The Three-Levels of Language-Based Understanding of ‘Reality’

* * * 4TH RESEND – REFLECTIONS ON THIS SERIES OF COMMENTS * * *

 

Public events such as the ‘trial of Omar Khadr’ bring out the divisions in Western society with respect to modes of cognition.  The three modes of cognition formulated by Erich Jantsch in ‘Design for Evolution’ are useful in exploring what is actually going on in the cognitive habits of Westernized society.   We can see how it is possible to socially divide into ‘three groups’ depending on ‘cognitive preference’ as to ‘what is ‘real’ in the process of ‘making sense of’ or ‘understanding’ the world we are included in.  In Western society, the split into the two cognitive ‘realities’ of ‘nature’ and ‘nurture’ are the most popular.  Both of these impressions assume the ABSTRACT (non-experience-grounded) ‘existence’ of human BEINGS as associates with NAMING relational forms in the flow, and differ as follows;

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