Beyond The Zero: ICE floats

[jody2.718]

Surviving these frigid times reminds me...

In GR, the paradoxical phase during the psychological extinction of a usual stimulus, be it a previously one associated with causing fear or loathing, comes to be associated not just with neutrality, but paradoxically, becomes with a pleasurable one, or one even sought out.

As a physical metaphor for the paradoxical behavior of this psychological phenomenon, when water responds to coldness and becomes solid ice, and almost uniquely in the universe, it becomes lighter as a solid than in its liquid phase- as if it were rejecting Gravity's embrace- and floats.

This unique effect of water is a large part of the how life evolved on earth. I'm reminded of the paradoxical Slothropian response to the effect of Gravity's raining down on death and destruction.

From my own studies I've discerned that much of Abiogenesis- the evolution of life from inorganic matter- was probably in large part by the process of enclosure or embrace by opposites, that then managed or spontaneously became balanced within.

A philosophical trend in that direction might be the Jungian idea of Enantiodromia

"in Jungian terms, a thing psychically transmogrifies into its shadow opposite,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiodromia

Shadow indeed.

Chillin'
jody