The Space Project

If thinking is a process, then dichotomising is going to have to be the most effective and natural way of our thoughts forming.

It is dichotomies everywhere you look. The left and right brain as figure and ground style hemispheric processing. The what~where division and the sensori~motor division. The split of speech into syntax~semantics and words~rules. The overall divide of cognition into attention~habit and ideas~impressions. The nature~nurture or biology~sociocultural dichotomies. All mental distinctions and abilities arise through the dichotomisation of less well-formed potentials. So we don't impose dichotomies on nature. Instead by dichotomising we are going along with the flow of nature.

1) Dichotomies have vague beginnings.
2) Dichotomies are dynamically developing not passively existent.
3) Dichotomies develop in asymmetric fashion.
4) Dichotomies thus depend on scale.
5) Dichotomies always develop in both their directions at the same time.
6) Dichotomies are separations not breakings.
7) Dichotomies involve separation but also the mixing of the separated.
8) The middles of dichotomies have scale symmetry.
9) Dichotomies have only two poles because three or more is unstable.
10) Organic causality is hierarchical or holistic.
11) Organic logic is dichotomous with mechanical logic.
12) Organicism is only modelling.

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