Co- and sub-functions
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Main
Concept and Example: Being and The
Elements of Being
The following are essentially the contents of the Concept of Being and
The Elements of Being. For further concepts see other topics,
especially Fundamental Concepts and Design for Being and
The Elements of Being.
What is Being and The Elements of Being
Being and The Elements of Being is a
search for, an exploration of being and its nature... including
ultimate being and an account or narrative of and for that
exploration.
It is a search in that it is a phase of my search.
In a way that is explained below, it is also the search and about the
connection between my search - the personal - and the search - the universal.
Every exploration is personal, Being and The Elements of Being is my
search… it is personal but not merely personal - I also seek an embedding in
the universal. The embedding sought is in the world through direct contact and
vision in the world and also through intermediate embedding in civilization,
its history and the culture of knowledge.
The modes of exploration. I prefer to use
"exploration" over "investigation", "study" or
"research"; exploration is intended to cover exploration in ideas and
the world. Additionally, exploration is used in its transformational and
constructive senses. It is transformational in that the being undertaking the
search may be transformed and seek to be transformed in the search. What are
the limits of such transformation? Understanding of such limits is conditioned
by understanding of the nature of being that we are - as beings that partake of
a proximate nature, to what extent do we already and potentially partake of the
universal and the ultimate? The constructive sense is that being participates
in its own transformation; what are the realms of this participation - ideas,
concepts and theories that condition understanding and action and the
physical or body realm together with a dynamic interaction of these
two realms.
A mode of construction is formation and living out
hypotheses about being - in interaction; more generally, construction is
through ideas and experiments in transformation. This is one way of connecting
ideas with exploration in the world.
Exploration of Being is direct, through Being and the world
and indirect, through the ideas and experiences of others. Indirect
exploration, interpreted through my understanding permits a kind of knowledge
and exploration of civilization, of the history of man and of evolution.
Additionally, I experience immersion in a number of cultures, realms of nature
and of mind.
The realms of exploration. The ultimate and the
proximate are intimately related; metaphysically - constitutively, genetically;
epistemologically, axiologically - including value to the search; they mesh
intricately; they form a continuum; the path to the ultimate is through the
proximate which is contained in the womb of the ultimate... and, of course, the
metaphysics, epistemology and axiology are also intimately related;
epistemology and axiology [and ethics] may, in general, be seen as part of
metapysics. A value of the search, an ethical aspect, is in its relating the
immediate, the day-to-day, the mundane, the personal to the ultimate, esoteric,
eternal, and universal.
The search is personal and universal - in two senses: (1)
the path of my search starts as my individual path; this leads through learning
and experience - my own and that of others, other traditions, cultures, the
accumulations of civilizations, and (2) a set of realms, dynamic in their
conception, through which to search. The personal and the particular - this
individual, this society, this world - are important, essential, the first step
in a path which is also to be transcended in the journey; origins are important
in their personal interest, their embedding and also as the first step and
through their particular aspect the material connection to be transcended.
Being shows differentiation and variety. This is the
richness, texture, detail, loveliness of and revulsion to the world;
objectively, it is the variety of structures, relationships and processes.
Specifying the world as structure, relationship, process - or the nature and
elements of structure, relationship and process - is not necessary or desired
at this general and introductory level. That specification will be hypothetical
and introduced in an experimental and in process manner later; however note (1)
that the specification and elements, though hypothetical or experimental, will
also partake of the real for it will be found that experiment and hypothesis
also partake of the real, (2) the idea of differentiation points to the
existence of realms for exploration.
The search is through the familiar, the exoteric, the day to
day, the practical, the many, the world of details… and through the unfamiliar,
the esoteric, the eternal, the One - the world as unity; and through the
relation between these realms. While ends are valued, values are not only in
the ends but also in exploration, in search, in illumination and re-vision of
the familiar.
The exploration and the narrative. Both
search and account or narrative are dynamic and interact dynamically - in my
life and work as in both written and oral traditions... the narrative develops
and derives from and informs the exploration; the system is in mutual evolution
in the world. It is only in literature and drama, and in the proximate world
that stories have beginnings and ends. The ultimate story, account, narrative,
philosophy, science, or exploration is without beginning or end.
Being and The Elements of Being
includes its own design... planning is a solution to an objective or an
ambition; inclusion of design and planning is a natural consequence of the
nature of the exploration and not an external imposition.
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Sources for the Concept of Being and The Elements of Being |
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concept-design.doc
[relative address] concept-design.doc
[absolute address] For additional sources that elaborate the concept of Being and The Elements of Being
directly and through the idea and constructions of dimensions and processes
see other functions, especially Issues, Exploration and transformation, and
Account or narrative |
The concept of the topic; issues,
below, has concepts for…
Notes from the topic
Head
Co- and sub-functions
Design includes: 1. Design - the ends or idea; and realization which can be concrete, a concept, or a process. Meta-design… design is part of the process: includes sharing resources between design and ends; seeking effective and efficient realizations; and minimizing active exploration to achieve the ends. Definition and search for ends. Also included in meta-design is design of design and planning. Despite rationality, design, planning and meta-design -even ends- are inherently iterative and evolutionary. 2. Planning - part of design - main and detailed phases with some timelines. Focal review and ongoing planning for flow of action and focus.
Description and comments
Selection of topics and functions are based in a concept of the main end - being in its agent, subject and object, machine, and social modes; details in topics and functions can be linked…
Concepts and Implementation for design and planning
Concepts
1. The design and planning functions listed above.
2. Design and planning evolve in interaction with the exploration and the narrative, i.e., as part of Being and The Elements of Being.
3. Evolutionary design of exploration and narrative:
The functions cover the agent mode of Being, the divisions cover the object mode of Being; so, World and Being and their elements are covered.
Being and The Elements of Being is a process.
The process is enhanced and partially automated by templates and programming for production of the production and update of Being and The Elements of Being ; this is a process that includes design as a part of and transforming into Being and The Elements of Being.
4. Fullness or covering with minimality:
Fullness: genesis of covering is in the process / relationships: individual-universe, being-Being; covering is achieved as follows - search for Being and its dimensions - as object and agent - are part of the exploration; the functions of exploration correspond to dimensions of Being as agent.
…is effected by identifying repetitive elements and combining distinct elements as far as possible.
…through intensity, focus, contact, essentials, inspiration, continuity, charisma… organization of resources, space, time…
…by selecting exploration, construction, transformation to cover all Being, dimensions, units minimally; more generally, by balancing the burden of cover over concept-theory-thought / percept-experiment-exploration.
…balancing: pre / post justification… this relieves us from the burden of rationalism; rigor / goal… victory does not go to the certain… always explicit in action
…subsuming under a single category - exploration -… minimize the differences among and treat,
process together: experience, experiment, explore, study, learn, search,
construct, transform, grow, metamorphose; thus principles of Being and
Knowledge are joined; design =
design and planning
Implementation of design
and planning 1. Sources.
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Sources |
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Specifically as for the function Concept [the following are also linked from Concept, above] |
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For additional sources that elaborate the concept of Being and The Elements of Being directly and through the idea and constructions of dimensions and processes see other functions, especially Issues, Exploration and transformation, and Account or narrative. These sources also contain details of design and planning. |
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Additional sources for design
concepts Evolution
and Design [html] Design
for a Life [doc] Assist
[doc] Being and its Elements[folder] Archive folders |
Planning
Implementation.
A
number of planning scales could be introduced. It is sufficient to introduce
long and intermediate term planning; the latter includes the short term and
constants.
Implementation
of design and planning 2: Long term planning - Main Phases
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LONG TERM PLANNING: MAIN PHASES Time
scales… my life and death Latest plan Being
and Its Elements [doc, latest complete version] The
following is preliminary outline; details to be established dynamically in
the context of the phases |
COMPLETION
DATE |
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Planning
online - includes advertisement |
January 1, 2000… |
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Phase
1. Exploration, construction and publication in Ideas and Meaning |
January 1, 2001 |
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Phase
2. Exploration, transformation and construction -
experiments with [World and] Being, Nature and the Absolute |
January 1, 2002 |
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Phase
3. Exploration, experiment, concepts and applications with Machines as Agents and Artifacts
emphasizing Computer or Digital
Information Processing and Networking Systems |
January 1, 2003 |
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Phase
4. Exploration and a program for Dedicated Group
and General Social and Mutual Action. A
concept of action and a system of modes are in phase 1. Social action is initially integral with phases 1 - 3,
publication [includes Internet], working out my life [with experiments with
charisma in institutions and elsewhere]. Phase 4 is the explicit working out
of a concept and program of social action. |
January 1, 2004 |
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Comments Time scales and sequencing of phases are nominal The program is integral with social action and formation
of a dedicated group. Should this be incorporated explicitly? Projection beyond January 1, 2003 is as follows. 1. Follow
through with developments… including mutual implications among the parts and
phases. 2. Work out details. 3. Integrate and implement in my life; share. 4.
Simplicity. |
Implementation
of design and planning 3: Long term planning - Details
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following planning is a skeleton version of phases 1 and 2.
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Project:
Being and The Elements of Being - minimal and covering The
following plan is preliminary, a sketch, and narrow in focus. This is a first
Internet Edition. |
Codes Click and
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Phase:
Exploration - transformation - construction - learning; these are
the first two phases of the project. |
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Objective |
Task |
Description |
End
date [tentative] |
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Exploration |
Nature-mind/meditation-primal society |
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January 1, 2002 |
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Society: action,
motivation, transformation, charisma and paternalism. |
Tarahumar |
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Exploration |
Physics and Biology |
Objective: learning for 1) the world, 2) origins, 3)
metaphysics / ontology, e.g.,
determinism-indeterminism or structure and creation /
newness-emergence in an indeterminate world; foundations of mind. Some topics: |
January 1, 2001 As the first two phases, these dates are interchangeable, i.e. [parts of] exploration of the world may precede exploration of ideas. Development so far has been interactive so that two phases of concentration are in order. |
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Physics |
Quantum mechanics, general relativity, cosmology,
astronomy, elementary particle theory, and irreversible / non-equilibrium
thermodynamics. |
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Geology |
Formation of the earth; continental drift and formation of
the continents |
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Biology |
Functional / proximate biology - structure, development and
adaptation; ecology; evolutionary / ultimate biology - origins in the
physical world. For both functional and evolutionary biology the
bio-physical foundations of mind and its characteristics are important
applications to exploration. |
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Psychology |
Mind as mind: character and sufficient detail |
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Foundation of thought in Indian, Classical, Scholastic,
Modern and Post-Modern thought Views, foundation of the nature of Being. Alternatives to
mind-body ontology. |
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Implementation
of design and planning 4: Intermediate term planning
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Intermediate
planning Design-planning [folder and
sub-folders] |
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b.e. [folder] \ resources,
ideas, biblio[folder] |
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Intermediate
scale priorities [folder] |
Notes from the topic
Head
Co- and sub-functions
Concepts, questions and problems…
Description and comments
Critical issues - core ideas:
universe of being, world, humankind and civilization, societies and cultures,
institutions and disciplines; essays: and programs for B.E., especially exploration and social action programs.
Concepts. Concepts of and for Being and The Elements of Being are not
fully distinct. The main concepts for Being
and The Elements of Being, especially those of its modes, dimensions and
process, are relevant to the function Concept.
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Sources for the main
concepts. |
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Main documents Being
and The Elements of Being [C:\My Documents\1. Being and its
Elements\Being and its Elements.doc] Being
and The Elements of Being: on The Absolute [doc] Being
and The Elements of Being: on the Dimensions of Being, Meaning and Action
[doc] Being,
Mind and The Absolute [C:\My Documents\5. Mind and
Metaphysics\Relations\being-mind-the absolute.doc] Part III on Being
and the Absolute has the following sections: 1. The Idea of Being, 2.
Levels of Being, 3. What are the Transformations and Dynamics of Being?, 4.
Being Through Time...and Absolute Being - Beyond Time, and 5. This Absolute
Must Be the One Consciousness |
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Documents that contain
ideas and information. Assist
[doc] Mind
and Metaphysics [doc; Catalog of Problems] Dreams
and Vision [doc] From Archives: Magic
and Religion [doc] Design
for a Life [doc] Primal,
Animal and Human Being [doc] Local and online versions of Evolution
and Design Evolution
and Design [html; local] Evolution
and Design [http://www.horizons-2000.org/Evolution_and_Design.html] This document provides
some foundation even though it does not explicitly elaborate dimensions of
being and process. |
Notes from the topic
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Co- and sub-functions
Resources, reference
Description
and comments
Personal, cultural, historical, evolutionary… and, universal sources. An objective is an effective synthesis across distinctions: contacts - formal and informal, paper - personal and public libraries, manuscripts and publications; electronic database - local storage through global networks… and cross-media.
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Principles
and Variety of Being Works Cataloged in Being
and Its Elements - Section 2.3 onward Entry: 1. Bibliographic
Entry 2. Ideas
and LOG
99 a source of fundamental ideas Being
and The Elements of Being first version, archives and manuscripts and
secondary sources… Directories J99… for general sources and concepts;
details in LOG 99, above |
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Knowledge
bases |
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Local directories, mainly My Documents [which includes WebSite] |
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Local data and knowledge bases, e.g.
the Britannica… see Britannica
links |
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Network/Internet
sources and databases Internet Connection
[AOL] - sign on then connect to the following resources Libraries… and networks |
Notes from the topic
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Co- and sub-functions
Acquisitions
Description and comments
Could be included in the sources function. Import includes cross-platform translation, formatting and editing; search and acquisition for source and knowledge base materials - text and electronic including CD and other media, networked sources… and permissions to re-publish and re-distribute.
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Links
to import projects and needs. |
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Import.doc
- import needed Archive - for older
sources; import directly to [function] Account or Narrative; see Import.doc
for guidelines Import
- importing documents Backup
- schedule |
Notes from the topic
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Co- and sub-functions
Description and comments
Could be included in the sources function. Includes consideration
of what are the essentials of [human]
knowledge - as revealed by synthesis across levels of agent independence:
no independence as in the individual subject, the individual agent, society and
civilization, humankind, life… and the related human knowledge project. Local,
distributed or networked and bibliographic databases and knowledge bases. Development, dynamic databases, knowledgeware - programs that perform as
assistants and agents in use and growth of conceptual and other knowledge.
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Links
to a system of knowledge bases 1.
See Knowledge bases in the function Sources 2.
See Foundational studies in the function
Exploration and transformation 3.
See comments in function Import |
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Human
knowledge project |
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Links
to knowledge base applications |
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Fundamental
concepts and uses directories |
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Template
directories These templates assist in the
production and editing of knowledge bases; and of text |
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Page
design |
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Learning
projects |
Notes from the topic
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Co- and sub-functions
preparation including support; and primary functions - modes of exploration: foundation, learning, experience, journey and travel, concept and theory formation, writing, living, being (verb), and search for and exploration, construction and transformation in the modes of being
A variety of tanscendental approaches and styles: what is most pervasive is invisible in casual vision; transforming thought about Being and the ultimate into questions; living with the questions; searching and reading through many disciplines, ways, cultures, systems of experience and ideas; living and being in a variety of realms of the world, nature, mind and ways of life; that the best criticism - and understanding - of a system of knowledge arises from not from radical rejection or argumentation but from embracing while questioning and pressing its application and limits; and, so, seeing the answer as a journey [through life] and not merely a result… Admitting to ignorance without subscribing to a cult of ignorance; questioning, not just what is knowledge as a given to be discovered but, also, to what may be constructed, and what is real knowledge in light of ultimate issues over and above contingencies of a particular individual, culture, civilization, species, mode of agent and life? Much striving is surrogate to or in denial of the search for or being in the ultimate. Applying also to being what is here said of knowledge.
Description and comments
All individuals explore, use experience as exploration. Here, the concept includes explicit expansion of exploration to an active, cultivated mode, to transformation, on par and in interaction with ideas; and development of exploration and ideas as an integral system - in fact, in theory.
Some kinds of search are intellectual, individual growth and transformation, discovery in the realm of the identity and ideation of the individual, in biological and physical evolution. In the case of evolution, search may be used metaphorically; it is not implied that the process is directed to an end or that there is a conscious searcher. However, conscious searchers with -or without- ends in mind may use the concepts, ideas and history of evolution in their own explorations, constructions and transformations. Specifically, they may inquire about the nature of their own ambitions and ends; about how such might arise from a universe, perhaps a universe of mechanism - or whether their ideas may be most fundamental in the universe; about the relation between their own purposive nature and the history of the universe; and about the implications from that nature and other sources for mechanism.
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Exploration Links |
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Design of the Program of Exploration |
Britannica Exploration Bookmarks |
Foundational studies |
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Principles
and Variety of Being and Knowing.doc Journey
Quest directory |
Britannica links - folder for exploration links Exploration
Bookmarks |
Topics:
folder for studies Britannica [Open Netscape, then Britannica] Indexes
to the Britannica |
Notes from the topic
Head
Co- and sub-functions
Includes standard text components and functions: introduction [a combination of the functions and topics can serve as introduction and overview to the whole narrative], main theses, developments, results and applications [and sub-theses and sub-sections], bibliographies, and indices…Modes of narrative. Simply, a narrative is a story. That suggests a neutral role to the narrator regardless whether the event is real or fictional - even when narrator is a prime mover. In the latter case the individual has two roles - a neutral one as narrator and a more or less engaged one as participant. This is based in a mythic idea of a simple event. Allow events to be complex, e.g. the relation between participant and observer and narrative is immediately generalized to cover all modes of writing and speaking: literature, humanities, science. The idea of mere narrative or mere description is deceptive; description of facts is inseparable from forms, concepts and theories. The narrative, then, of Being and The Elements of Being is an account of the journey - the physical, human and ideational journey through a part of a life… and the results - philosophical, scientific, mythic, metaphysical… Simply, the modes of narrative are story and description: a story of a journey of being in the world and a description of being and world. Text as presentational whole.
Description and comments
Includes topics and tentative topics, the story, narrative or development… and origins and bases - personal, cultural, historical, evolutionary and, universal; an account of the known universe of being. Purposes include, learning, consolidation to mark actual achievement and for further development including foundation for the functions, and publication, communication and co-action… Thus narrative interacts with exploration; they are in mutual evolution. This is enhanced through design of the topics or divisions to cover the elements, dimensions and processes of being; and by development of software to automate creation of the narrative from a system of functions and topics, to automate editing and update when the system of functions or topics is changed or enhanced.
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Links |
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Key sources - see functions Concept, Issues,
Sources, Import and search, Knowledge base, and Exploration and
transformation |
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Some main narrative documents Being
and The Elements of Being [doc] Outline
of a Concept for Evolution, Design and The Absolute [doc] in Being and
The Elements of Being Catalog
of problems of mind and consciousness [doc] Being,
mind and the absolute [doc] Incorporate then delete |
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Archive folders |
Notes from the topic