This image is a conceptual diagram showing how the domain of “Difference” is continuously expanded.
Two Drivers of Difference Expansion
Top Flow: Natural Emergence of Difference
- Existence → Multiplicity → Influence → Change
- The process by which new differences are continuously generated naturally in the universe and natural world.
Bottom Flow: Human Tools for Recognizing Difference
- Letters & Digits → Computation & Memory → Computing Machine → Artificial Intelligence (LLM)
- The evolution of tools that humans have developed to interpret, analyze, and process differences.
Center: Continuous Expansion Process of Difference Domain
The interaction between these two drivers creates a process that continuously expands the domain of difference, shown in the center:
Emergence of Difference
- The stage where naturally occurring new differences become concretely manifest
- Previously non-existent differences are continuously generated
↓ (Continuous Expansion)
Recognition of Difference
- The stage where emerged differences are accepted as meaningful through human interpretation and analytical tools
- Newly recognized differences are incorporated into the realm of distinguishable domains
Final Result: Expansion of Differentiation & Distinction
Differentiation & Distinction
- Microscopically: More sophisticated digital and numerical distinctions
- Macroscopically: Creation of new conceptual and social domains of distinction
Core Message
The natural emergence of difference and the development of human recognition tools create mutual feedback that continuously expands the domain of difference.
As the handwritten note on the left indicates (“AI expands the boundary of perceivable difference”), particularly in the AI era, the speed and scope of this expansion has dramatically increased. This represents a cyclical expansion process where new differences emerging from nature are recognized through increasingly sophisticated tools, and these recognized differences in turn enable new natural changes.
With Claude
Lechuck Park 