Eliciting Meaning of Universal Significance <\/i><\/p>\n
What is valued as meaningful in states, such as those configured within the the United States or the United Nations? How is meaning experienced in the case of other “states” as presented in examples above. A state of health? A civil or social status? The state of the environment? With respect to what universe is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/i><\/a> to be considered meaningful?<\/p>\n Data, information and knowledge may well serve as carriers of meaning in some respects, but how is meaning to be understood as independent of them — or as more subtly related to them? What is to be said to those who question whether data\/information\/knowledge is inherently meaningful?<\/p>\n As argued in previous exercises, there is a case for benefitting from the subtle complexities of the thinking considered necessary by astrophysicists and cosmologists to a fundamental understanding of the universe (Towards an Astrophysics of the Knowledge Universe: from astronautics to noonautics?<\/i><\/a> 2006). They do indeed rely very extensively on data and information in order to engender knowledge about the universe, however hypothetical that may be, whether now or in the eyes of the future. These explorations are naturally held to be meaningful by those involved and are appreciated for that reason.<\/p>\n The meaning arising from such explorations can however be usefully considered as experientially independent. It is not definable within the terms of the data\/information\/knowledge complex<\/b>. Its very nature may elude definition. It is not a factor in equations valued by science. It might be better understood as intimately related to a distinct complex — perhaps one of comprehension\/communicability\/credibility<\/b> and the collective confidence which that may engender and sustain.<\/p>\n How is the process of eliciting meaning then to be understood? Through what metaphors might this process be comprehended — recognizing the paradox that meaning is intimately associated with that very process of comprehension? How might this contrast with what is held to be meaningful in “growth” and “development”?<\/p>\n Introduction<\/a>
\nEliciting meaning of universal significance<\/a>
\nResolving vs. Developing<\/a>
\nEliciting meaningful identity: resolution vs. resolving<\/a>
\nSolve et coagulo: neither changing nor resolving?<\/a>
\nPop concert of democracies as a vehicle for meaning?<\/a>
\nDynamic transformation of static reporting of global processess <\/a>
\nState sovereignty in a meaningful universe?<\/a>
\nSymbolic connotations of sovereignty in a meaningful process<\/a>
\nIllicit\u00a0 meaning and “illiciting meaning”?<\/a>
\nMnemonic clues to configuration and containment of meaningful identity<\/a>
\nSustaining a universe of meaning within a questioning process<\/a>
\nEliciting a universe of meaning from nothing through alchemical processes<\/a>
\nGeometry of meaning: an alchemical Rosetta Stone?<\/a>
\nReferences<\/a><\/p>\n