Archetypal vs Typal

(Copyright © 2000 C.J. Lofting)

In the process of analysing the various maps humans make of reality it has become obvious that there are some fundamental differences that can cause problems when not understood.

These differences are in the form of the differences between and archetypal perspective and a typal perspective.

The archetypal perspective has a more mechanistic viewpoint of reality as well as a more asexual or androgynous bias when considering reproduction.

In the world of the archetypal, the world of 'gods' and fundamental concepts such as light and dark, all concepts are of equal value and have a definite place. There is a degree of rigid structuring going on and little if any interactions other than oppositional processes. In this context all concepts 'battle' each other, they form weak relationships with other concepts purely to get through the next battle in this eternal war. Once a battle is won or lost so the same concepts prepare for the next, allying with previous enemies against once friends.

This process goes on forever. All concepts are 'pure' in form and as such reproduction is asexual/androgynous. In modern disciplines, Physics has an archetypal form in that all photons or electrons etc are 'the same', no one photon is fundamentally different from any other and you cannot have a 'mixing' of fundamentals, photons are photons, forever.

At the level of biology, this sort of existance is unacceptable for development in that a lack in genetic diversity ensures a degree of stagnation very quickly.

What seems to have happened is that the once opposing concepts of light and dark where brought together to form a new level of existance, that of a typal existance where the pure become mixed and so an increase in genetic diversity at the price of immortality; sexual reproduction is linked directly to the birth/death dichotomy.

This increase in mixing leads to an increase in entanglements of the once pure such that what was once seen as 'unique' becomes entangled with others such that 'all is connected'. This reduction is purity is akin to a reduction in the distinctions of highs and lows and so a sort of equilibrium is reached which can be interpreted as a form of archetypal concept of entropy; the archetypes dissapear in the 'noise' of culture.

However, there does seem to be a process at work where within the culture patterns emerge that go towards creating 'new' archetypes, 'pure' forms as long as they are seen in the context in which they were 'born'.

Somewhere in this is a fundamental development process dealing with order and disorder.