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Reader,
The latest Vignette by
F.E.D. Public Liaison Officer Aoristos Dysophainthos has just been posted to the
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Miguel
F.E.D.
Vignette #7 --
Dialectic is the Organizing
Principle
of the «Kosmos», of Nature as Totality
by
Aoristos Dyosphainthos
Author’s
Preface. The purpose of Vignette
#7 is to present a progression of assertions
of increasing specificity as to the universality of «aufheben» dialectic, as the
very nature
of “Nature”.
A Note about the On-Line Availability of Definitions of F.E.D. Technical Terms. Definitions of Encyclopedia
Dialectica technical terms and ‘neologia’ are available
on-line via the following URLs --
-- by clicking on the links associated with each such term, listed,
alphabetically, on the web-pages linked above.
The Encyclopedia Dialectica special terms most fundamental to this
vignette are listed below, together with links to their E.D. definitions --
«aufheben»
qualo-fractal
meta-monadization
-- which will be expanded as the F.E.D. Encyclopedia Project unfolds.
A Progression
of Assertions Regarding the ‘‘‘«Aufheben» Dialecticality’’’ of our «Kosmos»:
1. The organizing principle of the cosmos is dialectic.
2. The organizing principle of the cosmos is «aufheben» dialectic.
3. The organizing principle of the physical cosmos
is [self-]«aufheben» dialectic.
4. The organizing principle of the physical cosmos
is [self-]«aufheben» dialectic, synchronically and diachronically.
5. The organizing principle of the physical cosmos
is [self-]«aufheben» dialectic, in the concrete, physical,
material form of [self-]‘meta-monadization’*, both synchronically [as in ‘‘‘systematic dialectics’’’] and diachronically [as in ‘‘‘historical dialectics’’’].
6. The organizing principle of the physical
cosmos is [self-]«aufheben» dialectic, in the concrete, physical,
material form of ‘meta-fractal’** [self-]‘meta-monadization’*, both synchronically [as in ‘‘‘systematic dialectics’’’***, and in the presentational mode of ‘meta-systematic dialectics’***, for almost purely human-‘ideic’/-‘psycheic’ systems-progressions, e.g.,
axioms-systems progressions] and diachronically [as in ‘‘‘historical dialectics’’’***, and in the historical mode of ‘meta-systematic dialectics’***, for almost purely physical, or at least partly physical, systems, in
terms of their systems-progressions, e.g., pre-human-natural “systems”, and in ‘psychohistorical dialectics***’, for mixed, physical/‘psycheic’-systems progressions, e.g., for
historical progressions of human-social systems].
7. [Self-]«Aufheben» dialectic, in both its earlier, pre-human “physical” forms, and in its later, human, ‘‘‘psychophysical’’’ forms, names the general [self-]«aufheben» movement of [self-]‘meta-monadization’*, that diachronically constitutes [as the ‘meta-dynamic’ of the transitions from the
dynamics of each earlier, predecessor universal ontology, to the dynamics of each consecutively later, successor, self-expanded universal ontology] the synchronically viewed, present
‘content-structure’ of the cosmological-dialectical ‘meta-fractal’**, including of the synchronic views of the developing sub-universes of that total universe, and including the
technological creations of human nature.
8. ‘‘‘[Self-]«Aufheben» dialectic’’’ names the diachronic organizing ‘meta-dynamic’,
and the synchronic organizing architectonic principle,
of the total cosmos; “Nature”; the ‘“Totality’’’.
*[self-]‘meta-monadization’, or [self-]‘meta-unitization’, is the universal, concrete form of the essential dialectical [self-]«aufheben» process.
It is the movement of the inextricably unified, unitary qualitative self-transformation, self-elevation [in ‘meta-fractal’ scale], and self-preservation [as the conserved
‘internity’, or inner content, of the new ‘‘‘scale’’’ or ‘‘‘level’’’ thereby
created], whereby a “population” of “individual units”, all of a given kind,
creates out of itself a ‘meta-population’, that is, a [meta-]population
consisting of a new kind of individual units, which are ‘meta-units’ to that predecessor
population’s units, in that each successor -- ‘meta-’
-- unit is made up out of a heterogeneous multiplicity of its
predecessor units, the units of its predecessor population.
These units, and their ‘meta-units’, are herein grasped, not as
inert, atomistic, separately self-subsistent, self-enclosed and statical “point
particles”, but as ‘subject/verb/object-identical’ ‘event-entities’, or
‘‘‘eventities’’’, agents of change, self-agents of self-change, agents of
further [self-]«aufheben» dialectic, i.e., agents of both the ‘auto-«aufheben»’ & the ‘allo-«aufheben»’ kinds of dialectic.
Such agents are ‘proto-subjects’
-- are ‘verbs incarnate’ -- as well as being objects of ‘‘‘self-change’’’, due to their own action within/upon
themselves/one-another, and due to the actions upon them of other agents, other
‘[proto-]subject eventities’. Such
agents are also agents of ‘‘‘other-change’’’, via the ‘‘‘object’’’ aspect of other agents, through the former
agents’ actions upon the latter.
The earliest so far inferred
cosmological instance of diachronic, temporal ‘self-meta-unit-ization’ is the self-induced
combination of the sub-nuclear/pre-nuclear ‘‘‘eventities’’’ named “quarks” and
“gluons” [and “leptons”, including “electrons”] to form the pre-atomic/nuclear
sub-atomic ‘‘‘eventities’’’ named “mesons” and “protons” [and “neutrons”].
**a ‘meta-fractal’ is a finitary, qualitative fractal, or ‘ontological [kinds-of-being-scaled] fractal’ -- a ‘qualo-[quanto-] fractal' for short. That is, it is a scaled “self-similarity”
regress, with a finite number of “scales” or
“levels”, and with scales that are qualitatively mutually similar, not
[just] quantitatively
mutually similar, and with a finite regress of scales that constitutes a
qualitative, ontological progression, not an
ontologically-gainless succession of scales; not a mere, gradient-less sequence
of scales. A ‘meta-fractal’ is a ‘[quanto-]qualitative scales regress’ that is also a ‘scales progress’.
‘Meta-fractals’ can be viewed as either
synchronic, all-at-once-present, scaled-similarity-regress
‘content-structures’, with “size”, and/or nested content, as their scaling
principles, or as diachronic, temporal-historical scaled-similarity-regress
‘content-structures’, with temporal acceleration, and/or “size”, and/or
nested content, as their scaling principles, or they can be viewed as both --
as diachronico-synchronic scaled-similarity-regresses/-progresses.
The earliest known human,
self-conscious formulation of a ‘meta-fractal content-structure’ [though not, of course,
under that name] -- the ancient, classical example of a synchronic [and
supposedly eternal, immutable] ‘meta-fractal’ -- is the ontological-categorial ‘content-structure’ of
Plato’s attempted universal ‘ideo-taxonomy’, his «Arithmos
Eidetikos» [translation: Assemblages of «Idea»-Units, or of ontological category units] i.e., Plato’s original dialectic, whose visionary finite
regress of mutually-similar scales -- of ‘‘‘«Idea»-levels’’’, or of ‘«Eide»-scales’ [‘‘‘ontological-categorial levels’’’] -- can be depicted as
follows, as an elaboration of the upper, “knowledge” [«epistémé»] portion of Plato’s “Divided Line” [The Republic, 511b-c] --
[TOP] scale of the «Summum Genus»: The Supreme «Eidos» of ALL Category-Unit
.
.
.
scale of the «Eide» Super2-«Gene» category-units
scale of the «Eide» Super1-«Gene» category-units
scale of the «Eide» [Super0-]«Gene» category-units
[MEDIAL] scale of the «Eide» [Supreme] [Sub0-]«Species» category-units
scale of the «Eide» [Subalternate] Sub1-«Species» category-units
scale of the «Eide» [Subalternate] Sub2-«Species» category-units
.
.
.
scale of the «Eide» «Infima Species» category-units
[BOTTOM] scale of the ultimate categorial base of «Eide-Monads» category-units
-- as adumbrated, for example, in Plato’s
dialogue The Sophist [253b-254d].
Note the synchronic -- and also the diachronic, if one is to mentally survey the «Eide», e.g., in a systematic order of
succession -- «aufheben»-relations within this example.
The «Eide» «Infima Species» implicitly «aufheben»-contains
-- negates the
specificity
of, elevates
the level of generality
of, and implicitly still conserves/contains the specificity of -- the
ultimate, most
specific categorial units, the «Eide-Monads».
The “lowest”,
most specific «Eide» Subalternate «Species» implicitly «aufheben»-contains
the «Eide» «Infima Species».
... The «Eide» Supreme «Species» implicitly «aufheben»-contains
the “highest”, least
specific «Eide» Subalternate «Species».
The “lowest”, most specific «Eide» «Genos» implicitly «aufheben»-contains
the «Eide» Supreme «Species». ...
The «Summum Genus»
or Supreme «Eidos» implicitly «aufheben»-contains
the “highest”, least
specific «Eide» Super-«Genos».
***For definitions of the four kinds [e.g., «species»] of dialectics per the F.E.D. ‘Dialectic of the Dialectic Itself’, see --
Two Modern Examples of ‘Diachronico-Synchronic Meta-Fractals’, or of ‘Spatio-Temporal Meta-Fractals’:
Our two modern examples of a ‘diachronico-synchronic
meta-fractal’, i.e., of a ‘spatio-temporal meta-fractal’, are both views of our
cosmos at large -- i.e., of what, through our sciences, we have come to know
about our cosmos so far.
The ‘Cosmological Meta-Fractal’, Example A. The first of our
‘cosmological meta-fractal’ examples is the simpler of the two, and pertains to
a more exclusively macroscopic,
macrocosmic, and mainly synchronic ‘meta-fractal’
view of the whole universe, and is one that principally involves the ‘gravitic’
ordering principle of our ‘‘‘macrocosmos’’’,
and involves the scales of the orb-masses which orbit other, larger orb-masses
[or which orbit their common centers of gravity with such larger orb-masses].
This ‘meta-fractal’ view begins, at its highest, top
scale within our macrocosm, with single stars, planet-less multi-star systems,
and stellar/planetary
systems, orbiting their common centers of gravity with galactic
core “black holes”
within galaxies.
Its next scale “down” might be that of smaller stars &/or of planets, orbiting common centers of gravity with larger stars.
Its next scale down might be that of moons orbiting their common
centers of gravity with planets.
Despite the fact that the scaling of this
‘meta-fractal’ involves mass [“quantity of matter”], this ‘much-of-the-macro-cosmos-encompassing’
‘content-structure’ is a ‘qualo-fractal’, not just a [finite] ‘quanto-fractal’,
because galactic-core “black
holes”, intra-galactic stars, and planets, are qualitatively different kinds of objects, or of units, with different
overall evolutionary and ‘meta-evolutionary’ dynamics and ‘meta-dynamics’, even
though their differences can be ‘quanto-qualitatively’
measured, & described, in some small part, by counting qualitative metrical units of their “masses”,
e.g., by counting
“grams” [gms.] units, & by comparing gm. qualitative metrical units-expressed
amounts, quantified
by Real numbers quantifiers -- a different quantifiers[-range],
but the same metrical
unit-qualifier,
gms., for each kind of body.
Of course, viewed diachronically, present data and
inference, reconstructing the macrocosmic [meta-]evolution of our cosmos,
indicates that, generally, the first galaxies -- or, at least, the first “proto-galaxies” -- arose before the
first intra-galactic stars,
the first intra-galactic stars
before the first planets,
and the first planets
before the first moons-of-planets.
The “top” scale, in the case of this ‘meta-fractal’,
is the «arché»
scale [galaxy-core “black
holes”], not the bottom scale [planetary moons].
Note the synchronic -- and diachronic -- «aufheben»-relations within this example:
the «arché»-galaxies/“black holes” eventually
evolve to contain the proto-stars,
or, in some cases, the proto-stellar/proto-planetary systems, which also
eventually evolve, in some cases, to contain the [proto-]planets, which eventually
evolve, in some cases, to be orbited by/to include [their own “satellites”;
their own] moons.
That is, the galaxies may have come first -- or the
‘‘‘proto-galaxies’’’, perhaps initially devoid of stars within them, or at
least the “holonium hearts” [Sophya Dors St. Germain] of those
‘‘‘proto-galaxies’’’, the “black holes” -- that eventually gathered together
those ‘‘‘proto-galaxies’’’. Such “holonium
hearts” may have been the results of early ‘mega-stars’, and of their
short-lived lives and ‘hyper-hyper-novae’ denouements. By “holonium”
is meant the “substance” of “black holes”, the hypothesized ‘meta-finite’
kind of material, the actual ontological
increment of a “new” kind of matter, born out of what some
physicists phantasize as being an “infinite” collapse singularity event,
leaving an “infinitesimal” collapse-remnant, a zero-dimensional point-mass outcome,
for [mega-]stellar fusion fuel-exhaustion induced stellar death
implosion-contraction. The F.E.D. ‘Principle
of Metafinity’ holds that no “actual infinities” [or ‘‘‘actual
infinitesimals’’’] can ever manifest in the physical universe empirically. Per that Principle, equational
‘‘‘infinite[simal] singularities’’’ must be artefacts of an incomplete
mathematics, and do not represent a valid scientific concept. This Principle leads us to expect that the
“gravitational singularities” in the equations used to represent, e.g.,
“hypernovae” phenomena of “total gravitational collapse”, inadequately
represent a physical actuality that is not
empirically “infinite”,
but, on the contrary, that is ‘metafinite’. That is, we are led to the hypothesis that
such phenomena of ‘collapse due to hyper-massive self-gravitation’ involve, not
“infinitely small” point-“objects”, or “infinitely large” densities -- all
manifesting, still, only the ontology that produced them -- but, instead,
‘physical revolutions in Nature’; the irruption of new, but familiarly finite,
‘physio-ontology’; of a new kind
of “matter”, or of “mass-energy”, or of ‘energy-time/mass-space’; a kind
qualitatively/ontologically different from that which gives it birth, and
similar to, but also beyond, the new kind
yielded by the “milder” ‘self-gravitational self-collapse’ that forms neutron
stars: “bulk neutronium”. We refer to this hypothetical further new kind of “matter” by the name ‘holonium’.
The ‘Cosmological Meta-Fractal’, Example B. The second of
our ‘cosmos-as-meta-fractal’ examples is by far the more replete of the two,
and is not limited mainly to the macrocosm.
Instead, it spans from the scale of the deepest microcosm presently known
with much clarity -- that of the ‘gluonic’ and other “non-composite” bosons,
and the ‘leptonic’ and ‘quarkic’ fermions -- all the way “up” in scale to the
planetary-scale macrocosm, and beyond, although our account here will stop at
the planetary scale.
This second modern-day example of a ‘diachronico-synchronic meta-fractal’, or ‘spatio-temporal meta-fractal’, is
that of the modernly-known cosmos as a whole -- or of the whole of what our
modern sciences have brought us to know about our cosmos to-date.
First, viewed mostly synchronically -- as a ‘synchronic meta-fractal’,
or ‘present-time
spatial meta-fractal’,
our cosmos as a whole appears as follows --
Suppose that we -- right here, right now -- attend to an imagined, ‘temporally-thin’
synchronic “section”, or “slice”, of our present cosmos (e.g., within
our local “light-cone”).
Inside of our human[s-led] [‘meta-]society’, we will find, constituting it, a
past-to-present internalization -- still «aufheben»-contained within it --
of modified [mutually ‘‘‘domesticated’’’] forms of our predecessor,
proto-language-based ‘animal societies’ -- such as those of dogs, horses,
cattle, pigs, chickens, cats, etc. -- and also plant populations, or
single-plant-kind ‘‘‘communities’’’ -- such as those of rice, wheat, corn,
oats, barley, rye, etc. -- as well as that of a modified, partially
‘self-domesticated’ form of the animal societies of our predatory,
hunting/gathering/foraging/-scavenging ‘‘‘proto-human’’’ ancestors.
Outside of our human society, but still on planet Earth, we
will find that those internalized animal societies and plant ‘‘‘communities’’’
still also, by and large, persist, as “wild” animal societies and as “wild” plant
‘‘‘communities’’’, as present-day ‘‘‘evolute’’’ survivals, never yet
incorporated into our human-social, ‘meta-social’ ‘internity’, but still
carried forward in[to] the present [and, ‘expectedly’, on into the immediate
future], conserved
but ‘un-elevated’, i.e., still
located within the proximate ‘biospheric’ part of our human society’s
‘externity’.
Scaling down deeper:
Inside each of those present animal societies and plant
‘‘‘communities’’’, inside of our human society, and constituting each such animal society
and each plant ‘‘‘community’’’, we will find living ‘meta-bionts’ or
‘meta-bions’ -- i.e., both ‘‘‘meta-zoan’’’ and ‘‘‘meta-phytan’’’ living bodies,
‘massively multi-[eukaryotic-]cellular’ organisms -- individual, living human
bodies, dog bodies, horse bodies, rice plants, wheat plants, corn plants, etc.,
still alive, as constituents of the ‘internity’ of human society.
Inside each of those present animal societies and plant
‘‘‘communities’’’, outside
of our human society, still on planet Earth, such ‘meta-biotic’ bodies -- ‘meta-zoan’
and ‘meta-phytan’ “multicellular” embodiments -- also presently live and continue
to live, also in “wild” [un-/less-mutually-domesticated]
forms, still within the planetary biosphere of Earth.
Scaling down deeper still:
Inside each of these present ‘meta-bionic’ living
‘‘‘corpuses’’’, those that have incorporated into the inside of our planetary,
global human society, and constituting
those human-society-internal ‘meta-biotic’, ‘meta-cellular’ bodies, there
presently live ‘‘‘live’’’ eukaryotic cells, cells of a kind that also live inside,
and constitute, the
‘meta-biotic’, multicellular bodies that live outside of our society, and also eukaryotic cells that
persist as populations of “free-living”, ‘‘‘merely-biotic’’’, ‘pre-meta-biotic’
individual eukaryotic cells.
Scaling deeper:
Inside each of these eukaryotic cells that have incorporated
into, and that constitute,
the ‘multi-[eukaryotic-]cellular’
organisms that populate the inside of our planetary, global human society,
reside modified forms of formerly free-living prokaryotic cells, with their own separate DNA still
retained inside them, and functioning as the “organelles” inside the eukaryotic cells which their union
created, or constituted,
e.g., chloroplasts and mitochondria.
Outside of our planetary, global human society, but still inside our planet’s biosphere, prokaryotic cells also presently
reside, e.g., as organelles, inside the eukaryotic
cells incorporated into the ‘meta-biota’ out there, and also inside the
“free-living” eukaryotes
out there. But prokaryotes also exist “out there”,
as populations of “free-living single cells”, e.g., as populations of bacteria
within the Earth’s biosphere, e.g., on the continental land surfaces, and in
the sea [and including also in large parts of the “interior lithosphere”] never
yet incorporated into any eukaryotic-cellular
units. Indeed, the aggregate biomass of such “free
living”, ‘‘‘unincorporated’’’ prokaryotes
appears to exceed that of all other kinds of ‘‘‘biota’’’ [of living, “biotic” units] on the surface
of [and inside] the Earth.
Deeper still:
Inside each of these prokaryotic cells that have
incorporated into, and that constitute,
the eukaryotic cells that have incorporated into, and constituted, the
‘meta-biota’ inside our planetary, global human society, are multitudinous molecules.
Outside of our planetary, global human society, but still inside our planetary biosphere,
such molecules also reside, inside, and constituting,
the “free-living” prokaryotic cells, and the prokaryotic cells living inside,
and constituting, the
“free-living” eukaryotic cells, and inside the eukaryotic cells that have
incorporated into, and constituted,
the asocial
‘meta-biota’, and the social
‘meta-biota’, the social[ized] animals and the ‘communitized’ plants that have
incorporated into, and constituted,
the animal societies and plant ‘‘‘communities’’’ that persist outside of human
society, but also as molecules unincorporated into --‘un-included in’ -- any
higher/later-appearing/more-inclusive ‘meta-molecular’ ‘meta-«monads»’, but residing
still within the biosphere of Earth. But
such ‘unincorporated molecules’ reside also outside of the Earth’s biosphere,
both inside its “noosphere”, and in its core, and in its upper lithosphere, and
in its upper atmosphere, and elsewhere in Earth’s ‘non-biosphere’, and also
beyond/outside of the Earth.
The next scale down:
Inside each of these molecules that have incorporated into
the prokaryote-organelles within the eukaryotes within the animal
societies/plant communities within our contemporary, planetary human
[‘meta-’]society, are multitudinous “chemical elements” -- “atoms” in the
modern sense, not in the ancient sense -- atoms of
Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, etc., etc.
Such atoms also presently reside ‘out-side’ of our human society, and still ‘in-side’
of the molecules, prokaryotes, eukaryotes, ‘meta-biotes’, and animal
societies/plant ‘‘‘communities’’’ that today reside outside of human society,
and still inside of the planetary biosphere of planet Earth. Such atoms also presently reside ‘out-side’ of our planetary biosphere, both inside its ‘non-biosphere’, and also outside of
our planet altogether: beyond it entirely.
...to the deepest scales presently well-known:
Inside each of these atoms, both those atoms that have
incorporated into, and constituted,
all of the higher/later-appearing/more-inclusive populations of ‘meta-atomic’
‘meta-«monads»’,
‘meta-units’,
or ‘meta-individuals’,
inside our planetary, global human society, and also those atoms that reside outside of our human society,
either incorporated into higher ‘meta-units’ out there, or unincorporated into --‘un-included in’ -- any
higher/later-appearing/more-inclusive ‘meta-atomic’ ‘meta-«monads»’, either
within, or outside, the boundaries of the Earth, are ‘nuclear sub-atomic’ units -- protons,
neutrons, mesons, ... -- as well as those ‘exo-nucleus’, or ‘non-nuclear sub-atomic’, and also
‘pre-atomic’, units, called electrons, which are also pre-nuclear, pre-Hadronic
units which arose, sustainedly, prior to the first sustained ‘arisal’ of
mesons, protons, and neutrons.
Some of these ‘pre-atomic’ and “sub-atomic” units /«monads» -- e.g.,
mesons, protons, and neutrons -- incorporate, and are constituted by, ‘pre-nuclear’ and
“sub-nuclear” units
/«monads»
-- e.g., gluons and quarks.
These gluon and quark units /«monads» incorporated
into -- and ultimately, ‘«arché»-ically’ constituted,
and are still inside -- all later/higher/more-inclusive things,
all later-irrupting ‘meta-unit’/‘meta-«monad»’
‘cosmo-ontology’.
Viewed more holistically still -- and more historically, more diachronically -- our
cosmos as a [as the ultimate manifest] whole, which we just
viewed mainly synchronically,
reveals itself to be a ‘diachronico-synchronic’,
‘spatio-temporal’,
‘systematic/historical’ ‘meta-fractal’:
Some of its sub-nuclear units constituted sub-atomic
units;
some of its sub-atomic
units
then constituted
atomic units; some of its atomic units then constituted molecular units; some of its molecular units then constituted prokaryotic cellular units; some of its prokaryotic cellular units then constituted eukaryotic cellular units; some of its eukaryotic cellular units then constituted ‘meta-biontic’, “multi-cellular” units; some of its ‘‘meta-biontic’, ‘meta-cellular’ units then constituted animal-society
and plant-‘‘‘community’’’ units; some of its animal-society / plant-‘‘‘community’’’ units, catalyzed and
led by some of their proto-human[oid]-animal
society units,
constituted ‘meta-societies’; human societies then... .
We have depicted the above ‘diachronico-synchronic
meta-fractal universe’ via the
following legend diagram, and ‘natural-historical progression’ ‘‘‘cutaway’’’
diagram:
[Note: Both
the narrative and diagrammatical accounts, as given above, of the ‘diachronico-synchronic
meta-fractality’
of the total cosmos,
and of the nested,
self-iterated, ‘auto-«aufheben»
self-construction’ of the
cosmos as a whole, all exclude any explicit mention of the ‘allo-«aufheben»’, ‘ontological hybridization’
processes, and of the resulting hybrid ontological products, as such, that are included explicitly in the ‘epochal cumula’ [in the
‘‘‘unaddable’’’ [cf. Plato], ‘non-amalgamative sums’ of ontological category units/terms, for each
epoch, tau], the ‘self-expanding cumula’ that are generated progressively, as
the cosmological epoch parameter, tau,
advances in value, by Encyclopedia
Dialectica’s ‘Dialectical Theory of Everything Equation’, Seldon Function ‘Meta-Models’ of the ‘meta-dynamical meta-evolution’ of this ‘diachronico-synchronic
meta-fractal universe’].
With the help of the perspective granted by the
narrative rendition of the ‘diachronico-synchronic meta-fractal universe’ earlier above,
and by the two diagrams immediately above, we can now summarize the three
distinct ways in which the total cosmos constitutes a ‘meta-fractal content-structure’ --
1. Synchronically, when
the momentaneous present of the ‘physical space’ of the local universe
is imagined as a “vertical” cross-section or slice -- “perpendicular” to the
“horizontal longitude” of natural-historical time, cut through the present «aufheben»-‘hailstone’ content-structure of
Terran human society.
2. Diachronically, when the “horizontal”
dimension of natural-historical time, “perpendicular” to the “vertical”
dimension of the momentaneous present of ‘physical space’, is imagined as a
natural-historical progression of rising but mutually-similar scales of
increasing «aufheben»-inclusion
of the units
of the previous, already-inclusive units.
3. Diachronico- Synchronically, when
both the scaled physical units-inclusiveness, and the mutual similarity,
among the various “layers” or “scales” within the latest-to-arise units of the ‘cosmos-hailstone’,
are considered. They should be
considered together with the ‘temporal tail’ of that ‘‘‘latest-arrival’’’, or
‘latest-arisal’ -- the ‘temporal trail’
of past units-kinds, less inclusive than it is, and formerly
outside of it, that led up to it. That ‘‘‘latest-arrival’’’, or
‘latest-arisal’, should also be considered together with the continued present
co-existence, with it, but outside of it, of representatives of those
earlier-arisen kinds of units,
kinds which are now also found ‘scaledly’-included inside
it. Thus, this perspective is double-«aufheben». It is so, in the first instance, because each
‘meta-meristemal’ kind-of-being unit, or newest ‘‘‘ontological category’’’ unit, of each epoch,
exhibits, in[side]-itself, the most recent, as well as all of the previous, ‘«aufheben»-inclusioned’ units. It is so, in
the second instance, because each progressing natural-historical epoch exhibits
not only its own, ‘meta-meristemal’ ontological increment of units, together with units inhering in all
previous ‘self-hybrid’ units-kinds ‘«aufheben»-contained’ inside
of it, but also with representatives of even all previously-emerged
‘self-hybrid’ ontological increments of units, outside of it,
and contemporaneous with it -- contemporaneous with the most advanced,
‘meta-meristemal’ kind of «monads»,
or kind of units,
of the epoch in question.
SUMMARY:
Our Cosmos
is a ‘diachronico-synchronic’ TRIPLE ‘Meta-Fractal’ of «Aufheben», Dialectical Self-Organization and Self-Formation.
Ever after the «arché» itself, every successive such
‘self-formation’ -- including the presently most «aufheben»-advanced ‘‘‘natural
formation’’’, or «arithmos»-formation
of nature -- already
itself a ‘synchronic meta-fractal’,
always has two [‘meta-fractal’]
‘‘‘tails’’’. It has a diachronic, historical-dialectical [‘meta-fractal’] ‘‘‘tail’’’, which is
also a history,
a story, a [‘meta-fractal’] “tale”. It has also a synchronic [‘meta-fractal’] ‘‘‘tail’’’ [one which
can also be “told”,
as a systematic-dialectical
“tale” -- as
a systematic
rendition, or ‘micro-historical’, ‘micro-temporal’, time-taking systematic-dialectical
presentation
of the ‘content-structure’ of the present epoch of the cosmos-eventity].
Our present
present, in which ‘humans-led meta-societies’ are the most ‘«aufheben»-advanced’, most ‘metamonadically advanced’ «monads», units, or “logical individuals” known to us, presents also this double-«aufheben» aspect, of predecessor «monads» as both internal
[‘meta-fractal’]
‘in-tail-ment’, and
as external [‘meta-fractal’]
‘‘‘tail’’’.
Present-‘Internal[ized] Tail’,
‘In-Tail-ment’, ‘Tail In-ment’,
or ‘Tail Internalization’. Internally,
the present-to-us, humans-dominated global ‘meta-society’ unit which ‘«aufheben»-contains’ us, also ‘«aufheben»-contains’, overall, ‘mutually-domesticated’
and ‘self-domesticated’ animal societies and plant ‘kind-communities’, which, in turn, ‘«aufheben»-contain’ ‘multi-eukaryotic-cellular’
meta-zoan and meta-phytan ‘meta-biota’, which, in turn, ‘«aufheben»-contain’ eukaryotic
cells, which, in turn, ‘«aufheben»-contain’ ‘pre-eukaryotic’,
“prokaryotic” cells, in the form of mitochondrial and
‘chloroplastial’ organelles, which, in turn, ‘«aufheben»-contain’
molecules, which, in turn, ‘«aufheben»-contain’
atoms, which, in turn, ‘«aufheben»-contain’
pre-atomic/sub-atomic “particles”, some of which, in turn, ‘«aufheben»-contain’ the «arché» -- pre-nuclear/sub-nuclear
“particles”.
Present-External
‘‘‘Tail’’’. Synchronically-existing, presently-existing also,
but externally to this presently most ‘«aufheben»-advanced’ ‘‘‘natural formation’’’ of Terran human
society, or of ‘meta-society’, are other ‘‘‘natural formations’’’, of ‘«aufheben»-organization’ advanced only to the level of
‘proto-language-based
animal
societies’ -- e.g., wild primates, wild wolves, wild horses, wild meerkats,
dolphins, whales, bees, termites, ants -- and plant ‘kind-communities’ -- wild rices, wild wheats, wild
corns, wild mushrooms, wild maple trees -- which also internally
‘«aufheben»-contain’ representatives of all of their
predecessor ‘self-hybrid’ kinds of ‘‘‘natural formations’’’, plus still other ‘‘‘natural
formations’’’, of ‘«aufheben»-organization’ advanced only to the level of asocial meta-zoan and meta-phytan
‘multi-eukaryotic-cellular meta-biota’ -- e.g., grizzly
bears, koalas, cougars, tigers, skunks, badgers, opossums, rhinoceroses, boa
constrictors, giant anteaters, gopher tortoises, common frogs, sea cucumbers,
most spiders, etc. -- and ‘solitary plants’, which also internally
‘«aufheben»-contain’ representatives of all of their
predecessor ‘self-hybrid’ kinds of ‘‘‘natural formations’’’, plus still other ‘‘‘natural
formations’’’, of ‘«aufheben»-organization’ advanced only to the level of
“free-living” ‘single-cellular’ eukaryotic cells -- e.g., fungi,
amoeba, foraminifera, radiolaria, green algae, slime molds -- which also internally
‘«aufheben»-contain’ representatives of all of their
predecessor ‘self-hybrid’ kinds of ‘‘‘natural formations’’’, plus still other ‘‘‘natural
formations’’’, of ‘«aufheben»-organization’ advanced only to the level of “free-living”
‘single-cellular’ “prokaryotic” cells, or ‘pre-eukaryotic
cells’ -- e.g., archaea and bacteria, including plankton, extremophiles,
lithotrophs, etc. -- which also internally ‘«aufheben»-contain’ representatives of all of their
predecessor ‘self-hybrid’ kinds of ‘‘‘natural formations’’’, plus still other ‘‘‘natural
formations’’’, of ‘«aufheben»-organization’ advanced only to the level of “molecules”
-- e.g., poly-nucleotide nucleo-protein polymers, poly-peptide protein
polymers, poly-saccharide polymer carbohydrates/sugars [e.g., glycogen,
cellulose, chitin], nucleotide monomers, amino acid monomers, monosaccharide
monomers, benzene, methane, carbon dioxide, water, cyanide, etc. -- which also internally
‘«aufheben»-contain’ representatives of all of their
predecessor ‘self-hybrid’ kinds of ‘‘‘natural formations’’’, plus still other ‘‘‘natural
formations’’’, of ‘«aufheben»-organization’ advanced only to the level of
unassimilated, ‘‘‘elemental’’’ “atoms” -- e.g., Hydrogen,
Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, etc. -- which also internally ‘«aufheben»-contain’ representatives of all of their
predecessor ‘self-hybrid’ kinds of ‘‘‘natural formations’’’, plus still other ‘‘‘natural
formations’’’, of ‘«aufheben»-organization’ advanced only to the level of ‘sub-atomic/pre-atomic’
“particles” -- e.g., protons -- which also internally ‘«aufheben»-contain’ representatives of all of their
predecessor ‘self-hybrid’ kinds of ‘‘‘natural formations’’’, plus still other ‘‘‘natural
formations’’’, of ‘sub-nuclear/pre-nuclear’ “particles”, also
still present, e.g., including the freely-propagating photons of the
cosmological microwave background radiation, the thermal radiation that fills
the observable cosmos
“almost uniformly”, as well as freely-propagating neutrinos, electrons, and
positrons -- in general, quarks/non-Hadronic fermions, gluons and other
non-Hadronic bosons, and leptons -- which constitute the «arché» of the ‘archéonic consecuum’ of our cosmos per our ‘dialectical meta-model’
thereof.
Past-External
‘‘‘Tail’’’; The Tale-‘‘‘Tail’’’. Diachronically, Historically, in the past of our present, the
«arché»-«arithmos», or originating
ontological category/population, of ‘sub-nuclear/pre-nuclear’
“particles”, became that plus
the second «arithmos», of ‘sub-atomic/pre-atomic’
“particles”, which all became all that plus
the third «arithmos», of “atoms”,
which all became all that plus
the fourth «arithmos»,
which all became all that plus
the fifth «arithmos»,
of “prokaryotic cells”, or ‘pre-eukaryotic
cells’, which all became all that plus
the sixth «arithmos»,
of “eukaryotic cells”, which all became all that plus the seventh «arithmos»,
of asocial meta-zoan
and meta-phytan ‘multi-eukaryotic-cellular meta-biota’,
which all became all that plus
the eighth «arithmos»,
of ‘proto-language-based
animal
societies’, and plant
‘kind-communities’, which, locally, within planet Terra, all became all that plus the ninth «arithmos»,
of ‘proto-human-animal-societies-led, other-animal-societies-internalizing,
plant ‘kind-communities’-internalizing ‘meta-societies’, which....
Links to Definitions of [Other] F.E.D. Special
Terms Used in the Narrative Above --
animal societies
«arché»
«arithmoi»
«arithmos eidetikos»
atoms
bion / biota
diachronic
dialectic-in-general
dialectic of the dialectic itself
dynamics versus ‘‘‘meta-dynamics’’’
‘‘‘eventity’’’
‘‘‘evolute’’’
evolution versus ‘‘‘meta-evolution’’’
genus, «genos»
«monad»
ontology
species, «species»
synchronic
temporal acceleration
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