Cognitive dilemma: mapping "inside-out" versus "outside-in"

Global Coherence by Interrelating Disparate Strategic Patterns Dynamically (Part #5)

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Arguments of a range of authors can be presented for the transformation of worldview from "inside-outside" to "outside-inside", with reality to be recognized as being as much "inside" as "outside" (World Introversion through Paracycling: global potential for living sustainably "outside-inside", 2013; Existential Embodiment of Externalities: radical cognitive engagement with environmental categories and disciplines, 2009). This can be explored as an analogue to the interface challenge of form of of osmosis (Cognitive Osmosis in a Knowledge-based Civilization; interface challenge of inside-outside, insight-outsight, information-outformation, 2017).

Of relevance here is how conventional strategic patterns are then to be apprehended, given their primary (if not exclusive) focus on "outside" -- with only the vaguest allusions to "inside" in terms of the implications of values and "well-being". The question is all the more relevant in that individuals are somehow expected to find such strategies credible to the point of eliciting their engagement, whatever that may be held to mean in psychological terms rather than in terms of their action as citizens. How do individuals "identify" with strategies? The question is especially relevant in relation to appeals for action in response to climate change or with respect to the sympathy for migrants and others in distress. Other than through associated promotional campaigns and propaganda -- however vigorous -- such conventional strategies make no provision for alienation and increasing indifference (compassion fatigue and psychic numbing).

In an earlier speculative exercise the strategic framework of 15 Global Challenges identified by the Millennium Project was "adapted" for illustrative purposes to a hypothetical self-reflexive ("inner") preoccupation of a conference as indicated below (Embodying Strategic Self-reference in a World Futures Conference: transcending the wicked problem engendered by projecting negativity elsewhere, 2015).

30 Future Global and Conferencing Challenges for Humanity (self-referential adaptation of the 15 Global Challenges of the Millennium Project)

The unusual features of the dual of the simplest torus above may therefore lend themselves to a form of mapping which is able to hold both the conventional "external" focus of strategies and the implication of "internal" considerations normally held to be secondary, irrelevant, and negligible. The polyhedral form can then be understood as holding the presence of a paradoxical interface between outside and inside -- potentially consistent with an understanding of cognitive osmosis.

There is a case for exploring the range of global strategies for traces of their personal psychological implication and how account can be taken of these within the administrative environments with mandates and expertise for an external focus alone.

Faced with such a mix of global strategies, does the nature of the global challenge call for reframing in some subtler manner, especially in the light of the ways it can be rendered superficial, as argued separately (Global Challenge of the Global Challenge: ¿ In-quest of a decision-making framework appropriate to a world in crisis ? 2016).

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