Torus as a key to strategic knowledge organization?

Coronavirus -- Global Plan, Doughnut, Torus, Helix and/or Pineapple? (Part #4)

It is however intriguing to note that, despite evoking the 3D torus form, depictions of the doughnut model are typically in 2D form -- as with the concentric set of planetary boundaries, and any corresponding set of psychosocial boundaries. There is therefore a case for a more explicit 3D framing of any "Global Plan" as argued separately (Imagining Toroidal Life-- as a Sustainable Alternative: from globalization to toroidization or back to flatland? 2019).

Aside from its role in the design of supercomputer memory, the value of that geometry is exemplified by the Stanford torus proposed by NASA as the design for a space habitat capable of housing 10,000 to 140,000 permanent residents -- following the ealier proposal for a rotating wheel space station. The NASA proposal is one inspiration for a current project (Corin Faife, Scientists Are Contemplating a 1,000-Year Space Mission to Save Humanity, OneZero, 5 December 2019). Far less evident are the relevant psychosocial considerations of that geometry.

The argument can be related to the development of computers and their implications for knowledge organization Imagining Order as Hypercomputing: operating an information engine through meta-analogy, 2014; Framing Cognitive Space for Higher Order Coherence: toroidal interweaving from I Ching to supercomputers and back, 2019;). The following animations from the latter point to the possibity of catalysts for more imaginative thinking on global organization. That on the left is a schematic depiction of connectivity in supercomputer memory.

Exploratory animations indicative of a organizational coherence of a higher order
Interlinking of a 3x3x3 set of 24 nodes (each linking 3 orthogonal loops)	Circles associated with polyhedral faces and vertices suggesting toroidal dynamic	Tesseract animation indicative of requisite 4-dimensionality?

Reproduced from Framing Cognitive Space for Higher Order Coherence (2019)		by Jason Hise [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

The spike theme explored with respect to the form of the coronavirus can be usefully seen as related to the Crown of Thorns traditionally highlighted by Christianity as one of the instruments of employed by Jesus' captors both to cause him pain and to mock his claim of authority -- now to be usefully explored as self-inflicted by a global civilization. This is discussed separately in relation to the form of a torus (Implication of Toroidal Transformation of the Crown of Thorns: design challenge to enable integrative comprehension of global dynamics, 2011).

The argument was illustrated by the following. The animation on the left is suggestive of the dynamics of both the blame-game and the decision-making processes of the archetypal Knights of the Round Table -- emulated to a degree by the Board of Directors of any Global Plan (Predictability and pattern-breaking: the Knight's move, 2011).

Exploratory animations indicative of a organizational coherence of a higher order
Animation of 8 of the Knight's moves	Torus-Sphere transformation (reproduced from Wikipedia entry)	Academic mortar board (as occasionally presented)	Binary strategic games of governance (with a "lifebuoy" for turbulent seas of chaos)

Reproduced from Implication of Toroidal Transformation of the Crown of Thorns (2011)

The image on the right is of current significance in the light of agreements and proposals for various "trillion dollar" bailouts in response to the pandemic -- more appropriately understood in technical terms as quantitative easing. Such policies continue to invite criticism, as argued separately (From Quantitative Easing (QE) to Moral Easing (ME): a stimulus package to avert moral bankruptcy?.2010).