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What a Beautiful Experience - Thought Plasma: Experimental Poetics
sinem salva ersoy
Keywords: Poetics; Philosophy of science; Consciousness; Physics; Creativity; Artificial intelligence
Categories: Performing Arts, Music
DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.2.1112
Languages: English
This interdisciplinary poetic essay explores the unfolding of consciousness through conceptual structures drawn from physics such as wave functions, fields, and symmetry breaking. Through a blend of scientific imagination, philosophical reflection, and personal narrative, the text traces how thought moves like an excitation in a field, relational and emergent and shaped by inner experience and the conceptual structures of the outer world. Memory and creative intuition intertwine with cosmological imagery, revealing how poetic language can illuminate scientific ideas and how scientific metaphors can deepen our understanding of the self. By situating this work within a lineage extending from Plato and Aristotle to Maxwell, Schrödinger, and contemporary AI, the essay proposes that poetry and science share a common epistemic ground, since both seek the unseen structures that generate form, meaning, and possibility. In this sense, creativity becomes a field in which thought evolves toward new configurations of understanding.