Configuring the varieties of experiential nothingness

Way Round Cognitive Ground Zero and Pointlessness? (Part #13)

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There is therefore a case for a further exploration of a possible reframing of cognitive despair in the face of the outcomes of highly questionable strategic initiatives, past, present and as currently envisaged. The despair is necessarily both planet-wide and highly personal (Implication of Personal Despair in Planetary Despair, 2010). The condition can be described as a form of cognitive "ground zero" -- a sense of pointlessness notably articulated through recognition that the future offers "nothing", especially for those reduced to "nothing" by a combination of factors, as separately discussed (Reintegration of a Remaindered World, 2011).

This possibility is explored separately (Configuring the Varieties of Experiential Nothingness, 2012) in the following sections:

• Varieties and dimensions of experiential nothingness
• Comments on experiential nothingness and somethingness
• Experimental configuration of nothingness as an "eightfold way"