🔮 What is a marble?

In my world, a marble is a metaphorical container for a note that I want to share and shape with you. It can be a sketchy idea, an insight, a piece of knowledge, or a question that I consider valuable for my life's ongoing dialogue.

These marbles are never perfect and always a snapshot of a given moment. So, please, feel free to add your perspective at the ⬇️ bottom of the page. I try to follow the 🔮 principles for media movement building.

Read more about my intentions in 🔮 this marble.

In the past, I didn't have a way to share ideas or insights with others. This marbles website is the manifestation of my desire to share intentionally with the world. If you want to do it too, let me know. I can help you.

This note was started on October 11, 2023

What are ontological primitives?

Ontological primitives are the essences from which our actions and behaviors arise. They are the smallest building blocks of ontological base understandings (regarding the nature of reality & being), meaning that they cannot be broken down into anything smaller. Ontological primitives are:

  • values
  • purpose
  • sense of the sacred

(McGilchrist 2021) - here is a scattered set of notes that includes this idea: 🔮 MCGILCHRIST2021-VID

I have recently come to realize that whenever I connect deeply with other humans, I overlap in the three areas mentioned above: values, purpose, and what we hold sacred.

Below is an illustration which draws an analogy between the recreation of DNA in its fruits and the recreation of values that re-emerge in our social structures. This illustration is a work in progress. I don’t consider it perfect and am trying to fine-tune it. Let me know if you have ideas to make it more concrete (or don’t understand my overall message all together).

Insight

When we engage in work, we always build something bigger than just the project we work on. This bigger thing, then, brings forth a whole new being of existence that cannot be reduced to a piece of material creation. This energetic (non-material) creation continues to grow its ontological primitives. Therefore, it matters more that we pay attention to the space we create rather than the outcomes of them.

This also leads me to the realization that it is more important that we do the work in a caring & loving environment and with good energy & intentions rather than focus on our productivity and doing “enough.”

See 🔮 MMSSocialReproductionB for ways in which current paradigms re-appear in (engineering) education.

🔮 AUTOPOIESIS-A for the concept of re-creation.

#ontological_primitives #values #education

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