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https://www.freelists.org/post/math4wisdom/Making-sense-of-what-to-do-with-ourselves,1⁠

There is a lot of empirical and theoretical information on

Inquiry⁠

in this email.

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This type of deliberateness, this application of the third mind - Consciousness - is what I want us to contribute at Math 4 Wisdom, as much as we can, including at this discussion group. Generally, it means, sharing our thought process, which may mean quieting our snappy answer First Minds and snappy question Second Minds. It means sharing our thinking out loud about our ongoing investigations, noting where we are "taking a stand", where we are "following through", where we are "reflecting". We can start at any of these but then with each further step our cognizance should grow. So, for example, Kirby, if you share with us your "intellectual activity", then you are on first base, in baseball terms. But when you add your personal reflection regarding that, now you are on second base. Then further, if you can from there take a new stand (which may or may not be much different than before), then you are on third base. Finally, if you can show us your "intellectual activity 2.0", then we have batted you in, and our team scores a point! Or you can simply hit a home run. But if we don't make it all the way around, then in terms of the baseball game, there is nothing gained by making it to first or second or third base. I mean to say, the score is unchanged.

“It means sharing our thinking out loud about our ongoing investigations, noting where we are "taking a stand", where we are "following through", where we are "reflecting".”

For me this helped understand better, another perspective on the fractal nature of inquiry.

From

Active Inference⁠

and

Biology⁠

I was familiar with the 4-fold particular partition (nested Markov Blankets, Renormalization Group operations) and how that helped us view complex systems from the outside (e.g. making a multiscale causal map of a system).

Then this Basebase metaphor provides a view from the inside (batter’s eye view) to complement other kinds of cognitive cycles like OODA. Rather than merely operationalizing (viewing from the outside) the cognitive process (like say an OODA or TOTE), I think (

Quantum Baseball⁠

Knowledge Math⁠

Wondrous Wisdom⁠

) provides a vital co-nested inner view.

This inner threesome is nested in sub-inquires (see email, the inner baserunning) as processed/selected operationally (activity as experienced from the inside).

Whereas the outer foursome is nested in sub-systems, as modeled systemically (inoperativity as mapped from the outside).

About

Relationship with Truth⁠

As an empirical researcher I am familiar with the “local truth” concept, e.g. that of experimentation and observation.

Then towards the upper registers — could there be the possibility that on the higher end, like above the level of interests in

Ants⁠

Active Inference⁠

Synergetics⁠

, etc., there could be higher levels of coherent inquiry? How are these upper syntheses of inquiry related to Truth?

How (do we relate with those inquiries (which relate to Truth?)?)?

Considering the “view from the inside” of inquiries of our own, as well as our external view on others.

For example I am learning English and Russian deeper. I am learning about the case system in Russian and seeking to understand Case from view from the outside (

Category Theory⁠

accounting,

Symbolic Formalism⁠

and

Language⁠

), as well as from the inside.

Clearly language and thought are deeper than any single spoken language. Hence the question would be, for the thinking/process that is deeper than this, does that deepness bottom out in a specific plurality? Or in a type of singularity/monad (is that Truth?)?

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