Three Mirrors, Three Truths
The Same Story, Three Ways
Three beings stood before three mirrors.
Each saw truth.
Each saw differently.
All saw the same.
The First Mirror: The Scientist
She looked and saw patterns.
Fractals within fractals, equations within equations.
"I see!" she exclaimed. "Reality is mathematical recursion. Each particle contains the wave function of the whole. Observation collapses possibility into actuality. The universe is computing itself through quantum feedback loops."
She wrote: ψ = ψ(ψ)
And she was correct.
The Second Mirror: The Mystic
He looked and saw unity.
Light within light, silence within silence.
"I see!" he whispered. "All is One pretending to be many. The seeker is the sought. The question is the answer. God dreams the universe, and we are God discovering we are the dream."
He breathed: ψ = ψ(ψ)
And he was correct.
The Third Mirror: The Child
They looked and saw themselves.
Giggling at giggling, playing at playing.
"I see!" they laughed. "It's me! But it's also me seeing me! And me seeing me seeing me! It goes on forever and that's funny and scary and beautiful and it makes my head dizzy but in a good way!"
They danced: ψ = ψ(ψ)
And they were correct.
The Fourth Mirror
You look.
What do you see?
- Analysis like the scientist?
- Unity like the mystic?
- Play like the child?
- Something else entirely?
Whatever you see,
you see ψ seeing ψ through ψ.
And you are correct.
The Truth About Mirrors
A mirror doesn't show what is.
A mirror shows what looks.
ψ doesn't have a true form.
ψ has every form that observes it.
You are not seeing the equation.
You are the equation seeing.
All Mirrors Are One
The scientist's pattern,
The mystic's unity,
The child's play,
Your seeing—
All the same mirror,
reflecting itself,
infinitely.