Embodying the universe as a strategic opportunity

Cognitive Embodiment of Nature Re-cognized Systemically (Part #9)

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The paradoxical window of opportunity framed by this argument is associated with the cognitive possibility of embodying "outside-inside". The significance is most readily understood in terms of the environment. Arguably, until it is possible to "re-cognize" the features of the "external" natural environment as features of "internal" reality, it is the current pattern of dysfunctional dissociation which is sustained. Embodying the environment offers a mode of cognitive engagement with its processes which engenders the condition intuitively associated with "sustainability" and its promotion, as discussed separately (Psychology of Sustainability: embodying cyclic environmental processes, 2002; Degrees of Cognitive Engagement with Interrelated Global Categories, 2009).

The argument can be extended to enable an alternative mode of engagement with problematic conditions of the socio-economic environment (Existential Embodiment of Externalities: radical cognitive engagement with environmental categories and disciplines, 2009)

To the extent that "sustainability" implies engagement with time, the cognitive significance of time then merits consideration from a more radical perspective:

• Strategic Embodiment of Time: configuring questions fundamental to change (2010)
• Embodying a Timeship vs. Empowering a Spaceship (2003)
• The Isdom of the Wisdom Society: embodying time as the heartland of humanity (2003)
• Embodying the Sphere of Change: reframing metaphors of the I Ching as a codification of the patterns of change (2001)

The argument suggests the possibility of a radical existential reframing of deeply personal significance, as variously explored in the following:

• ¿ Embodying a Way Round Pointlessness ? (2012)
• Stepping into, or through, the Mirror: embodying alternative scenario patterns (2008)
• Embodying Values Dynamically through Alternation: integrating sets of polarized static values through indicative metaphor (2008)
• Embodying the Paradoxes and Contradictions of the Pursuit of Happiness: en-joying the world through en-joying oneself (2011)
• Embodiment of Identity in Conscious Creativity: challenge of encompassing "con" (2011)

Whilst the argument is focused on the "outside-inside" transformation for the coherence it offers, the necessary alternation with the "inside-outside" transformation has the potential to engender coherence, most notably with respect to "health", whether personal or collective:

• Patterns Essential to Individual and Global Health? (2010)
• Wholth as Sustaining Dynamic of Health and Wealth: cognitive dynamics sustaining the meta-pattern that connects (2013)
• Remedies to Global Crisis: "Allopathic" or "Homeopathic"? Metaphorical complementarity of "conventional" and "alternative" models (2009)
• Memetic and Information Diseases in a Knowledge Society: speculations towards the development of cures and preventive measures (2008)
• Cognitive Implications of Lifestyle Diseases of Rich and Poor: transforming personal entanglement with the natural environment (2010)

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