Wholth as Sustaining Dynamic of Health and Wealth

Cognitive dynamics sustaining the meta-pattern that connects

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Introduction

A sense of "togetherness" is valued in many forms. At its simplest it is recognized through the phrase "getting one's act together". Initiatives are appreciated as "having got it together". The subtlety of such recognition is readily associated with "health", whether of individuals or collective initiatives, and consequently as conducive to "wealth" -- however either of these are to be understood.

The following argument explores the nature of each from a cognitive perspective, especially in terms of their dynamics, separately and together. It follows from an earlier speculation (El-Attractor -- Timeless Complex Dynamic: Health, Wealth, Stealth / Youth, Couth, Truth, 2007).

The concern here, in a time of increasing chaos, is the possibility that whatever is implied by the elusive sense of "togetherness" and "getting one's act together", these call for "new thinking" -- and the recognition of the value of deprecated "old thinking". It is increasingly clear that authoritative coherence is not to be expected, and when it is offered it tends to be part of the problem. As previously argued it would appear that authorities have "nothing" meaningful to offer (Going Nowhere through Not-knowing Where to Go, 2013) The increasing importance of nothing would seem to merit "new thinking", given the contrasting aspirations to whole-system thinking and to holiness, despite the ever increasing depths of "financial holes". Hence the exploration here of "wholth" as a cognitive device to enable engagement with a fundamental meta-patterning process.

There is clearly a need for individuals to get by through by a new style of "muddling through" (Charles E. Lindblom, The Science of "Muddling Through", Public Administration Review, 19, 1959). Helpful authoritative expertise is not to be expected -- as so dramatically illustrated by the levels of youth unemployment and the cynical complacency of those responsible for it (Stieglitz from WEF in Davos: Complacency in a Leaderless World, cii.co, 13 February 2013). People have to work with what they can "pick up" and comprehend, however questionable this may appear to those with greater insight -- but unable to "deliver it" effectively (Towards the Dynamic Art of Partial Comprehension, 2012).

The effort here is then one of "talking up" ways of enabling and engaging with such coherence -- beyond the constraints of those who claim to do so within particular frameworks.

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