Exploring Inclusionality

'From emptiness to openness'

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Inclusional Thinking - An Involution From Abstract to Natural Logic

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"The attempt to impose definition on indeterminacy and degree and exception is about the straightest road to mischief I know of - very deeply worn, very well travelled" Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
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"In nature, everything is distinct, yet nothing defined into absolute, independent singleness" William Wordsworth
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"No man is an Island, entire of it self" John Donne

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Natural Inclusional thinking involutes the discrete boundary logic of opposition between one and other into the fluid boundary logic of each in the other's dynamic influence.

We hence move on from the INTRANSIGENT logic that imposes a false discontinuity (discrete boundary limit) between inner and outer worlds, to the natural inclusional logic where each flows reciprocally into and out from the other - where each local 'somewhere' is an energetic configuration of 'everywhere', without limit. Active or reactive 'force' transforms into receptive, reflective and responsive 'influence'

This move corresponds with the fluid logic of 'transfigural mathematics', developed since 1985 by Lere Shakunle

Energetic relational influences guide all the processes of nature

Natural energies always seek dynamic balance

There are no such things as independent masses or forces, only dynamic relational influences

There are neither discrete particles nor waves, only flow-forms

Space is not distance; space pools all together as the omnipresent, limitless, irremovable, receptive 'unmoved mover' of Nature

There are no real discrete numbers or groups of numbers, there are only dynamic relational numerical neighbourhoods

Positive is not opposed to negative as materially additive and subtractive qualities; they are mutually inclusive as responsive and receptive qualities in natural energy flow

Space, Time, Matter and Energy are not isolable from one another; they are dynamically distinct and mutually inclusive in the natural energy flow of 'place-time'

Nature has no discrete beginning or ending; it is dynamically continuous

Nature is not completely certain and predictable; the only absolute certainty is that there is no complete certainty

Organisms are not independent agencies, acting and reacting purely in their individual or group self interest against others; they are instead dynamic relational flow-forms, receptive and responsive to fluctuations in energy flow

 

Rationalization entails the conversion from natural, limitless dimensionality to abstract, limited (i.e. boxed in or globular) dimensionality. Once this conversion has been made, it is difficult to restore what it occludes, because this remains 'unseen' or 'strange' to a restrictive mindset that becomes comfortable with - and feels empowered by - the confinement it has enforced, notwithstanding its attendant ambiguities, abuses and paradoxes.

Natural Inclusionality opens the confining boxes and spheres of rationalization to allow much greater scope for creative exploration. This corresponds with a form of natural enquiry that instead of asking axiomatically 'is this proposition true or false', asks 'is this account consistent with evidence (does it arise from sensible phenomena?) and does it make consistent sense (is it sensible, free from paradox/contradiction?). Many widely accepted scientific and mathematical concepts cannot be accepted on this basis because they depend on abstracting material figures out from the context of their spatial ground.