In my early years stories of ancient Greek myths, set a tapestry depicting western civilization's aspirations and failures. A greater question emerging from transitory civilizations was the delovopment of thought, ideas, cognition, and the posibility of growth in human character.
The Role Of The Artist In Complex Systems, Chaos And Understanding
Apparent chaotic behavior is observed in natural systems, such as the weather. Explanation have been sought through mathematical models.
Mostly recurrence plots and Poincaré maps. However as emerging information surfaces on the phenomenology within the weather matrix, it becomes
clear that the chaotic behavior is a perceptual malaise.
Spherical Thinking is a necessity in dealing with a comprehensive understanding of weather. So what appears chaotic at one point on the sphere,
is understandable when observing the spherical totality. If we can not grasp a spherical totality, we are stuck with the methodologies of
divining a misunderstood order.
The hermeneutic circle refers to the idea that one's understanding of the text as a whole is established by reference to the individual parts
and one's understanding of each individual part by reference to the whole. It stresses that the meaning of a text must be found within its
cultural, historical, and literary context. Similarly our migration to a spherical model intuits a flood of information to be referenced and
sorted. When considering the weather of humanity,
a concept of "a living unified whole" rather than "theoretical models" make understanding of multiple cultural context and interpretations
necessary to gain greater insights.
With Zen Process we look to the resolution of the phenomenal dualism of ego and non-ego.
The ego is both intellectual, and organic. There is no "pure mind" or "pure body." There is only a balance where ego finds a synthesis of
all possibilities and self.
In cognition being is the object and in volition it is the purpose of thought.
The object of thought is directed into ourselves. The purpose of thought is directed out into the world. Cognition and volition are both
functions of thought.
Self-awareness is the third function of thought.
Knowledge is bounded by experience.
The idea of knowledge or scientific thought as distinguished from an introspective form of thought such as aesthetics and religion is similar
to
chaotic behavior observed in weather. From a spherical overview, all thinkers are in the same form.
All knowledge takes the form of the concept which is usually referring to the meaning of a linguistic expression or an idea. A concept is
therefore a semantic unit in contrast seeking resolution of the phenomenal dualism.
This semantic unit represents "understood." It also approaches a chaos of knowledge in particular formal concept analysis, and associated
sciences. It is also
described in the cultural and historical sciences "concept history" in research programs that are based on historical semantics.
Epistemological, philosophy of language, and ontological aspects also deal with variations of a semiotic triangle which denotes a component
that mediates between signifier and signified.
Looking at self awareness seeking greater organization via hermeneutic circle or a more complex system of Spherical Thinking, the gathering of
connectivity between polar opposites brings us to the conclusion that only a larger view, such as a planetary magnetosphere can serve to
provide the order of nature we are searching for.
Zen Process seeks to finesse a relationship with the harmony which exists around us.
Judgment
Judgments presuppose the uniformity of both our relations to the outward world, and the likeness of our inward nature.
Uniformity is not based on sameness. Thought and sensation are the forms of our being.
The concept combines the general and the specific.
Rigid forms answers to cause and effect of interactions with the system of judgments.
Higher concept answers to "force" and the lower to the phenomena of force, and the judgment to the contingent interaction of things.
Being consists in conceptual form and social relations. Philosophy refers to it as concept and judgment. The concept representing being and the
judgment being in action.
Knowledge has under both forms the same object, the relative difference of the two being that
when the conceptual form predominates we have speculative science and when the form of judgment prevails we have empirical or historical
science.
Plato, Spinoza and Kant contributed to this system, as well as Schelling.
Primitive Art reflects reality at the center of a perception of the world as a spiritual quest. Modernity crawling from the towers of
industrialization into an avalanche of new information about existence, begs the question of meaning. The question of self worth on a speeding
missile into a vast and expanding neutrino sea.
