THE INCLUSIONAL NATURE OF NEIGHBOURHOOD - A UNIVERSAL DYNAMIC SOLUTION
Summary
We human beings can combine an awareness of non-local presence, through our
gyroscopic sensing of dynamic balance, with the ability to detect local presence
using our eyesight and tactile senses. Hence we come fully equipped to develop
our individual consciousness as local expressions of the larger spatial neighbourhood
in which we are immersed and of which we are dynamic inclusions, like solutes
inextricably in solution with solvent.
We may, however, be impeded from making this connection by our tendency to
split one form of awareness from the other and then select one or other as
a superior route to ‘truth’. Correspondingly, the orthodox western philosophical
tradition, culminating in the ‘Enlightenment’, has been to give precedence
to explicit local information, contained in discrete ‘objects’ or material
‘bodies’, whilst disregarding immaterial ‘space’ as ‘nothing’ - an ‘absence
of presence’. Meanwhile, more eastern and mystic traditions have tended to
disregard local presence in a quest to find spiritual connection with the
non-locality of ‘everywhere’.
Most fundamentally, this split has the effect of abstracting electromagnetic
information, what we perceive as ‘light’ and ‘matter’, out of the context
of space in which it is a dynamic gravitational inclusion. The rationalistic
scientific and mathematical tradition has then been to try to explain all
the properties of nature, including human nature, solely in terms of this
abstracted information. This is like trying one-sidedly to explain the properties
of a solution solely in terms of solute, whilst ignoring the fluidizing presence
of solvent. It leads inexorably to the paradoxical inconsistencies of assuming
‘completeness’, ‘discreteness’ and ‘independence’ that characterize modern
culture and precipitate ideological and psychological conflict and environmental
damage.
By avoiding this split, we can visualize all form, including ourselves, as
inextricable ‘flow-form’, a variably resistive/accommodative dynamic interfacing
of reciprocally transforming convex and concave spatial domains, over all
scales from microcosm to macrocosm. In other words we can understand our
perception of the electromagnetic field as a dynamic inclusion of the gravitational
field. Hence we can appreciate our complex self-identities as loving neighbourhoods
in dynamic relationship, simultaneously both somewhere particular (local)
and everywhere around (non-local). This could just be the most profound transformation
in our conscious human comprehension of and about all time.
