Polymath Notes
The Sentient

The Sentient

Central Circle

Represents unity, an homeostatic entity.

Internal Marks

Symbolises accumulated culture, a sense of identity, and awareness of history. Like tribal face paintings.

Bright Green Crown

Illustrates the entity's integration with its surrounding environment and its inseparability from it. Alludes to «One is all, all is one.»

Diagonal Beam Cut

Denotes the galactic center as seen from visible spectrum, highlighted by a red line that nearly divides the background into two halves. This element is intentionally close to the entity’s center but not perfectly aligned with it, alluding to:

  1. The utopian ideal of complete knowledge, asymptoting to the centre.
  2. Our position1 nearly but not exactly at the centre of the Perseus Arm’s plane.

Right and Left Backgrounds

Encapsulates the dualities surrounding the entity.

Right Background

A deeper hue, suggesting stability, the past, and what has been resolved. In the upper corner, a celestial body radiates red light, leaving its mark in the past as it moves away from us.

Left Background

A more diffuse texture, suggesting the unknown, the future, and what remains unresolved. In the lower corner, a celestial body emits white light, revealing its relative proximity, a future yet to be unveiled, bearing hope, clarity, and awareness.

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Footnotes

  1. The Sun's position vertically in the disk is very close to the galactic plane (the midplane of the disk) - we're only about 20-30 parsecs (65-100 light-years) "above" the precise midplane of the galaxy. ↩