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:
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:
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".
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