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I, too, have been trying to put together a post at it... but I've been realizing that the requisite knowledge requires years of attainment, so it's very hard to describe the concepts for the layman. I think I need a better understanding of other models (for example, my knowledge of Western occultism is pretty lacking, though I'm working on that) before I can attempt to bridge the gap by analogy.

This is also complicated by the many different facets involved. Above I talked about potential vs. realization; another concept of interest is Kolmogorov complexity, which is a way of defining the nature of Order (small Kolmogorov complexity) vs. Chaos (large Kolmogorov complexity).

Another example is Stephen Wolfram's quixotic Wolfram Physics Project, which strikes me as a concrete way of redeveloping and exploring Neoplatonism using the tools of discrete mathematics.

(And, tying these together, Wolfram's also talked a lot in A New Kind of Science about how the boundary of Order and Chaos is where everything interesting in computer science happens; he's using mathematical terminology, but there's a certain mythic quality to it to my ears.)

I have a lot more pondering on this to do before I can really attempt to communicate bits of it, but even though occultists and the spiritually-minded like to denigrate computer programming (and not without reason), I'm quite certain there's value there for them.