Patterns of questions indicative of the subunderstanding of now

Now as the Ultimate Cognitive Strange Attractor (Part #6)

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The configuration above is of interest in that the relational lines could be used to distinguish a pattern of outlying zones (perhaps to be variously shaded in the image, as shown below). These would be indicative of a focus of partial attention, less intimately related to a more integrative sense of being alive "now". Rollowing the argument of the main paper, they could be explored in terms of degrees of "feeling dead" in that the dynamic associated with particular questions is ignored -- perhaps through dependence on particular answers and the assumption that they should not be "called into question"..

The four animations are based on 3 or 4-fold configurations of distinct pairs of questions from the image above. They might be understood as different ways of avoiding "now", or of forms of the "subunderstanding" of concern to Magoroh Maruyama (Polyocular vision or Subunderstanding? Organization Studies, 2004). The animations offer a sense of different styles of the derivative thinking discussed separately (Vigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems, 2013). Rather than "derivative", such thinking might be described as "peripheral" to that required to enable and enhance a sense of "now".

Patterns of derivative thinking avoiding "now" as suggested by animations of configurations of pairs of questions

The elements of the animations could of course be "woven" together into a single more complex animation, phasing the dynamics in a variety of suggestive ways, as argued more generally (Interweaving Thematic Threads and Learning Pathways, 2010).

If only for mnemonic purposes, there is a case for exploring the 21 pairs of questions as corresponding in some way to "cognitive vitamins" -- given arguments for correspondences between the pattern logic of the I Ching, the genetic code, and the amino acid vitamins essential to human life (Martin Schonberger, I Ching and the Genetic Code, 1992), as discussed with respect to Enhancing the Quality of Knowing through Integration of East-West metaphors (2000). The configurations above could then be understood as "cognitive vitamin complexes", thereby associating "cognitive vitamin deficiency" with Maruyama's subunderstanding.

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