Higher dimensionality of coherence?

Alternating between Complementary Images of Coronavirus (Part #4)

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Complexification? The argument can be taken further by complexifying the configurations indicated above -- as is in fact characteristic of memory organization in the supercomputers mentioned. The images below indicate such possibilities, notably in the light of the oppostional logic and its associated geometry, as discussed separately (Global Coherence by Interrelating Disparate Strategic Patterns Dynamically: topological interweaving of 4-fold, 8-fold, 12-fold, 16-fold and 20-fold in 3D, 2019).

Especially of value to the argument is the focus on risk and trust, given their role in any (collective) confidence in any model. The challenge of both is evident in relation to current declarations of authorities regarding the pandemic and the manner in which these are contested, irrespective of the degree to which any such protest is deprecated.

Containing the spread of COVID-19 is readily held to require that citizens have faith in both their government and one another (Bo Rothstein, Trust Is The Key to Fighting the Pandemic, Scientific American, 24 March 2020). As widely noted, however, the confusion associated with the pandemic has resulted in a massive erosion of public trust in authorities (Darren Palmer, Pandemic policing needs to be done with the public's trust, not confusion, The Conversation, 8 April 2020).

It is in this sense that an articulation with regard to risk and trust is of particular value, as presented in models by Carlos Trigoso (Correlating Risk and Trust Management, 2017). The author stresses that in order to overcome the technocentric focus in information security and identity management, there is need for a model which correlates all aspects of risk and trust management. The framework offers a much wider perspective, avoiding the exclusive fixation on "risk avoidance". The associataed issues are a focus of the clarifications by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Ethics of Precaution: Individual and Systemic Risk, 17 March 2020; Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, 2012).

The image of Trigoso can be seen as framing the elusive experiential dimension of which the form and dynamics of the tesseract are indicative. Trigoso's own image is presented here redrawn (below right), of but with the addition of an internal cube in green -- indicative of the paradoxical comprehension complexity suggested by arguments relating to the tesseract, as discussed separately (Neglected recognition of logical patterns -- especially of opposition, 2017).

As noted in that discussion with respect to the image on the left, a comment on the work of Shea Zellweger (Untapped potential in Peirce's iconic notation for the sixteen binary connectives, 1997) in a blog (Opposition Geometry: mathematics (and philosophy) of opposition, 30 September 2015) notes:

The American psychologist Shea Zellweger (...) seems to be the first person to have remarked (in 1997?) that the 14 non-trivial binary connectives (i.e. the 16 binary connectives minus the "tautology" and the "contradiction" connectives) can be embedded into a 3D rhombic dodecahedron (which he called "logical garnet"). However, he does not seem to have been aware of the fact more or less the same structure (that is: the same structure but expressed in a different way, so to exhibit 6 logical hexagons in it) had been proposed by Sauriol in 1968.

Correspondences variously framing the nexus of confidence-identity?
The Logic Alphabet Tesseract - a four-dimensional cube (see coding). by Shea Zellweger	Tesseract animation simulating requisite 4-dimensionality?	Cubic relation between risk and trust adapted to frame the subtlety of additional dimensionality
Diagram by Warren Tschantz (reproduced from the Institute of Figuring) .	by Jason Hise [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons	Adaptation of the image by Carlos Trigoso (Correlating Risk and Trust Management 2017)

The image on the right then frames a focus on the subtlety of confidence and sense of identity, increasingly experienced as fundamental in a period of pandemic and its evocation of panic. In whom is it possible to have confidence given the questionable assertions of health experts, the only too obvious self-interest of political groups, and the associated commercial forces seeking profitability at all cost? The calls for unquestionable confidence in authorities then frame the need to challenge the surrender of critical discourse and the efforts to impose conformity of perspective.

Confidence and identity? Clearly, despite its fundamental importance to global governance, the nexus of confidence and identity, as framed above (in green), eludes simplistic definition. The tesseract animation above is suggestive of the paradoxical complexity of that nexus in relation to what it is mistakenly assumed as lending itself to adequate objective definition in conventional terms.

Of some relevance is the curious role of the prefix "con-" as it features in a wide range of terms of relevance to "con-sensus", "con-gress", "con-firmation", "con-formity", and the like -- and especially any "confidence trick". The implications are discussed separately (Exploration of Prefixes of Global Discourse: implications for sustainable confidelity, 2011; Primary Global Reserve Currency: the Con? Cognitive implications of a prefix for sustainable confidelity, 2011; Embodiment of Identity in Conscious Creativity: challenge of encompassing "con", 2011).

Indicative framing of confidence and identity
Configuration of axes of biases containing the consensual processes potentially fundamental to global confidelity	Confidence and its surrogates indicative configuration of the variety of expressions and tokens of confidence
Representation of the axes of bias of W.T. Jones (1961), reproduced from Configuring a system of pre-logical biases (2009)	Reproduced from Varieties of Confidence Essential to Sustainability: surrogates and tokens obscuring the existential "gold standard" (2009)

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