Insights into Dynamics of any Psychosocial Rosetta Stone

Embodying the future through negative powers of time

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Introduction

Curiously, and for seemingly unknown reasons, great importance is associated with organization in terms of 12-fold patterns in many sectors of society and in many cultures of the world (Checklist of 12-fold Principles, Plans, Symbols and Concepts: web resources, 2011). Obvious archetypal examples of continung significance include: 12 Olympian deities (Greece); 12 Dii Consentes (Rome); 12 Apostles; 12 Knights of the Round Table; 12 Tribes of Israel; 12 Imams. ***

Modern examples include the 12-Point Plan to Combat Terrorism, the 12-Point EU Action Plan to support the Millennium Development Goals, the 12-starred Flag of Europe, ***. Typically little distinction is made between the elements configured in this way -- the totality being somehow recognized as a symbol of completeness and perfection, requsite comlexity in the case of 12-member juries. Critically, at a time of great crisis for the "European project", there is no sense of what any distinctions might imply for the integrity of Europe. In this case, there is even concern that the nature of the strategic "pillars" of Europe offers relatively little guidance -- although these have always numbered less than 12.

When qualitative distinctions are implied, as in the case of the archetypal figures above, very little indication is provided as to the relationship between them. This could be considered extremely negligent when the 12-fold pattern is of a strategic nature -- then implying a lack of systemic insight into the relationships between the 12 elements of any plan and the institutions mandated to implement each of them. This neglect is currently as evident in the set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations as it was in the set of 8 Millennium Devlopmebt Goals which it superceded.

One obvious possibility is to map the names or symbols of the 12-fold set onto one of the polyhedra familiar to the Pythagoreans, namely onto the 12-sides of a dodecahedron or the 12-vertices of an icosahedron. This may well have been done in Ancient Greece, or in the Roman Empire which adopted that pattern. However any such mapping does little to distinguish the nature of the relationships between the psychosocial functions configured in this way -- irrespective of any temples erected in the past for the worship of individual deities, or the buildings now erected for the relevant agencies.

The challenge of such a "Rosetta stone" can be usefully presented as a puzzle, as illustrated by the Dogic. This is an icosahedron-shaped puzzle like the Rubik's Cube. It has a total of 80 movable pieces to rearrange, compared to the 20 pieces in the Rubik's Cube (The Ultimate 3D Puzzle: the rare, 20-sided dogic Mental Floss, 26 August 2015). Equivalents exist in dodecahedral form (Coolzon Megaminx Dodecahedron, MaoMaoyu Megaminx Cube, and Speed Cube Megaminx). The possibility of using such devices with respect to the UN's Rosetta Stone of global goals was explored separately (Interplay of Sustainable Development Goals through Rubik Cube Variations: engaging otherwise with what people find meaningful, 2017).

Such a puzzle could be understood as indicative of a fundmental insight. Any Rosetta stone of "meaning" may not be as static as is implied by use of the term "stone" -- as with the Philosopher's Stone . It may need to be dynamic in ways which are consistent with psychosocial dynamics, and especially with cognitive dynamics. Any sense of "mapping" meaning statically onto surface geometry is then challenged by the need to associate meaning with the dynamics between those surfaces understood in topological terms.

This reframing may be especially relevant to the indication of cycles and vital feedback loops between the psychosocial functions identified by the 12 elements distinguished in the pattern. Such static patterns are then to be considered as potentially indicative of an intuition recognition of dynamics whose integrative nature currently remains elusive -- hence the mysterous attraction of the 12-fold pattern.

The following approach is a further reflection on issues previously explored with respect to time (Cognitive Implication of Globality via Temporal Inversion, 2018). It is a further development of an approach previously explored (Representation of Creative Processes through Dynamics in Three Dimensions, 2014).

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