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System 1:
The System Terms are illustrated from two perspectives, one passive and one active as shown below. System 1
has only one Term but it transcends and subsumes all of the higher Systems. System 1 is Universal Wholeness.
It indicates that all phenomena involve active processes from a universal inside to a universal outside. All things
that we see share both a common active Center, and a common passive Periphery. This is a primary
requirement for Universal Wholeness.
The System Terms are illustrated from two perspectives, one passive and one active as shown below. System 1
has only one Term but it transcends and subsumes all of the higher Systems. System 1 is Universal Wholeness.
It indicates that all phenomena involve active processes from a universal inside to a universal outside. All things
that we see share both a common active Center, and a common passive Periphery. This is a primary
requirement for Universal Wholeness.
- System 1 is designated as a centre of light (L) in a periphery of darkness (D) as shown. It is convenient to
use light and darkness since all physical phenomena are generated by electromagnetic energy and its
derivatives. Light is liberated from within primary atoms by the fusion of heavier elements in the Centers of
Suns. Plants store this same energy that supports the food chain within living creatures. So in a physical
sense all things share a common Center in the Light disseminated from suns into the Darkness of space. - System 1 illustrates that there is a Oneness to everything that we can experience. It cannot be a oneness in
space and time, however. There cannot be a boundary to the universe in space. That invites the question
"What is beyond that?" This kind of a boundary defines a dichotomous two-ness, not oneness. - Instead System 1 distinguishes an inside from an outside to everything that exists. Everything is defined by
an active interface between an inside and an outside that permits interaction across it. Everything that we
can observe and know derives from active interface processes. We can observe or know nothing apart from
them in any kind of phenomenal experience, whether physical, mental or spiritual. The sun's energy
illuminates the natural environment that we perceive through the organized interface processes of our
nervous system. - Everything shares in some way a universal center designated by L and a universal periphery designated by
D. We can not define either the universal center or the universal periphery apart from an active interface
between them. Center and Periphery are not separate entities in themselves. The former is defined in its
active relationship to the latter and we can only know of them through active interface processes.
Everything actively relates through an interface from a common Center in Light to universal peripheral
Darkness. This is the primary boundary condition that permeates the cosmic order.
System 2:
If there was only undifferentiated Universal Wholeness there could be no phenomena in experience. There
could be no multiplicity or diversity to differentiate in the Oneness of the universe. Oneness must allow of
Twoness. There is a fundamental Rift in Wholeness from which two-ness derives but it can not negate Universal
Wholeness. This requires that System 2 must have both a Universal Center that is One and unique, and a
Particular Center that represents Many of its kind. Center 1 is Universal (C1). Center 2 is Particular (C2).
There are only two possible ways that C1 and C2 can mutually relate with respect to a common inside and
outside designated as L and D, consistent with System 1. There is an Objective Orientation possible and a
Subjective Orientation possible as exemplified below.
If there was only undifferentiated Universal Wholeness there could be no phenomena in experience. There
could be no multiplicity or diversity to differentiate in the Oneness of the universe. Oneness must allow of
Twoness. There is a fundamental Rift in Wholeness from which two-ness derives but it can not negate Universal
Wholeness. This requires that System 2 must have both a Universal Center that is One and unique, and a
Particular Center that represents Many of its kind. Center 1 is Universal (C1). Center 2 is Particular (C2).
There are only two possible ways that C1 and C2 can mutually relate with respect to a common inside and
outside designated as L and D, consistent with System 1. There is an Objective Orientation possible and a
Subjective Orientation possible as exemplified below.
More on System 2:
- As an archetype C1 prescribes universal characteristics to particular things in space and time. We identify
"John" as human but we don't "see" humanity out there beside John and objectively equate them. We
subjectively experience our common humanity. - This is how we intuitively identify things with universal characteristics. We normally perceive universal
archetypes as objective ideas that transcend physical perceptions in space and time. We intuitively know
that each maple tree that we see, or each dog or cat, is one of a universal kind associated with its
species. Nothing that we see in space and time is completely unique. John shares universal
characteristics with Bill and Harry. - Universal archetypes associated with species are hierarchically ordered within a single universal
archetype that is the supreme intelligent center of the cosmic order and a manifestation of System 1. - Since System 2 transcends events in space and time, it provides a basis for intuitive insight into the
nature of the cosmic order. Without this capacity we are left to the meaningless adversity of blind chance.
We are left with no valid basis for intelligent thought or responsible social behavior. We intuitively and
emotionally sense our common humanity. We can empathize with others in a common spirit of humanity.
People can become attuned to a common transcending reality through private reflection. - System 2 provides a transcending basis for values since the two orientations alternate back and forth and
seek mutual consistency in universal wholeness. Universal wholeness is the basis for universal values. - Universal values have their correlates in human social values. We sense a universal human aspect of self
in others that we seek to reconcile in our personal social commitments.
System 3:
Only the passive perspectives of the four Terms of System 3 will be shown here since the active Terms are
developed more completely under System 3.
System 2 faces the same problem as System 1 since the Particular Centers 2 cannot be monolithic. They
must allow of subsumed distinctions within themselves to account for the diversity of phenomenal experience.
As mentioned, the distinction between the two Centers of System 2 is made possible by the Rift in
Wholeness. The two alternating orientations of System 2 represent a recurrent Routine of activity back and
forth between them that mends the Rift in Wholeness. The Routines themselves derive from the Rift in
Wholeness and they claim representation as a separate Center in the elaboration of System 2 as System 3.
The three Centers, C1, C2, & C3, that generate the four possible Terms of System 3 can be assigned names
that we are familiar with in phenomenal experience because they represent a hierarchy in any activity. This
Universal Hierarchy is represented in Term 1 below where C1 is inside C2 which is inside C3. This represents
a hierarchical series of energy transformations in any activity from a universal inside to a universal outside,
across the three active interfaces. C1 represents the Idea of Oneness, C2 represents a recurrent Routine. C3
represents a resulting Form with space-like characteristics in three dimensions.
We know that all activity conforms to this hierarchical pattern where a coherent whole Idea gives direction to
recurrent Routines that result in a Form of some kind consistent with the Idea. Everything we make conforms
to this pattern, from clothes to cars to whatever. Discretion is implicit in the hierarchy.
The photon, electron, and proton in a primary atom of hydrogen also conform to the hierarchy. For more on
how System 3 generates the physical creation refer to the articles Quantum Atoms & Cosmology and the more
advanced article Atoms Space-Time & System 3.
Only the passive perspectives of the four Terms of System 3 will be shown here since the active Terms are
developed more completely under System 3.
System 2 faces the same problem as System 1 since the Particular Centers 2 cannot be monolithic. They
must allow of subsumed distinctions within themselves to account for the diversity of phenomenal experience.
As mentioned, the distinction between the two Centers of System 2 is made possible by the Rift in
Wholeness. The two alternating orientations of System 2 represent a recurrent Routine of activity back and
forth between them that mends the Rift in Wholeness. The Routines themselves derive from the Rift in
Wholeness and they claim representation as a separate Center in the elaboration of System 2 as System 3.
The three Centers, C1, C2, & C3, that generate the four possible Terms of System 3 can be assigned names
that we are familiar with in phenomenal experience because they represent a hierarchy in any activity. This
Universal Hierarchy is represented in Term 1 below where C1 is inside C2 which is inside C3. This represents
a hierarchical series of energy transformations in any activity from a universal inside to a universal outside,
across the three active interfaces. C1 represents the Idea of Oneness, C2 represents a recurrent Routine. C3
represents a resulting Form with space-like characteristics in three dimensions.
We know that all activity conforms to this hierarchical pattern where a coherent whole Idea gives direction to
recurrent Routines that result in a Form of some kind consistent with the Idea. Everything we make conforms
to this pattern, from clothes to cars to whatever. Discretion is implicit in the hierarchy.
The photon, electron, and proton in a primary atom of hydrogen also conform to the hierarchy. For more on
how System 3 generates the physical creation refer to the articles Quantum Atoms & Cosmology and the more
advanced article Atoms Space-Time & System 3.
A Brief Summary:
- There are only four ways that three Centers can relate to one another with
respect to inside and outside. They are called Terms 1, 2, 3 & 4. - Terms 1 and 2 represent two alternating modes of a single universal set of
centers. - Terms 3 and 4 represent two alternating modes of a particular set of centers
representative of many particular sets. - The single universal set works together with all particular sets at once
consistent with the alternating modes of System 2, but elaborating on it. - Term 1 always occurs together with Term 3. It corresponds to the objective
orientation of System 2. - Term 2 always occurs together with Term 4. It corresponds to the subjective
orientation of System 2. - In both orientations the meanings of the words subjective and objective begin
to compound within themselves consistent with how the System elaborates
within itself. - The objective orientation is Void of Form. It is a master memory bank of
quantized particular memories corresponding to all particular forms. It is called
the Void. It is a timeless quantum sensorium consisting of coalesced energy
equivalents of particular forms such as atoms integrated with the universal set
as One. The Void is a holistic Quantum Frame. - The subjective orientation is the universe of physical Forms. The three Centers
in each particular set become intimately bound together by the universal set as
One indivisible unit or particle subjectively constituted of the three Centers,
such as the photon, electron and proton in one hydrogen atom. Although each
hydrogen atom is a subjectively bound unit they relate objectively to one
another as Many three dimensional objects in a Space Frame. - Consistent with System 2, Space Frames alternate with Quantum Frames. The
recurrence of successive Space Frames generates linear time. Because the
quantum Frames are timeless the Space Frames associated with each atom
close ranks to generate a linear succession of integrated a Space Frames that
we know as linear Time. This provides continuity to physical events in space
and time. This is called the integrated fabric of space-time. - The universal set does not exist as a separate thing in space-time. It intimately
integrates the quantized memories of the Void as One. The Void does not exist
in space-time but represents a seamless discontinuity in physical events that
occur as separate still frames in the projection of a holographic movie. The
Void timelessly facilitates relative motions as jumps in position between
successive space frames that give us the dynamic content of the cosmic movie. - It takes careful study of the active representation of the four terms and how
they relate to fully understand how it works. This is illustrated in brief in the
more advanced presentation of System 3.
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
System 4:
As before another Center becomes distinguished within one Center of System 3 through the Rift in
Wholeness. The Idea of Oneness represented by Center 1 in System 3 can not allow of distinctions in kind,
apart from the multiplicity of atoms that generate space-time in the physical universe. Since the Void timelessly
integrates multiplicity as a formless Whole it provides an energy accounting for relativistic discrepancies in the
synchronous projection of Space Frames. As One, the Void spans space and time and timelessly integrates
the history of physical change. The synchronous relationship between the Void and the integrated fabric of
space-time thus presents a kind of Universal Knowledge that is relativistic and distinct from the Oneness of the
universe itself. This Knowledge claims recognition as a separate Center in System 4. It accounts for biological
evolution and the capacity of knowing that becomes invested in living creatures, subsumed by the physical
universe and System 3. Living creatures are clothed in atoms and molecules of their own organic manufacture.
The universal hierarchy of System 4 is thus Idea C1->Knowledge C2->Routine C3->Form C4. This
hierarchy finds itself explicitly delegated in reverse order one stage at a time in the evolutionary process.
Plants first explore the Forms C4 of the eukaryotic cell in storing the energy from the sun that supports further
delegation of the hierarchy. The invertebrate animals explore the Routines C2 of sensing and responding
appropriately to the environment in a great variety of ways. The vertebrate animals have cerebral
hemispheres and an autonomic nervous system harnessed to a common quadruped limb structure. This
invests them with the capacity to consciously reflect emotional patterns of behavior. They are thus invested
with Knowledge C3 of behavioral patterns associated with a common limb structure. The higher vertebrates
assume the capacity to select and modify these patterns in more creative responses to their environment.
There is learning implicit in the hierarchy, with levels subsumed within each level. Humans are invested with
language and the ability to deal with experience in abstraction through creative Ideas C1. Language allows us
to consciously simulate events according to our intuitive perceptions of how things work in the cosmic order.
We thus have a creative capacity to plan for the future based on past experience, along with an increased
need to consciously cope with circumstance. We can integrate history. Our capacity to integrate history has
always presented a dilemma associated with the Rift in Wholeness. The rift has traditionally been mended by
our spiritual traditions and religions throughout our history. Now science is reaching out to the limits of the
universe also seeking a coherent understanding the can integrate the whole of space-time. The Rift in
Wholeness must be mended through the creative process and evolution.
As before another Center becomes distinguished within one Center of System 3 through the Rift in
Wholeness. The Idea of Oneness represented by Center 1 in System 3 can not allow of distinctions in kind,
apart from the multiplicity of atoms that generate space-time in the physical universe. Since the Void timelessly
integrates multiplicity as a formless Whole it provides an energy accounting for relativistic discrepancies in the
synchronous projection of Space Frames. As One, the Void spans space and time and timelessly integrates
the history of physical change. The synchronous relationship between the Void and the integrated fabric of
space-time thus presents a kind of Universal Knowledge that is relativistic and distinct from the Oneness of the
universe itself. This Knowledge claims recognition as a separate Center in System 4. It accounts for biological
evolution and the capacity of knowing that becomes invested in living creatures, subsumed by the physical
universe and System 3. Living creatures are clothed in atoms and molecules of their own organic manufacture.
The universal hierarchy of System 4 is thus Idea C1->Knowledge C2->Routine C3->Form C4. This
hierarchy finds itself explicitly delegated in reverse order one stage at a time in the evolutionary process.
Plants first explore the Forms C4 of the eukaryotic cell in storing the energy from the sun that supports further
delegation of the hierarchy. The invertebrate animals explore the Routines C2 of sensing and responding
appropriately to the environment in a great variety of ways. The vertebrate animals have cerebral
hemispheres and an autonomic nervous system harnessed to a common quadruped limb structure. This
invests them with the capacity to consciously reflect emotional patterns of behavior. They are thus invested
with Knowledge C3 of behavioral patterns associated with a common limb structure. The higher vertebrates
assume the capacity to select and modify these patterns in more creative responses to their environment.
There is learning implicit in the hierarchy, with levels subsumed within each level. Humans are invested with
language and the ability to deal with experience in abstraction through creative Ideas C1. Language allows us
to consciously simulate events according to our intuitive perceptions of how things work in the cosmic order.
We thus have a creative capacity to plan for the future based on past experience, along with an increased
need to consciously cope with circumstance. We can integrate history. Our capacity to integrate history has
always presented a dilemma associated with the Rift in Wholeness. The rift has traditionally been mended by
our spiritual traditions and religions throughout our history. Now science is reaching out to the limits of the
universe also seeking a coherent understanding the can integrate the whole of space-time. The Rift in
Wholeness must be mended through the creative process and evolution.
A Very Brief Summary:
The meaning inherent within each term can only be seen through a careful analysis of the active
representations of each Term. These are introduced under System 4 Terms. They are more completely
developed in Fisherman's Guide to the Cosmic Order and Science and Cosmic Order: A New Prospectus.
Only an introduction to the passive representation of each Term is offered here.
- The four centers in System 4 represent Idea (C1), Knowledge (C2), Routine (C3), and Form (C4). System
4 elaborates on System 3 by distinguishing Knowledge from Idea. The knowledge is generally invested in
the creative context. For instance the Idea of painting rooms and the technique of doing it has culturally
evolved over many centuries of human experience. And each of us has learned how to apply that
knowledge through our personal experience. So our Idea of room painting may involve a great variety of
colors and kinds of paint all using similar knowledge and similar routines. - There are only nine possible ways that four Centers can relate to one another with respect to their inside
and outside. Each of these ways defines a Term. The meaning implicit within each of the Centers implicitly
defines a meaning within each Term according to how the Centers are actively interrelated. - The nine Terms are generated by five Sets of Centers that synchronously interact and transform through
a sequence from Term to Term. - Three of the sets are Particular Sets and follow one Step apart through a Six Step Sequence of Particular
Term transformations. - The Particular Sets are regulated and integrated by one Primary and one Secondary Universal Set.
These two Sets each have their own transform sequence. They work intimately together in alternating
objective and subjective orientations as an elaboration of System 3.
The meaning inherent within each term can only be seen through a careful analysis of the active
representations of each Term. These are introduced under System 4 Terms. They are more completely
developed in Fisherman's Guide to the Cosmic Order and Science and Cosmic Order: A New Prospectus.
Only an introduction to the passive representation of each Term is offered here.
- Term 1: Perception of Response Capacity to Need (Particular Term)
- Term 2: Creation of Idea (Particular Term)
- Term 3: Transference of Idea into Form (Secondary Universal Term)
- Term 4: Organized Sensory Input (Particular Term)
- Term 5: Physical Action (Particular Term)
- Term 6: Corporeal Body (Secondary Universal Term)
- Term 7: Quantized Element of Memory (Particular Term)
- Term 8: Balanced Response to Sensory Input (Particular Term)
- Term 9: Discretionary Hierarchy (Primary Universal Term)
The System: Introductory Concepts
- The System shows how the comic order works. There is only one System but it elaborates in sub-systems
nested within itself. There is a oneness to the diversity of the universe. - Each sub-system progresses in step with the natural numbers. This is because One System must reconcile
numerical multiplicity to oneness. We see great diversity everywhere we look but it is all part of the One
System that embraces the whole cosmic order. - We may thus think of System 1, System 2, System 3, System 4, System 5, and so on. Each higher system
elaborates on the lower systems. And each higher system is subsumed or nested within the lower systems,
so that it remains One System. - Each higher system is also complete and fully self consistent within itself, since each higher system must be
consistent with the lower systems and System 1. The lower systems transcend the higher systems. - The System is not mathematical. Mathematics, like all languages, has evolved from how the System
prescribes the roots of meaning. There is nothing more fundamental than the System. - The descriptions of the Systems that follow are only an introduction. The correspondence between the
active representations of the Systems and phenomenal experience are advanced and require much study
and reflection to assimilate and thoroughly understand. The inquiring mind will find them a challenge and a
fascinating adventure of discovery.
Introduction to The System
Objective Orientation:
- The One Universal Center C1 is inside each Particular Center C2 of which there are Many. Each
Particular Center can acknowledge others of its kind in objective circumstance since they all share a
common periphery in darkness. They also all subjectively share the same Universal Center, C1, in light.
This is consistent with System 1, but elaborates upon it. Since the objective orientation allows of Many
C2's it is quantitative.
Subjective Orientation:
- In this alternate orientation of System 2, the Particular Center 2 turns around to face inward and relate
face to face with the Universal Center 1. It will be said that C2 perceptually transposes with respect to
C1. C1 can not perceptually transpose with respect to C2 because C2 is Many not One. C1 cannot exist
as a separate thing among other particular things in space. In this subjective orientation only One
Particular C2 can perceptually transpose to face the Universal C1 as One. It will be said that they
coalesce as One but are Two. They share the same inside and outside. - There is a mutual counter-current identity between C1 and C2 illustrated by two Relational Wholes R1
and R2. The subjective orientation is thus private and unique to each C2. This allows of potential
diversity in the kind of C2, however it must be consistent with the Universal Identity of C1 as it relates
through other C2's in the objective orientation. C2 can not claim universality in the coalescence,
because of a hierarchical relationship with respect to C1. C1 transcends and subsumes C2, consistent
with System 1. C1 is archetypal with respect to C2. - Since the subjective orientation of System 2 concerns the nature of identity it is qualitative as opposed
to quantitative in the objective orientation. As such it transcends objective events in space and time.
Space and time are properties of Systems 3 and higher.
The Higher Systems:
The higher Systems become very complex very quickly and they are not represented on the website. For
example System 5 has twenty Terms. It consists of two interacting System 4's one objectively oriented and one
subjectively oriented consistent with the lower Systems and an elaboration of them. Virtual images first occur in
System 5. Each higher System has surprises that are not predictable from the lower Systems. It is not a logical
progression in time. It can not be logically derived, even though it is logically self consistent. It can only be
intuitively discovered. All the Systems are interdependent and coexist as One in an open ended elaboration of
higher Systems that soon become beyond our reach. Nevertheless the various articles on the website should
be sufficient to demonstrate that the first four Systems can take us very far beyond the current paradigms that
guide us. For example System 4 can lead us synapse by synapse through the immensely complex intricacies of
human nervous system. The concepts are introduced under System 4 Terms.
The higher Systems become very complex very quickly and they are not represented on the website. For
example System 5 has twenty Terms. It consists of two interacting System 4's one objectively oriented and one
subjectively oriented consistent with the lower Systems and an elaboration of them. Virtual images first occur in
System 5. Each higher System has surprises that are not predictable from the lower Systems. It is not a logical
progression in time. It can not be logically derived, even though it is logically self consistent. It can only be
intuitively discovered. All the Systems are interdependent and coexist as One in an open ended elaboration of
higher Systems that soon become beyond our reach. Nevertheless the various articles on the website should
be sufficient to demonstrate that the first four Systems can take us very far beyond the current paradigms that
guide us. For example System 4 can lead us synapse by synapse through the immensely complex intricacies of
human nervous system. The concepts are introduced under System 4 Terms.