Contacts Relevant Writings Back to Streams
Brief Introduction
Modern understanding of dynamic processes of all kinds, from subatomic to universal scales and encompassing the evolution of living
systems, continues to be restricted by the rationalistic treatment of informational boundaries as discrete limits and space as fixed,
empty distance between material objects. Such treatment is founded mathematically in the abstract geometry of Euclid and arithmetic
of discrete numerical units, which formed the basis for Newtonian mechanics and the development of objective, quantitative science
aimed at prediction and control. It is, however, profoundly unrealistic in being based on the illusion that matter ultimately consists
of solid, massy particles surrounded by (and hence excluding) non-interactive space. This illusion leads to the dualistic ‘paradoxes
of completeness’ that underlie the interpretation of change as the consequence of imposing purely external force upon discrete
(isolated) and hence independent bodies. It leads damagingly to the mental exclusion and objectification of ‘environment’ as ‘external
surrounding’ that the ‘self’ both exploits and struggles against, not the natural neighbourhood of which the ‘self’ is inescapably an
inclusion.
Inclusionality opens up a radically more creative, realistic and ultimately less environmentally adverse understanding through
acknowledging the mutual inclusion of non-local space as receptive influence and locally manifest informational boundaries as dynamic
responsive interfacing throughout Nature. With this understanding new insights of the fundamental nature of gravity, heat,
electromagnetic radiation and energy flow become possible, along with a new mathematical basis for their natural representation.
Contacts
Relevant Writings
- Rayner, A.D.M. (2003) Inclusionality – an immersive philosophy of environmental relationships. In Towards an Environment
Research Agenda – a second collection of papers (A. Winnett and A. Warhurst, eds.), pp. 5-20. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Rayner, A.D.M. (2004) Inclusionality and the role of place, space and dynamic boundaries in evolutionary processes.
Philosophica 73, 51-70.
- Rayner, A.D.M. (2007). Inclusional Science - From Artefact to Natural Creativity. Website.
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