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Usage examples of kosmos.

Who knows, perhaps telos, perhaps Eros, moves the entire Kosmos, and God may indeed be an all-embracing chaotic Attractor, acting, as Whitehead said, throughout the world by gentle persuasion toward love.

As I said, it is always fascinating to see to just what date the Romantics set their Way Back Machine, scraping layers and layers of depth off the Kosmos looking for a Garden of Eden that ever recedes into a shallower darkness.

Interiors deal with degrees of intentions, not extensions, and trying to convert all evolutionary changes into physical size is simply part of the flattening of the Kosmos, part of the brutalization of qualitative distinctions, that has marked the instrumentalism of all flatland ontologies.

That human beings would possess such systems memory seems not even a little surprising (memory stored in brain cells is not the only memory the Kosmos has generated!

But the original meaning of Kosmos was the patterned nature or process of all domains of existence, from matter to math to theos, and not merely the physical universe, which is usually what both "cosmos" and "universe" mean today.

These additions are tenets that seem crucial to an understanding of evolution and the Kosmos, but tenets that, for reasons we will be investigating in detail, simply cannot be established in the it-language of instrumental and objectifying naturalism (i.

There is, relatively speaking, less of the Kosmos that is actually internal to this holon, that is actually embraced within the being of the holon itself.

But in the multidimensional Kosmos, more of one means more of the other.

It has reduced three-dimensional chess to flatland chess, the Kosmos to the cosmos, the interrelated pyramid of life to the interrelated web of life.

Put differently, since every event in the Kosmos does indeed have a Right-Hand component, it can mistakenly appear that the Right-Hand path alone exhausts the Kosmos, whereas it has merely registered and measured the footprints of the giant.

In short, the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm, which was the reduction of the Kosmos to the Right-Hand path, had two poles: the disengaged subject and the flatland network-world.

That is, the story of the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm (the reduction of the Kosmos to the Right-Hand path: the entire Left-Hand dimensions were simply taken for granted, as more or less pregiven, and consciousness was assumed to be a punctual, disengaged subject staring out unproblematically and transparently at a pre-given world, and the job of this disengaged subject was to simply, easily, but carefully reflect, represent, describe, categorize, and analyze the objective, pregiven world)this could occur because the noosphere had finally differentiated from the biosphere, a differentiation that went too far into dissociation (Hegel's "vanity of the understanding," Taylor's "monster of arrested development"), so that the dissociated noosphere was merely the disengaged and self-defining subject staring at, hovering over, divorced from, the holistic flatland of the natural world.

There is no consciousness, awareness, or lived experience anywhere in the Right-Hand, objectivistic dimensionswhich register only the exterior forms of interior consciousnessand thus if you look at the Kosmos only in an objectivating, exterior, monological/computational fashion, you will never find a subjective lived experience anyway.

Further, armed with this finer analysis, it is impossible not to spot developmental factors in the unfolding of these states themselves: like everything else in the Kosmos, they seem to grow and evolve: the acorn does not show up as a fully formed oak on the spot.

On a multidimensional field, in the real Kosmos, the more of both, the better.