Eliciting a Universe of Meaning Within a Global Information Society of Fragmenting Knowledge and Relationships
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 29 Apr 2013
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service
Eliciting Meaning of Universal Significance
What is valued as meaningful in states, such as those configured within the the United States or the United Nations? How is meaning experienced in the case of other “states” as presented in examples above. A state of health? A civil or social status? The state of the environment? With respect to what universe is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be considered meaningful?
Data, information and knowledge may well serve as carriers of meaning in some respects, but how is meaning to be understood as independent of them — or as more subtly related to them? What is to be said to those who question whether data/information/knowledge is inherently meaningful?
As argued in previous exercises, there is a case for benefitting from the subtle complexities of the thinking considered necessary by astrophysicists and cosmologists to a fundamental understanding of the universe (Towards an Astrophysics of the Knowledge Universe: from astronautics to noonautics? 2006). They do indeed rely very extensively on data and information in order to engender knowledge about the universe, however hypothetical that may be, whether now or in the eyes of the future. These explorations are naturally held to be meaningful by those involved and are appreciated for that reason.
The meaning arising from such explorations can however be usefully considered as experientially independent. It is not definable within the terms of the data/information/knowledge complex. Its very nature may elude definition. It is not a factor in equations valued by science. It might be better understood as intimately related to a distinct complex — perhaps one of comprehension/communicability/credibility and the collective confidence which that may engender and sustain.
How is the process of eliciting meaning then to be understood? Through what metaphors might this process be comprehended — recognizing the paradox that meaning is intimately associated with that very process of comprehension? How might this contrast with what is held to be meaningful in “growth” and “development”?
Introduction
Eliciting meaning of universal significance
Resolving vs. Developing
Eliciting meaningful identity: resolution vs. resolving
Solve et coagulo: neither changing nor resolving?
Pop concert of democracies as a vehicle for meaning?
Dynamic transformation of static reporting of global processess
State sovereignty in a meaningful universe?
Symbolic connotations of sovereignty in a meaningful process
Illicit meaning and “illiciting meaning”?
Mnemonic clues to configuration and containment of meaningful identity
Sustaining a universe of meaning within a questioning process
Eliciting a universe of meaning from nothing through alchemical processes
Geometry of meaning: an alchemical Rosetta Stone?
References
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