ideastream health

Folks in general model cause, effect, and opportunity in their environment in terms of fellow organisms. However the idea codes that we offer for replication (including those in joint-editing spaces like this) are the DNA of our future.

Anything we do to improve this awareness is perhaps worthwhile.

many words one idea

Just as there are many "units" for measuring ordered and/or disordered energy, like joules, calories, kilowatt hours, cubic feet of natural gas, and gallons of gasoline, so in the world of multilayer complex systems there are many names for correlations that look inward and outward from a boundary, as well as for the three broken-symmetry boundaries of most direct interest to metazoans.

In the latter case, for example with helpful suggestions from C. Robert Cloninger, consider the "trichotomy" of boundaries associated with metazoan life on earth i.e. in which organisms first learned to give special treatment first to self, then to family, then to culture:

Echoes of the 3 key "broken-symmetry" boundaries.

skin	family	culture
friends	community	profession
executive	legislative	judicial
self-directed	cooperative	transcendent
blaming ↔ responsible	asocial ↔ empathic	materialistic ↔ idealistic
insecure ↔ resourceful	hostile ↔ kind	conventional ↔ imaginative

Where else might one find this trichotomy being put to use?

For the in/out-ward looking subsystem-correlation direction, which recognizes a fundamental difference between tasks of interior nurturing and exterior taming, consider instead the dichotomy:

Echoes of the 2 key "boundary-related" directions.

inward-looking correlations	outward-looking correlations
yin	yang
self	friends
family	community
culture	profession
right	left
nurture	explore
religion	science
defense	offense

Different words, different boundaries, but the same underlying distinction. Perhaps the world is not as simple or as complex as we think, given that in each case the challenge is not "which column" but instead "how to strike a balance".