Globality as variously implied


Reimagining Principles Enabling an Existential Ecostery (Part #3)


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This is and is not. Perhaps to be understood as understanding and comprehension -- irrespective of any focus on differentiation. A sense of nothingness and emptiness is also meaningful, although plenum and fulfillment carry another sense, beyond any possibility of useful articulation.

Process and system also carry meaning -- as with meta-narrative, or perhaps meta-meta-narrative. It is very much a case of there being "nothing to be said" -- famously framed by Ludwig Wittgenstein as: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must pass over in silence (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922).

The seeming lack of content to an all-encompassing perspective highlights the challenges of comprehending the fundamental significance of so-called "globalization". What can be meaningfully said about it that it that cannot be equally significantly negated, as in apophatic theology?

The dilemma can be further highlighted by recognizing the increasing significance accorded to "nothing", especially by fundamental physics (Emerging Significance of Nothing, 2012). Potentially more problematic is recognition that, in a condition of information overload, there is a need to come to terms in new ways with the unknown and incomprehension (Living with Incomprehension and Uncertainty: re-cognizing the varieties of non-comprehension and misunderstanding, 2012; Towards the systematic reframing of incomprehension through metaphor, 2012; Towards the dynamic art of partial comprehension, 2012).

If metaphor is a key to engaging with globality, are there clues to its articulation through the widespread metaphorical use of geometry, as suggested above (Metaphorical Geometry in Quest of Globality -- in response to global governance challenges, 2009)? Does this indicate a "way" in relation to a certain pointlessness implied by globality (Way Round Cognitive Ground Zero and Pointlessness? Embodying the geometry of fundamental cognitive dynamics, 2012)?


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