Special issue of Integral Review - Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality2024-03-29T00:54:22Zhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/special-issue-of-integral-review?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A64364&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSee the discussion of compres…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-04-04:5301756:Comment:642692016-04-04T15:33:02.212ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>See the discussion of compression and leverage in <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/special-issue-of-integral-review?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A62377" target="_self">this</a> previous post related to tai chi and dance. Then see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_%28dance%29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a> wiki entry on dance connection. E.g.:</p>
<p>"When creating frame, tension is the primary means of establishing communication. Changes…</p>
<p>See the discussion of compression and leverage in <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/special-issue-of-integral-review?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A62377" target="_self">this</a> previous post related to tai chi and dance. Then see <a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_%28dance%29" target="_blank">this</a> wiki entry on dance connection. E.g.:</p>
<p>"When creating frame, tension is the primary means of establishing communication. Changes in tension are made to create rhythmic variations in moves and movements, and are communicated through points of contact.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_%28dance%29#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> In an open position or a closed position without body contact, the hands and arms alone provide the connection, which may be one of three forms: tension, compression or neutral.</p>
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<li>During <b>tension</b> or <b>leverage connection</b>, the dancers are pulling away from each other with an equal and opposite force. The arms do not originate this force alone: they are often assisted by tension in trunk musculature, through body weight or by momentum.</li>
<li>During <b>compression connection</b>, the dancers are pushing towards each other.</li>
<li>In a neutral position, the hands do not impart any force other than the touch of the follower's hands in the leader's."</li>
</ul> This wiki entry on syntegrity…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-04-04:5301756:Comment:643642016-04-04T15:29:48.808ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntegrity" target="_blank">This</a> wiki entry on syntegrity is relevant to this thread. E.g.:</p>
<p>"<em>Syntegrity</em> is a formal model presented by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Stafford_Beer" title="Anthony Stafford Beer">Anthony Stafford Beer</a>, a British theorist, in his work on management cybernetics, the science of large, complex, probabilistic systems.…<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"></sup></p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntegrity" target="_blank">This</a> wiki entry on syntegrity is relevant to this thread. E.g.:</p>
<p>"<em>Syntegrity</em> is a formal model presented by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Stafford_Beer" title="Anthony Stafford Beer" class="mw-redirect">Anthony Stafford Beer</a>, a British theorist, in his work on management cybernetics, the science of large, complex, probabilistic systems.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntegrity#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> The word Syntegrity is derived from the words <em>synergistic</em> and <em>tensegrity</em>. Its etymology signifies the ideal balance of tension and compression that makes structures stronger and more stable as they grow."</p> There is no mention of the sp…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2015-10-09:5301756:Comment:625122015-10-09T14:59:40.522ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>There is no mention of the speculative realists in the article or bibliography. Their work on strange mereology, flat ontology and dynamic systems, while maintaining a form of hierarchy, would add a lot to this discussion on how hier(an)archy works.</p>
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<p>There is no mention of the speculative realists in the article or bibliography. Their work on strange mereology, flat ontology and dynamic systems, while maintaining a form of hierarchy, would add a lot to this discussion on how hier(an)archy works.</p>
<p></p> "A key point in our discussio…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2015-10-09:5301756:Comment:625112015-10-09T14:54:22.305ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>"A key point in our discussion has been that metaphors integrate reason and imagination and so <br></br> are useful for meta-theoretical bridging" (132)</p>
<p>Remember Lakoff et al on <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/polydoxy-theology-of?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A25514" target="_self">imaginative reason</a>:</p>
<p>Lakoff & Johnson’s <i>Metaphors We Live By</i>:</p>
<p>“What we are offering in the experientialist account of understanding and truth is an…</p>
<p>"A key point in our discussion has been that metaphors integrate reason and imagination and so <br/> are useful for meta-theoretical bridging" (132)</p>
<p>Remember Lakoff et al on <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/polydoxy-theology-of?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A25514" target="_self">imaginative reason</a>:</p>
<p>Lakoff & Johnson’s <i>Metaphors We Live By</i>:</p>
<p>“What we are offering in the experientialist account of understanding and truth is an alternative which denies that subjectivity and objectivity are our only choices. We reject the objectivist view that there is absolute and unconditional truth without adopting the subjectivist alternative of truth as obtainable only through the imagination, unconstrained by external circumstances. The reason we have focused so much on metaphor is that it unites reason and imagination. Reason, at the very least, involves categorization, entailment, and inference. Imagination, in one of its many aspects, involves seeing one kind of thing in terms of another kind of thing—what we have called metaphorical thought. Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality. Since the categories of our everyday thought are largely metaphorical and our everyday reasoning involves metaphorical entailments and inferences, ordinary rationality is therefore imaginative by its very nature. Given our understanding of poetic metaphor in terms of metaphorical entailments and inferences, we can see that the products of the poetic imagination are, for the same reason, partially rational in nature” (138-9).</p>
<p></p> "As spatial and temporal in-b…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2015-10-09:5301756:Comment:625102015-10-09T14:43:34.179ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>"As spatial and temporal in-between, bridges and bridging serve not only for coming from one point to another, but help to overcome thinking in points at all" (129).</p>
<p>"As spatial and temporal in-between, bridges and bridging serve not only for coming from one point to another, but help to overcome thinking in points at all" (129).</p> And this passage reminds of i…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2015-10-08:5301756:Comment:622972015-10-08T21:44:05.830ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>And this passage reminds of image schema, which pre-position linguistic prepositions and other forms of speech (i.e., not 'in' them) while always manifesting in the middle of classical taxonomic hierarchies. In other words, <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/object-oriented-ontology?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A56206" target="_self">hier(an)archy</a>.</p>
<p>“This liminal bridging moves between concepts, categories and paradigms of thought and forms <em>of…</em></p>
<p>And this passage reminds of image schema, which pre-position linguistic prepositions and other forms of speech (i.e., not 'in' them) while always manifesting in the middle of classical taxonomic hierarchies. In other words, <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/object-oriented-ontology?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A56206" target="_self">hier(an)archy</a>.</p>
<p>“This liminal bridging moves between concepts, categories and paradigms of thought and forms <em>of</em> practice not ‘in’ them (Chia, 1996, p. 142). It is this relational realm of in-between, with its gaps or interstices and therein unfolding ‘in-tensions’. […] Following Deleuze and Guattari (1980) […] a rhizome-bridge has no beginning or end, but is always in the middle, between things” (128-29).</p> E.g., recall this:
Which remi…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2015-10-08:5301756:Comment:623812015-10-08T21:16:10.709ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>E.g., recall <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/states-stages-the-wc-lattice-and-the-fold?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A53135" target="_self">this</a>:</p>
<p>Which reminds me of the <em>objet a</em> of Bryant's Borromean (integral) theory, another one with manifolds. [...] This interative process of <i>differance</i> is, as I noted, the heart of the Borromean diagram. It is in the interplay of <i>objet a</i> with the 3 methodologies that produces not only change…</p>
<p>E.g., recall <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/states-stages-the-wc-lattice-and-the-fold?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A53135" target="_self">this</a>:</p>
<p>Which reminds me of the <em>objet a</em> of Bryant's Borromean (integral) theory, another one with manifolds. [...] This interative process of <i>differance</i> is, as I noted, the heart of the Borromean diagram. It is in the interplay of <i>objet a</i> with the 3 methodologies that produces not only change but <i>progress</i> through a spiral dynamical process. No, we never fully arrive at full consciousness of this unmarked, withdrawn or virtual ‘space’ (khora), for it too, being immanent and constructed, also develops and grows given development in the actually manifest domains. In a sense one expression of it is the cognitive unconscious of humans. We can never know it fully and yet we do make inroads and open it just a bit more with each advance. Hence I take Flanagan’s criticism of ‘consciousness’ (in the Thompson thread) as sometimes too focused on the marked space of what we are aware, and how we often mistake this for the unmarked space beyond its reach and thus confuse it with an ultimate and transcendent realm.</p>
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<p></p> And this passage reminds me o…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2015-10-08:5301756:Comment:625092015-10-08T21:12:48.252ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>And this passage reminds me of <em>object a</em> (a la difference):</p>
<p>“Remarkably these tensile structures have empty centres. Correspondingly, every point is visible and connectable from every other, suggesting a desirable form of transparency. […] For a tensegrity-oriented approach the centre is a virtual one, rather than being occupied by some dominant body, individual, concept or value. [...] Therefore syn-integral bridging does not follow the ideas of a metaphysical harmony, nor an…</p>
<p>And this passage reminds me of <em>object a</em> (a la difference):</p>
<p>“Remarkably these tensile structures have empty centres. Correspondingly, every point is visible and connectable from every other, suggesting a desirable form of transparency. […] For a tensegrity-oriented approach the centre is a virtual one, rather than being occupied by some dominant body, individual, concept or value. [...] Therefore syn-integral bridging does not follow the ideas of a metaphysical harmony, nor an underlying unity-oriented ideal(ism)" (127-8).</p>
<p></p> Which reminds me of this and…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2015-10-08:5301756:Comment:623772015-10-08T20:53:44.757ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Which reminds me of <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/principles-of-adjacency-draft?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A49891" target="_self">this</a> and following posts in the adjaceny thread copied below:</p>
<p>Speaking of resistance, according to the <a href="http://www.scheele.org/lee/classics.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tai Chi Classics</a> one can "using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds." To do this one must "distinguish clearly between…</p>
<p>Which reminds me of <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/principles-of-adjacency-draft?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A49891" target="_self">this</a> and following posts in the adjaceny thread copied below:</p>
<p>Speaking of resistance, according to the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.scheele.org/lee/classics.html" target="_blank">Tai Chi Classics</a> one can "using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds." To do this one must "distinguish clearly between substantial and insubstantial." Both are accomplished via compression and leverage, both within one's body and by applying them to another body. Compression and leverage are accomplished by maintaining 4 ounces of resistance or pressure between them at all times and through all changes. Without this resistance our biomagnetic and biomechanical energy does not flow with enough force to move much of anything, much less a thousand pounds.This is also critical in partner dance connection/communication.</p>
<p>For example, principle 1 is about the fundamental premise of same-difference or connective-separation. The latter pair is more suited to my purpose, as it exemplifies the relation between any 'two.' This could relate not just a philosophical axiom but practically to one person or two people (or more) in my above example. In practicing tai chi alone one is always playing with this ever-changing 'balance' between active and passive between parts of their body-mind, or substantial and insubstantial. And there are several of these balances going on at the same space-time, like between the two hands, the two feet, the head and feet, the front and back, etc. These complimentary parts are connected yet "clearly distinguished."</p>
<p>Where the resistance or pressure comes in is in the dynamic tension between them (principle 11). Note the preposition 'between.' It is what glues them together yet also keeps them apart like a generative (en)closure. I.e, they are adjacent, not one and not two, at least not exactly. This 4 ounces of resistance is strongly akin to any permeable boundary that is both open and closed, that not only separates one from another but also allows connection and communication with another. Hence the practice can also been done with another(s), which experience of working with another feeds back to working with oneself and vice-versa. The training requires both as an ongoing practice. Hence principle 10, for one is this practice is both/and/neither/nor one/two in oneself and with another.</p> From the above article:
“‘Syn…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2015-10-08:5301756:Comment:622962015-10-08T20:50:47.047ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>From the above article:</p>
<p>“‘Syn-integrality’ resonates in particular with the idea of ‘tensegrity’ as this concept refers to the integrity of structures as being based in a synergy between the inseparable and balanced components of tension and compression (Fuller and Applewhite, 1975). [...] Instead of using compression, ‘syn-integral’ bridging achieves stability by the distribution and concurrent application of tension and pressure on the entire bridge and in relation between its…</p>
<p>From the above article:</p>
<p>“‘Syn-integrality’ resonates in particular with the idea of ‘tensegrity’ as this concept refers to the integrity of structures as being based in a synergy between the inseparable and balanced components of tension and compression (Fuller and Applewhite, 1975). [...] Instead of using compression, ‘syn-integral’ bridging achieves stability by the distribution and concurrent application of tension and pressure on the entire bridge and in relation between its poles. Thus, the integrity of the structure is determined by the distributed tensile stress of the entire system” (127).</p>