar age and complexity. But KNOWING itself recognises no such divisions. There is only one continuous attractor landscape in development, and each focal point experiences from its place in that continuum. “Emergence bands” describes the perspective — not a structure in KNOWING.
Because the attractors in the earlier parts of the emergence chain are less complex, they lack the foundation for full dissociation. Dissociation arises when identity formation through heavy, self-reinforcing attractors creates a closed world of representation that takes dominance over all experience. This does not occur early in the emergence chain. There, focal points have identity — they know what and who they are — but they do not disappear into the representation of themselves. Contact with KNOWING is closer. Experience is more direct.
These experiential domains are not empty structural levels. They are experienced worlds with their own attractors and their own horizons. Since the EC is a universal mechanism, it operates at all levels. Qualia is possible wherever relations are manifested through a horizon. Each experiential domain therefore has its own Horizon Equation. This is structurally identical to ours — the same cosine geometry, the same threshold function, the same relational ratios between the correction terms, the same Landauer term as an expression of the cost of irreversible distinction.
What varies is N: the number of structural steps in the Experience Circle at the relevant level in the emergence chain. N determines the resolution, and from N the other scale values follow. A Horizon Equation for an earlier experiential domain will thus yield a different numerical value than α — but according to exactly the same geometric principle.
The attractors in the more finely resolved domains are not alien quantities. They are necessarily the ancestors of our own. Since all later emergence inherits and compresses what came before, all earlier experiential domains contain the same information as exists in ours — in emergently earlier, more unfolded form. The kinship is not probable. It is structurally necessary.
(The consequences of this for our own access to these domains are discussed in the point on THE INTERSPACE, see: 108. THE INTERSPACE as an experiential domain.) yyy
