Towards an Integral Morphology

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Towards an Integral Morphology

By

MICHELLE O’CARROLL

A TERMINAL PROJECT PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT

OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTERS OF THE ARTS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

2008

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Copyright 2008

by

Michelle O’Carroll

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To those who have inspired

me to reflect upon the inherent unity of the life that I am.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................................................................................. 7

LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................ 8

LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................ 11

ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................... 15

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1 INTRODUCTION: “EXISTENTIAL DIALECTICS” .................................................. 16

Architectural Structures Reflect Structures of Consciousness ................................ 16 Structures of Consciousness Emerge in a Developmental Sequence .................... 16 Architectural Structures Archive the Evolution of Consciousness through the Development of our Species .................................................................................. 16

2 LITERATURE REVIEW: “THE INTEGRAL PARADIGM” ....................................... 17

An Overview ........................................................................................................... 17 The Four Domains of the Manifest World .............................................................. 17

The Correlative Nature of Interior and Exterior Domains ..................... 17 The Correlative Nature of Individual and Collective Domains .............. 18 The “Sentient Being” ............................................................................. 18

On Holons and Holarchy ......................................................................................... 18 The Patterns that Connect .................................................................... 18

An Evolutionary Impulse ......................................................................................... 18 The Great Chain of Being: From Matter to Life to Mind to Spirit ........... 19 The Four Faces of Spirit-in-Action ......................................................... 19

3 METHODOLOGY: “THE FOUR QUADRANTS MODEL” ....................................... 22

The Focus of the Study ........................................................................................... 22 An Adaptation of the Four Quandrants Model ........................................................ 22 ---INTERLUDE--- THE NOOSPHERE Human Holons: EMERGENTS in All Four Quadrants ................................................. 23 Human Holons: MUTATIONS in All Four Quadrants ................................................... 24 Human Holons and the Architectural Artifact ................................................................. 27

4 RESULTS “CROSS-SECTIONS OF THE FOUR QUADRANTS IN HUMAN HOLONS” ............................................................................................................... 28

4.1 Archaic MUTATION Physiology ........................................................................................... 30

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Ontology ............................................................................................... 31 Ideology ................................................................................................ 34 Morphology ........................................................................................... 36

4.2 Magical MUTATION Physiology ............................................................................................ 40 Ontology ............................................................................................... 41 Ideology ................................................................................................ 44 Morphology ........................................................................................... 47

4.3 Magical/Mythic MUTATION Physiology ............................................................................................ 51 Ontology ............................................................................................... 52 Ideology ................................................................................................ 55 Morphology ........................................................................................... 57

4.4 Mythic/Rational MUTATION Physiology ............................................................................................ 64 Ontology ............................................................................................... 65 Ideology ................................................................................................ 68 Morphology ........................................................................................... 72

4.4 Scientific/Rational MUTATION Physiology ........................................................................................... 82 Ontology ............................................................................................... 83 Ideology ................................................................................................ 86 Morphology ........................................................................................... 91

4.6 Pluralistic MUTATION Physiology ........................................................................................... 98 Ontology ............................................................................................... 99 Ideology .............................................................................................. 102 Morphology ......................................................................................... 106

INTERLUDE- THE THEOSPHERE Beyond Human Holons: EMERGENTS in All Four Quadrants ................................. 114 4.7 Integral MUTATION

Physiology ......................................................................................... 117 Ontology ............................................................................................. 118 Ideology .............................................................................................. 122 Morphology ......................................................................................... 125

5 DISCUSSION “LIMITATIONS OF STUDY” ................................................................. 132

6 CONCLUSION “THE BODY OF THE GODDESS” ............................................... 134

7 FUTURE WORK “WHAT IS THE BASIS OF SPATIOTEMPORAL ORGANIZATION? ............................................................................................................. 135

APPENDIX A “SCRIPTURA UNIVERSALIS” .............................................................. 136

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LIST OF REFERENCES ............................................................................................. 139

FIGURES ................................................................................................................................... 142

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank Dr. Bejleri for agreeing to chair a rather unconventional project, Dr. Isenberg for introducing me to the works of Ken Wilber and continuing to mentor me well into his retirement, and Professor Sanders for her guidance and expertise in the field of architecture. I would also like to thank my parents- Sam and Lori Conable- as well as my dearest friend John Begeman, whose unconditional support has helped me through this challenging but greatly rewarding process.

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LIST OF TABLES

Figure page 0A An Overview ............................................................................ See Attachment CHAPTER 3: LITERATURE REVIEW 3A EMERGENTS of the Noosphere ................................................................... 23 CHAPTER 4.1: RESULTS- ARCHAIC MUTATION 4.1A Archaic Physiology: the Limbic System ........................................................ 30 4.1B Archaic Identity (Individual): Pre-personal ..................................................... 32 4.1C Archaic Perception of Space and Time: 0-Dimensional ................................ 33 4.1D Archaic Identity (Collective): Ego-Centric ...................................................... 35 4.1E Archaic Urban Morphology: Survival Clans .................................................. 36 CHAPTER 4.2: RESULTS- MAGICAL MUTATION 4.2A Magical Physiology: the Limbic System ........................................................ 40 4.2B Magical Cognitive Style: Sensorimotor .......................................................... 41 4.2C Magical Identity (Individual): Early Ego Formation ........................................ 42 4.2D Magical Perception of Space and Time: 1-Dimensional ................................ 43 4.2E Magical Cosmology: Animistic ....................................................................... 44 4.2F Magical Deity: Nature Spirits ......................................................................... 45 4.2G Magical Identity (Collective): Ethnocentric..................................................... 46 4.2H Magical Urban Morphology: Ethnic Tribes .................................................... 47 4.2I Magical Architectural Morphology ................................................................. 48 4.2J Case Study- the Cave Dwelling (Primitive Inhabitation) ................................ 48 CHAPTER 4.3: RESULTS- MAGICAL/MYTHIC MUTATION 4.3A Magical/Mythic Physiology: Neocortical Activation ....................................... 51 4.3B Magical/Mythic Cognitive Style: Preoperational ........................................... 52 4.3C Magical/Mythic Identity (Individual): Ego Formation ..................................... 53 4.3D Magical/Mythic Perception of Space and Time: 2-Dimensional ..................... 54 4.3E Magical/Mythic Cosmology: Chthonic ........................................................... 55 4.3G Magical/Mythic Deity: Mother Goddess ......................................................... 55 4.3G Magical/Mythic Collective Identity (Collective): Socio-Centric ....................... 56 4.3H Magical/Mythic Urban Morphology: From Early Permanent Settlements to

Chiefdoms to City-States. ............................................................................. 57 4.3I Magical/Mythic Architectural Morphology ..................................................... 58 4.3J Case Study- Stone Pillar Architectures (The Chthonic Object) .................... 59 CHAPTER 4.4: RESULTS- MYTHIC/RATIONAL MUTATION 4.4A Mythic/Rational Physiology: Neocortical Activation ...................................... 64 4.4B Mythic/Rational Cognitive Style: Concrete Operational ................................ 65 4.4C Mythic/Rational Identity (Individual): Late Ego Formation ............................. 66 4.4D Mythic/Rational Perception of Space and Time: 3-Dimensional

(Elementary) .................................................................................................. 67

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4.4E Mythic/Rational Cosmology: Celestial ........................................................... 69 4.4F Mythic/Rational Deity: Father God .............................................................. 70 4.4G Mythic/Rational Identity (Collective): Socio/World-Centric ........................... 71 4.4H Mythic/Rational Urban Morphology: Feudal Empires/Early Nations .............. 72 4.4I Mythic/Rational Architectural Morphology .................................................... 73 4.4J Case Study- The Greek Temple (The Celestial Object) ............................... 74 4.4K Case Study- The Gothic Cathedral (The Celestial Object) ........................... 77 CHAPTER 4.5: RESULTS- SCIENTIFIC/RATIONAL MUTATION 4.5A Scientific-Rational Physiology: Dominated by Left Hemisphere of

Neocortex ..................................................................................................... 82 4.5B Scientific-Rational Cognitive Style: Formal Operational ................................ 83 4.5C Scientific-Rational Identity (Individual): Fully Developed Ego Structure ........ 84 4.5D Scientific-Rational Perception of Space and Time: 3-Dimensional

(Advanced) .................................................................................................... 85 4.5E Scientific-Rational Cosmology: Mechanistic .................................................. 88 4.5F Scientific-Rational Deity: Atheistic ................................................................ 89 4.5G Scientific-Rational Identity (Collective): World-Centric .................................. 90 4.5H Scientific-Rational Urban Morphology: Globalized Nations (Exclusive). ........ 91 4.5I Scientific-Rational Architectural Morphology ................................................ 92 4.5J Case Study- The International Style (The Mechanistic Object) ................... 93 CHAPTER 4.6: RESULTS- PLURALISTIC MUTATION 4.6A Pluralistic Physiology: Dominated by Right Hemisphere of Neocortex ......... 98 4.6B Pluralistic Cognitive Style: Early Vision-Logic .............................................. 99 4.6C Pluralistic Identity (Individual): Transcending Ego ...................................... 100 4.6D Pluralistic Perception of Space and Time: 4-Dimensional (Elementary) ..... 101 4.6E Pluralistic Cosmology: Relativistic ............................................................... 103 4.6F Pluralistic Deity: Nihilistic ............................................................................ 104 4.6G Pluralistic Identity (Collective): World-Centric (Inclusive) ............................ 105 4.6H Pluralistic Urban Morphology: Globalized Nations (Inclusive) ..................... 106 4.6I Pluralistic Architectural Morphology ............................................................ 107 4.6J Case Study- Postmodernism (The Pluralistic Object) ................................. 108 4.6K Case Study-Deconstructivism (The Deconstructed Object) ........................ 110 4.6L Case Study- Topology (The Topological Event) .......................................... 112 CHAPTER 4.7: RESULTS- INTEGRAL MUTATION 4.7A EMERGENTS of the Theosphere .............................................................. 114 4.7B Integral Physiology: Integration of Right and Left Hemispheres of

Neocortex ................................................................................................... 117 4.7C Integral Cognitive Style: Late Vision-Logic ................................................. 118 4.7D Integral Identity (Individual): Transcending Ego ......................................... 119 4.7E Integral Perception of Space and Time: 4-Dimensional (Advanced) ........... 120 4.7F Integral Cosmology: Hyperspatial ............................................................... 122 4.7G Integral Deity: Self-Actualized ..................................................................... 123 4.7H Integral Identity (Collective): Being-Centric ................................................. 124

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4.7I Integral Urban Morphology: Supranational Organization of Planetary Consciousness ............................................................................................ 125

4.7J Integral Architectural Morphology ............................................................... 126 4.7K Case Study- Genetic Architecture (The Morphogenetic Event) .................. 127 APPENDIX A.1 Comparison: The Genetic Code and the I Ching ......................................... 137

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure page CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1A The Spectrum of Consciousness ................................................................ 142 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2A Ken Wilber’s Four Quadrant’s Model .......................................................... 143 2B The Correlative Development of Interior and Exterior Domains ................. 144 2C The Correlative Development of Individual and Collective Domains .......... 145 2D “Wolf”: Different Perspectives of a Sentient Being ...................................... 146 2E The Sentient Being as a Holon ................................................................... 147 2F Agency and Communion ............................................................................ 148 2G The EMERGENCE of the Physiosphere, Biosphere, Noosphere, and

Theosphere ................................................................................................. 149 2H The Correlative Evolution of the Four Domains (General) .......................... 150 2I The Correlative Evolution of the Four Domains (Specific) ........................... 151 CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 3A Focus of Study ............................................................................................ 152 3B An Adaptation of the Four Quadrant’s Model. ............................................. 153 3C Each Quadrant will be evaluated through Pre-Modern, Modern, Post-

Modern, and Integral MUTATIONS of Consciousness. ............................... 154

INTERLUDE- THE NOOPSHERE (AN OVERVIEW) 3D EMERGENTS of the Noosphere. ................................................................ 155 3E Isomorphic Streams of Development in the Noosphere .............................. 156 3F The Correlative Evolution of the Four Domains in the Noosphere .............. 157 3G Scales of Development: Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny ..................... 158 3H The Correlative Evolution of Human Consciousness and Architectural

Morphology ................................................................................................. 159 CHAPTER 4.1: RESULTS- MAGICAL MUTATION 4.1A Homo Erectus ............................................................................................ 160 4.1B The Limbic System ...................................................................................... 160 4.1C Egocentric, Survival-Based Existence ......................................................... 161 4.1D Survival Clans ............................................................................................. 161 4.1E Morphologies of the Physiosphere and Biosphere ...................................... 162 CHAPTER 4.2: RESULTS- MAGICAL MUTATION 4.2A Neanderthal ................................................................................................ 162 4.2B The Limbic System ...................................................................................... 163 4.2C Ochre Stained Rocks of Quafzeh Cave ...................................................... 163 4.2D Early Representation of the Human Face .................................................. 164 4.2E Nature Spirits .............................................................................................. 164 4.2F Monadic Tribal Structures ........................................................................... 165

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4.2G Interior Rotunda of Hall of Bulls. Lascaux, France ..................................... 165 CHAPTER 4.3: RESULTS- MAGICAL/MYTHIC MUTATION 4.3A Neocortical Activation ................................................................................. 166 4.3B The Agricultural Revolution ........................................................................ 166 4.3C The Emergence of Symbolic Language ..................................................... 167 4.3D The Emergence of Intuitive/Inductive Reasoning ....................................... 167 4.3E Anthropocentric Imagery in a Cave Painting .............................................. 168 4.3F Spatial Depth in Cave Painting ................................................................... 168 4.3G Polar Awareness of Earth and Sky (Spatial) ............................................... 169 4.3H Awareness of Natural Cycles (Temporal) .................................................... 169 4.3I Mother Goddess of the Earth ..................................................................... 169 4.3J Early Permanent Settlements ..................................................................... 170 4.3K Stonehedge. Wiltshire, England ................................................................. 170 CHAPTER 4.4: RESULTS- MYTHIC/RATIONAL MUTATION 4.4A Neocortical Activation (Cont’d) ................................................................... 170 4.4B The Emergence of Deductive Reasoning ................................................... 171 4.4C Anthropocentric Imagery in Greek and Medieval Sculpture and

Architecture ................................................................................................ 171 4.4D Spatial Depth in Greek and Medieval Sculpture and Architecture ............. 172 4.4E The Emergence of Linear Time ................................................................... 172 4.4F The Greek Cosmological Scheme ............................................................... 173 4.4G Music of the Spheres .................................................................................. 174 4.4H The Medieval Cosmological Scheme .......................................................... 175 4.4I Father God in Heaven ................................................................................. 176 4.4J The Parthenon ............................................................................................ 176 4.4K Floor Plan of the Parthenon ....................................................................... 176 4.4L Sculptural Ornamentation in the Parthenon: The Birth of Athena ............... 177 4.4M Chartres: A Gothic Cathedral ..................................................................... 177 4.4N The Floor plan of Chartres ......................................................................... 177 4.4O Religious Symbolism in Chartres ............................................................... 177 CHAPTER 4.5: RESULTS- SCIENTIC-RATIONAL MUTATION 4.5A Dominated by Left Hemisphere of Neocortex ............................................. 178 4.5B The Scientific Method ................................................................................. 178 4.5C The Fully Developed Ego Structure ........................................................... 178 4.5D Cartesian Depiction of Perception .............................................................. 179 4.5E The Heliocentric Model of Copernicus ........................................................ 179 4.5F Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion .............................................................. 180 4.5G Moon drawn by Galileo ............................................................................... 180 4.5H The Mechanical Universe ........................................................................... 180 4.5I La Villa Savoye (Le Corbusier) ................................................................... 181 4.5J The Farnsworth House (Mies van der Rohe) ............................................. 181 CHAPTER 4.6: RESULTS- PLURALISTIC MUTATION

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4.6A Dominated by Right Hemisphere of Neocortex .......................................... 182 4.6B Contextualized Knowledge Claims ............................................................. 182 4.6C The Subject Co-creates Reality ................................................................... 182 4.6D The Deconstruction of Euclidian Space ..................................................... 183 4.6E Plasticized Time ......................................................................................... 183 4.6F The Relativistic Cosmos .............................................................................. 183 4.6G A Representation of Time at 5mph .............................................................. 183 4.6H A Representation of Space at 5mph .......................................................... 184 4.6I An Object Observed at 5mph ...................................................................... 184 4.6J A Representation of Time as an Observer Approaches the Speed of Light 185 4.6K A Representation of Space as an Observer Approaches the Speed of

Light ............................................................................................................ 185 4.6L An Object Observed while approaching the Speed of Light ........................ 186 4.6M Piazza d’Italia (Charles Moore) .................................................................. 187 4.6N Sony Building (Philip Johnson and John Burgee) ....................................... 187 4.6O Portland Service Building (Michael Graves) ............................................... 188 4.6P Vitra Design Museum (Frank Gehry) ........................................................... 188 4.6Q Santa Monica Residence (Frank Gehry) ..................................................... 189 4.6R Wexner Center for the Arts (Peter Eisenman) ............................................ 189 4.6S The Mobius House (Stephen Perrella and Rebecca Carpenter .................. 190 4.6T City of Culture of Galicia (Eisenman Architects) .......................................... 190 4.6U BMW Event and Delivery Center (Asymptote) ............................................ 190 4.6V Yokohama International Port Terminal (Foreign Office Architects) ........... 191 4.6W Taekwando Park (Weiss/Manfredi) ............................................................. 191 CHAPTER 4.7: RESULTS- INTEGRAL MUTATION 4.7A EMERGENTS of the Theosphere ............................................................... 192 4.7B The Integration of the Right and Left Hemispheres of the Neocortex .......... 193 4.7C Consciousness No Longer Restricted to the Body ..................................... 193 4.7D Structures of Thought Integrated into a Complex Whole ............................ 194 4.7E Dimensions Organized in Orders of Increasing Complexity ........................ 194 4.7F Space a Plastic Medium Enacted by the Subjects it Contains ................... 195 4.7G “God”-(Consciousness) Becoming .............................................................. 195 4.7H Caltrans District 7 Headquarters Building (Morphosis) ............................... 196 4.7I El Monte Sangrado Resort (Living Designs Group) ................................... 196 4.7J ADA Space (ETH) ...................................................................................... 197 4.7K Industrial Muscles (Festo Company) .......................................................... 197 4.7L Grafisoft Slider (ONL) ................................................................................. 198 4.7M Tower of Winds (Toyo Ito) .......................................................................... 198 4.7N L-Systems (Aristid Lindenmayer) ............................................................... 199 4.7O The Hyposurface (Mark Goulthourpe) ........................................................ 199 CHAPTER 7: FUTURE WORK 7A Evolution: Self-Transcendence through Self-Organization ......................... 200 APPENDIX A

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A.1 The Fundamental Structure of the Genetic Code ....................................... 201 A.2 Genetic Codons (“Words”) and their Corresponding Amino Acids .............. 202 A.3 The Two Polarities of Yin and Yang ............................................................ 203 A.4 The Four “Letters” of the I Ching ................................................................. 203 A.5 The Four “Letters” of the I Ching Correspond to the Four “Letters” of the

Genetic Code .............................................................................................. 204 A.6 The 64 Hexagrams of the I Ching ............................................................... 204 A.7 The Correlative Nature of the 64 Hexagrams of the I Ching and the 64

Codons of the Genetic Code ....................................................................... 205 A.8 The Correlative Nature of the 64 Hexagrams of the I Ching and 20 Amino

Acids ........................................................................................................... 206 A.9 The 64 Hexagrams Arranged Spatially on the Bagua Compass ................. 207

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Abstract of Terminal Project Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the

Requirements for the Degree of M.A.U.R.P.

TOWARDS AN INTEGRAL MORPHOLGY

By

Michelle O’Carroll

December 2008 Chair: Ilir Bejleri Cochair: Shaya Isenberg Major: Nancy Sanders

This study will use an adaptation of Ken Wilber’s four quadrant model to evaluate the parallel evolution of human consciousness and architectural morphology from its inception through pre-modern, modern and post-modern periods. To conclude, it will postulate that we are on the brink of integral consciousness and set forth the theoretical framework for an integral morphology.

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION EXISTENTIAL DIALECTICS

ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES REFLECT STRUCTURES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

There is a dialectical relationship between our internal realities- our structures of consciousness- and our external patterns of spatial and temporal relationship- our architectural structures. The physical forms that we evolve reflect the way that we organize our experience. STRUCTURES OF CONSCIOUSNESS EMERGE IN A DEVELOPMENTAL SEQUENCE

Structures of consciousness unfold in a developmental1 sequence, from complete unconsciousness at one end of the spectrum, through the various levels of egoism, existentialism and transpersonalism, all the way to complete consciousness or enlightenment at the other end of the spectrum (See Figure 1A). This applies to all scales of development, from the maturation of an individual organism to the evolution of a species as a whole.

ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES ARCHIVE THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR SPECIES

As humanity progresses through this spectrum of consciousness, it archives each developmental stage (characterized by a particular way of perceiving space, time, self and origin) in architectural structure. This study will use Ken Wilber’s “Integral” Paradigm- a comprehensive evolutionary theory that charts the correlative ontogeny of consciousness and the world of form- as a context to evaluate the relationship between the various eras of human development and the architectures they have enacted.

1 Development: the progression from a simple structure to a more complex structure.

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CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW THE INTEGRAL PARADIGM

AN OVERVIEW

In Integral Theory, reality is a non-dual union of emptiness and form with form innately subject to development over time. Emptiness, or “spirit”, is the timeless and eternal ground state of all being. The world of form is “spirit-in-action”- the unfolding of this sentience as it comes to know itself through its own incarnation. Ken Wilber’s four quadrants model attempts to describe how form undergoes change and how sentient beings in the world of form participate in this change until they realize their true identity as emptiness. THE FOUR DOMAINS OF THE MANIFEST WORLD

There are 4 primary domains in Wilber’s model of manifest existenc: subjective2, inter-subjective3, objective4, and inter-objective5. These dimensions, represented graphically, are the upper-left, lower-left, upper-right, and lower-right quadrants of Wilber’s Four Quadrant Model. (See Figure 2A)

In the subjective—or upper-left (UL)—quadrant, we find the world of our individual, interior consciousness: our thoughts, emotions, memories, states of mind, perceptions, and immediate sensations—in other words, our “I” space.

In the intersubjective—or lower-left (LL)—quadrant, we find the world of our collective, interior consciousness: our shared values, identities, meanings, relationships, and cultural background—in other words, our "we" space.

In the objective—or upper-right (UR)—quadrant, we find the world of individual, exterior things: our material body and anything that you can see or touch in time and space—in other words, our “it” space.

In the interobjective—or lower-right (LR)—quadrant, we find the world of collective, exterior things: systems, networks, technology, the constructed and natural environment-in other words, our “its” space. The Correlative Development of Interior and Exterior Domains

The development of consciousness (UL) coevolves with the complexification of matter (UR). Atoms, whose exterior forms are physical entities such as neutrons, protons and electrons, have an interior prehension of proto-feelings; primitive cells exhibit irritability; organisms with neural cords have perception; animals with the reptilian brain stem have impulses and instincts, and the triune brain is the exterior form of an interior consciousness that contains linguistic capacities and formal cognition (Wilber, Integral Spirituality 222). Consciousness exists in some form (however rudimentary) at all organizational levels- every body has a mind. (See Figure 2B)

2 Subjective: existing in the mind. 3 Inter-subjective: existing between minds. 4 Objective: existing in form. 5 Inter-objective: existing between forms.

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The Correlative Development of Individual and Collective Domains Each body-mind exists in a culture (LL) and community (LR) of other body-minds at a similar level of complexity. As physical complexity increases and individual consciousness expands, the consciousness of the culture as a whole expands. As the consciousness of the culture expands, the inter-objective, exterior forms -the social structures and physical morphologies- that support the culture reflect the complexification. (See Figure 2C) The “Sentient Being”

Each quadrant offers a unique perspective of a single occasion, of a “sentient being”. Take for example, the occasion of a “wolf” (See Figure 2D). A wolf possesses a limbic system (UR), the interior correlate of which is certain basic emotions (UL). The wolf shares this emotional worldspace with other wolves (LL) and physically orients itself in relation to its pack through the use of a sophisticated emotional sign system (LR) (Wilber, Theory of Everything 28).

ON HOLONS AND HOLARCHY

Each sentient being is both a distinct, living entity- a whole in itself- and is also a part of some greater order: it is a whole-part, a system within a system. This whole-part is known in integral theory as a “holon”. For instance, a whole atom is a part of a whole molecule; a whole molecule is part of a whole, cell; a whole cell is part of a whole organism and so on (See Figure 2E). The whole of one level becomes part of the whole of the next level. The integral “kosmos”6 are a “holarchy” of holons- a series of nests within nests within nests-indefinitely expressing a greater and greater holistic embrace (Wilber, Brief History 17). The Patterns that Connect

Because every holon is both a whole and a part, it has two fundamental tendencies or drives: it has to maintain both its “agency”- its individual identity, and its “communion”- its relation to greater wholes (See Figure 2F). If the holon fails to maintain both its agency and communion, it dissolves into subholons: for example, cells decompose into molecules, molecules decompose into atoms. If the holon maintains agency and communion, it will evolve into greater and greater levels of complexity: new holons will emerge which transcend and include lower level components while adding their own distinctive character and EMERGENTS7. (Wilber, Brief History 19).

AN EVOLUTIONARY IMPULSE

The desire to self-transcend appears to be built into the very fabric of the Kosmos: there is an inherent compulsion, an obscure sort of will in matter, to arrange itself in increasingly complex holons which exhibit higher and higher levels of coherence

6 Kosmos: the patterned nature or process of all (interior and exterior) domains of existence; this stands in contrast to the word “cosmos” which refers only to the exterior, physical domain of existence (a Wilberian term). 7 Emergents: characteristics of systems which arise unexpectedly and are more complex than the sum of their parts.

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and consciousness. Integral theory regards evolution as a sequence of progressive synthesis converging towards an “omega point8”- the unification of the manifest universe- in which an all inclusive “supermind” emerges. The Great Chain of Being: From Matter to Life to Mind to Spirit Through the course of evolution, physical, inanimate matter has passed through sequential stages of increasing organization, structuralization, and complexification. Primordial particles aggregated into simple groups in complex, geometrical patterns forming molecules and then larger and more complex organic compounds (the physiosphere9). So complex were these forms that they started to reproduce themselves, and out of matter arose life (the biosphere10). Cells combined into a multitude of living and ever more complex organisms, from primitive life to invertebrates, fish, amphibia, reptiles, mammals. With the emergence of the early hominids another critical threshold was crossed: out of life arose mind (the noosphere11). Cosmic evolution became conscious of itself-it not only “knows”, but it “knows that it knows”. Beyond the noosphere lays the potential of the theosphere12- the realm of incarnated “divinity”- whereby consciousness awakens to the process of its own evolution and recognizes itself as the ground state of all being. (See Figure 2G) "...Evolution is moving through the links in the Great Chain of Being - starting with the lowest, or matter, and moving to biological structures, then to mind, then to subtle and causal realms, and finally to supermind or omega point. It's not that the absolute or supermind only comes into existence at that last stage - it existed all along, but could only be realized when consciousness itself evolved to its highest state." (Wilber, SES 48). The Four Faces of Spirit-in-Action The four quadrants of the manifest world are different perspectives of the same underlying pattern of growth; as such, they show correlative development. (See Figure 2H and 2I) The Evolution of the Brain and Organism (UR) Cosmic evolution contains a full-spectrum of exterior development, from subatomic particles, atoms, molecules and other elementary structures of the physiopshere, to the prokaryotic, eukaryotic, nueronal, reptilian and paleo-mammalian structures of the biosphere, to the neo-mammalian structures of the noossphere and beyond. Each level of increasingly complexity emerges in a developmental progression

8 Omega Point: a predicted point of evolution in which humanity will have evolved into a planet wide superorganism whose organizational power will come to dominate inanimate matter and energy (an idea of Tielhard de Chardin). 9 Physiosphere: the domain of evolution that contains inanimate matter. 10 Biosphere: the domain of evolution that contains organic life. 11 Noosphere: the domain of evolution that contains self-consciousness. 12 Theosphere: the domain of evolution that contains self-actualized consciousness.

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upon the evolutionary stratum below and enables more and more complex modes of cognition and consciousness.

The Evolution of the Self and Consciousness (UL)

Cosmic evolution contains a parallel spectrum of interior development, from pre-personal to personal to transpersonal consciousness. Primordial particles embedded in the material prima of the physiosphere exhibit a pre-personal unity structure of consciousness which exists beneath subject/object differentiation. The organismic lifeforms of the biosphere begin to sense a boundary between their own form and biological currents. With the emergence of the noosphere, the organism distinguishes itself from the rest of the world: inside and outside become clearly differentiated and personal consciousness is clearly formulated. Beyond this point, evolution proceeds into the transpersonal domains of the theosphere which are characterized by a continuous decline in egocentrism. Eventually, all relative selves are transcended and included and there is only the pure self, the “empty opening through which spirit speaks” (Wilber, Integral Spirituality132). The Evolution of Culture and Worldview (LL)

The collective mind, or culture, is the interaction of individual minds at a particular stage of development. Just as the individual mind progresses through a developmental sequence of expanded identification and relation (from pre-personal unity to personal differentiation to transpersonal unity), collective culture progresses through a developmental sequence of pre-personal, subconscious immersion and participation in the “group mind” (the physiosphere and biosphere- the hive mentality of ants and bees for example) to personal differentiation and conscious participation in human culture (the noosphere), to transpersonal unification and conscious participation in the “group mind of the theosphere.

The Evolution of Social Systems and Environment (LR)

As culture evolves, it requires a corresponding evolution in the complexity of the collective, external structures that contain it. The morphologies of the physiosphere and the biosphere are natural, self-organizing living systems with their own, semi-independent holonic reality: they are the products of genetic13 design and have arisen autopoietically14 through natural selection (Wilber, Theory of Everything 166).

With the emergence of self-reflectivity, humans set themselves apart from nature; by doing so, they obtain the ability to structure, control and transform it. In the noosphere, the externally visible structures that are the process of social evolution become less holonic and increasingly subject to human design. This is the inception of allopoiesis15 (architecture) - externally sustained, planned systems which in and of

13 Genetics: dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment. 14 Autopoiesis: (“auto”- Greek for “self”, “poiesis”- Greek for “to make”) living systems that are self-organizing, self-regenerating, and self-reproducing. 15 Allopoiesis: (“allo”- Greek for “other”, “poiesis”- Greek for “to make”) systems that are created by an external agent; an artifact.

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themselves do not evolve but serve as residual, objective containers for intersubjective development.

When transpersonal consciousness awakens and the theosphere emerges, a correlative morphology will be enacted. Speculations on this are to follow in the results section.

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CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY AN ADAPTATION OF THE FOUR QUADRANTS MODEL

THE FOCUS OF THE STUDY

This study will focus on the development of the LR quadrant- the world of collective, exterior form- after the critical point of self-reflectivity (the inception of Ken Wilber’s “noosphere”) (See Figure 3A). It will use an adaptation of the four quadrants model to evaluate the co-evolution16 of consciousness and architectural morphology through the significant phases of human evolution, paying particular attention to the ways that the various dualisms inherent in personal consciousness have been manifested in the external world (especially in the rise and fall of “sacred” architectures). To conclude, it will suggest that we are approaching another critical point in the evolution of consciousness- the brink of the transpersonal- which will transcend these dualisms and set the precedence for an integral design morphology. AN ADAPTATION OF THE FOUR QUADRANTS MODEL The adaptation of the four quadrants model that will be used for this study will to allocate “physiology” to the objective (UR) quadrant, “ontology” to the subjective (UL) quadrant, “ideology” to the intersubjective (LL) quadrant, and “morphology” to the interobjective (LR) quadrant. Each quadrant will be evaluated through pre-modern, modern, post-modern, and integral MUTATIONS17 of personal consciousness. (See Figures 3B and 3C)

Brain and Organism→ “Physiology” (UR)

• The form and structure of the organism Self and Consciousness→ “Ontology” (UL)

• The consciousness of the organism Culture and Worldview→ “Ideology” (LL)

• The consciousness of the culture

Environment and Social System→ “Morphology” (LR)

• The form and structure of culture

16 Co-evolution: the simultaneous, parallel evolution of two or more categories where variations and adaptations in one set evoke an adaptive response in the other set. 17 Mutation: an event that changes or alters compositional structure.

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INTERLUDE: THE NOOSPHERE HUMAN HOLONS: EMERGENTS IN ALL FOUR QUADRANTS

As evolution awakens from the prepersonal slumber of the biosphere EMERGENTS are enacted in all four quadrants. (See Figure 3D).

QUADRANT GROUND EMERGENTS

BIOSPHERE

NOOSPHERE

UR PHYSIOLOGY Structuration of brain complex

Neurological activation

UL ONTOLOGY Pre-personal, unconscious unity

Personal, conscious differentiation

LL IDEOLOGY Pre-personal unconscious participation in the “group-mind” (unity)

Personal conscious participation in human culture (differentiation)

LR MORPHOLOGY (Natural) Pre-Architecture Unconscious -“Genetic”- (unity)

(Mental) Architecture Conscious -Artifactual”- (differentiation)

Table 3A- EMERGENTS of the Noosphere.

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INTERLUDE: THE NOOSPHERE HUMAN HOLONS: MUTATIONS IN ALL FOUR QUADRANTS

ISOMORPHIC18 STREAMS OF DEVELOPMENT (See Figure 3E) Since the EMERGENCE of the humankind and the noosphere, our species has traversed a series of cognitive leaps, or MUTATIONS of consciousness. These jumps and transformations involve structural changes that manifest in all domains of existence (all four quadrants). In the “results” section, each mutation of consciousness will be evaluated (with particular attention as to how it informs that epoch’s morphology) as follows: (See Figure 3F and Chart 0A) PHYSIOLOGY- (UR) The biological structure of the human brain has remained the same for past 10,000 years (from primitives to moderns) but there have been increasing levels of electrical activity and neurological activation, which have actuated increasingly advanced forms of cognition and consciousness. This study will track the MUTATIONS of human physiology through the complexification of our species, from the elementary structure of the hominid limbic system in the archaic stage of development to the synchronization of the neocortical hemispheres in the integral stage of development, drawing relations between the physical/electrical structure and the cognitive capacities that they enable. ONTOLOGY- (UL) ***It should be noted that structures of thought evolve through the same sequential progression regardless of scale (timing may vary but sequence does not). The collective evolutionary development of the species (phylogeny) exactly mirrors the development of the organism from birth to maturity (ontogeny). For this study, the ontological structures outlined below will be applied to the macro-scale of the evolution of the human species as a whole. (See Figure 3G) Epistemological Structures- “Cognitive Style of Development” As the human brain develops, new epistemological structures emerge. This study will use Piaget’s stages of cognitive development from childhood to adulthood in conjunction with Ken Wilber’s stages of cognitive development beyond adulthood and through enlightenment to chart the MUTATIONS of human consciousness as it evolves through the complexification of our species, from the primitive cognition of simple images which represent only one thing or event, to symbols and concepts which represent whole groups or classes of things or events, to rules which organize and

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Isomorphism: A one-to-one correspondence between the elements of two sets such that the result of an operation on elements of one set corresponds to the result of an operation on elements of the other set.

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integrate numerous classes and groups into entire networks and beyond, while paying particular attention to how these structures inform the organization and content of architectural form.

Particular relationship between “self” and “other”- “Individual Identity” Each stage of cognitive development is characterized by a particular relationship between the subject and the object, self and other. This study will track the MUTATIONS of human consciousness as it evolves through the complexification of our species, from pre-personal, pre-differentiated unity with the environment through embryonic forms of separateness to the emergence of the full-fledged, personal separate ego, and beyond to the transpersonal realms of subtle, causal and absolute unity, while paying particular attention to how these developmental structures inform the constructed relationships between nature and culture, inside and outside. Particular mode of spatial and temporal perception- “Perception of Space and Time” Each stage of cognitive development is revealed by its conceptions of and relationship to space and time- increases in consciousness are accompanied by the appearance and effectuality of a new dimension. This study will track the MUTATIONS (structuration and spatialization) of human consciousness through the complexification of our species as it emerges from the 0-dimensional structure of pre-personal unity, unfolds through 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional structures of personal differentiation, and awakens to the transpersonal transparency of 4-dimensional structure, while paying particular attention to how these conceptions of space and time have informed architectural constructions. IDEOLOGY (LL) Particular relationship between “us” and “them” - “Collective Identity” As consciousness awakens from pre-personal, unconscious participation in the “group mind” it consciously organizes itself through human culture. This study will track the MUTATIONS of human culture through the complexification of our species as it progresses through increasingly inclusive structures of collective thought and social identification, from its egocentric inceptions through ethnocentric, socio-centric, world-centric, and finally being-centric dimensions, while paying particular attention to the ways in which these internally inclusive identifications have yielded externally inclusive urban morphologies. Conceptual model of reality- “Cosmology” Each collective mind, or culture, at its specific stage of cognitive development, creates a conceptual model of reality which reflects their mental capacity and their perception of space, time, and relation to source or origin. This study will track the MUTATIONS of these increasingly inclusive, spatialized, and abstracted conceptual models of reality through the complexification of our species, from the localized 1–dimensional cosmology of primitive hominids, to the polarized, 2-dimensional cosmology of Paleolithic humans, through the spatialized, 3-dimensional cosmology of rational humans, to the temporalized and relativisitc 4-dimensional cosmology of post-modern humans, and into the holarichal, hyperdimensional cosmologies of integral

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humans, while noting the correlation between such internal structures and the organization and structuration of architectural form. Relationship to source- “Deity” As mind awakens from the undifferentiated unity of the slumbering subconsciousness shared with the rest of nature, it experiences self-consciousness- a “separate self” seemingly disconnected from origin. In response, it projects a succession of substitute structures for superior consciousness (“Gods”) which are incorporated into the conceptual models of reality (cosmologies) above. This study will track the MUTATIONS of the “God” structure in human culture through the complexification of our species, from its inception at the onset of personal consciousness and into the transpersonal territories (where God-consciousness is actualized as the archetypical summit of one’s own development), while paying particular attention to the ways that these various structures have informed “sacred” morphologies. MORPHOLOGY (LR) Social organization of collective identity- “Urban Morphology” Urban morphology (LR) is a cultural product which reflects the collective identity of the culture. This study will track the MUTATIONS of social systems through the complexification of our species, from the autonomous and differentiated tribal culture (spread around the global with little contact to on another) to the integration and assimilation of societies into successively larger units of increasing wholeness, culminating finally in the coalescence of a supranational, globalized system of planetary intelligence. “Architectural Morphology” Architectural morphologies reflect MUTATIONS consciousness- epistemological structures, conceptions of selfhood, perceptions of space and time, collective identity and cultural meaning, cosmological hierarchies, and notions of the sacred. This study will situate architectural morphology in the context of the other domains of evolution as listed above.

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INTERLUDE: THE NOOSPHERE HUMAN HOLONS AND THE ARCHITECTURAL ARTIFACT19

Through the early development of our species (archaic and mythic eras) humans were embedded in nature and lived off of the land, much like other animals. As humans evolved self-consciousness, they began to set themselves apart from the world and reflect upon, conceptualize, and analyze their experience. In time, we became less and less alive to the ever-present ground state of being until finally, the separated “ego” no longer identified with the rest of creation and experienced only “other”. The dichotomization of self (subject) and other (object) that is inherent in self- consciousness is the interior correlative (UL) of “architectural” morphology20 (LR): through the construction of walls and partitions we created bounded domains- “forts of egocentricity”- which separate interior from exterior, self from other. Pre-modern, modern, and post-modern spatiotemporal schemes emphasized the stability and permanence of the architectural “object”, a finite complex which is set apart from the greater metabolism, negligent of the fact that it is a node in a larger ecology. The expression of the architectural “object”, however, has changed as self- consciousness progressed through magical/mythic, mythic/rational, scientific-rational, and pluralistic stages of consciousness. (See Figure 3H)

19 Artifact: a substance that is not naturally present but is the product of an extrinsic agent.

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CHAPTER 4.1: RESULTS CROSS-SECTIONS OF THE FOUR QUADRANTS

IN HUMAN HOLONS ---Archaic Mutation---

(Up to 2 million years ago)

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---Archaic Mutation--- (Up to 2 million years ago)

OVERVIEW Biospheric Fusion State. Archaic consciousness has been predominate mode of being in all forms of life since the beginning of evolution up to and including the first hominids. In this mode, spirit is unconscious, instinctually embedded in a dreamy immersion and oneness with the material world; the organism lives in a fusion state of oceanic adualism, of primitive indifferentation, in which there is no distinction between self and environment, subject and object, inner an outer. Experience is unmediated- there is no split between feeling (body) and thinking (mind), experiencing and observing, being and doing (Earley 3). This mode of consciousness is the structure behind the universal myths of the “Garden of Eden”- the paradisiacal, primal state before “the fall” into the separation. As such, it is not a “transpersonal haven” but a “pre-personal” slumber (Wilber, Up from Eden 143).

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PHYSIOLOGY Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus.

• Consciousness remains centered in the limbic system. (See Figures 4.1A and 4.1B)

LIMBIC SYSTEM

Instincts- Feeding, Fighting, Sexual Behavior

Affective Functions- Emotions and Feelings Table 4.1A- Archaic Physiology: the Limbic System.

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ONTOLOGY COGNITIVE STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT Pre-cognition.

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ONTOLOGY INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY Pre-personal. In the archaic stage of development, the self is fused with the natural world; there is no distinction between self and environment, subject and object, inner and outer, body and mind.

PRE-PERSONAL

No distinction between self and environment

No distinction between subject and object, inner and outer

No distinction between body and mind Table 4.1B- Archaic Identity (Individual): Pre-personal.

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ONTOLOGY PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND TIME 0-Dimensional. In the archaic stage of development, awareness is zero-dimensional; reality is rendered as a spaceless and timeless whole.

0-DIMENSIONAL

PERSPECTIVE Unperspectival

OBJECTHOOD Objectless

SPACE Spaceless

TIME Timeless Table 4.1C- Archaic Perception of Space and Time: 0-Dimensional .

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IDEOLOGY COSMOLOGY/DEITY None. In the archaic stage of development, the organism is directly connected to origin so there is no need for mediation. Further, it lacks the mental capacity to reflect upon the nature of existence.

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IDEOLOGY COLLECTIVE IDENTITY Ego-Centric. In the archaic stage of development, the organism starts to emerge from pre-conscious participation in the pre-personal “group mind”; in this primitive phase, existence is egocentric and survival based. (See Figure 4.1C)

EGOCENTRIC

Survival Based Table 4.1D-Archaic Identity (Collective): Egocentric.

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MORPHOLOGY URBAN MORPHOLOGY Survival Clans. In the archaic stage of development, hominids are embedded in nature; they group together in small scale survival clans and gain their subsistence from gathering plants or hunting and scavenging wild animals. (See Figure 4.1D)

Survival Clans

Population <10 Table 4.1E- Archaic Urban Morphology: Survival Clans.

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MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY Organic. The archaic, internal state corresponds to the external morphology of the physiosphere and the biosphere- the atomic/molecular structures of chemistry and the cellular/organismic structures of biology (the “natural” or “organic” world as it is normally conceived) (See Figure 4.1E). In Hegelian terms, the “concept is infused in the material”; there is no separation of thought and form, the finite and the infinite coexist in synthesis (Hendrix 187).

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IN HUMAN HOLONS ---Magical Mutation---

(2 Million-10,000 B.C.)

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---Magical Mutation--- (2 Million-10,000 B.C.)

OVERVIEW Emergence of the Noosphere. In the magical stage of development, the slumbering consciousness that was present through the entire unfolding and enfolding of the physiosphere and the biosphere is slowly awakened. The distinct self begins to emerge from the environment and for the first time, spirit becomes vaguely conscious of itself.

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PHYSIOLOGY Neanderthal/ Cro-Magnon.

• Consciousness remains centered in limbic system (See Figures 4.2A and 4.2B)

LIMBIC SYSTEM


Affective Functions- Emotions and Feelings Table 4.2A- Magical Physiology: the Limbic System.

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ONTOLOGY COGNITIVE STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT Sensorimotor. (See Figure 4.2C)

SENSORIMOTOR

Behaviors limited to simple motor responses caused by sensory stimuli

Sensations coordinated into schemas

Repeats action in order to trigger a response from environment (goal directed behavior)

Towards end of stage, beginning of symbolic thinking

Table 4.2B- Magical Cognitive Style: Sensorimotor.

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ONTOLOGY INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY Early Ego Formation. (See Figure 4.2D) In the magical stage of development, the newly emerging self is coming into a primitive awareness of an external world; the being, however, is only vaguely interiorized and fragments of internal experience cling to the external world while fragments of the external world cling to the self. Subject and object are confused- mental images are identified with the physical objects they represent, leading the subject to believe that he has special power over the object (magic) and that the object has subjective qualities (animism). This leads the subject to believe that the he can magically alter, control, create and govern the world.

From PRE-PERSONAL

To EARLY EGO FORMATION

No distinction between self and environment

Subtle distinction between self and environment

---self and environment confused---

No distinction between subject and object, inner and outer

Subtle distinction between subject and object, inner and

outer

No distinction between body and mind


Table 4.2C- Magical Identity (Individual): Early Ego Formation.

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ONTOLOGY PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND TIME 1-Dimensional. In the magical stage of development, consciousness emerges from the whole, no longer a zero-dimensional structure of unitary identity but a 1-dimensional centering which is not entirely localized but rather spread over the world of phenomenon. The undifferentiated wholeness of experience is broken down into parts which are not connected in any logical way, only through “magic”; the world is plastic- images transform into one another and events are experienced blindly and confusedly, as in the world dreams (O’Sullivan 71).

From 0-DIMENSIONAL

To 1-DIMENSIONAL

PERSPECTIVE Unperspectival Unperspectival

OBJECTHOOD Objectless Objects in field of awareness, Dream-like plasticity

(Immediate View)

SPACE Spaceless Awareness of movement and sensation

Subtle perception of interior and exterior

Centering of experience

TIME Timeless Registration of movement but no temporal division

Table 4.2D- Magical Perception of Space and Time: 1-Dimensional.

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IDEOLOGY COSMOLOGY Animistic. In the magical stage of development, the “universe” is extremely localized. The organism conceives the objects and beings in the immediate environment and transfers to those objects and beings the qualities with which he is familiarly acquainted and intimately conscious. (Hume 224). Impersonal nature is conceived as “alive”, possessing not just prehension but explicitly personal intentions.

From NO COSMOLOGY To ANIMISTIC

---

“I” can control nature

Nature is “Alive”

Universe Extremely Localized- Immediate view, immediate

present Table 4.2E- Magical Cosmology: Animistic.

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IDEOLOGY DEITY Nature Spirits. (See Figure 4.2E) In the magical stage of development the tribe is interwoven in nature and its elemental powers; they are represented spiritually an animal (a totem) of other naturalistic figure. Cultic rites center on identification with wild animals and appeasing the spirits, often the hunted.

From NO DEITY To NATURE SPIRITS

Totem

Polytheistic

Spirits reside within manifest world

Humanity a part of nature Table 4.2F- Magical Deity: Nature Spirits.

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IDEOLOGY COLLECTIVE IDENTITY Ethno-Centric. In the magical stage of development, collective identity remains “close to the body” through blood-bound, kinship relations; individuals trace their descent to a common ancestor and thus, in the framework of their worldview, assure themselves a common cosmogenic origin (Habernas111-12).

From EGOCENTRIC To ETHNOCENTRIC

Survival Based

Kinship

Relations

Held together by Common

Blood

Table 4.2G- Magical Identity (Collective): Ethno-Centric.

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MORPHOLOGY URBAN MORPHOLOGY Ethnic Tribes. In the magical stage of development, humans do not distinguish between natural and socio-cultural reality: they are a part of nature rather than superior to or separate from it. They live off of the land in small, mobile nomadic tribal structures with biological relatives. (See Figure 4.2F)

From SURVIVAL CLANS To ETHNIC TRIBES

Population <10 Population 10’s-100’s Table 4.2H- Magical Urban Morphology: Ethnic Tribes.

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MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY

From ORGANIC To PRIMITIVE INHABITATION

“Natural” World Cave Dwelling Table 4.2I- Magical Architectural Morphology.

Case Study- The Cave Dwelling (Primitive Inhabitation)

QUADRANT MUTATION MORPHOLOGY

ONTOLOGY Personal Identity

Subtle Distinction

between self and

environment

Beginning to set self apart from “nature”- inhabitation in rock shelters and natural

caves

Subtle distinction between

subject and object, inner

and outer

Evidenced in images- no people (indicates only

primitive levels of self-consciousness, if any, have emerged), only animals “objects of

attention”

Cognitive Development

Symbolic thinking

Evidenced in images-Art/symbols to represent

activities that occur in daily life on cave walls

Goal directed action

Evidenced in images- depict “the hunt”

Perception of Space

Unperspectival Evidenced in images- simple, flat, no spatial

depth

IDEOLOGY Cosmology Animistic Live in harmony with natural forces, cultic

ceremonies to appease the spirits of nature

Deity Nature Spirits

Table 4.2J- Case Study- The Cave Dwelling (Primitive Inhabitation)

Case Study- The Cave Dwelling (Primitive Inhabitation) In the magical stage of development, the environment starts to become an object of awareness which can be acted upon. Here we see the first signs of “setting apart”-inhabitation in rock shelters and natural caves- as well as the exploration of the emerging self-consciousness through the art and symbols on their walls. (See Figure 4.2G)

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IN HUMAN HOLONS ---Magical/Mythic Mutation---

(10,000 B.C.-1000 B.C.)

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---Magical/Mythic Mutation--- (10,000 B.C.-1000 B.C.)

OVERVIEW Initial Distinction between Biosphere and Noosphere. In the magical/mythic stage of development, spirit continues to awaken from the unconscious slumber of pre-historical Eden; the self has already begun to differentiate its own organism from the environment and will now begin to distinguish between its body and its mind.

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PHYSIOLOGY • Neocortical Activation (See Figure 4.3A)

From LIMBIC SYSTEM

To NEOCORTICAL ACTIVATION


Rational Brain-

Conscious Thought Affective Functions- Emotions and Feelings

Language

Spatial Awareness

Table 4.3A- Magic/Mythic Physiology: Neocortical Activation.

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ONTOLOGY COGNITIVE STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT Preoperational. (See Figure 4.3B, 4.3C and 4.3D)

From SENSORIMOTOR To PREOPERATIONAL

Behaviors limited to simple motor responses caused by sensory stimuli

Operates on world of objects Sensations coordinated into schemas

Repeats action in order to trigger a response from environment

(goal directed behavior)

Towards end of stage, beginning of symbolic thinking

Masters symbolic thinking- Manifests language

Begins intuitive reasoning Harmony of complementary, polar

opposites

Comes into an awareness of other minds (culture)

Still egocentric- Does not realize that other people do not know, think, and perceive the same as

him Table 4.3B- Magical/Mythic Cognitive Stage of Development: Preoperational.

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ONTOLOGY INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY Ego Formation. In the magical/mythic stage of development, the organism firmly roots itself within the body and clearly differentiates between the interior and exterior world. It begins to subtly distinguish between its body and its mind. (See Figure 4.3E)

From EARLY EGO FORMATION

To EGO FORMATION

Subtle distinction between self and environment

Greater distinction between self and environment

Subtle distinction between subject and object, inner and outer

Greater distinction between subject and object, inner and

outer


Subtle distinction between body and mind

Table 4.3C- Magical/Mythic Identity (Individual): Ego Formation.

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ONTOLOGY PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND TIME 2-Dimensional. In the magical/mythic stage of development, the unitary, non-directional point of 1-dimensional consciousness expands to an awareness of earth and sky (enclosed space) and with it, the rhythmic cycles of day and night, the four seasons, and cosmic periodicity (extended, cyclical time getting nowhere but going perpetually around in circles). (See Figures 4.3F, 4.3G and 4.3H)

From 1-DIMENSIONAL To 2-DIMENSIONAL

PERSPECTIVE Unperspectival Unperspectival

OBJECTHOOD Objects in field of awareness, Dream-like plasticity

(Immediate View)

Objects in field of awareness,

Object permanence

SPACE Awareness of movement and sensation

Awareness of earth and sky (polarity21)

Subtle perception of an interior and exterior

Greater awareness of interior and exterior

Centering of experience Spatial Enclosure

TIME Registration of movement but no temporal division

Awareness of Natural Cycles (temporocity22)

Table 4.3D- Magical/Mythic Perception of Space and Time: 2-Dimensional.

21 Polarity: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic complementary principles that account for all that exists. 22

Temporocity: the perception of time in the magical/mythic structure of consciousness which registers the comings and goings of natural cycles but does not yet perceive time linearly (a Gesberian Term).

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IDEOLOGY COSMOLOGY/DEITY Chthonic/Mother Goddess. In the magical/mythic stage of development, the primitive fusion between the self and the environment begins to break down; the organism develops a rudimentary ego- an independent, structured existence in space and time- but is not yet able to detach itself completely from nature and the body. Such structures of being are found in the peoples of the Neolithic, ancient world; each such culture worshipped some variant of the great goddess or “earth mother” as an expression of natural, biological dependence. (See Figure 4.3I). With the development of polar consciousness, the “earth mother” Goddess is complemented by the “sun father” God. The continuation of life (the fertility of the great earth womb) depended union of these two cosmic, polar forces: through the luminary light of the sun god penetrating the passageways of earth goddess through given intervals of time.

From ANIMISTIC

To CHTHONIC

“I” can control nature

“I” can’t control nature but something else does

Nature is “Alive” Nature ruled by “Mother Goddess” and “Father God”

Universe extremely localized- Immediate view, immediate

present

2:Dimensional Universe spatialized according

to polar conception of earth and sky

Mythologies of rhythmic, cyclical time

Table 4.3E- Magical/Mythic Cosmology: Chthonic.

From NATURE SPIRITS

To MOTHER GODDESS

Totem Matriarchal- Fertility Goddess (Dominated)

Polytheistic Polytheistic



Humanity a part of nature Humanity a part of cosmic perpetuation

(Fertility rites, man and woman) Table 4.3F- Magical/Mythic Deity: Mother Goddess.

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IDEOLOGY COLLECTIVE IDENTITY Socio-Centric. In the magical/mythic stage of development, verbal, communicative culture provides the framework to evolve beyond the conflicting interests of genetically related tribe into a social structure based on shared perceptions, sentiments, and descriptive realities. Collective identity is secured through the acceptance of the prevailing mythological belief structure (Wilber, SES 123).

From ETHNO-CENTRIC To SOCIO-CENTRIC

Kinship Relations-

Ethnic Tribe

Held together by common blood

Territorial Relations- Chiefdoms

Held together by common perceptions,

language, and mythology

Table 4.3G- Magical/Mythic Identity (Collective): Socio-Centric.

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MORPHOLOGY URBAN MORPHOLOGY From Early Permanent Settlements to Chiefdoms to City-States. In the magical/mythic stage of development, Neolithic humans begin to separate themselves from nature and create permanent settlements and civilizations. Social integration takes place through the identification with a common political ruler whose legitimacy is given because of their connection and privileged access to mythological powers. (See Figure 4.3J)

From ETHNIC TRIBES

To EARLY PERMANENT

SETTLEMENTS

Population 10’s-100’s

(2 Million BC-10,000 BC)


(10,000BC-5,000 BC)

To CHEIFDOMS

Population 1,000’S-10,000’S

(5,000 BC-3,000 BC)

To CITY-STATES

Population 10,000-100,000

(3,000BC-1,000 BC) Table 4.3H- Magical/Mythic Urban Morphology: From Early Permanent

Settlements to Chiefdoms to City-States.

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From PRIMITIVE INHABITATION To CHTHONIC OBJECT

Cave Dwelling

Stone Pillar Architectures

Table 4.3I- Magical/Mythic Architectural Morphology.

General Humankind first uses indestructible materials to erect large structures not to live in but to worship their gods. Construction is carried out in respect to the idea of the divine and the way that it manifests in mortal cycles of generations, years, seasons, days, and nights.

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MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY (Cont.)

Case Study- Stone Pillar Architectures (The Chthonic Object)



Greater distinction

between self and

environment

Continuing to set self apart from “nature”-

permanent civilizations

Greater distinction between

subject and object, interior and exterior

Greater sense of self-consciousness as evidenced in the

anthropocentric cave art of the early Neolithic

period

Ego structure is forming but the self has not

completely detached from nature. First

permanent structures exhibit spatial holism- use polar elements to

define space but no strict definition between inside

and outside (no walls) and no spatial enclosure

(no roof)


Operates on world of objects

Operates on nature/the landscape, agricultural

revolution

Inductive Reasoning- knowledge based on

observation/ patterns of

phenomenon

Metrology- architecture used as a monumental calendar to measure natural cycles of time

Perception of space

Polar Awareness of Earth and Sky

2-Dimensional, columnar architectures reflect polar awareness of earth and

sky

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Perception of time

Cyclical Architecture charts nocturnal/lunar/solar

periodicity

IDEOLOGY Collective Identity

Mythology Symbolic form

Cosmology Perpetuation of life through the

union of two polar, cosmic

forces

Phallic symbol (pillar) penetrates the body of

the earth goddess, configurations measure

cycles of fertility

Deity Earth Goddess/ Sun God/

Constellations

Live in harmony with nature/understand and

chart natural forces Table 4.3J- Case Study- Stone Pillar Architectures (The Chthonic Object).

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MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY Case Study-Stone Pillar Architectures (The Chthonic Object) The sky represents the cosmic male domain but a seed of femininity pervades that region in the form of the moon. Equally in harmony, the cosmic male equivalent on the earth goddess's domain is the stone pillar- a cosmic phallic symbol penetrating the body of the Earth Goddess. These symbols were carefully arranged to chart nocturnal and lunar periodicity (cycles of fertility). Stonehenge in England is the best known of these complexes (See Figure 4.3K). The stones were set up by several successive peoples inhabiting the region between 3000 and 1600 BC. Because they are arranged to align with the sun at the summer and winter solstices, it is generally assumed that the complex served as a monumental calendar in which rites were performed on significant days of the year. Similar circles of stones were set up elsewhere in England, at Avebury most particularly, and in France at Carnac.

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IN HUMAN HOLONS ---Mythic/Rational Mutation---

(1000 BC-1400 AD)

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---Mythic/Rational Mutation--- (1000 BC-1400 AD)

OVERVIEW Progressive Differentiation between Biosphere and Noosphere. In the mythic/rational stage of development, the mind has significantly differentiated from nature and the body, creating a schism between self and world. The organism, for the first time, begins to experience the “human condition” as an “insufferable state of sin, exile, or delusion” (Wilber, Up from Eden, pg. 134).

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PHYSIOLOGY • Increasing levels of neocortical activation (See Figure 4.4A)

NEOCORTICAL ACTIVATION

Rational Brain- Conscious Thought

Language

Spatial Awareness Table 4.4A- Mythic/Rational Physiology: Neocortical Activation.

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ONTOLOGY COGNITIVE STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT Concrete Operational. (See Figure 4.4B)

From PREOPERATIONAL To CONCRETE OPERATIONAL

Operates on world of objects Operates on thought

Masters symbolic thinking- Manifests language

Learns analytical skills

Begins intuitive reasoning Harmony of complementary, polar opposites

Begins deductive reasoning Quantification and dichotomization of

polar opposites

Comes into an awareness of other minds (culture)

Can mentally reconstruct the

perspective of another organism (Perceptions can be compared)

Still egocentric- Does not realize that other people do not

know, think, and perceive the same as him Table 4.4B- Mythic/Rational Cognitive Style: Concrete Operational.

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ONTOLOGY INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY Late Ego Formation. (See Figure 4.4C) In the mythic/rational stage of development, the organism completely identifies with its interior and turns towards the world of objects; the ego-structure emerges and the subject finds himself in confrontation with an alien world, a dualism which must be bridged by a synthesis in thought.

From EGO FORMATION

To LATE EGO FORMATION

Greater distinction between self and environment

Even greater distinction between self and environment

Greater distinction between subject and object, inner and

outer

Even greater distinction between subject and object,

inner and outer

Subtle distinction between body and mind

Greater distinction between body and mind

Table 4.4C- Mythic/Rational Identity (Individual): Late Ego Formation.

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ONTOLOGY PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND TIME 3-Dimensional (Elementary). (See Figure 4.4D) In the magical/mythic stage of development, the organism is unaware of past, present and future; time had not yet been spatialized and was devoid of directionality. The emerging rational mind (capable of deductive reasoning) mentally splits apart the rhythms of cyclical, polar reality, breaking its fusion with natural temporocity. This marks the birth of directed, linear “time” (-to “divide”, to ”take apart”) (See Figure 4.4E) and objectified, Euclidian space, both of which man will attempt to conquer with his thinking.

From 2-DIMENSIONAL To 3-DIMENSIONAL (ELEMENTARY)

PERSPECTIVE Unperspectival Early Perspectival

OBJECTHOOD Objects in field of awareness,

Object permanence

Subject turns towards objects of awareness

SPACE Awareness of earth and sky

(polarity)

Awareness of orientation in space

“in here” vs. “out there"

(duality23)

Greater awareness of interior and exterior

Distinction between interior and exterior

Spatial Enclosure Euclidian Space: Orientation, Direction

TIME Awareness of Natural Cycles (temporocity)

Extended Time: Past, Present, Future

Table 4.4D- Mythic/Rational Perception of Space and Time: 3-Dimensional (Elementary).

23 Duality: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic, opposed, and irreducible principles that account for all that exists.

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IDEOLOGY COSMOLOGY Celestial. In the mythic/rational stage of development, the self rises above nature forming a rift between the organism and the rest of the cosmos. Since origin is no longer experienced directly, it must be somewhere “beyond” the physical- it must be metaphysical. Such metaphysical dualism is evident in the spatial dualism of late Greek and medieval cosmologies: their essential feature was the belief that the terrestrial, physical domain of humans was qualitatively distinct from the celestial, sacred domain of the planets and stars. Late Greek Cosmology (1100BC-100BC)

Centermost in Greek cosmology was the Earth. The sublunary sphere- the realm of generation, change and corruption- was comprised of the four elements (earth, water, fire, and air). Beyond the moon was the unchanging and eternal celestial region; it was not made of earthly material but of a mysterious, divine ‘fifth element’. (See Figure 4.4F) Concentric crystalline spheres carried the 7 planets (which included the sun and the moon), the circle of fixed stars (the zodiac), and the Primum Mobile (divided into three spheres of the Crystalline Heaven, the First Moveable, and the Empyrean, or highest heaven) around the stationary, stable Earth. The spheres were related to one another through pure, whole-number ratios, creating the heavenly “music of the spheres”. (See Figure 4.4G) Medieval Cosmology (200AD-1400AD)

In time, Greek cosmology was adapted to fit medieval theology. The Prime Mover became the Christian God, the outermost sphere became heaven, and the earth was the center of God's attention. The cosmos was ordered according to spatial hierarchy along the axis of sin and grace. Hell was a chasm inside of earth, purgatory a mountain on the surface of earth, and heaven was located in the Celestial realm. The heavenly spheres, moved by the Prime Mover, existed and rotated in perfect harmony, but humans, habitant of the sublunary sphere corruptible since Adam's fall, could no longer hear this music. (See Figure 4.4 H)

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IDEOLOGY COSMOLOGY (Cont.)

From CHTHONIC

To CELESTIAL

2-Dimensional: Universe spatialized according to polar

conception of earth and sky

3-Dimensional: “Music of the Spheres”

Geocentric


Metaphysical- spirit resides beyond manifest world

Heterogeneous space Spatial dualism-

Distinct realms for physical (terrestrial)

and sacred (celestial) space

Universe as an instrument Spheres

geometrically (harmonically)

related

Mythologies of rhythmic, cyclical time

Linear: Temporally directed

cosmologies: creation, the beginning of time,

subsequent fall, work of evolutionary restoration

Static Universe Table 4.4E- Mythic/Rational Cosmology: Celestial.

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IDEOLOGY DIETY Father God. (See Figure 4.4I) A monotheistic, metaphysical God is the spiritual counterpart of the awakened ego. Humans are “here”, god is “there”- the two no longer stand as polar correspondences or complements, but in dualistic opposition.

From MOTHER GODDESS

To FATHER GOD

Matriarchal (Dominated)

Patriarchal (Entirely)

Polytheistic Monotheistic

Goddess/God as natural elements (Earth, sun,

constellations)

God as a mental abstraction


Metaphysical (Spirit elevated to the “heavens”- beyond the

physical domain)

Humanity a part of cosmic perpetuation

(Fertility rites, man and woman)

God as separate from humanity, divine and

all-powerful perfection outside of space and time. Humans with

independent “souls” severed from source.

Table 4.4F- Mythic/Rational Deity: Father God.

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IDEOLOGY COLLECTIVE IDENTITY Socio/World-Centric. In the mythic/rational stage of development, rationality provides the framework to evolve beyond the conflicting mythologies of socio-centric chiefdoms into a world-centric social structure based on mutual understandings. Collective identity is secured by way of doctrines with a universal claim; religions emerge, which place humanity in relation to a supreme, transcendental God or universal essence.

From SOCIO-CENTRIC To SOCIO/ WORLD-CENTRIC

Territorial Relations- Chiefdoms

Held together by common

perceptions, language, and

mythology

Territorial Relations-

Feudal Empires/

Early Nations


rationale and universal claims of mythic

doctrine

Table 4.4G- Mythic/Rational Identity (Collective): Socio/World-Centric

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MORPHOLOGY URBAN MORPHOLOGY Feudal Empires/Early Nations. Mythologies, propped up by rationality, form the feudal empires and early nations which attempt to conquer as many people as possible. Since such mythologies can not be supported entirely by shared evidence, they are supported imperialistically by the military. Empires with conflicting ideologies are incompatible with one another and maintain no diplomatic relations.

From EARLY PERMANENT

SETTLEMENTS

To FEUDAL EMPIRES/ EARLY NATIONS


(10,000BC-5,000 BC)

Population 100,000’s-1,000,000’s

(1,000BC-1400AD)

To CHEIFDOMS

Population 1,000’S-10,000’S

(5,000 BC-3,000 BC)

To CITY-STATES

Population 10,000-100,000

(3,000BC-1,000 BC) Table 4.4H- Mythic/Rational Urban Morphology: Feudal Empires/Early Nations.

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From CHTHONIC OBJECT

To CELESTIAL OBJECT

Stone Pillar Architectures

The Greek Temple The Gothic Cathedral

Table 4.4I- Mythic/Rational Architectural Morphology.

General The Use of Symbolism.

Mythic/rational consciousness is for the most part, still pre-rational- truth is based on the doctrines of religion and is inherently unscientific. The architecture of the pre-modern era is adorned with symbolic figures-statues, sculptural decoration, and murals- which detail the myths of creation and their implied significance for humanity. A Sacred Order: Geometry, Ratio, and Proportion.

The architecture of the Greek and Medieval periods symbolized the sacred harmony of the cosmos. The "music of the spheres" vibrated through the world- when humanity made earthly architecture according to the ratio of the heavens, they participated in the harmony of the universe. Their temples and Cathedrals intended to bridge the separation between humans and deity, to bring God and celestial harmony closer to earthly life.

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Case Study- The Greek Temple (The Celestial Object)



Even greater distinction

between self and

environment


Even greater distinction between


Even greater sense of self-consciousness as

evidenced in anthropocentric sculptures and

ornamentation in the Greek temple

Ego structure has almost completely developed- polar elements used to

define geometrical space which registers depth,

still lacks strict definition between inside and

outside (walls), however, it reflects spatial enclosure (roof)


Analytical skills, deductive reasoning

Mathematically proportioned, geometrical

spaces

Perception of space

Early perspective

Evidenced in relief sculptures-

registration of spatial depth

Perception of time

Linear, Extended

Evidenced in relief sculptures-

depict temporally extended creation stories


Mythology Symbolic form/ ornamentation

Cosmology Music of the Spheres

Proportion: whole number ratios in

accordance

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Deity Zeus, God of Thunder and Sky- Ruler of

the 12 Gods of Olympus

Temples dedicated to the 12 Gods

(i.e. Athena Parthenos) Each city associated with

a God/Goddess (i.e. Athens)

Table 4.4J- Case Study- The Greek Temple (The Celestial Object).

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MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY (Cont.) Case Study- The Greek Temple (The Celestial Object)

The Greek temple became a symbol of universal order through geometry. Emphasis was placed on exact, whole number ratios (the chords of the music of the spheres), particularly unitary fractions that had 1 as the numerator. (See Figures 4.1J, 4.1K and 4.1L)

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Case Study- The Gothic Cathedral (The Celestial Object)



Even greater distinction between

self and environment


Even greater distinction between subject and object,

interior and exterior

Even greater sense of self-consciousness as evidenced in anthropocentric paintings and stained glass windows of the

gothic cathedral

Ego structure has completely developed- spatial dualism-

strict definition between inside and outside (walls), spatial

enclosure (roof), architectural “object”, a “fort of egocentricity”


Analytical skills, deductive reasoning

Mathematically proportioned, geometrical

spaces

Perception of space

Early perspective Evidenced in perspective paintings-

registration of spatial depth

Perception of time

Temporally extended, linear

Evidenced in ornamentation-

Depict temporally extended creation stories


Mythologies with universal claim

(only semi-rational)

Symbolic Form

Relationship between interior and exterior- stained glass windows depict religious

mythology, filtered perception (only semi-rational)

Cosmology Music of the Spheres

Proportion: whole number ratios in

accordance

Deity Christian God Loftiness and huge

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dimensions convey great glory of the Christian god

Table 4.4K- Case Study- The Gothic Cathedral (The Celestial Object).

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MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY (Cont.) Case Study- The Gothic Cathedral (The Celestial Object)

The Gothic cathedral represented the universe in microcosm; each architectural concept, including its loftiness and the huge dimensions of the structure- were intended to convey the great glory of the Christian God. Mathematics and geometry, “the fundamental harmonizer of the universe and human life” formed the foundation of the design process and were used to convey religious significance (Harvey 68). (See Figures 4.4M, 4.4N and 4.40)

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IN HUMAN HOLONS ---Scientific/Rational Mutation---

(1400 AD-1960AD)

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---Scientific/Rational Mutation--- (1400 AD-1960AD)

OVERVIEW Differentiation/Disassociation between Biosphere and Noosphere In the scientific-rational stage of development, the mind completely crystallizes from the body; they become so differentiated that they tend towards disassociation.

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PHYSIOLOGY • Dominated by left hemisphere of neocortex (See Figure 4.5A)

From NEOCORTICAL ACTIVATION To LEFT HEMISPHERE

Rational Brain-

Conscious thought

Rational

Logical

Analytical/Reductionistic

Mathematics- Algebra

(Study of structure, relation, and quantity)

Language

Language- Grammar/Vocabulary

(Literal)

Spatial Awareness

Linear

Temporal

Cartesian Table 4.5A- Scientific-Rational Physiology: Dominated by Left Hemisphere of Neocortex.

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ONTOLOGY STAGE OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Formal Operational. (See Figure 4.5B)

From CONCRETE OPERATIONAL To FORMAL OPERATIONAL

Operates on thought Operates on/discriminates thought Beyond conformity

Comes up with alternatives Draws conclusions with experimental evidence

(Scientific Method)

Learns analytical skills Learns abstract thinking- Entertains hypothetical possibilities

Begins deductive reasoning- Quantification and dichotomization of

polar opposites

Continues deductive reasoning- Quantification and dichotomization of

polar opposites

Can mentally reconstruct the perspective of another organism

(Perceptions can be compared)

Uses rationality to establish common, universal perspective

Concerned with exteriors, surface and objectivity

Table 4.5B- Scientific-Rational Cognitive Style: Formal Operational.

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ONTOLOGY INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY Fully Developed Ego Structure. In the scientific/rational stage of development, the conscious subject continues to experience itself as standing apart from the contents or “objects” of his awareness. This rigid dichotomy between the subject and the “external”, objective world of form provides the framework for rational thought- all valid knowledge consists of the subject making internal maps of the one true external world. (See Figure 4.5C)

From LATE EGO FORMATION

To FULLY DEVELOPED EGO STRUCTURE

Even greater distinction between self and environment

Complete distinction/disassociation between self and environment

Even greater distinction between subject and object, interior and

exterior

Complete distinction/disassociation between subject and object, interior

and exterior

Greater distinction between body and mind

Complete distinction/disassociation between mind and body

(Cartesian) Table 4.5C- Scientific-Rational Identity (Individual): The Fully Developed Ego Structure.

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ONTOLOGY PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND TIME 3-Dimensional (Advanced). The scientific-rational stage of development masters perspectival vision and representation. Two lines extend from the eyes and meet at the object being viewed; the image formed by the isolated sector locates the subject, the object, and the space in-between. Such distance between humans and world is an indication of fully developed, objectified, ego-consciousness; experience is confined to a linear sequence of fragmented spatial segments. (See Figure 4.5D)

From 3-DIMENSIONAL (ELEMENTARY)

To 3-DIMENSIONAL (ADVANCED)

PERSPECTIVE Early Perspectival

Late Perspectival- Single, fixed perspective

OBJECTHOOD Subject turns towards objects of awareness

Subject confronts objects of awareness

SPACE Awareness of orientation in space

“in here” vs. “out there" (duality)

Disassociation between “in here” vs. “out there”

Euclidian Space: Orientation, Direction

Concretizes Euclidian Space:

Orientation, Direction

TIME Extended Time: Past, Present, Future

Extended Time: Past, Present, Future

Table 4.5D- Scientific-Rational Perception of Space and Time: 3-Dimensional (Advanced).

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IDEOLOGY COSMOLOGY Mechanistic.

Rationality Collapses the “Heavenly Spheres” Heliocentrism and the Copernican Revolution.

In the pre-modern world view, the universe is bound by the outer sphere of heaven, which is centered about the Earth. In 1543 Nicholas Copernicus proposed to switch the places of the Earth and the Sun; he put the Sun in the center of the universe and placed the Earth in revolution around it. To account for the daily motion of the heavens, he set the Earth rotating about its own axis. The crystalline sphere of stars was no longer needed- the “heavenly” bodies were scattered through a vast open space, freed to move like normal physical objects. (See Figure 4.5E) Discordant Music.

Belief in the uniform, circular motion of the “spheres” had been a fundamental aspect of Western astronomy for two millennia. This belief was broken early in the 17th century when Kepler proved that the Earth and the other planets all travel around the Sun in elliptical orbits. The “music of the spheres” was not harmonious, it was discordant. (See Figure 4.5F) The Mutability of the Heavens.

With the invention of the telescope, Galileo observed that the moon was not a perfectly smooth celestial orb but that its surface was uneven and rough. He also observed that the sun had sunspots. Change and imperfection could occur, both on Earth and in “Heaven”. (See Figure 4.5G) Gravitation in the Celestial Realm.

A new explanation of how the planets continued to retrace the same elliptical paths forever around the Sun remained a central problem of cosmology until Isaac Newton explained how objects move under gravity. Gravity is a force of attraction between two physical masses; if the planets’ orbits are elliptical because of gravitational forces operating between the sun and the planets, celestial bodies must be concrete materials. The motions in the heavens obey the same laws that determine the movement of bodies on Earth. The ancient distinction between the physics of our earthy sphere below the Moon and the celestial physics of a higher realm was shattered. The Cosmological Principle.

The ancients regarded our universe as finite, extending no larger than our solar system. Modern science revealed that our solar system is immersed in a much larger stratum of stars. Other island universes are scattered throughout infinite, unbounded space. Neither the earth nor any other celestial body is center: every place is the same as every other place, all cosmological positions are equal.

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IDEOLOGY COSMOLOGY (Cont.) The Unification of Celestial and Terrestrial Space In the mythic/rational world, the spiritual realm had been secured by its intimate relation with the cosmology of the time- Greek and medieval cosmologies accommodated a spatial domain for both the physical and the metaphysical. Homogenous, physical space, however, can only sustain one kind of reality; in the Newtonian cosmos, the celestial and the terrestrial are united in one continuous physical domain. The “heavenly spheres” collapse; the great dualistic medieval “Kosmos” are reduced to the physical cosmos, setting modern humanity in a new spatial scheme. A Mechanical Universe

The modern universe is conceived as a static, Euclidean space extending equally in all directions, holding small and indestructible parts. Each object is a concrete, material entity, inpenetratable and separate, connecting to other objects through external forces of power and influence. These parts interact in determined, causal ways, like gears in a machine (See Figure 4.5H).

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From CELESTIAL

To MECHANISTIC

3-Dimensional: “Music of the Spheres”

3-Dimensional: Collapse of “Heavenly

Spheres”

Geocentric Heliocentric

Metaphysical Metaphysical

Heterogeneous space Spatial dualism-

Distinct realms for physical (terrestrial)

and sacred (celestial) space

Homogenous space Spatial Monism-

Unification of terrestrial and celestial space

Space an inert, passive arena, unaffected by

objects it contains

Universe as an instrument Spheres

geometrically (harmonically)

related

Universe as machine

Linear: Temporally directed

cosmologies: creation, the beginning of time,

subsequent fall, work of evolutionary restoration

Linear: Scientific twist

Creation: Big Bang Evolution: Darwinian

Cosmological principle: properties of space and

time same absolute and universal, rate of change invariant at all

locations

Static Universe Static Universe

Table 4.5E- Scientific-Rational Cosmology: Mechanistic.

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IDEOLOGY DIETY Atheistic. Scientific-rational consciousness is skeptical of all supernatural beings and cites a lack of empirical evidence for the of existence deities.

From FATHER GOD

To ATHESTIC

Patriarchal (Entirely)

Atheism

Skepticism- Lack of empirical

evidence of supernatural being(s)

Denial of all irrational

knowledge claims (both pre-rational and

post-rational)

Monotheistic

God as a mental abstraction

Metaphysical (Elevated to the

“heavens”- beyond the physical domain)

God as separate from humanity, divine and

all-powerful perfection outside of space and time. Humans with

independent “souls” severed from source.

Table 4.5F- Scientific-Rational Deity: Atheistic.

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IDEOLOGY COLLECTIVE IDENTITY World-Centric (Exclusive). In the scientific/rational stage of development, increasing levels of rationality provide the framework to break with the all-encompassing grip of religious myth and determine that which is universal and eternal through the scientific method. Blind faith in authority and religious dogmas which claim divine support are abandoned- everything is questioned, examined, and explored logically. The rational sciences and philosophy (both of which depend on reason as a platform) emerge. Truth is not forced or ideologically imposed, but is available to anyone who wishes to share evidence. This secures a common and mutual understanding for people of all colors, races, and creeds.

From SOCIO/ WORLD-CENTRIC

To WORLD-CENTRIC (EXCLUSIVE)

Territorial Relations-

Feudal Empires/ Early Nations


rationale and universal claims

of mythic doctrine

(Religion)

Territorial Relations- Globalized

Nations (Exclusive)

Held together by rationality-

philosophy and the sciences

Table 4.5G- Scientific-Rational Identity (Collective): World-Centric.

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MORPHOLOGY URBAN MORPHOLOGY Globalized Nations (Exclusive). In the scientific/rational stage of development, rationality frees social systems from particular, divisive mythologies; church and state are separated and a global market economy emerges, all grounded in universalistic reason and global forms of intellectual intercourse. Primitive social structures, on the other hand, are considered “irrational” and are repressed, preventing a truly “world culture” from emerging.

From FEUDAL EMPIRES/ EARLY NATIONS

To GLOBALIZED

NATIONS

Population 100,000’s-1,000,000’s

(1,000BC-1400AD)

Population 1,000,000’S-10,000,000

(1400AD-1900AD) Table 4.5H- Scientific-Rational Urban Morphology: Globalized Nations (Exclusive).

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From SACRED/MYTHIC OBJECT

To MECHANISTIC OBJECT

The Greek Temple International Style The Gothic Cathedral

Table 4.5I- Scientific-Rational Architectural Morphology.

General Modern Architecture: The Project of the New.

In attempt to break with the mythic consciousness of the pre-modern era, modern architecture denies all traditional metaphysics and explicit reference to inherited or conventional meaning. Its objective is to transcend regional, national and continental identity and reference only universals, pure rationality, and absolute truth. Traditional forms are erased and replaced with a new, rational order. From Typology to “Form follows Function”.

In the mythic/rational era, a building had been designed from a prototype (such as temple or a cathedral) - a basic building typology that had proven serviceable in the past and carried specific symbolic meaning. Modern architects design from the program: they start with a list of activities, their spatial requirements, and their relationships to one another. This list leads to diagrams of spaces and relationships, which then leads to the shape of the building. Modern architecture fulfills its direct utilitarian purpose and no others. This approach is designed to assure that anything intangible or symbolic (not scientific) will not be considered; a beauty similar to that of a machine results.

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Case Study- The International Style (The Mechanistic Object)



Complete distinction/

disassociation between self

and environment

Completely setting self apart from “nature”

Complete distinction/

disassociation between


Even greater sense of self-consciousness, attention turns from

creating temples for the gods to creating

architecture for human life

Ego structure has

completely developed- spatial dualism- strict

definition between inside and outside (walls),

spatial enclosure (roof), architectural “object”, a “fort of egocentricity”


Uses rationality to establish common, universal

perspective

Elimination of symbolic content/ornamentation

Perception of space

Perfected perspective

3-dimensional objects stand in void of 3-

dimensional, Euclidian space


One universal, scientific truth

“International” Style

Cosmology Mechanistic Building as a machine Designing from program

Form follows function

Atomistic “Forts of egocentricity”

Deity Atheism No metaphysical

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reference Table 4.5I- Case Study- The International Style (The Mechanistic Object).

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MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY (Cont.) Case Study- The International Style (The Mechanistic Object)

The elements of classical architecture, falling subject to the purification of the machine, are reduced to their simplest form and purest function; ornamentation is eliminated, interior walls are disposed of, and materials are used in their clearest and most honest expression (Jenks 19). Buildings display their construction and structure, exposing steel beams and concrete surfaces rather of hiding them behind traditional forms. The architectural object is decontextualized- conceived of independently of location, context, and climate- forming a truly “international style”. (See Figures 4.5I and 4.5J)

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IN HUMAN HOLONS ---Pluralistic Mutation---

(1960-Present)

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---Pluralistic Mutation--- (1960-Present)

OVERVIEW Attempts for Reconciliation between the Biosphere and the Noosphere. In the pluralistic stage of development, the rifts between the biosphere and the noosphere, the body and the mind, break down.

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PHYSIOLOGY • Dominated by right hemisphere of neocortex (See Figure 4.6A)

From NEOCORTEX

LEFT HEMISPHERE

To RIGHT HEMISPHERE

Rational Brain-

Conscious Thought

Rational Abstract

Logical Intuitive

Analytical/Reductionistic Holistic



Mathematics- Calculus (Study of

change/variation)

Language


(Literal)

Language- Intonation/Pragmatic

(Contextual)

Spatial

Awareness

Linear Non-linear

Temporal Spatial

Cartesian/ Euclidian

Post-Cartesian/ Non-Euclidian

Table 4.6A- Pluralistic Physiology: Dominated by Right Hemisphere of Neocortex.

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---Pluralistic Mutation--- (1960-Present) ONTOLOGY STAGE OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Early Vision-Logic. (See Figure 4.6B)

From FORMAL OPERATIONAL To EARLY VISION-LOGIC

Operates on/discriminates thought Beyond conformity

Comes up with alternatives Draws conclusions with experimental

evidence (Scientific Method)

Operates on structures of thought Contextualizes knowledge claims

Learns abstract thinking- Entertains hypothetical possibilities

Learns systemic thinking- Sees connections between isolated “parts”

Continues deductive reasoning- Quantification and dichotomization of

polar opposites

Reasoning is dialectical and dialogical- Unifies opposites

Reconciles fragments

Uses rationality to establish common, universal perspective

Rejects rationality No absolute truth

All knowledge/realities constructed by subject or culture

Many perspectives Must be interpreted and contextualized

Concerned with exteriors, surface and objectivity

Concern with interiors, depth and subjectivity

Table 4.6B- Pluralistic Cognitive Style: Early Vision-Logic.

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ONTOLOGY INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY Transcending Ego. In the scientific-rational stage of development, the world is “out there”. This detached, externalized mode emphasizes the separation and distance between the organism and the rest of the cosmos. The pluralistic stage of consciousness challenges the Cartesian dualism and enlightenment epistemology, suggesting that the rational mind (the “mapmaker”) is not a disengaged, fully autonomous subject who represents an objective, empirical world- he is a performance of that which he seeks to know.

From FULLY DEVELOPED EGO STRUCTURE

To TRANSCENDING EGO

Complete distinction/disassociation between self and environment

Questioning distinction between self and environment

Complete distinction/disassociation between subject and object, interior and

exterior

Questioning distinction between subject and object,

interior and exterior

Complete distinction/disassociation between mind and body

(Cartesian)

Questioning distinction between mind and body

(Post-Cartesian) Table 4.6C- Pluralistic Identity (Individual): Transcending Ego.

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---Pluralistic Mutation--- (1960-Present) ONTOLOGY PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND TIME 4-Dimensional (Elementary). (See Figure 4.6C) When things are viewed in a scientific-rational, perspectival way (objectified space experienced in linear time) reality is rendered in detached, 3-dimensional, temporal fragments/perspectives (slices of “presence”). Pluralistic consciousness deconstructs objective space (See Figure 4.6D) and plasticizes linear time (See Figure 4.6E); crystallized forms unfold into the temporal domain of 4-dimensional space.

From 3-DIMENSIONAL (ADVANCED)

To 4-DIMENSIONAL (ELEMENTARY)

PERSPECTIVE Late Perspectival-

Single, fixed perspective

Multiperspectival: Considers various deformations and

configurations of 3-dimensional space in

time

OBJECTHOOD Subject confronts objects of awareness

Subject co-creates objects of awareness

SPACE Disassociation between “in here” vs. “out there”

Breaks down dichotomy of interior and exterior

Concretizes Euclidian Space:

Orientation, Direction

Counterposes preconceived notions of

space and structure- deconstructs Euclidan

space

TIME Extended Time: Past, Present, Future

Concretion of time- Spatial plasticity unfolding into the

temporal dimension

Table 4.6D- Pluralistic Perception of Space and Time: 3-Dimensional (Advanced).

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IDEOLOGY COSMOLOGY Relativistic. General Relativity

The modern “cosmological principle” stated that the properties of the universe were the same at all locations. Time was considered absolute and universal, its rate of change forever invariant. Space was a passive arena- the formal background of the universe- homogenous, inert, and unaffected by the objects it contained.

The theory of general relativity overthrows absolute notions of space and time, unifying the two constructs into a dynamic, cosmological terrain which is bent by the presence of the objects it contains. Relativistic space-time is nothing like a machine- it is a heterogeneous, plastic medium subject to transformation. (See Figure 4.6F). Special Relativity

In the Newtonian model, time and space exist independently of the subject. At any given moment, a simultaneous occurrence of events takes place in an absolute frame-of-action. The theory of special relativity suggests that the properties of space-time are functions of a particular frame of reference- when and where an event takes place, as well as the way that it appears, depend on that observers relative velocity to the universal constant- the speed of light (c).

At 5 mph, an observer will experience time as a linear sequence of past, present and future (See Figure 4.6G) and space as expanded and 3-dimensional (See Figure 4.6H); from this frame of reference, all objects appear 3-dimesional and fixed (See Figure 4.6I). As an observer approaches the speed of light the temporal dimension expands to include more and more of the eternal present (See Figure 4.6J) and the spatial dimension collapses (See Figure 4.6K); the three-dimensional object contracts into a two-dimensional, flat plane, then into a one-dimensional, flat line, and then ceases to exhibit spatial extension (Shlain 34). (See Figure 4.6L)

Special relativity reveals that there is no absolute coordinate system at rest, no fixed frame-of-reference in the universe that can be considered absolute- everything of substance exists relative to everything else. There are an infinite number of ways that the world can be seen and each is equally valid.

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From MECHANISTIC

To RELATIVISTIC

3-Dimensional: Collapse of “Heavenly

Spheres”

4-Dimensional Space-time

Heliocentric A-centric

Metaphysical “Death of metaphysics” No divine order

Homogenous space Spatial Monism-

Unification of terrestrial and celestial space

Heterogeneous Space

Space an inert, passive arena, unaffected by

objects it contains

Space a plastic medium, bent by the

objects it contains

Universe as machine Universe as cosmological terrain

Linear Time: Scientific twist

Creation: Big Bang Evolution: Darwinian

Properties of space-time a function of frame

of reference Cosmological principle: properties of space and time same absolute and

universal, rate of change invariant at all

locations

Static Universe Expanding universe Table 4.6E- Pluralistic Cosmology: Relativistic.

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IDEOLOGY DIETY Nihilistic. Nihilism denies the absolute values and meta-narratives upon which western culture has based it’s “truths”; it argues that all meaning is constructed and that existence is without objective purpose or intrinsic value.

From ATHEISTIC

To NIHILISTIC

Atheism

Nihilism- Existence is without meaning,

purpose and value

“Death of God” “Death of Metaphysics” No divine/cosmic order

No absolute values or truths Nothing can be known

Skepticism- Lack of empirical

evidence of supernatural being(s

Denial of all irrational

knowledge claims (both pre-rational and

post-rational)

No reasonable proof or argument for the existence of a higher

creator. If one does exist, humanity has no obligation to

worship them.

Table 4.6F- Pluralistic Deity: Nihilistic.

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IDEOLOGY COLLECTIVE IDENTITY World-Centric (Inclusive). Pluralistic consciousness recognizes that all perceptions of the world are highly nuanced; it posits that there are no norms of reason that transcend what is accepted by a society or an epoch- all knowledge is partial and no one interpretation is superior to another. Rather than allowing only one (rational) structure to be valid, all structures are recognized, presented, and accepted as relativistically valid.

From WORLD-CENTRIC (EXCLUSIVE)

To WORLD-CENTRIC (INCLUSIVE)


Nations (Exclusive)

Held together by rationality-

philosophy and the sciences


Nations (Inclusive)

Held together by tolerance

for all cultures and

perspectives

Table 4.6G- Pluralistic Identity (Collective): World-Centric (Inclusive).

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MORPHOLOGY URBAN MORPHOLOGY Globalized Nations (Inclusive). Pluralistic consciousness transcends a purely rational orientation; all structures of knowledge are considered equal and all cultures, from primitive to modern, are accepted. This enables, for the first time in history, the emergence of a truly inclusive world culture.

From GLOBALIZED

NATIONS (EXCLUSIVE)

To GLOBALIZED

NATIONS (INCLUSIVE)

Population 100,000’s-1,000,000’s

Population 1,000,000’s-100,000,000’s

Table 4.6H- Pluralistic Urban Morphology: Globalized Nations (Inclusive).

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ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY

From MECHANISTIC

OBJECT

To PLURALISTIC/

DECONSTRUCTED OBJECT

To TOPOLOGICAL

EVENT

International Style Postmodernism Topological Architecture Deconstructivism

Table 4.6I- Pluralistic Architectural Morphology.

General (Pluralistic/Deconstructed/Contextualized Object)

Pluralistic morphologies deny the simplicity of modernity: pure form, pure meaning, and pure truth do not exist. There is no direct correspondence between reason and reality - everything is conditioned and relative. The essentialist justification for the austere language of modernism dissolves; multiplicities of meanings are favored over objective, ultimate truths of principles (Conrads 76).

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---Pluralistic Mutation--- (1960-Present) MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY (Cont.)

Case Study- Postmodernism (The Pluralistic Object)


ONTOLOGY Cognitive Development

Post-rational, contextual,

meaning is not universal but

determined by culture

Combines and grafts styles and symbols from various eras and cultures


All knowledge is partial, no

system better than another

Cosmology Incorporates the element of time in spatial

dimension

Multiple time periods evidenced in a single

frame of reference

Deity Culturally relative- all are

acceptable

Meanings from the various epochs of history

combined Table 4.6J- Case Study- Postmodernism (The Pluralistic Object).

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MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY (Cont.) Case Study- Postmodernism (The Pluralistic Object)

The pluralistic language of the postmodern morphology celebrates the differences that modernity sought to erase. It combines and grafts historical and contemporary styles in new and ironic ways, opening alternative readings or meanings. The functional and formalized shapes of the international style are replaced by unapologetically diverse aesthetics; styles collide, form is adopted for its own sake, and new ways of viewing familiar styles and spaces abound. Architecture is steeped in popular symbolism and designs that exaggerate or stylize cultural icons (Jenks 81). The modern functionalist maxim “less is more” is replaced by “more is more” and “less is a bore!”.

Piazza d’Italia. (Charles Moore) Perhaps the best example of irony in postmodern buildings is Charles Willard Moore’s Piazza d’Italia. Moore quotes architectural elements from the Italian renaisance and Roman antiquity. He does so with a twist- the irony is noted when it is observed that the pillars are covered with steel (Conrads 131). (See Figure 4.6M)

Sony Building. (Phillip Johnson and John Burgee) “Double Coding”- the use of symbols which convey many meanings simultaneously- is prevalent in post-modern architecture. The Sony Building in New York is a skyscraper, which alludes to modern technology, yet the ornamental top alludes to elements of classical antiquity. (Jenks 100). (See Figure 4.6N)

Portland Service Building. (Michael Graves) Borrowing heavily from the past, Graves uses columns, pediments, arches, and other historic details. (See Figure 4.6O)

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Case Study- Deconstructivism (The Deconstructed Object)



Questioning distinction between


Dismantle/destabilize form to reveal inner subjectivity that was

present all along

Ego structure is started to be questioned- strict

definition between inside and outside (walls and roof) are challenged

through the manipulation of structure

and building envelope




No absolute truth- Deconstruct “pure form”

Cosmology Relativistic

Deformed space, non-Euclidian geometry

Deity Nihilism- no order, no meaning

Challenges postulates of order (proportion and

ratio). Calls for incoherence, confusion,

disjuncture, fragmentation, and lack

of sense/meaning Table 4.6K- Case Study- Deconstructivism (The Deconstructed Object).

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---Pluralistic Mutation--- (1960-Present) MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY (Cont.) Case Study- Deconstructivism (The Deconstructed Object) Rather than combining forms to open new interpretations, the deconstructivists exploit the weakness hidden within the traditional. They dismantle “pure form” to reveal the inner deformation (subjectivity) that was present all along. New forms are generated not by proposition but by constantly destabilizing existing forms. Deconstruction challenges the postulates of rationality (harmony and proportion); it calls for incoherence, confusion, disjuncture, fragmentation, and lack of sense. It is committed to modes of representation that emphasize the discontinuities and incommensurable aspects of a given object (Jenks 109).

Vitra Design Museum. (Frank Gehry). The Vitra Design Museum takes the typical unadorned white cube of modernist art galleries and deconstructs it; this subverts the functional aspects of modernist simplicity while taking modernism, particularly the international style, of which its white stucco skin is reminiscent, as a starting point (Conrads 93). (See Figure 4.6P) Santa Monica Residence (Frank Gehry). Any architectural deconstruction requires the existence of a particular archetypal construction, a strongly-established conventional meaning to play flexibly against. The Santa Monica Residence uses the prototypical suburban house as a starting point. Gehry alteres its massing, spatial envelopes, planes and other expectations in a playful subversion, an act of "deconstruction" (Conrads 65). (See Figure 4.6Q)

Wexner Center for the Arts (Peter Eisenman). The Wexner Center deconstructs the archetype of the castle and renders its spaces and structure with conflict and difference. A three-dimensional grid runs arbitrarily through the building. The grid, as a reference to modernism, collides with the medieval antiquity of a castle. Some of the grid's columns intentionally don't reach the ground, hovering over stairways creating a sense of neurotic unease and contradicting the structural purpose of the column (Conrads 142). (See Figure 4.6R)

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Case Study- Topological Architecture (The Topological Event)



Questioning distinction between


Dissolution of dichotomy between figure and ground, interior and

exterior: folded space, hypersurfaces

Perception of space

Space-time Continuum

Concretion of time- Unfolding of closed,

circumscribed space into dynamic, spatiotemporal

continuum

No longer concerned with metric properties

(distances between points) of traditional

objects and geometries, rather concerned with topological properties

(connectedness, orientability)- which

describe internal spatial relationships

Perception of time




Replacement of systematic divisions by

an open world of interconnections

Cosmology Relativistic Deformed space, non-Euclidian geometry

Table 4.6L- Case Study- Topology (The Topological Event).

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MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY (Cont.) Case Study- Topological Architecture (The Topological Event) From Object to Event. Transpersonal consciousness calls for a spatiotemporal scheme that transcends the logic of self vs. other. Architecture evades its Cartesian definition: it no longer an “object”- a static, essential form set in conflict with the environment- but an “event”- an open, living system embedded within its ecology. Topological Space. The dynamic, continuous, and heterogeneous nature of topological space signifies a departure from the metric, quantitative and homogenous space of Euclidian and Cartesian geometry. The architectural surface is reconfigured as an enveloping epidermis whose interior and exterior planes intersect, denying the duality of inside/outside, above/below, and right/left. The dichotomy of building/landscape breaks down; in a continuous flux from figure to ground, architecture emerges as a fluctuating figure. The Mobius House (Perrella and Rebecca). (See Figure 4.6S). City of Culture of Galicia (Eisenman Architects). (See Figure 4.6T) BMW Event and Delivery Center (Asymptote). (See Figure 4.6U) Yokohama Port Terminal (Foreign Office Architects). (See Figure 4.6 V) Taekwando Park (Weiss/Manfredi). (See Figure 4.6W)

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INTERLUDE: THE THEOSPHERE BEYOND HUMAN HOLONS:

EMERGENTS IN ALL FOUR QUADRANTS

We are currently witnessing a major reorganization of our cognitive field; the integral structure of consciousness is emerging and will manifest in all four quadrants. (See Figure 4.7A)

QUADRANT GROUND EMERGENTS

NOOSPHERE

THEOSPHERE

UR PHYSIOLOGY Neurological activation

Neurological synchronization

UL ONTOLOGY Personal, conscious differentiation

Trans-Personal superconscious Unity

LL IDEOLOGY Personal, conscious participation in human culture (differentiation)

Trans-Personal, superconscious participation in the “group mind” (unity)

LR MORPHOLOGY (Mental) Architecture Conscious -“Artifactual”- (differentiation)

(Fusion of natural and mental) Trans-Architecture Superconscious “Genetic”, Conscious Artifact24 (Unity)

Table 4.7A-- EMERGENTS of the Theosphere.

24 Conscious Artifact: An artificially created entity that has acquired consciousness or sentience

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IN HUMAN HOLONS ---Integral Mutation---

(Unfolding)

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---Integral Mutation--- (Unfolding)

OVERVIEW The Emergence of the Theosphere: Transcending and Including the Biosphere and the Noosphere. In the integral stage of development, the biosphere and the noosphere, the body and the mind, are mediated in a state of higher and deeper union; this results in the enaction of the theosphere- realm of incarnated “divinity”- in which the distance between subject and object becomes transparent to itself and spirit directly and consciously recognizes itself as spirit.

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PHYSIOLOGY • Integration/synthesis of right and left hemispheres of neocortex (See Figure

4.7B)

INTEGRAL (SYNTHESIS)

Rational Brain-

Conscious Thought

Rational Abstract

Logical Intuitive

Analytical/Reductionistic Holistic



Mathematics- Calculus

(Study of change/variation)

Language


(Literal)

Language- Intonation/Pragmatic

(Contextual)

Spatial

Awareness

Linear Non-linear

Temporal Spatial

Cartesian/ Euclidian

Post-Cartesian/ Non-Euclidian

Table 4.7B- Integral Physiology: Integration of Right and Left Hemispheres of Neocortex.

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ONTOLOGY COGNITIVE STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT Late Vision-Logic.

From EARLY VISION-LOGIC To LATE VISION-LOGIC

Operates on structures of thought Contextualizes knowledge claims

Integrates structures of thought

Learns systemic thinking- Sees connections between isolated

“parts”

Learns cross-paradigmatic thinking- Sees connections between systems

Reasoning is dialectical and dialogical-

Unifies opposites Reconciles fragments

Reasoning is integrative- Synthesizes contextualized knowledge

into greater schemas

Rejects rationality No absolute truth

All knowledge/realities constructed by subject or culture

Transrational Many relative truths

All relative knowledge/realities are enacted by subject or culture at a particular stage of

development

Many perspectives Must be interpreted and

contextualized

Integrates all into a hierarchy of enacted perspectives

Concern with interiors, depth and subjectivity

Concerned with mutual relationship between exterior surfaces and interior depths

Table 4.7C- Integral Cognitive Style: Late-Vision Logic.

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ONTOLOGY INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY Transpersonal/Integrative. In the integral stage of development, absolute subjectivity (emphasized in the pluralistic stage of development) and absolute objectivity (emphasized in the scientific/rational stage) are united again in one absoluteness, one timeless act of self-knowledge, a direct intuition which is not mediated through concept or form. The distance between subject and object, mind and body, becomes transparent to itself as the subject moves into expressive unity with the world, simultaneously retaining self-consciousness and autonomous will (personal consciousness) while uniting in a communion with the larger order (transpersonal consciousness). Identity is no longer limited to the finite “self”: there is no constriction of consciousness to the head, no binding of attention to the personal body; rather, consciousness becomes one with all that is arising- a vast, open, transparent, radiant, infinitely free and full expanse that embraces the entirety of the manifest world (See Figure 4.7C).

From TRANSCENDING EGO

To TRANSCENDING EGO

Questioning distinction between self and environment

Distinction between self and environment becomes transparent

Questioning distinction between subject and object, interior and exterior

Distinction between subject and object, interior and exterior becomes transparent

Questioning distinction between mind and body

(Post-Cartesian)

Distinction between mind and body becomes transparent

(Post-Cartesian) Table 4.7D- Integral Identity (Individual): Transcending Ego.

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ONTOLOGY PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND TIME 4-Dimensional (Advanced). The integral structure of consciousness25 transcends and includes all historically proceeding structure; it integrates all spatial and temporal modes and the actualities which they make perceptible (1-dimensional timelessness, 2-dimensional temporicity, and 3-dimensional time) into a space-and-time free, unfixed, aperspectival world where the free consciousness has at its disposal all latent and actual forms of space and time, without having to deny them or be subject to them. Reality is grasped in its plastic structure; what was conceived opaque, crystallized, 3-dimensional, and time-bound becomes transparent, right down to the pre-conscious pre-spatiotemporal origin. The world of form is perceived the expression of spirit becoming.

From 4-DIMENSIONAL (ELEMENTARY)

To 4-DIMENSIONAL

(ADVANCED)

PERSPECTIVE Multiperspectival: Considers various deformations and

configurations of 3-dimensional space in time

Aperspectival: Includes all possible

deformations and configurations of 3-

dimensional space in time

Free consciousness has at its disposal all latent

modes of spatiotemporality

OBJECTHOOD Subject co-creates objects of awareness

Subject enacts specific kinds of objects at

various stages in its development

SPACE Breaks down dichotomy of interior and exterior

The distance between subject and object

becomes transparent

Counterposes preconceived notions of

space and structure; Spatial plasticity

Unfolding into the temporal dimension

Morphogenetic Becoming

Emergence

25

Integral: necessary for the completion of the whole. The integral structure of consciousness integrates all previous structures of consciousness into a composite whole. (See Figure 4.7D)

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TIME

Concretion of time- Time as spatial dimension

Achronicity Omnipresence

Table 4.7E- Integral Perception of Space and Time: 4-Dimensional (Advanced).

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IDEOLOGY COSMOLOGY Hyperspatial.

All relative perspectives and selves are manifestations of a fundamentally unified, entangled field of intelligence- a background connective tissue tying together the world’s diverse phenomenon. This complex unity unfolds in a nested hierarchy of increasingly inclusive dimensions which are maintained through the process of self-organizing, dynamic systems (holons) that channel or metabolize energy from the environment as a method of developing and maintaining spatiotemporal organization. Evolution can either precede syntropically upwards to more organized, complex and conscious structures, culminating in the actualization of the Godhead itself or it can tend retrogressively towards disorder (complex systems dissolving into subholons). (See Figures 4.7E and 4.7F)

From RELATIVISTIC

To HYPERSPATIAL

4-Dimensional Space-time

Multidimensional- Dimensions organized in orders of complexity

A-centric A-centric

“Death of metaphysics” No divine order

“Sacred”, holonic, integral order

Heterogeneous Space Heterogeneous space

Space a plastic medium, bent by the

objects it contains

Space a plastic medium, enacted by

the subjects (consciousness) it

contains

Universe as cosmological terrain

Universe as a morphogenetic superorganism

Properties of space-time a function of frame

of reference

Frame of reference a function of level of

evolutionary development

Expanding Universe Universe is becoming

Table 4.7F- Integral Cosmology: Hyperspatial.

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IDEOLOGY DIETY Self-Actualized (God Becoming). The integral structure requires a drastic revision of traditional monotheistic concepts of a supernatural deity as the sole creator of the cosmos. The integral cosmos is a morphogenetic, self-creating, self-organizing and self-renewing system; each organism, at each juncture in the cosmic cycle, is responsible for a small but possibly indispensable contribution to the overall process of cosmic becoming. (See Figure 4.7G)

From NIHILISTIC To SELF-ACTUALIZED

Nihilism- Existence is without meaning,

purpose and value

Teleological- Spirit comes to know itself

through ever-inclusive structures of being

“Death of God” God as archetype for highest self (higher states of

consciousness)

“Death of Metaphysics” Spirit resides in manifest world

No divine/cosmic order Self-organizing cosmic order

No absolute values or truths All truth relative but increasingly inclusive

Nothing can be known Trans-rational: Higher forms of knowing through higher states of

consciousness Table 4.7G- Integral Deity: Self-Actualized.

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IDEOLOGY COLLECTIVE IDENTITY Being-Centric. In the integral stage of development, the individual realizes that each structure of consciousness is an integral part of their compound individuality; identification with a particular perspective is transcended as attention turns from concern with cultural inflections to the emergence of the next level cultural complexity: a transpersonal “supermind”.

From WORLD-CENTRIC

(INCLUSIVE)

To BEING-CENTRIC

(EMERGENT)


Nations (Inclusive)

Held together by tolerance for all

cultures and perspectives

---Emergent--- The

Global Mind

Identification with a particular culture or

perspective is transcended

Table 4.7H- Integral Identity (Collective): Being-Centric.

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MORPHOLOGY URBAN MORPHOLOGY Supranational Organization of Planetary Intelligence. All of today’s tribes, cultures and nations trace their lineage back in an unbroken fashion to the primal tribal holons upon which a human family tree was built. Their original breakthrough- to rise above nature and begin creating the noopshere- was the inception of the very process that would bind all of the people of the world together, gradually and incrementally building an immense superstructure of matter and mind that would creating the scaffolding for the next great leap upwards in the ongoing ascendance of consciousness: the supranational organization of planetary intelligence.

From GLOBALIZED

NATIONS (INCLUSIVE)

To SUPRANATIONAL ORGANIZATION

(EMERGENT)

Population 1,000,000’s-100,000,000’s

Population 100,000,000’S-1,000,000,000’S +

Table 4.7I- Integral Urban Morphology: Supranational Organization of Planetary Consciousness.

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ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY

From PLURALISTIC/

DECONSTRUCTED OBJECT

From TOPOLOGICAL

EVENT

To MORPHOGENETIC

EVENT

Postmodernism Topology

Genetic Architecture Deconstructivism

Table 4.7J- Integral Architectural Morphology. .

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Case Study- Genetic Architecture (The Morphogenetic Event)



Distinction between self

and environment

becomes transparent

Applying the “BIOS”- the logic of self-organizing, self-perpetuating, holonic,

evolutionary systems, to the “NOOS”- the realm of human intellect and culture, enacts

“theos”, the divinization/ transmutation of the material

realm (Apotheosis26)

Biomimicry- The application of biological methods and

systems found in nature to the study and design of

engineering systems and modern technology

Distinction between


becomes transparent

The relation between inside and outside, enclosed and

open is constantly renegotiated based on feedback

Figure and ground interweave, reconfiguring dualistic notions

of self/non-self

Perception of space

Aspatial

Atemporal

Multiple modes of space and time exist simultaneously

Perception of time


Emergence of global mind/

Super-organism

(Post-“Human” Era)

Humanity and its artifacts coevolve into a single, global

intelligence

26

Apotheosis: (Greek for “to Deify”), glorification to a divine level.

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Cosmology Evolutionary

Using algorithmic design processes to generate

autonomous forms that grown and learn

Deity Non-dual “God

Becoming”

Morphogenesis as the philosophical basis of design

Table 4.JK- Case Study- Genetic Architecture (The Morphogenetic Event)

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MORPHOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL MORPHOLOGY (Cont.) Case Study-Genetic Architecture (The Morphogenetic Event) Beyond Topology. The forms that result from generative process of topologising are no longer dynamic when they are constructed architecture. How can the static, inert figure be imbued with intelligence? Can form be programmed with structures/codes that imbue it with the potentiality for life? Modeling the Logic of Self-Organizing Systems.

There are generic patterns of organization and change- a hierarchy of spatial and temporal dynamics- to which all systems and organisms conform in their mutual process of becoming. Through science (through rationality-transcend and include), we are beginning to comprehend the logic of autopoietic process: we have broken the genetic code, we have started creating “artificial27” intelligence28 and even “artificial” life29. An integral morphology uses these principles to model artificially constructed holonic systems which elucidate and participating in the evolutionary drive. Some Examples. Although the integral structure of consciousness is still emerging, the following morphologies evidence early indications of its logic. BIOS (the principle) Energy from light (photosynthesis)

The application: Photovoltaics directly convert solar radiation into electricity that can

be stored or used on demand while producing no pollution. Caltrans District 7 Headquarters Building. (Morphosis). (See Figure 4.7H) BIOS (the principle) Waste=food (wetland metabolism)

The Application: Living machines use a sequence of increasingly complex ecosystems to purify wastewater.

El Monte Sagrado Resort. (Living Designs Group) (See Figure 4.7I) The El Monte Sagrado Resort has blended architecture, infrastructure and ecology into its prominent biolarium. BIOS (the principle) Code=form

27 Artificial: made by humans. 28 Artificial Intelligence: the study and design of human-made, intelligent systems which perceive their environment and take actions to optimize their chance of success. 29 Artificial Life: a new science based on the hypothesis that the biochemical processes that energize living matter are actually elaborate forms of computation that are susceptible to simulation in computers.

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Successive variations of genetic data create biomass of increasing structural complexity

The Application The integration of scripting language into CAD applications has enabled visualization of objects using algorithmic transformations based on circumstantial parameters. Forms and structures can be evolved in morphogenetic processes within computational environments.

ADA Space. (ETH) (See Figure 4.7J) In ADA space, each visitor entering the space is given a unique ID

number. Lights within interactive floor tiles form a visual tracking system; sounds are created in response to the movement of the visitors. The architectural experience is the outcome of the process of running a script in site-specific and time-specific environment with circumstantial parametric values.

BIOS (the principle) Contextually responsive structural elements

Application: Pressurized soft volumes are defined by a mesh of tensile, industrial “muscles” which change length, height and width in response to changing wind loads in real-time.

Industrial Muscles. (The Festo Company). (See Figure 4.7K) BIOS (the principle)

Adaptive forms, climatic responses Organisms are bundles of relationships that maintain themselves by adjusting their own behavior in anticipation or response to the changing patterns of activity around them.

Application: Complex, interacting structures slide gently in relation to one another; they are activated by a script which produces different values for the speed and extent of the movements in real time (informed by climatic change).

Graphisoft Slider. (ONL) (See Figure 4.7L) The Grafisoft Slider can produce an endless variety of configurations for a variety of purposes. Programmatic elements include a photovoltaic cover, a cage, sunscreens, a living box, a media box, a kitchen cloud, and a sanitary cloud.

Tower of Winds. (Toyo Ito). (See Figure 4.7M) The Tower of Winds is covered in acrylic mirrors with over a thousand light bulbs inserted among twelve neon rings with aluminum panels and 30 reflectors at the base. The lights are programmed by a computer to reproduce various designs that arrive from information gathered from the surrounding environment. The surfaces of the panels appear solid or translucent depending on the orientation of the reflectors which vary in response to the direction of the wind.

BIOS (the principle) Fractal growth.

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Fractals are geometric patterns that are repeated at ever smaller scales to produce irregular shapes and surfaces that cannot be represented by classical geometry. Fractals are used especially in computer modeling of irregular patterns and structures in nature.

Application: In recent years, the underlying logic and mathematics of nature’s forms are being understood. These can serve as a generative for architectural design. L-Systems. (Aristid Lindenmayer) (See Figure 4.7N) In the 1960’s, theoretical biologist and botanist Aristid Lindenmayer proposed a string-rewriting algorithm which formalizes the mathematical structure of the processes of self-organizing systems. The algorithm models the evolutionary growth of plants and a variety of organisms; by increasing the recursion level, the form slowly “grows” and becomes more complex.

BIOS (the principle) Biological forms adapt to changing climatic conditions through transformations of Cartesian coordinate systems. For example, the form of the puffer fish can evolve into that of an ocean sunfish by a transformation of the rectangular coordinate system in (A) (red dots) into a curvilinear system in (B) that "stretches" the posterior portion of the fish.

Application: Architectural forms adapt to changing climatic conditions through transformations of Cartesian coordinate systems.

The “Hyposurface”. (Mark Goulthorpe). (See Figure 4.7O) HypoSurface uses powerful 'information bus' technology to control thousands of moving actuators which form and deform a pliable surface. Any input, such as sound or movement, can be linked to any output. The surface behaves like a precisely controlled liquid: waves, patterns, logos, and text emerge and fade continually within its dynamic surface, evoking the transformative logic of biological systems.

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CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION

LIMITATIONS OF STUDY

LIMITATIONS OF STUDY Due to the time constraints of this project, generalizations and oversimplifications have been made. Future work will address the following shortcomings: Western Consciousness/Western Morphologies This study concentrates on the correlative development of human consciousness and architectural morphology in the western world. Although the deep features of consciousness structures are universal (each is characterized by a particular way of conceiving space, time, self and origin and each unfolds in the same developmental sequence regardless of scale and context), surface features (such as the rate of progression through the structures of consciousness and the particulars of how they manifest) depend on cultural factors. Future work will extend the four quadrants methodology to the Eastern world, identifying commonalities and noting differences between the two civilizations. Expansive Time Periods Only seven time periods were defined for this study: archaic (up to 2 million years ago), magical (2 million-10,000 B.C.), magical/mythic (10,000 B.C.-1000 B.C.), mythic/rational (1000 B.C.-1400 A.D.), scientific-rational (1400 A.D.-1950 A.D.), pluralistic (1950 A.D.-present) and integral (unfolding); while this is sufficient to establish the basic theoretical framework, it results in the oversimplification of historical eras and architectural styles. As an example, the differences in Greek and medieval schemes are profound, but for the convenience of this study, they have been lumped into the “mythic/rational” structure. Future work will divide chapters into subchapters and explore both the internal and external logic of each epoch in greater detail. “Co-Evolutionary” Streams of Development The time periods that were selected for this study were based on evidence of major shifts in the cognitive capacities of Western consciousness. There is, however, often a time lag between a new discovery, the restructuration of collective thinking, and the translation of this thinking into cultural artifacts. While the scientific discoveries that ushered in the scientific-rational structure of consciousness emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries (with the astronomical observations of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo), it wasn’t until the early 20th century that the implications found their proper expression in the “international style” of architecture. Further, the architectural morphologies that were being produced through the Renaissance (14th-17th centuries) are more adequately characterized by the mythic/rational structure of consciousness. Future work will address such discrepancies by drawing attention to the different rates of development within each domain of the mutation. Definitive Structures

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This study outlined the primary characteristics of each major structure of consciousness in isolation and identified the correlative architectural style which best exemplifies it. More often than not, however, structures of consciousness blend into and overlap one another. As such, morphologies are often hybrids which reflect several ideologies simultaneously. For example, although international style epitomizes the scientific-rational structure of consciousness, not all architecture produced in the modern period denies context. Alvar Alto, an architect of the early 20th century, rejected the machine aesthetic and evidenced consideration of both terrain and climate in his designs (a characteristic of pluralistic consciousness). Future work will focus on contextualizing the nuances found within each major epoch. Urban Morphology While this study addresses the urban scale by evidencing increasingly inclusive and complex social structures through the course of human evolution, it does not look specifically into the relationship between prevailing consciousness structures and urban design. Future work will address the following questions: Is there a relationship between the maturation of the ego-structure in the height of scientific-rational consciousness and the atomization of individual building elements in modern urbanism? Does postmodern urbanism, in its efforts to consider building elements as part of a larger system, evidence a logic which echoes transpersonal consciousness? If an integral consciousness structure does infact emerge, how will this translate into urban form? How might we vision the “supranational organization of planetary consciousness”?

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CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSION

THE BODY OF THE GODDESS

“Spiritual perfection and material synthesis are two aspects or connected parts of one and the same phenomenon."- Tielhard De Chardin (Chardin 56).

Morphologies are the collective, external manifestation of a particular developmental mode of being; they reflect the sequential stages of the evolving whole through its process of becoming. The world is “the body of the Goddess”; there is no distance between humanity and divinity, creation is drenched in spirituality and meaning. As evolution proceeds and spirit awakens to itself, more and more complex physical forms with more and more integrated and inclusive ways of knowing evolve, until eventually, all relative forms have been transcended and included and a perfectly unified, incarnate mode of being emerges.

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CHAPTER 7: FUTURE WORK WHAT IS THE BASIS OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL

ORGANIZATION? Evolution : Self-transcendence through self-organization (See Figure 7A) There is a single pattern- a cosmic “code”- that governs the development and complexification of all domains of existence. Future research will be directed towards understanding and modeling the dynamics of this principle. Topics of exploration will include evolutionary morphology, developmental biology, genetics, autopoietic/systems theory, geometry (particularly phi) and its role in self-organization and growth, fractals, and the use of digital programs to model morphogenetic algorithms/architectures. Of particular interest is the relationship between the I Ching (an ancient text on “becoming” based on the arrangement of 64 hexagrams), DNA (a genetic code for “becoming” based on the arrangement of 64 codons) and feng shui (an eastern methodology of space planning based on the arrangement of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching). (See Appendix A).

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APPENDIX A: FUTURE WORK SCRIPTURA UNIVERSALIS

A MORPHOGENETIC SCRIPT Both the genetic code and the I Ching claim to contain the fundamental spatial and temporal principles of ordering, variation and change which govern the developing organization and formative processes of all levels of structure. DNA: THE GENETIC “CODE OF LIFE” An Overview In 1953, Watson and Crick discovered the twisted, double-strand helix of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid), which is present in every cell nucleus of every living organism, to be the carrier of the genetic instructions used to direct the life process and program the form, structure, development, functioning, growth, and reproduction of every form of life, including the vegetable, animal and human kingdoms in their myriad of variation. Fundemantal Structure Two strands, one positive and one negative, are joined together at regular intervals. Each rung of the helix consists of a base or “letter” (of which there are four): Thymine (T), Adenine (A), Cytosine (C), and Guanine (G). Three rungs of bases (“letters”) create a codon, or genetic “word” (A-A-A, A-C-G, G-C-A etc.); there are 64 possible combinations of these letters (64 possible “words”), each of which has a recognized meaning. One very precisely defined sequence of hundreds of such codons (“words”) contain the instructions needed for the synthesis of an amino acid, the building block of every living creature. The sum total of all of these code words is the “blueprint” for producing a whole specific plant, animal, or human body with all of its characteristics. (See Figures A.1 and A.2) THE I CHING CODE, A “TEXT ON BECOMING” An Overview The I Ching is a compendium of natural philosophy from ancient China, compiled by Fu-Hsi and edited by Confucius. It is based on the principle that there is a single, unified whole that encompasses everything that exists. Within this unified whole, there is movement, and this movement is created by the workings of the two fundamental, polar forces, yin and yang. The I Ching models the mathematical language of this continual movement; it shows how growth occurs once a basic duality is created from the division of unity. Fundamental Structure The two polar forces of yin and yang, one negative and one positive (See Figure A.3), are joined together in four possible digrams or “letters”: old yin, new yin, old yang, young yang (See Figure A.4). Each of these correspond to a specific base or “letter” of the genetic code (See Figure A.5) When the digrams are taken three at a time, they form the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching (See Figure A.6). The meanings of the

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hexagrams correspond to the 64 codons or “words” of the genetic code (See Figure A.7) which specify the synthesis of a particular amino acid (See Figure A.8).

Comparisons between the Genetic Code and the I Ching

THE GENETIC CODE

THE I CHING CODE

1. Universal Claim: genetic code said to lie at the origin of the whole visible world, operative in its finest details and its patterns. All processes and the development of all living creatures throughout nature are subject to one strictly detailed program (vital process, structure, form, heredity)

2. The basis of the genetic code is the plus and minus double helix of DNA.

3. The double helix consists of four

“letters” a. Thymine b. Adenine c. Cystosine d. Guanine

4. Three of these “letters” at a time create a “genetic word” (codon) which specify the synthesis of a particular amino acid

5. There are 64 possible “genetic words” (codons)

6. The direction in which the “genetic words” are read is strictly determined

7. Two codons have names “beginning” and “end”. They mark the beginning and end of a code sentence of some length.

8. Embodies probabilistic principles

in the determination of specific

1. Universal Claim: I Ching said to be lie at the origin of the whole visible world, operative in its finest details and its patterns. All processes of living development throughout nature are subject to one strictly detailed program (procession of events)

2. The I Ching rests upon the basis of the manifestation of the world principle in the primal poles of polarity: yin (--) and yang (-).

3. Four “letters” suffice for life in all its fullness

a. Old yang b. Young yang c. Old yin d. Young yin

4. Three of these “letters” at a time form a hexagram, one primary image of all the possible dynamic effects

5. The I Ching consists of 64 hexagrams which correlate to highly specific, dynamic states (i.e.: repression, breakthrough, etc.)

6. The direction in which the hexagram is read is strictly determined.

7. Two hexagrams have names “before completion” and “after completion”, (frequently opening and closing a sequence of events)

8. Embodies probabilistic principles in the determination of specific

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results (amino acid formation) results (predicting events)

Table A.1- Comparisons between the Genetic Code and the I Ching. Extracted from the work of Yan and Shonberger.

The two codes share a common philosophical attitude (both claim to depict the deep, underlying reality behind and within which all phenomenon, structure and experience unfold) and also share exact analogies (for example, the programming of all of life’s processes by means of 64 code words, each consisting of consisting of four “letters”, of which three are used at a time). Are both codes manifestations of a common principle, a single law running through the whole of nature in its diverse processes? Is human consciousness capable of comprehending this law of nature and reconstructing it? Does this code form the basis for an “evolutionary”, genetic morphology? Can the ancient art/science of Feng Shui (an eastern method of spatial and temporal planning which is based on the arrangement of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching) inform this process (See Figure A.9)?

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FIGURES

Figure 1A- The Spectrum of Consciousness. Extracted from SES, pg. 134.

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Figure 2A- Ken Wilber’s Four Quadrant’s Model.

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Figure 2B- The Correlative Development of Interior and Exterior Domains. Adapted from A Brief History of Everything, pg. 57.

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Figure 2C- The Correlative Development of Individual and Collective Domains. Adapted from A Brief History of Everything, pg. 57.

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Figure 2D- “Wolf”: Different Perspectives of a Sentient Being.

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Adapted from A Brief History of Everything, pg. 57.

Figure 2E- The Sentient Being as a Holon.

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Figure 2F- Agency and Communion.

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Figure 2G- The EMERGENCE of the Physiosphere, Biosphere, Noosphere, and Theosphere.

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Figure 2H- The Correlative Evolution of the Four Domains (General).

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Figure 2I- The Correlative Evolution of the Four Domains (Specific).

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Figure 3A- Focus of Study.

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Figure 3B- An Adaptation of the Four Quadrant’s Model.

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Figure 3C- Each Quadrant will be evaluated through Pre-Modern, Modern, Post-Modern, and Integral MUTATIONS of Personal Consciousness.

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Figure 3D- EMERGENTS of the Noosphere.

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Figure 3E- Isomorphic Streams of Development in the Noosphere.

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Figure 3F- The Correlative Evolution of the Four Quadrants in the Noosphere.

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Figure 3G- Scales of Development: Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny.

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Figure 3H- The Correlative Evolution of Personal Consciousness and Architectural Morphology: An Overview.

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Figure 4.1A-Homo Erectus. Wikipedia, “Homo Erectus”, extracted October 28th, 2008.

Figure 4.1B- The Limbic System.

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Figure 4.1C- Egocentric, Survival-Based Existence. Prehistoric Art and Civilization, pg. 19

Figure 4.1D- Survival Clans. Prehistoric Art and Civilization, pg. 22

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Figure 4.1E- Morphologies of the Physiophere and Biosphere. Wikipedia, “Biology”, extracted December 4th, 2008.

Figure 4.2A- Neanderthal. Wikipedia, “Neanderthal”, extracted December 4th, 2008.

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Figure 4.2B The Limbic System.

Figure 4.2C- Ochre-Stained Rocks at Quafzeh Cave. Dates back to 100,000 B.C. These rocks were used for burial ceremonies; they indicate that symbolic thinking has emerged. Prehistoric Art and Civilization, pg. 31

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Figure 4.2D- Early Representation of a Human Face. Dates back to 90,000 B.C. Indicates that elementary forms of self-consciousness have emerged. Prehistoric Art and Civilization, pg. 8

Figure 4.2E- Nature Spirits. Prehistoric Art and Civilization, pg. 98

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Figure 4.2F- Nomadic Tribal Structures. Old World Archeology: Foundations for Civilization, pg. 13.

Figure 4.2G- Interior Rotunda of Hall of Bulls. Lascaux, France. Prehistoric Art and Civilization, pg. 100

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4.3A- Neocortical Activation.

4.3B- The Agricultural Revolution. Left: The Ruins of Kish. Modern Tell al-Uhaymir. 6000 B.C. Right: The Ruins of Nebuchadnezzar. Babylon. 6000 B.C Old World Archeology: Foundations for Civilization, pg. 39.

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4.3C- The Emergence of Symbolic Language. 3000 B.C. Sumerians created first written language. This ruptures the original unity of humanity and nature- man becomes a master of things by naming them. It also extends the present moment into a sequence of moments (propelling time into the future). Old World Archeology: Foundations for Civilization, pg. 49.

4.3D- The Emergence of Intuitive/Inductive Reasoning. 2500 B.C. Tablets depict Sumerian Mathematics. Evidences inductive reasoning capacities (repeated observation used to establish rules of thumb). Elementary mathematics used for metrology (measuring, particularly cycles of time). Old World Archeology: Foundations for Civilization, pg. 52.

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4.3E- Athropocentric Imagery in Cave Painting. 12,000 B.C. -100 A.D. Tadrart Acacus, Libya As consciousness grounds itself in the ego structure, cave art becomes increasingly focused on the human figure. Old World Archeology: Foundations for Civilization, pg. 93.

4.3F- Spatial Depth in Cave Painting. 12,000 B.C.-100 AD. Tadrart Acacus, Libya. Old World Archeology: Foundations for Civilization, pg. 97.

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4.3G- Polar Awareness of Earth and Sky (Spatial). Wikipedia, “Constellations”, extracted December 7th, 2008.

4.3H- Awareness of Natural Cycles (Temporal). Early calendars evidence awareness of day and night, seasons, and the movement of the constellations. Wikipedia, “Sumerian Calendar”, extracted December 7th, 2008.

4.3I- Mother Goddess of the Earth. Venus Figures from the Neolithic Period. Wikipedia, “Mother Goddess”, extracted December 7th, 2008.

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4.3J- Early Permanent Settlements. Old World Archeology: Foundations for Civilization, pg. 111

4.3K- Stonehedge. Wiltshire, England. Stonehedge served as a monumental calendar and was used to chart the sun and moon’s horizon cycle, the measurement of the solstices and celestial phenomenon (such as solar and lunar eclipses). On the 21st of June the rising sun in the North East shines its light in between the Heel Stone onto the Alter Stone. Wikipedia, “Stonehedge”, extracted October 28th, 2008.

4.4A- Neocortical Activation (Cont’d.)

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4.4B- The Emergence of Deductive Reasoning. Greek mathematics was much more sophisticated than the mathematics that had been developed by earlier cultures. All surviving records of pre-Greek mathematics show the use of inductive reasoning, that is, repeated observations used to establish rules of thumb. Greek mathematicians, by contrast, used deductive reasoning. The Greeks used logic to derive conclusions from definitions and axioms. Upper right: Pythagoreans Theorem. Upper Left: One of Euclid’s postulates. Bottom: Original sketch extracted from Euclid’s Elements. Wikipedia, “History of Mathematics”, extracted December 5th, 2008.

4.4C- Anthropocentric Imagery in Greek and Medieval Sculpture and Architecture. Left: Greek Sculpture. Wikipedia, “Greek Sculpture”, extracted December 5th, 2008. Middle: Caryatid Porch at the Erechtheion on the Acropolis. Wikipedia, “Caryatid”, extracted December 5th, 2008. Right: Stained glass window at Chartres Cathedral. Wikipedia, “Chartres”, extracted December 5th, 2008.

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4.4D- Spatial Depth in Greek and Medieval Sculpture and Architecture. Left: Spatial Depth. Panatheinic Frieze at the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. 400 B.C. Wikipedia, “Parthenon”, extracted December 5th, 2008. Right: Early Perspective. Giotto’s “Presentation of the Virgin”. 1305 A.D. Wikipedia, “Giotto”, extracted December 5th, 2008.

4.4E- The Emergence of Linear Time. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light, pg. 163.

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Figure 4.4 F- The Greek Cosmological Scheme. Wikipedia, “Greek Cosmology”, extracted September 3rd, 2008.

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Figure 4.4G- The Music of the Spheres. Wikipedia, “Music of the Spheres”, extracted May 9th, 2008.

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Figure 4.4H- The Medieval Cosmological Scheme. Wikipedia, “Dante’s Inferno”, extracted May 6th, 2008.

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4.4I- Father God of Heaven. Left: The twelve Greek gods of Mount Olympus, ruled by Zeus, the god of Sky and Thunder. Wikipedia, “Olympian Gods”, extracted December 2nd, 2008. Right: A depiction of the Christian Deity (medieval period). Wikipedia, “History or Religion”, extracted December 2nd, 2008.

Figure 4.4J- The Parthenon. Wikipedia, “Parthenon”, extracted August 9th, 2008.

Figure 4.4K- Floor Plan of the Parthenon. Wikipedia, “Parthenon”, extracted August 9th, 2008.

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Figure 4.4L- Sculptural Ornamentation in the Parthenon: The Birth of Athena. Wikipedia, “Parthenon”, extracted August 9th, 2008.

Figure 4.4M- Chartres: A Gothic Cathedral. Wikipedia, “Chartres”, extracted August 9th, 2008.

Figure 4.4N- The Floor Plan of Chartres. Wikipedia, “Chartres”, extracted August 9th, 2008.

Figure 4.4O- Religious Symbolism in Chartres. Wikipedia, “Chartres”, extracted August 9th, 2008.

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4.5A- Dominated by Left Hemispohere of Neocortex.

4.5B- The Scientific Method. Wikipedia, “The Scientific Method”, extracted December 1st, 2008.

4.5C- The Fully Developed Ego Structure. www.bodiestheexhibition.com, extracted November 24th, 2008.

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Figure 4.5D- Cartesian Depiction of Perception. Wikipedia, “Cartesian Epistemology”, extracted April 14th, 2008.

Figure 4.5E- The Heliocentric Model of Copernicus. Wikipedia, “Copernicus”, extracted June 12th, 2008.

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Figure 4.5F- Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion. Wikipedia, “Kepler”, extracted June 12th, 2008.

Figure 4.5G- Moon drawn by Galileo. Wikipedia, “Galileo”, extracted June 13th, 2008.

Figure 4.5 H- The Mechanical Universe. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light, pg. 39.

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Figure 4.5I- La Villa Savoye. (Le Corbusier) Wikipedia, “Villa Savoye”, extracted August 9th, 2008.

Figure 4.5J- The Farnsworth House. (Mies van der Rohe) Wikipedia, “Farnsworth House”, extracted August 9th, 2008.

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4.6A- Dominated by Right Hemisphere of Neocortex.

4.6B- Contextualized Knowledge Claims. Euclid’s postulate of parallel lines only applies to flat surfaces. Wikipedia, “Manifolds”, extracted December 2nd, 2008.

4.6C- The Subject Co-Creates Objects of Awareness. Quantum mechanics has successfully challenged the belief that the observer is independent of the reality and has no influence on what is being observed. The Copenhagen Interpretation proposes that the world of real objects are enacted by consciousness, that sub-atomic particles are spread out as a probability wave through the whole of space until they are measured (observed), upon which they take on the properties of a particle. Wikipedia, “Copenhagen Interpretation”, extracted on December 14th, 2008.

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4.6D- The Deconstruction of Euclidian Space.

4.6E- Plasticized Time.

Figure 4.6F- The Relativistic Cosmos. Wikipedia, “General Relativity”, extracted August 12th, 2008.

Figure 4.6G- A Representation of Time at 5 mph. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light, pg. 156

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Figure 4.6H- A Representation of Space at 5 mph. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light, pg. 156.

Figure 4.6I- An Object Observed at 5mph. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light, pg. 156.

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Figure 4.6J- A Representation of Time as an Observer Approaches the Speed of Light. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light, pg.165.

Figure 4.6K- A Representation of Space as Observer Approaches the Speed of Light. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light, pg. 163.

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Figure 4.6L- An Object Observed while Approaching the Speed of Light. Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light, pg. 164.

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Figure 4.6M- Piazza d’Italia. (Charles Moore) Wikipedia, “Piazza d’Italia”, extracted April 9th, 2008.

Figure 4.6N- Sony Building. (Phillip Johnson and John Burgee) Wikipedia, “Postmodernism”, extracted October 16th, 2008.

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Figure 4.6O- Portland Service Building. (Michael Graves) Wikipedia, “Portland Service Building”, extracted February 30th, 2008.

Figure 4.6P- Vitra Design Museum. (Frank Gehry) Wikipedia, “Frank Gehry”, extracted November 6th, 2008.

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Figure 4.6Q- Santa Monica Residence. (Frank Gehry) Wikipedia, “Frank Gehry”, extracted November 6th, 2008.

Figure 4.6R- Wexner Center for the Arts. (Peter Eisenman) Wikipedia, “Peter Eisenman”, extracted January 5th, 2008.

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Figure 4.6S- The Mobius House Study. Stephen Perrella and Rebecca Carpenter. Wikipedia, “Unstudio”, extracted July 2nd, 2008.

4.6T- City of Culture of Galicia. (Eisenman Architects) www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 4th, 2008.

4.6U- BMW Event and Delivery Center. (Asymptote) www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 4th, 2008.

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4.6V- Yokohama International Port Terminal. (Foreign Office Architects) www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 13th, 2008.

4.6W- Taekwando Park. (Weiss/Manfredi) www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 4th, 2008.

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Figure 4.7A- EMERGENTS in the Theosphere.

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4.7B- The Integration of the Right and Left Hemispheres of the Neocortex. Extracted from http://lecerveau.mcgill.ca/flash/capsules/articles/triunebrain.pdf on October 14th, 2008.

4.7C- Consciousness No Longer Restricted to the Body. www.alexgrey.com, extracted December 10th, 2008.

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4.7D- Structures of Thought Integrated into a Complex Whole. www.alexgrey.com, extracted December 10th, 2008.

4.7E- Dimensions Organized in Orders of Increasing Complexity. Cymatics (Dr. Hans Jenny). Inert pastes are infused with pure tones; each higher tone within the octave produces a form exhibiting increased coherence and complexity. Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomenon and Vibration, pg. 106

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4.7F- Space a Plastic Medium Enacted by the Subjects it Contains. Water Crystal Studies (Dr. Masura Emoto). Suggest that human thoughts may affect the molecular structure of water. Left: Projected thought “Love and thanks”. Right: Projected thought “I hate you, you make me sick”. Messages from Water, pg. 32

4.7G- “God”-(Consciousness) Becoming.

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4.7H- Caltrans District 7 Headquarters Building. (Morphosis) www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 4th, 2008. Right: The BIOS; energy from light.

4.7I- El Monte Sangrado Resort. (Living Designs Group) www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 12th, 2008. Right: The BIOS; food from waste.

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4.7J- ADA Space. (ETH). www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 6th, 2008. Right: The BIOS; code-based form.

4.7K- Industrial Muscles. (Festo Company) www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 9th, 2008. Right: The BIOS; contextually responsive structural elements.

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4.7L- Grafisoft Slider. (ONL) www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 6th, 2008. Right: The BIOS; climatically responsive, adaptive forms.

4.7M- Tower of Winds. (Toyo Ito) www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 6th, 2008. Right: The BIOS; climatically responsive, adaptive forms.

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4.7N- L-Systems. (Aristid Lindenmayer) Wikipedia, “L-Systems”, extracted on December 8th, 2008. Above: The BIOS; fractal growth.

4.7O- The Hyposurface. (Mark Goulthourpe) www.arcspace.com, extracted on December 6th, 2008. Right: The BIOS; adaptation through transformation of Cartesian coordinate system.

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FIGURE 7A- Evolution: Self-Transcendence through Self-Organization.

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Figure A.1 The Fundamental Structure of the Genetic Code. Wikipedia, “Genetic Code”, extracted on October 21st, 2008.

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Figure A.2 Genetic Codons or ‘Words” and their Corresponding Amino Acids. DNA and the I CHING: the Tao of Life, pg. 153.

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Figure A.3 The Two Polarities of Ying and Yang.

Figure A.4 The Four “Letters” of the I Ching.

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Amino Acid

(A) Adenine

(C) Cytosine

(G) Guanine

(U) Uracil

Digram

Old Yang

Young Yang

Young Yin

Old Yin

Figure A.5 The Four “Letters” of the I Ching correspond to the Four “Letters” of the Genetic Code. Adapted from DNA and the I CHING: the Tao of Life.

Figure A.6- The 64 Hexagrams of the I Ching. Wikipedia, “I CHING”, extracted July 18th, 2008.

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Figure A.7-The Correlative Nature of the 64 Hexagrams of the I Ching and the 64 Codons of the Genetic Code. DNA and the I CHING: the Tao of Life, pg. 108.

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Figure A.8-The Correlative Nature of the 64 Hexagrams of the I Ching and the 20 Amino Acids. DNA and the I CHING: the Tao of Life, pg. 121.

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Figure A.9- The 64 Hexagrams Arranged Spatially on Bagua Compass. Wikipedia, “Lo Pan”, extracted August 9th, 2008. The Lo Pan compass is used in Feng Shui.

Towards an Integral Morphology

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