See page Open Letter to Thinkers and page Obstacles to Females

Atelier (workshop): Making higher-order connections

This page is dedicated to broad connections that thinkers do not make because of specialisation. In the humanities, ‘higher-order’ connections are known as ‘deeper’ connections. In particular, physical science and humanities have similar concepts but with opposed valuing; and there is another domain, ‘hidden’ in the core of culture, which they often do not take into account. The idea of a ‘Big Picture’ usually involves only physical and human sciences, as well as reintegrating them into a holistic ‘Big Picture’, unitive framework or integral model, quite often based on system-environment or point-set framing. These representations create ‘wholes’, but the saying ‘The whole is more than the sum of the parts‘ means that ‘putting back together’ the fragments of knowledge is, in topology, a ‘gluing’, and adding for example inter-actions, relations, dy-namics, is separating object-sourroundings, and the result is a more complicated and fragile situation. A broken-glued pot is not quite the same as the unbroken pot, and cannot stand as much pressure without falling apart again. The connections made on this page point to a yet undisclosed commonality between findings in many fields.

The domain of actual daily life experience, at human scale, should be included because of the geometric nature of many statements describing it but lost in instrumental micro-details of sciences and societal large scale expertise, which both tend to ignore people’s own formulation of their situation, often less differentiated. Using the ‘Rubber Sheet Geometry‘* allows to ‘see’  a less fragmentary or more complete view of a situation-in-shaping, without dividing it, and thus to bypass the fragmentation of field-specific knowledge using different words that represent the same thing in different fields.