Part 1.: Leslie A. White on
«Aufheben» ‘Meta-Monad-ization’ Dialectics
[but using different
nomenclature].
Dear Reader,
In his celebrated 1959 book entitled The Evolution
of Culture: The Development
of Civilization to the Fall of Rome, Leslie A. White spells out a
universal principle -- not just a human-social developmental principle -- of
[meta-]evolution, and of ‘ontology-expansion’, which is essentially the same as
the universal principle that is key to the interpretation and solution of so
many of the applied dialectical ‘meta-equations’ formulated via the Seldonian
‘First Arithmetic For Dialectics’, and via its dialectical algebra, per the
Seldonian ‘Algorithmic-Heuristic Universal Dialectical Method’.
The Seldonian term for this principle of ‘meta-evolution’ is
‘«Aufheben» Meta-Monad-ization Dialectic.’
Leslie A White addresses this universal principle using a
nomenclature of “systems” and their “segments”, viz. [pp. 146-147] --
“. . . any given system based upon the integration of
segments cannot be increased in size beyond a certain point. But, and here we come to a most important
point, systems can be formed by integrating these original maximum-sized
systems into a still larger system in which the original [F.E.D. -- more generally: earlier] systems become segments.”
“... A galaxy has a limit of maximum size, but galaxies
themselves become [F.E.D.
-- better: already are] segments
of a supergalactic system.”
“Thus we note two important principles:
(1) on a given level, the number of units that can be
integrated into a segment is limited, and therefore the size of systems on this
level cannot be increased beyond a certain point;
but (2) systems on one level may be integrated as
segments of a larger system on a higher level.”
“In this way the process of evolution may proceed
indefinitely by organizing the systems of one level into larger systems on a
higher level [F.E.D. -- Not, in historical
dialectics, by “populating” any pre-existing “higher
level”, but, on the contrary, by creating that “higher level” itself, for the
very first time, in the very process of populating it.].”
NB: Several
subsequent blog entries here are planned, to follow White’s presentation into
some of the basic examples of this universal process that he cites in his book.
FYI: Much of the work
of Karl Seldon, and of his collaborators, including work by “yours truly”, is
available for your
free-of-charge download via --
Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica
[F.E.D.],
Officer, F.E.D.
Office of Public Liaison
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