My philosophical inquiries into the FRAGMENTATION of our WESTERN CULTURE based society REAFFIRM Bohm’s and Shroedinger’s findings that while we live in a world whose physical dynamic is beyond capture in a simple BINARY LOGIC basis, BINARY LOGIC has nevertheless been given a foundational role in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING by way of the SPLITTING APART of MATTER and SPACE.  In addition to Bohm and Schroedinger who have cited the need for non-binary logic based (flow-based) languages (e.g. Bohm’s Rheomode and Schroedinger’s Advaita Vedanta based Atmavit-Mahavit combination), there have been ‘campaigns’ by Buddhist scholars such as Alan Watts that encourage WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS to BREAK FREE of DEPENDENCY on TOO-SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC based linguistic conceptualizing.  By embracing INADEQUATE BINARY LOGIC as the “GOLD STANDARD” for WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing, we BLOCK OUT ACCESS to the complexity needed for capturing the BASIC NONBINARY LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM that “DOES POSSESS” the capability of characterizing the foundational structure of the physical world we are living in.

SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC based linguistic conceptualization, while it is adequate in supporting linear concepts such as GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION of BEING-based entities as if within an EMPTY SPACE, LACKS THE CAPABILITY TO SUPPORT FLOW-BASED PHENOMENA, the complexity of which DEMANDS NONBINARY LOGIC in support of TRANSFORMATION of the OVERALL energy-charged PLENUM wherein there is no longer dependency on logcal material being that enjoys persisting local existence and operates ‘in its own mechanistic right’.  For WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS addicted to the BINARY LOGIC GOLD STANDARD, the switch to NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM where ‘strands and web are one’ is non-trivial.  At some level in the WESTERN CULTURE PSYCHE, there remains the acknowledgement of the FOUNDATIONAL ROLE of the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT with its lava-like capacity for REDUCTION into LOCAL and EXPLICIT structure, yet without ever losing its innate NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT TRANSFORMATIVE CAPABILITY.  

THE DROP-OUT of essential understanding of the transformative nature of the physical world in which we share inclusion comes from the attempt, such as by Copernicus, and earlier (500 BCE) by Aristotle who introduced a foundational simplification into our linguistic conceptualizing of reality by SPLITTING APART into successive SEQUENTIAL components, the highs and lows of our wave-field world, a departure from Heraclitus’ understanding of the SIMULTANEOUS nature of highs and lows which captures the wave-field based physics of our sense-experience reality. (Note that the ‘peak’ and ‘trough’ of the wave are SIMULTANEOUS and only APPEAR SEQUENTIAL, an “APPEARANCE” (schaumkommen) that has ‘tricked’ influential WESTERN CULTURE researchers such as Piaget who, as pointed out by Vygotsky, has infused the error into his teaching/learning approach, of splitting into two separate parts the conjugates of LOCAL AND EXPLICIT  (the peak) and NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (the trough) as if they possessed separate ‘stand-alone’ existences.

Piaget has thus introduced into WESTERN EDUCATION a teaching approach that DROPS OUT the bothersome and seemingly unnecessary NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (wrongly assuming its BINARY LOGIC based independence from the LOCAL and EXPLICIT) and thus infusing into the TEACHING APPROACH a simplifying one-sided emphasis on the LOCAL and EXPLICIT as if IT ACTUALLY EXISTED IN IS OWN INDEPENDENT RIGHT, WHICH IT DOES NOT!  SPLITTING APART, for example, the LOCAL and EXPLICIT GROWTH OF THE TOWN from the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT “CONJUGATE” SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS. This is a SERIOUS ERROR that encourages the WESTERN CULTURE misguided focus on one-sided GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION!

(note in this regard, the concern of Dr. Iain McGilcrist [cited further on in this text] who argues that “many of the problems our society faces stem from the fact that the left hemisphere of our brains has come to dominate our minds and lives;” i.e. in modern physics grounded terminology, we are displacing the nonlocal and implicit with the local and explicit in our linguistic conceptualizations, as for example with the emphasis on growth, development and production, ignoring the conjugate shrinking of wilderness, decline of existing structure and consumption of nonrenewable rare materials.).

 

This type of WESTERN CULTURE EXCHANGE of SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM, which reduces our understanding to EITHER MATERIAL PRESENCE OR EMPTY SPACE, does indeed achieve a SIMPLIFICATION in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS of physical reality, but at the COST of simplifying our UNDERSTANDING to such a degree that this is contaminating our linguistic conceptualization-guided PHYSICAL OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS.  For example, the MAJOR CONFLICT in MODERN WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL DYNAMICS between those with the CONSERVATIVE worldview and the LIBERAL worldview is ROOTED in the use of the TOO-SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC in the foundations of our linguistic conceptualizing. 

 

This PROBLEM is NOT resolvable at the level where we are applying too simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM which is being employed by BOTH CONSERVATIVES and LIBERALS and is unable, because intrinsically TOO SIMPLE, to engage as needed, in LESS SIMPLE issues involving NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM. 

That is, instead of understanding material forms as independent of the space they occupy (the ARISTOTELIAN linguistic conceptualizing of the world which gives precedence to absolute material being as if in empty space), the actual physical complexity of (wave-field based) NATURE demands a linguistic conceptualizing capability that can deal with HERACLITEAN NONBINARY “BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM”  relations.  This less simple (NONBINARY) conceptualizing capability is needed where the material form is a CONDENSATION of an all-including energy-charged PLENUM.  The linguistic conceptualizing requirements in this case include the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as was the understanding built into early linguistic conceptualizing schemes, including those of indigenous aboriginals (the BOTH/AND logical relation of STRANDS IN THE WEB wherein ‘everything is related’ [‘mitakuye oyasin’] as has been affirmed by the modern physics concept wherein material forms are CONDENSATIONS of the energy-charged PLENUM ).

 

OUR WESTERN CULTURE ADDICTION TO THE USE OF TOO-SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC IN FOUNDATIONS OF OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS  IS THE SOURCE OF FRAGMENTATION THAT IS UNRESOLVABLE WITH BINARY LOGIC.

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