Hier(an)archical synplexity

This article supports some of the themes on the topic. E.g., instead of seeing terms in distinct opposition with an excluded middle, like classical logic, they are in mutual relation with an included middle. This goes back to basic categories which are in the middle of taxonomic hierarchies. The latter start with a foundational particular and develop into a foundational general, each step subsuming, nesting and integrating the previous category in a part/whole holon. This article makes clear that the parts of any whole, given the included middle logic, are not subsumed but rather remain intact and in relationship with each other and the whole via tensegrity.

It also points out that the borders of objects do not just separate them but also join them in communication via the overlapping spaces between. This highlights that tension in the various aspects of self, that it is not an autonomous entity that merely evolves through distinct stages that transcend and include the former identities, but rather each of those identities remain intact and coordinate with each other via tensegrity in an overall structure that has no center, or rather that center is virtual, as Edwards et al. note above. We have many selves, each in tension with the others, that we rotate in and through depending on context. There is no center of gravity self, as Zak has shown us elsewhere.