"A
symbol can never be fully interpreted ... only experienced."
--anonymous
The Universal Language
of Consilience is in the development towards a system of clearly recognizing,
understanding, and communicating the unity of all knowledge, and the interrelationship
of all complex systems.
To establish consilience
will be the proof that all systems--biological and technological--are organized
in terms of a small number of fundamental, natural principles. In distinguishing
these principles, and in developing a universal metalanguage to communicate
these principles along side our standard language--we may begin to build
bridges across the gaps of misunderstanding that exists about the fragmented
systems (social, economical, ideological, etc.) of the world--towards a
realization of the unity that binds a global culture.
The Universal Language
of Consilience is being constructed of nine (9) distinct principles contained
in Holonomic ParaSignifiers (HPS). An HPS is holonomic in the sense that--like
a hologram--the knowledge contained within the signifier can be applied
to any system, signified across all levels of organization, within a micro
or macro context. Like the fractalized nature of an oak tree--the whole
is representative of all parts, and each part of the whole.
An HPS may be represented
through various modes and forms. One such form is that of the Synaesthesic
MetaGlyph (SMG): a visual and audio representation of the principle being
signified, compounding meaning to the receiving consciousness through a
degree of synaesthesic experience. SMGs are being designed to be presentable
through multimedia and hyper-media forms of communication.
The power involved in
forming a Universal Language of Consilience, and utilizing such a system
of communication may assist in transcending the established paradigm of
dualistic and reductionistic perception, into one of the holistic and interrelated
perception that is to become our reality.