From point-making to world-making

Emerging Significance of Nothing (Part #5)

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Are there insights to be gained by applying the geometry underlying such thinking to the "making of a point" and the emergence and collapse of a "worldview"? Of potential relevance are the insights into the "physics of meaning" of René Thom, as discussed separately (Semiophysics?). Given Hawking's imaginative use of conic sections to describe the universe and its origins -- notably in terms of a parabola -- there is a profound irony to the lack of exploration of Thom's insights into the semantic implications of conic sections, and notably the parabola (Paraboles et catastrophes, 1983).

Might understanding of the creation and form of any universe not be fruitfully "informed" by the catastrophes which were a focus of Thom's work (Structural Stability and Morphogenesis: an outline of a general theory of models, 1972)? Should "point-making" be explored as a catastrophe -- as with "universe-making"?