Emergent Coherence
This chart is the same two-by-two matrix, but we have relabeled it by putting a self back into it. If we draw the action perspective, the outside elements move around a little bit. Action stays pretty much in the same place. Story stays pretty much in the same place. But in-between the quadrants there’s questioning. Out between probabilistic occurrences and emergence is the field of adjacent possibles, the things we actually can move to as next steps.
Resonance now becomes part of the hermeneutic circle, because we have to include emotion. If we can tell a story that resonates, if we can find a vignette that resonates, then it can help propel understanding and action. The mere repetition of a label does not.
If we simplify the chart, we now have self in one corner, group in the other, along with environment and emergence. Things between self and environment tend to be embodied things that we encounter. Things between self and group are where the ascribed labels come in. Where the group is trying to cope with emergence is the space of beliefs.
