THE INCLUSIONAL NATURE OF
NEIGHBOURHOOD - A UNIVERSAL DYNAMIC SOLUTION
Summary
We human
beings combine an awareness of non-local presence, through the gyroscopic
sensing of dynamic balance, with the ability to detect local presence using our
eyesight and tactile senses. Hence we come fully equipped to develop our
individual consciousness as local expressions of the larger spatial
neighbourhood in which we are immersed and of which we are dynamic inclusions,
like solutes inextricably in solution with solvent.
We are,
however, impeded from making this connection by our tendency to split one form
of awareness from the other and then select one or other as a superior route to
'truth'. Correspondingly, the orthodox western philosophical tradition,
culminating in the 'Enlightenment', has been to give precedence to explicit
local information, contained in discrete 'objects' or material 'bodies', whilst
disregarding immaterial 'space' as 'nothing' - an 'absence of presence'.
Meanwhile, more eastern and mystic traditions have tended to disregard local
presence in a quest to find spiritual connection with the non-locality of
'everywhere'.
Most
fundamentally, this split has the effect of abstracting electromagnetic
information, what we perceive as 'light' and 'matter', out of the context of
space in which it is a dynamic gravitational inclusion. The rationalistic
scientific and mathematical tradition has then been to try to explain all the properties of nature, including
human nature, solely in terms of this abstracted information. This is like trying
one-sidedly to explain the properties of a solution solely in terms of solute,
whilst ignoring the fluidizing presence of solvent. It leads inexorably to the
paradoxical inconsistencies of assuming 'completeness', 'discreteness' and
'independence' that characterize modern culture and precipitate ideological and
psychological conflict and environmental damage.
By avoiding
this split, we can visualize all form, including ourselves, as inextricable
'flow-form', a variably resistive/accommodative dynamic interfacing of
reciprocally transforming convex and concave spatial domains, over all scales
from microcosm to macrocosm. In other words we can understand our perception of
the electromagnetic field as a dynamic inclusion of the gravitational field.
Hence we can appreciate our complex self-identities as loving neighbourhoods in
dynamic relationship, simultaneously both somewhere particular (local) and
everywhere around (non-local). This could just be the most profound transformation
in our conscious human comprehension of and about all time