Comprehension of the Sustainability of Elusive Fourfold Dynamics

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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service

Unexplored Psychosocial Insights Embodied in the Heart, Gait and Dance

Introduction

14 Dec 2025 – There is the very curious possibility that considerable insight of relevance to strategic engagement with the ever increasing challenges of civilization could be recognized as literally “under the nose” of everyone and familiar to all — although framed otherwise as irrelevant, especially by those for whom they are a preoccupation. In what follows they are explored as the embodiment of knowledge regarding the dynamics of fourfoldness.

The relevance of a fourfold pattern to strategic challenges has been variously explored (Variety of fourfold cognitive modalities? 2023; Reframing binary governance as minimally a fourfold challenge? 2020; Fourfold generic visual pattern of psychosocial dynamics, 2013; Four Complementary Languages Required for Global Governance, 1998; Threshold of Comprehensibility: a fourfold minimal system? 1983; Fourfold principle of uncertainty in governance, 1988; Noonautics: four modes of travelling and navigating the knowledge universe?, 2006). That exploration extends to 4-dimensionality (Four-dimensional requisite for a time-bound global civilization? 2015).

The following is a development of the argument presenting a visualization of 4-fold dynamics in 3D (The Secret Pathway between Configurations of Otherness? 2025). The initial focus is however on the dynamics of the heart fundamental to human life — but whose continuous operation remains a mystery to most, despite very extensive cardiovascular research since the heart is the leading cause of death globally. This is primarily due to cardiovascular diseases, with common specific causes including coronary heart disease leading to heart attacks, and stroke, driven by risk factors like high blood pressure, smoking, poor diet, inactivity, diabetes, and high cholesterol. It can be asked whether these diseases are echoed systemically in some way by those of the planet — and with the challenge of responding to them (Cognitive Implications of Lifestyle Diseases of Rich and Poor, 2010)

In the quest for more familiar framings of 4-fold dynamics, a focus is then given to the gait basic to styles of human locomotion, and then to dance as a typical celebration of life. These can be readily recognized as embodied knowledge (Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Primacy of Movement, 2011; Mark Johnson, Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: how our bodies give rise to understanding, 2017). Metaphorically and provocatively it could be argued that any initiation of “Armageddon” will be collectively “heartfelt” (Spontaneous Initiation of Armageddon — a heartfelt response to systemic negligence, 2004).

As with the preceding argument, extensive experimental use is made of AI in articulating and interweaving the threads of the exploration — in this case ChatGPT-5, Claude-4.5 and Perplexity. Their responses are “hidden” unless selected by readers. The AIs were notably challenged to speculate on the future of fourfold dynamics as it might feature in the anticipated AGI. Such speculation is of relevance in that AI is currently based on a 16-fold pattern of logical connectives — an extension of the Eastern 4-fold Catuskoti — only too evident in the current controversial global policy framings beyond “right” or “wrong”, now highlighting “both/and” and “neither/nor”. The question is whether analogous 16-fold sets apply to all four basic cognitive modalities: thinking, feeling, intuition and sensation (Pathways in Governance between Logic, Emotion, Spirituality and Action, 2024).

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