¿ Embodying away round pointlessness?

Way Round Cognitive Ground Zero and Pointlessness? (Part #14)

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The argument above has endeavoured to reframe the tendency to identify a strategic "way" -- "The Way". Such a way was associated with a "line" and, by implication, with the limitations of linear thinking. The many strategies formulated in this way suggest the need to configure them for greater coherence -- whether as edges of a polygon (in two dimensions) or of a polyhedron (in three dimensions). With the increase in the number of "linear" strategies configured in this way, the configurations approximate progressively to a circle or a sphere (respectively) -- conventionally associated with higher orders of integration.

The argument is developed separately (¿ Embodying a Way Round Pointlessness?, 2012) in the following sections:

• Visual representations of numbers and their cognitive implication
• Cognitive "x-factor" bridging between linear and circular modes: π
• Enabling cognitive engagement between linear and circular: π as an aesthetic catalyst
• Strategic implication of π through polygonal approximation to a circle
• Cognitive implication of polygon circumcircle and incircle in strategic implementation
• Implication of π through strategic approximation of a polyhedra to a sphere of globality
• Cognitive implication of polyhedron circumsphere, insphere and midsphere in strategic implementation
• Enabling a reconciliation between one and nothing: π and the mysterious Euler identity
• Body knowledge: understanding without proof
• Embodying openness in a toroidal dynamic
• Spiralling around "nothingness" and "pointlessness": the implication of phi
• Recognizing the "point" and reframing "nothingness": discontinuity and surprise