The Rainbow Serpent, the Ouroboros

I had the chance to see the Rainbow Serpent.

It is as big as the world. It is life, or it works like life. I experienced it more like the trunk of a huge tree, with the horizon as the bark, the sea rising throug it like a fluid in the capillary vessels and all human made artifacts like the cells of the tree. All in a huge, symmetric and lifeless space.

Where there is life, there is no symmetry. Where there is space, there is no life until the symmetry of the space is broken. Free fall according to gravity is symmetric. Here comes life and makes a pocket. Free fall is turned into the guarantee that the pocket will hold still whatever you put into it.

From Egyptians, the Greeks inherited the Ouroboros.

It is the same huge creature which is life. It is the boundary of the sea.

In Hamiltonian mechanics we don’t experience the Rainbow Serpent. It appears though if we allow random forces and momenta, with a probability given by the shape of the accessible space (here, section 2, unilateral contact example).

I think all the properties of life (like the ability to self-reproduce, metabolism and death) are emerging from the more fundamental property of lack of symmetry. It is hard to understand but it is worthy to try.

As concerns the chora, it is semantic, not real. The ouroboros makes the chora, as decoration.