What if the parts were never apart?

“Here, play around with these pieces.”

“What is it supposed to be?”

“What do you think?”

“Well, I suppose it’ll be a square or a triangle or some other geometric shape.”

“Ok. Try and see if you can put it together.”

“But what is it supposed to become?”

“Why do you need to know that?”

“Otherwise I won’t know when I’m finished.”

“You’re finished when you feel like you’ve played enough.”

“But… ok then I’m finished. I don’t have time to spend on something when I don’t know what it’s going to be.”

“There’s nothing stopping you from doing something else.”

“So you’re not going to tell me?”

“I will, but you wouldn’t believe me at first. So I can’t just tell you… but I can show you, though. But in order to do that I’ll need a couple of things from you.”

“Like what?”

“Haha, a little curious after all. I’d like to ask you to have some patience. Not because this is complicated. I can show you two images and then you’ll have seen what this is. So the explanation itself doesn’t take long… but the consequences, the meaning, and the applications of what you’ve seen… those aren’t things to be set aside lightly. I still encounter new insights and lessons, so the examples I present here are no complete list. No academic field. It’s an exploration of perspectives and you’re very welcome to co-create it with me.”

“How can you still be getting insights from a logic puzzle?”

“Who said this was a logic puzzle?”

“Isn’t it?”

“What is a logic puzzle?”

“Are you going to be this philosophical the whole time?”

“Haha, no, don’t worry. I’ll show you what I practically use this tool for.”

“A tool!? These are just some triangles and strangely shaped puzzle pieces. What am I supposed to do with these?”

“The lenses in my glasses are also just a geometric shape… but they change how I see the world.”

“So these pieces are going to change how I see the world?”

“Or they’ll make visible something you already know is there… but that you haven’t been able to see until now.”

“And in what way will that help me?”

“That depends a little on what you do and where you are in life.”

“And what does that mean?”

“It means I can’t tell you in advance what you’ll see. And I know that sounds very philosophical. It sounds unclear and incomplete, something I understand creates frustration in a world where all uncertainty must be filled as quickly as possible and where answers are just an AI prompt away. You want answers fast… but that’s precisely why I’m asking for a little patience. Let me start by telling you why I created these pieces. I’ll then show you what these pieces together represent, how I’ve used them, and what results and conclusions I’ve arrived at. Does that sound ok, or do you have any questions?”

“Yes, one. You’ve given me some pieces and claim they’ll become something. Could you just as easily have given me the finished result and then asked me to take it apart? Like a finished LEGO construction where I then have to see which parts it’s built from? Was that an alternative you considered?”

“No, I never considered that, because… how do I put this… Because once you’ve seen the whole, you’ll notice that the parts start to disappear.”

“What?”

“What you have here is a traditional explanation of a complex pattern. Something that has been divided, cut up, sorted, categorised. LEGO bricks, if you want to continue with that analogy. The perspective you’ll get here is something else. It’s an attempt at a new way of explaining the whole and the parts at the same time.”

“How do you do that?”

“Let me show you.”

To be continued…