Replying to LO27732 --
At,
Thank you for your response; I learn so much from the LO dialogue. Your
response stated:
"In other words Bill, for you it is impossible not to imagine. I like the
way in which you use your liveness ("becoming- being") as a test for the
success of you imagination. How would we use, for example, wholeness as
another test? Well, we need to know wholeness ("unity-associativity").
The seminal name ("unity-associativity") tells us that some things have to
become together as one. What things? Who wants to try answering this
question?"
I would first like to attempt at answering your question and then provide
a short comment.
I would suggest that if you are "becoming," then you are "associating;"
and if you are "being," then you have "unity."
As you are "becoming," you (individual, group, team, organization) can
take in and discard systems at will. For example, as a student learns,
s/he forms an association between previously unknown knowledge and
something already known. The student will query, test, and experiment
with the new knowledge; i.e., "becoming". At any time, the student may
disassociate themselves with the new knowledge, discarding it as useless,
irrelevant, or incorrect. If that occurs, or if the student encapsulates
the new knowledge into their knowledge system ("being"), they are one with
the new material ("unity").
It is irrelevant whether the new knowledge is useful or not, because in
either case, learning takes place. As the process of learning unfolds, we
are "becoming" through "association" to other systems. At some point of
familiarity, confidence, and comfort, the previously unknown knowledge
"units" with our known knowledge as "being."
Now for my comment. Your statement "...for you it is impossible not to
imagine," has created many questions-imagine that! :) The most profound
question it raised was "Is it possible not to imagine?" Examining each of
the 7Es, I cannot think of (imagine) an example.
Warmly,
Bill
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