Our contemporary world does no longer disposes of a rigorous
“abstract system of holistic logic”, that could stand its ground alongside mathematics, which has developed as the hegemonic “abstract system of atomistic logic”
of Western-Modernity. The process of contemporary knowledge formation,
that is at the core of Western modernity, is therefore biased. It is
indeed aligning with a dualist materialist technical rationality that
disregards the necessity of the cosmic constraint of persistence in the
universal dimensions of physics, biology, and human societies which form
the bedrock of the reality of our universe's continuity.In holistic logic both the “abstract system of atomistic logic” and the “abstract system of holistic logic” are viewed as the complementary polarities of the process of societal knowledge formation.
By
aligning exclusively with dualism, materialism, and technical
rationality, Western Modernity irrevocably separated from the cosmic
constraint of continuity, which distorts its approach to knowledge
formation, thus engaging societies on paths that are incompatible with
the cosmic order.
This explains why the younger generations are
now inheriting a predicament that will force them to address the
societal contradictions with the cosmic order : abject record historical
levels of social inequality, Western societal atomization, and the
incapacitation of the world order to address the degradation of the
habitat of life by the numerous side-effects of Western-Modernity.
Today’s
abrupt acceleration, of the habitat’s degradation by the great
convergence of these multiple crises, was caused by our species’
reliance, on the sole “abstract system of atomistic logic”.
The
culprit of our present predicament is thus the materialist technical
rationality of the atomistic logic of Western Modernity, and science,
which acts as its instrument of preference. But we should remain
clear-headed, for it was the rationality of Western-Modernity, that
forced this path onto science.
A brief detour through history
shows us that the emergence of the archetypal model of power societies
in the Tri-Continental-Area initiated a separation between the men of
force and the men of knowledge, who were in charge of governance, and
the rest of their societies. The cultural evolution of Western
societies, during the centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire,
exacerbated this separation, while the Enlightenment completed it.
Rupture
and separation with the cosmic order fertilized the ground in which the
knowledge paradigm of Modernity emerged. And it rapidly imposed its
dualist materialist technical rationality to the whole world.
The
centuries long hegemony of this technical rationality concludes today
with a predicament for humanity that takes the form of an abrupt
degradation of the habitat of life on earth !
To preserve the future, for the younger generations, we most urgently need an “abstract system of holistic logic”
to act as the complementary polarity of mathematics and science. Their
confrontation is bound to force a reconciliation of human thought and
actions with the constraints imposed by the cosmic order. This incontrovertible observation
originated the imperative of writing “Metaholistics”.
Metaholistics is an “abstract system of holistic logic”
that confronts the atomistic logic embodied in mathematical and
scientific rationality. This confrontation is bound to lead to their
reconciliation into a form of knowledge that is compatible with the
cosmic order.
Here are the key points and summaries of its
content that are relevant to understanding its framework and its
rigorous formalization.
Western
modernity is dominated by an atomistic logic that focuses on the
microcosm (fundamental particles, reductionism, dualism) and generates
multiple crises like social atomization, societal atomization, the
degradation of the habitat, and epistemic fragmentation.
In
contrast East Asian civilizations embody a holistic logic that focuses
on the macrocosm —emphasis on complementary polarities, continuity,
harmony, and context— and provides a model of societal cohesion and
adaptive governance.
Metaholistics aims to reconcile and synthesize their “complementary abstract systems of logic”
— atomistic and holistic— into a new epistemic framework for societal
knowledge formation that is both rigorous and practically oriented
toward complexity, context, and planetary sustainability.
Metaholistics
is rooted in explicit foundational axioms that are formalized within a
custom modal-temporal logic with Kripke semantics. Its key axioms
include :
Emergence from Nothingness : All differentiated states emerge from an underlying undifferentiated potentiality ("nothingness").
Local
Reversibility and Cosmic Irreversibility : Local systems may revert or
collapse, but cosmic evolution is unidirectional and irreversible.
Harmony as Modal Constraint : Only transitions preserving or restoring harmony (balanced polarity) are sustainable.
Layered
Hierarchical Emergence : Reality unfolds in layers (nothingness,
physical, biological, societal, synthetic) with strict adjacency.
Assembly
Arbitrage : Assemblies (complex adaptive collectives) arbitrate which
transitions persist, filtering permissible transformations in context.
Polarity Duality : The tension and cyclic interplay between persistence and novelty drive evolution.
Contextual workability or permission : Transformations only occur in favorable local and cosmic contexts.
Interconnectedness : System states are richly connected; local changes propagate through assemblies and networks.
Metaholistics
adopts a richly structured modal-temporal logic with predicates for
polarity, harmony, context, assemblies, and temporal operators (next,
eventually, always).
Canonical Kripke models are constructed with
maximally consistent sets of formulas as worlds, providing soundness and
completeness via a Truth Lemma linking syntax and semantics.
The
framework extends to multi-modal logics distinguishing cosmic and local
modalities, hybrid logics with nominals for explicit state referencing,
and dynamic filtering mechanisms.
The semantic architecture models
states as structured polarity fields in space/time, with accessibility
relations encoding permitted transitions respecting harmony and polarity
constraints.
Polarity
dynamics formalize the oscillatory interplay between persistence
(stability) and novelty (change), modeled mathematically by coupled
nonlinear differential equations or modal operators.
Assemblies act as local arbitrage agents filtering system transformations to maintain systemic harmony and guide evolution.
The
framework characterizes emergence, collapse, stability, resilience, and
meta-stability in adaptive systems through formal axioms and dynamic
models.
Hierarchical clustering of assembly networks and adaptive
filtering explain how local and global systemic coherence emerge and
persist.
The
metaholistic framework offers tools for modeling complex adaptive
systems across physical, biological, societal, and synthetic dimensions.
It
provides a foundational logic for automated proof systems, model
checking, formal verification, knowledge representation, and dynamic
system modeling.
The framework encourages open collaboration for
further formal development, computational tool support, and application
to emerging scientific and societal challenges.
This summary
highlights the major components and the rigor of the metaholistic
framework as presented in the book. This book offers a rich, rigorous
formal logic system designed to bridge foundational worldviews,
integrate complementary logics, and provide practical instruments for
understanding and guiding complex evolution in knowledge and society.
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