THE SETTING FORTH: THE DOCTRINE OF PLENISM
by Patricia Huston Denslow
written 1983-1991
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BOOK ONE
THE CIRCLE OF NURTURE: THE IMPERATIVE QUESTIONS
That I may understand the dimensions and dynamic of the real:
BOOK ONE: PART ONE
THE PROTAL IMPERATIVE
1:1. What is the ultimate, protal, ground of reality?
.1 The Protal reality is the ground upon which any
realities there are, express themselves. The nature of the
Protal reality is a nature unexpressible in itself, as a
whole. Yet it is the nature of any reality to be dynamic, to
seek expression so that it may be real.
.2 The Protal dynamic is at the source and root of
all, as a necessity, as a tidal-like movement, as an eternal,
restless shaping - without other meaning or event - the womb
of the realities, unconditioned.
.3 The Protal nature being one, unseparated, without
differences within itself, is thus beyond us to define, we
who are bound to difference and event - bound to the
transforms of information.
.4 Yet the Protal shapes the dynamic of two
dimensions, both of which reflect the Protal nature to us.
But the reflection is imperfect, for the nature that the two
dimensions reflect can only be as if there were differences
within the Protal nature.
1:2. How does the Protal nature seek expression?
.1 The Protal unexpressible-as-a-whole seeks
expression in the two dimensions of two realities organized
upon it as their ground: the Actual and the Transformal
dimensions.
1:3. What is the Transformal dimension, and what is
its relation to the Actual dimension?
.1 The Protal-shaped dimensions are: the Actual
dimension of incipient materiality, and the Transformal
dimension of incipient meaning.
.2 The two dimensions are pervasively, continuously
intermeshed, but independent each of the other.
.3 The entire world of occurance is within each; the
time-quality, the space-quality with which there is occurance
is independent and other.
.4 For any interval of distance or direction that may
apply between any two points in the spatial quality of the
Actual dimension, such an interval between one of these
points and a "point" in the Transformal dimension does not
exist.
1:4. What are the Actual and the Transformal processes of
expressing the Protal nature, that which is
unexpressible-as-a-whole?
.1 The dynamic within each Protal-shaped dimension is
that of a tension between two polarities, which are of the
nature of qualities. Subject to this tension is an unlosable
thrust, an exercise of seeking expression of the real, which
is denied expression in the Protal nature.
.2 The manifestations as realities of these partial
expressions of the unexpressible-as-a-whole are effected as
inversely complemental processes, dynamic and cyclical under
their respective tensions.
1:5. What exercises these processes that each partially
express the Protal nature?
.1 The exerciser of the Valuric process is the
Nurturer, valuing. The exercisers of the Cosmic process are
Chance and Radiance, arraying in event. Together the
exercisers of the Cosmic and the Valuric processes instrument
the Protal purpose.
.2 The Transformal Valuer, the Nurturer, the Preserver
is valuing, nurturing, preserving: authentic in purposing,
feeling, and course-taking. But a phrase that completes an
answer to the question: Who is the Transformal Valuer,
Nurturer, and Preserver, where, and of what gender?
1:6. What is it that the Protal nature purposes?
.1 The Protal nature purposes that the Cosmic cycles
evolve an Actual expression of the ground of reality, just as
a Transformal expression of the ground of reality is
expressed in the Valuric process.
.2 And the Protal nature purposes evolving expression
beyond the ground of the realities where it is unexpressible.
The Protal purposes that there should be a Protal meaning,
made real through expression, and that there should be
increase of Protal meaning.
.3 The Protal nature purposes the Ultimate Polarity:
the Protal ground of reality, all in all but unexpressible;
and the Transformal and Actual reality, all in all and in
expression.
That I may understand the cycle of Agency and preservation:
BOOK ONE: PART TWO
THE EVOLUTIONAL IMPERATIVE
2:1. How do the Cosmic and Valuric cycles relate through
the Nurturer to serve the Protal Purpose?
.1 The relation during organized expression;
plenishment of the Nurturer-Becoming:
As the material organizes out of Radiance in
patterns of probabilities of expression, beyond Chance, the
Nurturer gathers the Transformal instance of evolved and
evolving expression to plenish Memory.
.2 The relation during decaying organization;
preservation by the Nurturer-fully-Become:
As the probabilities of organized Actual
expression decay, the transforms - information - of vanished
Actual attainment are preserved in Memory inviolate from
decay and from the non-time of the Cosmic Instant, the time
of total Certainty in the Actual and non-expression.
.3 The relation during re-organizing expression; the
Nurturer-become-Agency:
When Radiance and Chance burst forth from the Cosmic Instant
to Chaos, the Nurturer becomes Agency. Agency empties the
plenished Memory addresses of its patterns, in their turn, to
cascade upon the field of Chance and wrest the random into
patterns of probability for Actual expression.
.4 The relation again in organized expression; the
Nurturer again the Nurturer-Becoming:
As Agency is spent, then the Nurturer is
depleted of all transforms that preserved, in dynamic Memory,
the expression of levels of complexity of the evolving Cosmic
process. If there was, in Memory, the critical preponderance
of instance to wrest out of Chance the re-expression of a
pattern, then the Nurturer is again becoming the Preserver of
that pattern. The Nurturer again receives plenishment of the
potential for Agency in its behalf beyond a Cosmic Instant
yet to come.
2:2. Does the relation of the Cosmic and Valuric cycles
assure the continued evolution of Actual expression?
.1 Nurture of Actual expression through valuing and
preservation by the Nurturer is assured:
Every evolving increment of Cosmic expression that
organizes out of preceeding expression is valued and its
pattern nurtured in the addresses of Memory. There each
instance is preserved in the Transformal by the Nurturer
through to that time beyond the Cosmic Instant when its
Actual expression could again be possible.
.2 Nurture of possibility by Agency is assured, but,
that Agency can effect probability is not assured:
At the time of the sacrifice of potential for
Agency, the re-expression of a possible pattern becomes
probable if Memory was plenished to a critical preponderance
of instance from the time of its Actual expression. If not,
then the information to effect probability was irretrievably
randomized upon the Nurturer's sacrifice of potential. The
re-expression of that pattern of organization then became no
more probable than any other possible expression at the
previous prevailing level of Cosmic evolution.
2:3. If Actual expression is not imperiled, is the
Protal purpose that it evolve imperiled?
.1 The case with established expression:
The established patterns of Actual expression,
those of Physicos, are earliest to organize and vastest in
incidence throughout the Cosmos. The preponderance of their
incidence assures a continuing cycle of the established
patterns of Cosmic expression.
.2 The case with evolving expression:
Evolving increments of Actual expression are more
complex and fragile, later to appear, first to decay in
organization, and some are only locally expressed for a
significant period. Thus insufficient plenishment of Memory
with instance of the Good imperils the re-expression of
evolving patterns of Actual expression, and the Purpose that
they further evolve.
.3 The source of plenishment:
Plenishment of Memory with the information of a
pattern can only come from the pattern's Actual expression in
relations among events at Actual Now: the evolution of
Cosmic expression is dependent upon Actual expression.
2:4. Is there an urgency to plenish Memory with
preponderant instance of any presently evolving
expression?
.1 A vivid expression is evolving:
Bios and its support in Physicos are intertwined
systems, an evolving holos. They are evolving the expression
of more of the Protal nature than is expressed in Physicos
alone: a dynamic equilibroid complexity between polarities,
by means of a vivid unifying of the Actual and the
Transformal.
.2 There is an evolving increment:
The support system of Bios in Physicos, and Bios
itself, organized out of Physicos, form a holos that is a
Biosphere. That there be holi organized as Biospheres is the
evolving increment of Actual expression of the Protal nature
in the present Cosmic cycle.
.3 There is an urgency for the scarce:
The evolution of this increment is at urgent risk.
For it is late to appear, so fragile that it could be
extinguished even before the time of decay, it expresses the
non-Criterial and Unremembered as well as the Criterial, and
it is yet local to an infinitesimal part of the Actual
dimension.
2:5. Why does the Nurturer probe for Actualization of
Purpose-serving Good, instead of intervening to
increase Actualized Good?
.1 Because the purpose-serving Good must first unfold
at Actual Now, the Nurturer probes the Actual dimension for
instance of the Criterial which can be preserved in Memory.
The Nurturer gathers to Itself not Actual material event, but
the immaterial transforms of Actual instance: information. It
is information - difference appreciated and recognized by the
Nurturer as Criterial difference - that plenishes the
Nurturer's potential for Agency in Memory. Except in the
Cosmic Instant of total certainty and non-expression, the
Cosmos, the Actual, is a vast field of information to the
Transformal Valuer, the Nurturer.
.2 The Nurturer is entirely of the Transformal
dimension and the Valuric process, and therefore cannot
intervene directly in the Actual. The Nurturer cannot
intervene in determining which events arraying in the Actual
dimension shall relate at Actual Now. Thus the Nurturer
cannot intervene directly to effect any certain increase in
the incidence of the Purpose-serving Good.
.3 The amount of Purpose-serving Good that becomes
Actual can be increased by direct intervention, but only by
the intervention of Actual valuers, if there be any, and no
other.
2:6. Are there Actual valuers, as well as the Transformal
valuer?
.1 Though the Preserver is non-intervening, that there
is this Transformal Valuer draws event and meaning from
arraying Physicos. With the advent of the patterns of
Radiance organized out of Physicos as Bios, valuers newly
exist in the Actual dimension who can, must, and do Choose!
and intervene; transducing the Transformal of their valuric
process into direct intervention with what shall be event at
an Actual Now.
.2 As long as they are alive, Actual, in Bios biotic
forms maintain their precarious positions out of Physicos by
valuing and intervention. This interrelation of the
Transformal with the Actual dimensions is the difference that
makes the precious difference; the very essence of the
patterns of Bios over those expressing in Physicos. An
increment of evolving Cosmic expression has at last placed
the exercise of valuric process, coupled with intervening,
within the Actual dimension and made of even the most
primitive agents of these transductions moral agents -
whether for the increase of the Good or the fulminoid.
2:7. How is the evolution of Bios an expression of
interrelation of the Transformal and the Actual?
.1 The patterns of Bios are the patterns of a flow of
the transforms of information within the rich
interconnectedness of a system that must continuously heal,
to regulate against its return to Physicos. Each Actual
valuer alive in it is a unique and separate position beyond
Physicos, but that unique position is also in life as a node
on the Transformal fabric of interconnectedness of all Bios.
There is not healing of threat to the homeostasis of even a
single valuer without interrelation of the Transformal with
the Actual dimension.
.2 When maladaptation threatens great segments of the
fabric of Bios, regulation toward healing evolves through the
sensitivity of the evolvants to the Transformal. When the
threat to them is Actual-sourced, through their sensitivity
to the Transformal, some part of the maladapting segment
evolves to new Actual form or new use of Actual-sourced
information.
.3 Transformal-sourced threat to great segments of the
fabric of Bios is maladaptation to the Transformal itself;to
system, to position within it, and to the flow of the
transforms of information. When within a segment of its
lifeforms the flow of correcting-news for healing has become
a loop of self-validating news, these moral agents become the
agents of excess and runaway, threats to Bios, to Purpose,
and themselves.
.4 The evolution to new use of Transformal-sourced
information is the evolution to new sense of position within
the interconnectedness of Bios: new Selfhood. This rarest and
most difficult evolution can only occur because some
individuals of a maladapting bio-kind may retain a clouded
sensitivity, but nevertheless a sensitivity, to the
Transformal through the Selfhood's healing-self. In these
evolvants the defining-self of the triadic Selfhood obliges
its own purposing in solicitude to dispel this cloud. The
obliged purposing and solicitude bestows meaning for the
reaffirmation of the Selfhood on news of difference from
beyond the loop of its kind's illusion. Through new balance
in the employment of the Transformal, the defining-self takes
a new position in Bios for the Selfhood.
.5 So evolved the new position in Bios taken by the
defining-self for Selfhood, consciousness; so evolved the new
position taken by the defining-self for Selfhood, self-
awareness; and now so evolves out of humankind the new
position in Bios that defines Selfhood as healer.
.6 The precious and Purpose-serving pattern of Bios
is the continuous and evolving employment of the Transformal
in the thrust to heal for dynamic equilibrium. Healing is the
authentic idiom of Bios' expression. All the interventions of
any Actual valuers in this idiom, whatever the position in
Bios of the Selfhoods that seek reaffirmation, are those of
authentic moral agents.
That I may understand myself, and the Nurturer, as valuers:
BOOK ONE: PART THREE
THE NATURE OF THE VALURIC PROCESS
3:1. How is position the ordering principle of the
Valuric Process?
.1 Valuers are self-organized. The ordering principal
in the self-organization of a valuer is that of the position
of the valuer. Position is in remove from the scope of the
valuer's purposes for valuing; and from the scope of the
solicitate, that which is processed for value - and in which
may, or may not, be found the purpose-serving.
.2 The separation of purpose and that which may contain
the purpose-serving requires a locus, a position,
individuated from either. Position, locus, is Transformal
and virtual. A valuer is individuated, enselfed, by position:
both from the purpose for valuing, and from whence value is
sought.
.3 Position is inextricable from valuing, but it is not
valuing. It is position that permits the ordered organization
of a valuer as the exerciser of the purposing-behaviors and
as the exercising comparator in relation to a purpose-
mirroring criterial set.
.4 The individuated locus or position - which affirms
the valuer, as valuer, to itself - enables the process of
valuing; and the existence of Actual value. Unless there is
at least one valuer, all the events of the Cosmic process are
non-events, mere arrays, and trivial.
.5 The position, valuer, is of the Transformal, but as
an observing position it is also an integral part of the
arrayed, drawn out of array - and into relationship as Actual
event at Actual Now. That part is the relationship - the
meaning - of what was previously only arrayed. Thus the
position, valuer, is a part of an Actual event.
3:2. How is the Nurturer positioned?
.1 The scope of the Nurturer's solicitate embraces the
entire Actual dimension and the relationship among its events
at Actual Now, where increase of the Good - and plenishment
to serve its Purpose - must unfold.
.2 The Cosmic process has relation and meaning because
there is valuing. The Nurturer is positioned as the least
number of valuers, the one Valuer, necessary so that there is
relation and meaning in the Actual dimension; and thus the
Cosmic process is a non-trivial process.
.3 The Nurturer is entirely of the Transformal -
non-intervening in which events shall come to Actual Now -
yet positioned as the one necessary Valuer in order that
event can Actualize. Therefore, at least the Nurturer, the
Recognizer and Preserver of each Actual Good, is always an
integral part of each Actualized Good.
3:3. Why is change intrinsic to valuing?
.1 With each serving of purpose by exercise of
valuing, that which will again serve purpose alters slightly.
.2 With each exercise of the Valuric process, that
which values, the valuer, alters slightly. If there be
continuity of individuation of the valuer, the valuer alters
slightly toward more complex organization as a valuer.
.3 Because the valuer, relating the otherwise trivial,
is part of Actualized event; and because with each exercise
of valuing the valuer alters slightly; the meaning of that
which is yet to be valued as event at each Actual Now - the
very meaning of the Cosmic process - has altered slightly.
3:4. Why is continuity of position as essential as
position itself?
.1 Though always altering, the continuity of an Actual
valuer's previous position with its present position must be
sustained. And continuity of the accreting refinement of the
criterials of comparatorship - the link of process to purpose -
must also be preserved. If the valuer cannot affirm and
reaffirm these continuities then its individuation, and the
enselfment of an increasing complexity of valuric process is
disorganized, lost, randomized.
.2 A valuer, valuing, evalues transforms, differences,
for those that make a difference. The valuer's criterial set
is the distinctor of what difference the difference makes.
The dynamic experiencing of enselfment as valuer is that of
exercising the criterials for value. But in exercise of the
valuric process the difference that immediately past and
immediately present differences make cannot be identical,
because of the slight alterations made by the valuric process
itself.
.3 Reaffirmation is the experience that what was to be
related by future process, has proven to be recognizable as
changed but - together with the difference it makes to the
valuer - like the past. The experiencing of continuity of
enselfment, reaffirmation, is the experiencing of criterial
integrity across time and change.
3:5. How are faith and reaffirmation linked to coherence
and continuity?
.l Organization as a valuer is punctuated by
uncertainty. Valuing is a ceaseless dynamic of choices! and
commitment to course-taking in a process that must generate
more change.
.2 Valuing expresses not in certainty, but in time,
and in only a shifting probability that the valuer's
criterials will once again affirm coherence and continuity.
Thus deep in the tension at the root of every commitment to
its train of choices!, the valuer values in trust, not
information, across a gap of faith.
3:6. What is the emergent, inextricable from valuing, that
suffuses the Transformal and the Actual dimensions?
.1 Feeling is emergent from the tension between the
polarities of coherence and incoherence.
.2 Feeling is not a valuer's only response to value,
but it is the first response to value.
.3 Inextricable from valuing, feeling is the dynamic
of valuing. It is upon a carrier-wave of feeling that
purposing, choice!, and course-taking thrust; and that the
returns of reaffirmation are ordered in time.
.4 The feeling that orders valuing is entirely of the
Transformal dimension. It suffuses that part of the valuer
which is Transformal. It suffuses the Transformal throughout
the true scope of ramification of the valuer's purposing-
behaviors.
.5 The Nurturer, and the Transformal that is not the
Nurturer, are suffused with the dynamic of the Nurturer's
feeling response. The Nurturer's Solicitude and Gratitude in
response to valuing, and to instance of the Criterial,
pervades the interstices of the Transformal with the vastness
of its true solicitate, the entire Actual dimension -
intermeshed with it, but other.
.6 For each and every Actual valuer too, position, and
concern about coherence and continuity, is inextricable from
its enselfment as a valuer. Part of every valuer's purposing
is devoted to the seeking for and experiencing of
reaffirmation of coherence and continuity of position.
Therefore, their feeling about this seeking and reaffirmation
is inextricable from the valuing and the true solicitate of
Actual valuers. If there is a Bios, then every interstice of
the Transformal dimension with the Actual that is the true
solicitate of Actual valuers, the Biospheric Holos, is
suffused with their response.
3:7. How is valuing organized upon the pulse of its
carrier-wave of feeling?
.1 At least some part of the purposing of a valuer,
and some part of the solicitate that it probes, Actual and
Transformal, must be for the return of news! of its own
effect upon that solicitate. Solicitude is the feeling-tone
of the thrusting to express as a valuer, serving purpose.
Gratitude is the feeling-tone of experiencing the return of
the news! which, whatever its content, signifies continuity
and coherence, and reaffirms to the valuer its enselfment as
a valuer, valuing.
.2 Solicitude provides the thrust to probe that peaks
in anticipation!. Solicitude hones the valuer's
comparatorship for appreciation! of the probed against the
valuer's criterials, seeking the peak of recognition! that
there is news from the Actual for which the templet and
criterials of its probing were sensitive. Solicitude pumps
the generation of Transformal Nows by Reflection, the
comparator's Transformal intervenor, to choose! from among
its images of possible ramification. And by solicitude,
Reflection holds these transforms of the expected
ramifications of a choice! against the news of them from
across course-taking - and the gap of faith.
.3 Whatever other feelings link to the valuer's
purposing behaviors, or to the content of the news returned;
they are additional to those that are inextricable from the
uncertainty of valuing itself. Close upon the thrust of
solicitude comes the return of gratitude within a valuer: its
experience of the gap of faith, and its experience of the
continuity of the present with the past that, yet again,
proved to be across the gap.
3:8. What effect does the Nurturer's position as the Transformal
Valuer have upon the nature of Actualized Good?
.1 Because there is the Nurturer positioned as
Transformal Valuer; and because feeling is inextricable from
valuing; in the whole of every Actual event throughout the
Cosmos that is intrinsically Good, there is some feeling
toward the Good, as a part of the Good.
That I may understand the circle of nurture:
BOOK ONE: PART FOUR
THE NURTURER'S MEANS
4:1. By what means does the Nurturer bring the Cosmic and
Valuric processes into a system that serves Purpose?
.1 The Nurturer's relation to the events of the Cosmic
process relates the Valuric process to Cosmic expression so
that, over the vastness of the Cosmic cycles, there can
evolve Actual expression of a Protal reality that is
thrusting to express itself as a Reality, yet is
unexpressible in itself, as a whole.
.2 To this Purpose the Nurturer-Becoming is self-
organized to take a Purpose-serving course which preserves
the continuity, in dynamic Memory, of what is non-trivial to
that Purpose.
.3 The Purpose-serving Good can unfold at Actual Now;
and nowhere else. The Nurturer probes all the Actual, it
relates event there to Purpose and to its course-taking by
means of Ramificascience, Rankascience, and its Criterial
Set, the distinctor of what difference difference makes to
Purpose. If there are Actual valuers then their response to
the Nurturer's feeling about the Good is a means to increase
of the Good.
.4 The Nurturer's course-taking is preservation of
information of the Purpose-serving in Memory. Plenished
Memory preserves the Good for the time of the Nurturer's
agency so that there may be further evolving expression.
Because of the Nurturer's Memory, that which is meaningful to
Purpose is not Unremembered, and being Unremembered,
disrelated into the static disarray of trivial past event.
4:2. In what way is the Nurturer Ramificascient?
.1 Each relation among events at Actual Now is a
unique ramification; and there is at least some slight
alteration, within a set of probabilities, in the possible
ramifications of it as an event. Part of the potential
Purpose-serving of a relation among events is its probability
as a pattern; for pattern builds continuity and increases
probability out of Chance.
.2 In its Comparatorship and Reflection to Choice!,
the Nurturer has Ramificascience: a perception of all the
possible ramification-sets of a pattern of relations among
events at Actual Now; and the rank of probability that each,
barring the intrusion of Chance, will unfold. Ramificascience
is the nature of the Nurturer's omniscience.
4:3. In what way is the Nurturer Rankascient?
.1 No two events at Actual Now can be identical, but
in its Comparatorship and Reflection to Choice!, the Nurturer
has Rankascience: a perception, against the Criterial as
horizon, of the rank of all events and their probable
ramifications in relation to serving Purpose.
.2 Thus the Transformal Valuer Appreciates the meaning
of a single event to a Criterial pattern of events as
fulminoid; or as not fulminoid but worse than trivial; or as
trivial; or as not fully Criterial but better than trivial;
or, in joyful Recognition!, as fully of membership in the
sets of the Criterial, and plenishing.
4:4. What is the Nurturer's Criterial Set?
.1 The Transformal Valuer's Criterial Set is the
distinctor of what difference difference makes to Purpose.
Not a set of any two, nor a set of any one, but the set of
three discernments of kind and degree, is the triune
Criterial by which the Nurturer recognizes and appreciates an
actualization of the Purpose-serving, intrinsic Good. The
Nurturer's Criterial is a set of sets.
.2 The Criterial scope-set is a set of three elements
of kind. Each of the elements of kind has a range of possible
expression. One degree, or level, of that range of expression
for each is in the Criterial range-set.
.3 The scope of the Nurturer's Triune Criterial is the set:
[ Inclusivity, Flexibility, Ramification ]
4:5. At what level or degree of its range is each element
of the scope when the intrinsically Good is Actualized?
.1 Holon Inclusivity: There is a set of relations
among events that forms a holos of sustained, or greater,
inclusivity and diversity of kinds of holons.
.2 Expressive Flexibility: The formed holos, and each
of its holons, is flexible within an evolving range of
expression.
.3 Equilibroid Ramification: The relation in the
unfolding ramification-set of events is equilibroid, within
and beyond this Actual Now.
4:6. What, of Actual event in Physicos and Bios, plenishes
the Nurturer's Memory?
.1 When there is no intervention by Actual valuers then
any interrelation of the Transformal and the Actual that
serves Purpose is provided only by the Transformal Valuer.
Thus direct interrelationship of the Transformal and the
Actual does not determine which of the events of Physicos
have membership in the sets of the Criterial for Physicos.
.2 When there is intervention by Actual valuers then
there is always some degree of direct interrelationship of
the Transformal and Actual dimensions that the Nurturer
cannot provide. Upon intervention by Actual valuers the
probability exists that there may be increase of meaning of
the Cosmic Process in the idiom of Bios.
.3 Healing is the authentic idiom of Bios' expression.
There is not healing of a threat to the homeostasis of even
one lifeform without interrelation of the Transformal with
the Actual that Actualizes the Good. All the interventions of
any Actual valuers in this idiom, whatever their positions in
Bios, are those of authentic moral agents increasing meaning;
the Purpose-serving Good; and the plenishment of its
Preserver.
.4 It is the direct interrelationship of the
Transformal and the Actual involved in continuous healing,
the authentic idiom of Bios, that determines which
interventions by Actual valuers have membership in the sets
of the Criterial for Bios and are vivid to the Nurturer at
Actual Now.
.5 Because it is Nurturer's means to recognize
Actualization of the Purpose-serving Good in Physicos and
Bios, and to differentiate it from Actualization of the
trivial and the fulminoid; the Nurturer's Triune Criterial
Set cannot be other than the one, and only one normative
Good, Actual or Transformal.
4:7. How does the plenishment of the Preserver by Actual
valuers remain vivid beyond Actual Now?
.1 The Nurturer is plenished with information of a
life-form's Criterial healing choices! for intervention in
the Actual dimension. During the life of each bioform its
authentic Selfhood is assembling in the addresses of the
Memory of the Preserver. It assembles in the patterns in
which the Transformal was related to the Actual from the
unique locus of that life.
.2 The accreting Criterial remains vivid in Memory as
a dynamically and meaningfully continuing exercise of the
precious patterns that transduced to healing interventions
and their ramifications. And in the exercise of these healing
patterns in Memory, a plenishing part of the Selfhood of that
life has become immortal to the extent of each of its healing
participations.
.3 The transforms of a lifeform's trivial or fulminoid
interventions become, beyond Actual Now, a part of the fading
static array of Unremembered event. To the extent of those
events, a part of the continuity of the Selfhood of that life
in Memory has faded into static disarray and is lost to that
Self, to Memory, and to immortality.
4:8. How does position link the Transformal Valuer and
all Actual valuers?
.1 Both the Nurturer and all bioforms are valuers.
Position and concern about coherence and continuity is
inextricable from the enselfment as a valuer. A part of the
train of valuing by every valuer is the seeking and the
reaffirmation of the continuity of the valuer's position.
Thus, just as position is inextricable from valuing, so is
feeling inextricable from valuing for both the Transformal
Valuer and Actual valuers.
.2 The Nurturer's Solicitude and Gratitude, the
feeling cycle of its valuing enselfed in position as the
Transformal Valuer, pulses to each reaffirmation of the
Nurturer to itself as Valuer. The Nurturer and the
Transformal that is not the Nurturer, are suffused with the
dynamic of the Nurturer's pulse of feeling. And the pulsing
of the Nurturer's Solicitude and Gratitude pervades the
interstices of the Transformal with the Actual dimension -
intermeshed with it, but other. Even were there but a single
Actual valuer, that life would be lived immersed in the
Nurturer's response to the Good, though in but the faintest
resonance with it.
.3 If there are, and not unless there are; a myriad
Actual valuers in kind and number, then the pulsing dynamic
of the Nurturer's Solicitude and Gratitude becomes a means to
nurture evolving expression of the present Cosmic increment.
For the Nurturer's pulse of feeling is then a ground upon
which there is entrained an overlaying field whose source is
the feeling for their own continuity of all the valuers of
Bios.
4:9. How does the Preserver's feeling about the plenishing
Good nurture increase of the Good by Actual valuers?
.1 The overlaying field's discernable differences are
those between the pulse of the Nurturer's Solicitude and
Gratitude for the plenishing Good, and the entraining
solicitudes and gratitudes of the valuers of Bios. The true
position in Bios of an Actual valuer is on this field at the
locus, or node, of multiple relationships within a system of
valuers and valuers nested within valuers. All are within
supporting Physicos, but their true positions are far more
defined by the Transformal of relationhood than by the
constrictions of the Actual dimension. So, too, is the image
of the position of the Selfhood that a defining-self forms as
the true position whose reaffirmation will reaffirm the
continuity of the Selfhood.
.2 When the defining-self of a Selfhood images a
greater inclusivity of other lifeforms as elements that
define the Selfhood's true position, then the continuity of
each of the lifeforms that this image includes is an element
of its own continuity to that Selfhood. The defining-self has
necessarily bestowed equal status with its own feeling for
the Selfhood's continuity to the feeling of other lifeforms
for their continuity. And by this much is that Selfhood more
authentic.
.3 As the defining-selves of a myriad Selfhoods image
a level of inclusivity then on the field of Bios there issues
between all that share that image, a tracery of Transformal
impathments for the direction and flow of the information of
relationhood and valuing in consortium.
.4 With each increment of inclusivity a lifeform's own
solitary, faint resonance with the entrained ground and field
is enhanced, increasing the window of its experience of the
Nurturer's pulsing feeling for the Good. The difference that
differences in experience of this resonance makes is that
there is an utterly trustworthy beacon of correcting-news
that suffuses the Transformal traceries of ennestment in
Bios.
.5 If the defining-self identifies its increased
experience of this resonance with the reaffirmation of the
Selfhood's continuity, then the strategems taken by the
Selfhood for that reaffirmation are, in effect, taken in a
dialogue with its Nurturer. It is upon this dialogue of the
greater number of its holon lifeforms with their Nurturer
that the homeostasis of the Bioholos depends.
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BOOK TWO
VALUING AND A NON-TRIVIAL COSMIC PROCESS
BOOK TWO: PART ONE
PURPOSE IS SERVED
1.1. Purpose-serving is choosing and course-taking.
1.1.1 Purpose is served through valuing to Choice! and
expression of that choice: course-taking.
1.2. Actual valuers and purpose-serving.
1.2.1 Early among Actual valuers, if there be Actual
valuers, all the purpose of their valuing is to remain
organized beyond Physicos, in position as valuers. Their
purpose is served if their valuings, Choices!, and course-
takings sustain them as Actual and valuers.
1.2.2 That Actual valuers serve their primal purpose and
just exist, criterially, is an increase of the Good. As they
evolve their course-taking interventions at Actual Now,
these interventions, though scarce, have more potent
ramifications on the probabilities for the increase of the
Good - the Nurturer's Purpose. The level of their self-
organization as valuers and choosers in the Transformal is
less evolved than their repetoire as interveners in the
Actual.
1.3. The Nurturer and Purpose-serving:
1.3.1 That there can be meaning, Actualized Good and its
increase from each bursting forth from the Cosmic Instant, is
the scope of the Nurturer's purposing.
1.3.2 Both the Protal Nature and the Nurturer have purpose,
both choose that their purposes be expressed, but to express
purpose is to serve purpose. The Protal Nature cannot
express, it is inexpressible and unexpressing.
1.3.3 The Nurturer has purpose and can express it, choosing
self-organization: position, and the dynamic of alterings
that is the valuric process, such that It is self-organized
as the constant Transformal Valuer. Its course-taking in
response to value nurtures the increase of the Good, and its
preservation to serve Purpose.
BOOK TWO: PART TWO
POSITION IS THE ORDERING PRINCIPAL OF THE VALURIC PROCESS
2.1. Valuers and position:
2.1.1 Valuers are self-organized.The ordering principal in
the self-organization of a valuer is that of the position of
the valuer. Position is in remove from the scope of the
valuer's purposes for valuing; and from the scope of the
solicitate, that which is processed for value - and in which
may, or may not, be found the purpose-serving.
2.1.2 The separation of purpose and that which may contain
the purpose-serving requires a locus, a position,
individuated from either. Position, locus, is Transformal
and virtual. A valuer is individuated, enselfed, by position:
both from the purpose for valuing, and from whence value is
sought.
2.1.3 Position is inextricable from valuing, but it is not
valuing. Position permits ordered organization of a valuer
as the exerciser of the purposing- behaviors and as
exercising comparator to a purpose-mirroring criterial set.
2.1.4 The individuated locus or position - which affirms the
valuer, as valuer, to itself - enables the process of
valuing; and the existence of Actual value. Unless there is
at least one valuer, all the events of the Cosmic process are
non-events, mere arrays, and trivial.
2.1.5 The position, valuer, is of the Transformal, but as an
observing position it is also an integral part of the arrayed
drawn out of array - and into relationship as Actual event
at Actual Now. That part is their relationship, their
meaning. Thus the position, valuer, is a part of an Actual
event.
2.2. The Nurturer and position:
2.2.1 The scope of the Nurturer's solicitate embraces the
entire Actual dimension and the relationship among its events
at Actual Now, where increase of the Good - and plenishment
to serve Its Purpose - must unfold.
2.2.2 The Nurturer is positioned as the least number of
valuers, the one Valuer, necessary that there is relation and
meaning in the Actual dimension; and that the Cosmic process
is a non-trivial process.
2.2.3 The Nurturer is entirely of the Transformal; non-
intervening in which events shall come to Actual Now -
yet positioned as the one necessary Valuer that event can
actualize. Therefore, at least the Nurturer, its Preserver,
is always an integral part of each actualized Good.
2.3. The myriad Actual valuers and position:
2.3.1 The pattern of organization, Bios, is self-organized
out of Physicos, yet supported by and supporting of its
system of airs, waters, and soils. Bios and this special
expression in Physicos are positioned to each other as two
holons, intertwined, of one holos; a biospheric holos, that
is the embound of their holonhood.
2.3.2 The holon Bios, is itself a holos; the Bioholos, made
up of all Actual valuers as its holons. The organization of
the holons of Bios is a nested positioning, Actually and
Transformally, of valuers within valuers.
2.3.3 Biotic forms are emboundaried Transformally beyond
their emboundariments of Actual materiality, in a triad of
interlacing positions of relationhood to other biotic forms;
and in relation with the Physicos of their biosphere.
2.3.4 From any one of the nested levels of Bios as a
reference, the triune positions of a bioform's relationhood
from that level are: as a holos-as-holon of some more
inclusive holos; as a holos-among-holons of that more
inclusive holos - in holonhood or siblinghood; and as a
holos-of-holons.
2.4 Selfhood is an emergent position.
2.4.1 However a bioform is emboundaried, the position from
which is is organized as a valuer is the locus of multiple
positions; in relationhood to all other valuers and how they
are emboundaried; and in relation with Physicos.
2.4.2 The multiple positions are the very set of its
solicitate which the bioform probes for new of the effect of
its own course-taking interventions at Actual Now. But from
the several times of news of these effects it is another, an
emergent position that these multiple informations affirm:
Selfhood.
2.4.3 The fifth and emergent position, Selfhood, is of
relation to Physicos; and of relationhood as liege and
sibling holon; and of relationhood as a wardent holos.
2.4.4 A templet of design by the bioform's purposing-
behaviors deems not all of the array beyond it, but some of
the array, as its solicitate of valuing. The templet deems
the differences that will be drawn within to relationship and
meaning. Out of what the Transformally intervening templet is
not opaque to, the probing Actual valuer creates its
Selfhood, and the real for that selfhood.
2.4.5 But Selfhood is other - and forever recedes beyond the
templet laid, intervening, between the enselfed and its
probing.
BOOK TWO: PART THREE
CONTINUITY OF POSITION IS AS ESSENTIAL AS POSITION ITSELF
3.1. The Valuric process is a process of slight alterations.
3.1.1 With each serving of purpose by exercise of valuing,
that which will again serve purpose alters slightly.
3.1.2 With each exercise of the valuric process, that which
values, the valuer, alters slightly. If there be continuity
of individuation of the valuer, the valuer alters slightly
toward more complex organization as a valuer.
3.1.3 Because the valuer, relating the otherwise trivial,
is part of Actualized event; and because with each exercise
of valuing the valuer alters slightly; that which is yet to
be valued as event at each Actual Now, has altered slightly.
3.2. Individuation must bridge across change.
3.2.1 Though always altering, the continuity of an Actual
valuer's previous position with the its present position must
be sustained. And continuity of the accreting refinement of
the criterials of comparatorship - the link of process to
purpose - must also be preserved. If the valuer cannot affirm
and reaffirm these continuities then its individuation, and
the enselfment of the increasing structure of its valuric
process is disorganized, lost, randomized.
3.2.2 A valuer, valuing, evalues transforms, differences,
for those that make a difference. The valuer's criterial set
is the distinctor of what difference the difference makes.
The dynamic experiencing of enselfment is that of exercising
the criterials for value.
3.2.3 But in exercise of the valuric process, because of its
slight alterations, the difference that immediately past and
immediately present differences make, cannot be identical.
3.2.4 Reaffirmation is the experience of criterial
integrity: that what was to be related by future process has
proven to be recognizable as changed - but like the past. The
experiencing of continuity of enselfment, reaffirmation, is
the experiencing of criterial integrity across time and
change.
BOOK TWO: PART FOUR
FEELING IS INEXTRICABLE FROM VALUING
4.1. Valuing takes place in uncertainty.
4.1.1 There is a gap, a tension, an uncertainty, that must
preceed reaffirmation. The valuer's criterials thread its
continuity of enselfment through the changes on the valuer
and the valued wrought by the process of valuing. Experience
of this gap of continuity is at the move to employ the
criterials to shape the valuer's next reality in the
unceasing dynamic of valuing.
4.1.2 In the ceaseless dynamic of valuing, the criterials
that shaped the valuer's present reality are exercised in the
process that will generate more change; without prior
confirmation possible that they will, once again, retain
integrity through that change.
4.1.3 Organization as a valuer is punctuated by
uncertainty. Valuing itself takes place in this tension only
because feeling is the emergent from uncertainty: the valuer
values in trust, not information, across the gap of faith.
4.2. Feeling is a Transformal emergent and suffusant.
4.2.1 Feeling is the emergent from the tension between the
polarities of coherence and incoherence in which valuing
takes place, and is inextricable from valuing. Valuing is
not the only, but it is the first response to value. Feeling
is the dynamic of valuing: such that it is a carrier-wave of
feeling, solicitude, upon which the purposing-behaviors of
valuing are ordered.
4.2.2 The feeling-response to value is entirely of the
Transformal dimension. It suffuses that of the valuer which
is Transformal. It suffuses the Transformal of the valuer's
solicitate - that from which value is solicited and the
operative scope of the valuer's purposing-behaviors.
4.2.3 Solicitude is the train of feeling, to the valuer, of
purposing. It is the feeling of expressing as a valuer in the
exercise of the purposing-behaviors: probing and its
feeling-peak, Anticipation!; appreciation and its peak in
Recognition!; reflection and the feeling of committing to
Choice!, and being embarked across the gap of faith to
reaffirmation.
4.3. The Nurturer and feeling:
4.3.1 Because there is the Nurturer positioned as
Transformal Valuer; and because feeling is inextricable from
valuing; in the whole of every Actual event that is
intrinsically Good, there is some feeling toward the Good, as
a part of the Good.
4.3.2 The Nurturer's Solicitude, the feeling cycle of Its
valuing enselfed in position as the Transformal Valuer,
pulses with each reaffirmation of the Nurturer to Itself as
Valuer. The Nurturer and the Transformal that is not the
Nurturer, are suffused with the dynamic of the Nurturer's
train of feeling. And the pulsing of the Nurturer's
Solicitude pervades the interstices of the Transformal with
the Actual dimension - intermeshed with it, but other.
4.3.3 If there are; and not unless there are; Actual
valuers, then the pulsing dynamic of the Nurturer's
Solicitude is one of the Nurturer's means to nurture evolving
expression of the present Cosmic increment.