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The six 2D Level elements — human (needs + abilities [functional view]; or, dignity and values + virtues and development [philosophical view]), freedom (variation + exploration), loyalty with élan (allegiance + adaptive engagement), innovation (integrative application of existing structures + discovery, new solutions), organization (stable structures + adaptive processes), and the Ring of Harmony (communication [data transmission] + connectivity [dynamic links and channels]) — are interdependent, with each principle supporting the others. These elements manifest fractal dynamism, exhibiting a scaled interplay across all levels of human systems, from the activity of individuals to global networks. The principles’ interdependencies create multiple reinforcing pathways, sustaining and amplifying vigor.
The 3D Level illuminates how systems thrive and flourish across all timescales, from near-term to intergenerational, by sustaining critical factors including health, ecology, freedom, solidarity, infrastructure, productive capacity, and strategic posture. Through this temporal dimension, the interplay of the six interdependent principles enables strategic foresight and generates emergent properties: adaptability, resilience, diversity, trust, language, civilization, understanding, and creativity. These properties continually reinforce the system’s capacity to maintain factors of sustainability, enabling it to overcome dangers, seize opportunities, and endure through the vicissitudes of time.
The 4D Level comprises eternal foundations and enduring realities — from natural laws and historical patterns to long-term trends that shape human systems. These fundamental truths provide the backdrop against which temporal adaptation occurs. When systems successfully integrate awareness of these enduring realities with historical knowledge, real-time sensing, dynamic capabilities, and strategic foresight, they can continually achieve harmonious adaptation that enables sustainable growth and ethical flourishing.
Each 2D Level element embodies a duality that balances its intrinsic character with integrative functionality, fostering interconnection and openness. Human combines fundamental needs with adaptive abilities; freedom unites inherent variation with active exploration; loyalty with élan merges enduring allegiance with adaptive engagement; innovation blends the integrative application of existing structures with discovery; organization integrates stable structures with adaptive processes; and the Ring of Harmony fuses stable communication (information transfer) with dynamic connectivity and scalable reach. These dualities ensure that principles maintain essential qualities while also facilitating synergy, adaptability, and openness throughout the system. Generally, the former aligns with 正 and exploitation, while the latter integrative functionality corresponds to 奇 and exploration.
Through these dualities, each principle inherently embodies both a stable foundation and temporal responsiveness, thus aligning with enduring realities while generating vitality across all timescales.
Consideration of only 正 or only 奇 leads to different types of ignorance. An exclusive focus on 正 breeds rigidity and brutality. Heeding only 奇 generates chaos and disregard for fundamentals. The integration of both opens the way to harmony, beneficence, and dynamic adaptation. By balancing the timelessness of 正 with the flexibility and creativity of 奇, systems can align with perennial truths while adapting gracefully to change. This synergistic power manifests as unparalleled vitality or 氣.
The 正 and 奇 duality within each 2D Level principle creates a microcosm that mirrors how the structure of 4D Star achieves harmonious synthesis of enduring realities and temporal adaptation. The fundamentals of the 4D Level converge with the time-bound phenomena and emergent properties of the 3D Level. Similarly, the 2D Level elements synergistically interweave to ensure calibrated stability amid dynamic vitality.
The 奇 aspect of each principle interfaces with the environment or possibility-space, thereby integrating or harmonizing the 正 aspects. The 正 aspect undergirds the adaptive synergy of 奇, anchoring sustained coherence amid change.
The human element, encompassing dignity and values + abilities and virtues, is the integrative core of 4D Star, as it grounds the model in the fundamental aspects of human existence and well-being. Sustained by faithful engagement, this focus ensures that all other elements are oriented towards enhancing human potential and respecting intrinsic human worth.
By placing human dignity and development at its core, the model provides a meaningful and ethical foundation for decision-making and strategic planning. This centrality of the human principle guides systems toward holistic and sustainable growth, fostering development that is not only efficient and innovative but also just and humane.
Fulfilling physical needs enables vital abilities to emerge. When connectivity needs are met, integrative abilities flourish. Once social and network bonding needs are satisfied, capabilities sustainably compound synergistically.
Freedom: Variation empowers fulfillment of diverse needs and values, embodying the heterogeneity of the universe while giving meaning to human dignity. Unleashing engagement and connection, exploration uplifts abilities and virtues amid evolving contexts — thereby organically galvanizing network development and sustainable flourishing through harmonious attunement.
Loyalty: Allegiance foundationally orients abilities to serve needs and values — thereby directing capacities toward sustainable vitality while fostering bonds, trust, and resilience. Adaptive engagement empowers virtues and exploration to drive generative and adaptive development, mobilizing energy flows for harmonious flourishing across timescales while amplifying scalable synergies.
Innovation: Integrative application of existing structures fulfills needs through foresighted and effective harnessing of energy and resources — thus promoting vigor and well-being. Discovery extends abilities by unveiling network synergies and new pathways, thereby enabling dynamic navigating of prospects and hurdles while fostering sustained evolution.
Organization: Need-serving structures channel resources and information effectively toward sustainable thriving, laying stable foundations for synergistic cooperation. Adaptive processes extend abilities and virtues by responsively integrating feedback and discovery to guide energy flows, enabling meaningful engagement with challenges and opportunities that compounds advantages across networks.
Ring of Harmony: Needs-centered communication sustains purposeful development and cumulative achievement with data that illuminates strategic avenues integrating accumulated wisdom with emerging possibilities for scalable flourishing. Adaptive connectivity links to resources and discovery pathways, thereby opening novel possibilities and network synergies. In harmony with human dignity and the inherent diversity of humanity, the Ring of Harmony unifies without imposing uniformity.
Human: Needs and values give variation a purposeful foundation, thus aligning diversified expression with sustainable flourishing. Abilities and virtues enable exploration to discerningly expand and compound possibilities and attune adaptive development, thereby fostering increasing sophistication and harmonious integration.
Loyalty: Allegiance directs variation towards foresighted, sustainable, and coherent development — conducting multiplicity toward systemic flourishing. Adaptive engagement empowers exploration by galvanizing energy flows toward pathways that harmoniously integrate variation in frameworks of sustainable vitality, unleashing discovery that activates compounding development.
Innovation: Integrative application of existing structures foresightedly leverages variation, weaving heterogeneity into purposeful frameworks and structuring diverse elements into coherent patterns for sustainable vitality. Discovery opens novel pathways for exploration, expanding adaptive network capacities and fostering alignment with foundational realities and emerging contexts.
Organization: Stable structures purposefully channel variation within sustainable boundaries, undergirding adaptive capacity and fostering informational coherence. Responsive processes give form to effective exploration, enabling attunement and pathway development that harmonize with feedback and discovery.
Ring of Harmony: Data transmission embeds variated signals related to needs, values, and historical context — conveying informational variation that illuminates pathways toward purposeful advancement. Dynamic connectivity forges paths between enduring realities and real-time sensing, thus catalyzing exploration to extend temporal horizons and expand contextual understanding. Adaptive channels enable exploration of perennial wisdom and novel relationships, linking data flows that scale from individual opportunities to network-wide synergies while guiding attunement amid change.
Loyalty with élan embodies steadfast allegiance for systemic flourishing and sustainability (正), paired with adaptive engagement that galvanizes proven frameworks and patterns while embracing adaptations for enhanced fitness (奇). From cells preserving core functions while evolving new capabilities to communities upholding values amid change, living systems at all scales manifest this dynamic fidelity. Through feedback loops that drive systemic selection, loyalty with élan reinforces beneficial traits and mitigates detrimental ones.
Natural selection dovetails with loyalty with élan because both direct energy flows toward harnessing feedback and variation to scalably harmonize abilities with needs and opportunities, thereby mobilizing existing structures to catalyze discovery.
Human: Enduring fulfillment of needs and advancement of values provide an ethical foundation for allegiance, intrinsically directing energy flows toward frameworks that sustainably channel resources while responsively adapting to evolving contexts and emerging opportunities. Abilities and virtues animate adaptive engagement, thereby synergistically integrating purposeful innovation and meaningful connectivity to generate diversity, trust, and resilience.
Freedom: Variation enables purposeful allegiance by fostering a diverse and information-rich environment where scalable commitments arise from genuine choice rather than coercion. Exploration permits adaptive engagement to direct energy flows toward exploratory experimentation, fostering ongoing renewal and voluntary recommitment and preventing the rigid servility that lacks sustainable dynamism.
Innovation: Integrative application of existing structures empowers allegiance by leveraging resources and knowledge to engage opportunities strategically toward sustainable flourishing. Discovery and new solutions galvanize effective adaptive engagement — driving advancement and fostering resilience, trust, and synergistic development across timescales.
Organization: Stable structures anchor purposeful allegiance, channeling resources toward sustainable flourishing. Adaptive processes fortify engagement, dynamically aligning with values amid evolving contexts to optimize energy flows for foresighted growth. Through synergistic interplay, organization scaffolds loyalty with élan that is steadfast and agile, building resilience and trust.
Ring of Harmony: Stable information flows and continuous feedback loops guide allegiance toward frameworks that support systemic vitality and resonate with enduring patterns. Adaptive connectivity links systems to contextual opportunity and scalable network synergy, galvanizing engagement with exploration and discovery to propel purposeful growth. Communication and bonds dynamically sustain loyalty with élan, grounding it in values and vitalizing it with virtues.
Human: Needs, values, and sustainable thriving provide innovation with a raison d’être grounded in human dignity. Abilities and virtues drive the integrative application of existing structures, fostering viability that empowers exploration and connectivity to iteratively catalyze generative discovery.
Freedom: Variation provides the substrate for integrative application of existing structures, fostering diverse configurations that catalyze differentiated expression through meaningful choice attuned to varied needs and contexts. Exploration progressively reveals novel pathways and connections, thereby unleashing discovery and new solutions to enable harmonious adaptation.
Loyalty: Allegiance to needs and values directs integrative application of existing structures in upholding well-being sustainably. Adaptive engagement powers discovery to unveil new pathways and reinforce beneficial patterns, thus promoting foresighted harmonization amid evolving contexts while strengthening synergistic bonds.
Organization: Structured pathways and stable informational frameworks, including databases, scaffold integrative application enabling calibrated advancement aligned with values and sustained vitality. Adaptive processes propel discovery by dynamically channeling energy flows and resources, empowering systems to uncover novel avenues and solutions across scales.
Ring of Harmony: Stable data transmission enables foresighted integrative application of existing structures by illuminating strategic potential and interconnections within proven frameworks. Dynamic connectivity catalyzes discovery by synthesizing real-time sensory data with historical knowledge and enduring patterns. Together, these capacities facilitate temporal feedback integration and dynamic scenario architecture for adaptive innovation.
Human: Needs and values provide a stable foundation for coherent structuring of information, resources, and behavior. Developed abilities enable procedural structures to reconfigure according to contextual change and opportunity, thus enabling dynamic optimization of resources and energy flows through integration of historical knowledge with emerging contexts. The human principle thus animates purposeful and foresighted organization, interweaving ethical fundamentals with adaptive capabilities.
Freedom: Variation enables diversified structures that sustainably channel information, resources, and energy in a manner resonant with the heterogeneity of reality and needs. Exploration continually catalyzes process attunement by unleashing openness to discovery, connectivity, meaningful engagement, and development.
Loyalty: Allegiance orients structures to channel information, energy, and resources toward needs-centered sustainable outcomes, thereby supporting coherence and adaptive capacity. Leveraging exploration, discovery, and network feedback, adaptive engagement attunes processes to harmonize abilities with needs and opportunities across timescales, thus developing scalable synergies and enabling compounding sophistication.
Innovation: Integrative application of existing structures amplifies the utility of curated information, structured energy flows, and shaped resources, thereby enabling synergy across scales. Discovery orients processes toward adaptive calibrations harmonizing with change and opportunity. Innovation thus synthesizes the exploitation of coherent structures with novel solutions to drive compounding advantage.
Ring of Harmony: Stable information sensing and transmission sustain structure aligned with values and vitality, thereby reinforcing harmonious integration in a heterogeneous and evolving universe. Dynamic connectivity enables the iterative calibration of foresighted and adaptive processes through pertinent feedback that illuminates patterns across contextual data and instructive bonds. Dynamic connectivity likewise links to structured representations of historical wisdom, past events, and enduring realities — thereby fostering integrated temporal understanding for strategic foresight.
The dynamic complementarity of stable transmission and responsive connectivity illuminates the integration of enduring patterns with contextual adaptation. The Ring of Harmony conveys signals — including those related to disagreement and competition — across all systemic scales.
These channels span the full spectrum of physical connectivity, from sensory conduits carrying signals like photons from object to eye, to the neural networks that maintain vital pathways while adaptively strengthening or pruning connections through learning and experience. The spectrum extends through social connectivity, from emotional bonds between family members that enable nurturing communication, to the digital networks that connect global communities. Each type of channel enables both reliable information flow (正) and flexible reconfiguration of connectivity (奇).
The Ring of Harmony supports real-time environmental sensing, while maintaining connection with structured representations of past events, of enduring realities, and of future scenarios. This temporal integration illuminates threat identification and opportunity recognition, thus informing the structuring of efficient patterns of energy expenditure. Through feedback and scalable network connectivity, the Ring of Harmony promotes responsive optimization of resource allocation.
Unifying stable data flow with adaptive connectivity, the Ring of Harmony informs the structuring and optimization of patterns by fostering knowledge synthesis across scales and time horizons. This integration generates understanding and creativity that responsively navigate opportunities and challenges while aligning with needs and values.
Evolutionary feedback and the transmission of hereditary information, balancing signal fidelity with dynamic recombination, enable systems to preserve beneficial foundations while adapting to environmental shifts and iteratively advancing.
Human: Needs and values imbue data transmission with purpose, directing signals toward meaningful pattern recognition and sustainable flourishing. Abilities and virtues animate channels and bonds that adaptively extend reach — illuminating exploration, informing engagement, conveying discovery, guiding process, and linking synergy across scales.
Freedom: Variation provides diversified information flows corresponding to the heterogeneity and evolution of reality, thus enabling data and communication pathways that support sustainable thriving and expression of values. Exploration catalyzes responsive connectivity through flexibility to feedback, pathway growth and refinement, and receptivity to diverse sources.
Loyalty: Allegiance ensures that data and communication guide the structuring of frameworks that channel energy and assets for vitality and foresight amid change and emerging opportunity. Adaptive engagement mobilizes scalable networks that dynamically synthesize real-time contextual data with accumulated wisdom, amplifying collaborative capacity across temporal horizons. Through principled flexibility, loyalty with élan nurtures communication channels that convey purpose while adapting connectivity patterns, fostering trust and resilience.
Innovation: Integrative application of existing structures propels action and assessment, generating feedback and data to drive alignment with opportunities and needs across temporal scales. Discovery enables connectivity to illuminate novel pathways and scalable synergies, thus catalyzing network solutions and compounding development.
Organization: Stable frameworks transform raw data into meaningful information flows, enabling reliable transmission and informational efficiency across temporal and systemic scales. Adaptive processes facilitate dynamic reconfiguration of connectivity patterns, allowing systems to develop effective pathways and synergistic linkages. Through structured information and adaptive connectivity pathways, organization supports integration of historical knowledge, real-time sensing, and strategic foresight through coordinated information flows, thereby empowering systems to discern significance and maintain coherence amid evolving contexts.
* Example *
When Shining Path extremists attempted to shut down Villa El Salvador’s soup kitchens through intimidation in 1992, María Elena Moyano’s leadership demonstrated how networks combining stable transmission with adaptive connectivity sustain systemic resilience. Her community networks enabled real-time threat sensing, while connection to Peru’s historical legacy of community resistance informed strategy. Through radio broadcasts and community meetings, she maintained supportive information flows while adaptively forging new bonds of solidarity. These networks dynamically bound community strengths in synergistic wholeness: virtues such as courage and wisdom, exploration of ways to resist tyranny, allegiance to freedom and diverse values, foresighted application of proven methods together with novel solutions, and FEPOMUVES’s structured resources and energy flows uplifting human dignity. Continuous communication and dynamic relationship-building empowered the community to maintain vital food distribution networks amid repression — thus generating resilience, adaptability, and trust that sustained through time.
Human needs, such as nourishment, protection, and connection, are foundational (正) and drive selective pressures, while abilities evolve adaptively (奇), shaped by an emergent teleological impulse toward survival and flourishing that reflexively serves the very needs that call it forth.
The distinction between timeless needs and evolving abilities reveals a temporal tension that is replicated in the dualities of the other elements.
In grammar, the contrast between the “all time” aspect of present simple verb tense, which indicates timeless or habitual actions, and the continuous (progressive) verb tense, which reflects adaptive or evolving action, illustrates this temporal tension.
Freedom: The universe’s heterogeneous character sets the stage for active, ongoing exploration. Exploration, in turn, unleashes both access to variation and its attunement within sustainable configurations, fostering the diversity necessary for adaptive resilience in a dynamic environment.
Loyalty with élan: A human system maintains enduring allegiance to foundational values through committed yet adaptive engagement. Principled flexibility enables loyalty to serve needs while evolving methods that respond to changing contexts and feedback. The synthesis of unwavering purpose with adaptive execution avoids both detachment and rigid dogmatism.
Innovation: A human system’s integrative application of existing structures, through time, generates feedback and data that propel discovery and novel solutions. Thus, the synthesis of these aspects of innovation empowers systems to advance meaningfully while optimizing energy use amid emerging opportunities — integrative application leveraging tested foundations and informational insight, while discovery opens new horizons, together preventing both untethered novelty and stagnant repetition.
Organization: Stable structures support adaptive processes by purposefully channeling information, energy, and resources toward systemic flourishing. Adaptive processes, in turn, empower frameworks to remain attuned to shifting contexts via dynamic configurations. This duality synthesizes organization that supports vital coherence while bolstering creativity.
Ring of Harmony: Human systems rely on dependable data transmission, and the enduring value of information drives human receptivity to signals. The emergence of sensory receptors adapted to photons, or of cognitive abilities apt for pattern recognition, illustrates this phenomenon. In an ever-evolving universe, adaptively harnessing information flows requires scalable reach and dynamically evolving connections.
The conjugation of the six principles embodies the balance between 正 and 奇. 正 conveys “staying on the proper path” and denotes foundation and stability. 奇 conveys “wonderful” or “strange” and denotes advancement and adaptability. 正 provides guidance through fundamentals, while 奇 opens up ingenuity and synergy. Their complementarity fosters development through balance rather than force.
Through complementary dualities, dynamic temporal synthesis via emergent properties, and alignment with enduring realities, the interdependent principles create multiple channels for ethics, strategy, knowledge, and vitality to interpenetrate — collaboratively fostering sustainable flourishing. One reinforcing pathway is the cycle in which ethics informs strategy, strategic approaches leverage and develop knowledge systems, knowledge dynamically amplifies vitality, and vitality strengthens ethical capacity — creating a loop to sustain harmonious thriving. Rather than a mechanical sequence, this represents a living spiral where each domain enhances the others continuously.
Each principle embodies 正 and 奇 in nested patterns across contexts — where 正 provides essential guidance while 奇 manifests opportunities. For example, variation shows both persistent patterns (正) and context-dependent differences (奇); structures preserve core characteristics (正) during modification (奇); communication channels maintain fundamental protocols (正) while evolving to new contexts (奇); and adaptive engagement holds on to proven structures and processes (正) while also embracing novel solutions (奇).
The stable and adaptive duality inherent in each principle (正) constitutes the dynamic capacity to simultaneously exploit enduring foundations while ingeniously propelling advancement through time (奇).
The emergence of values and dignity through the compounding advancement of basic needs demonstrates how 奇 adaptations can establish new 正 foundations over time.
The 3D Level illuminates how systems sustain survival and success across time through emergent properties. These properties — adaptability, resilience, diversity, trust, language, civilization, understanding, and creativity — arise from the interplay of the six interdependent principles. The emergent properties amplify systems’ capacity to develop opportunities, overcome dangers, and optimize energy flows — while safeguarding sustainability factors such as health, ecology, freedom, solidarity, infrastructure, productive capacity, and strategic posture.
The emergent properties, once manifest, reinforce the generative interplay of principles through iterative cycles and cross-scale feedback. These dynamics sustain organic coherence without imposed uniformity while maintaining alignment with enduring realities. As higher-order properties emerge, they progressively enhance the system’s fundamental processes, nurturing a continuous cycle where each adaptive advance becomes the foundation for further sophistication and capability. This self-reinforcing loop instantiates the dynamic of compounding advancement of 正 and 奇, thereby strengthening the system’s capacity to uphold factors of sustainability.
The 2D Level principles collaboratively converge to foster temporal adaptation and understanding. Human needs and values ground temporality in purposeful and sustainable flourishing, while abilities and virtues drive systemic capacity for temporal understanding and foresight. Variation affords diverse temporal strategies, while exploration unleashes adaptive calibration of prospective pathways. Loyalty with élan synthesizes enduring allegiance and engagement that flexibly harmonizes with change. Innovation sustains effective exploitation through integrative application of existing structures, while propelling compounding advancement via novel solutions. Organization provides frameworks for representation and storage of temporal phenomena, as well as processes that adaptively reconfigure based on feedback and strategic foresight. The Ring of Harmony assures scalable transmission of time-integrated data as well as adaptive connectivity across timescales.
The interplay of principles enables systems to develop temporal frameworks and operational capacities that integrate current conditions, historical patterns, and future scenarios. Historical analysis and predictive modeling foster synthesis across time horizons, thus enhancing resilience, strategic posture, and sustainability. Temporal engagement harmonizes enduring foundations (正) with dynamic adaptations to changing contexts (奇), enabling systems to navigate uncertainty while maintaining coherence across time horizons.
The 3D Level encompasses the harmonization between ingenious and dynamic adaptability in the short-term, and intergenerational flourishing — driven by emergent properties that arise from the interplay of interdependent principles. Time-informed synergistic vitality, guided by enduring realities, enables systems to overcome challenges, develop compounding opportunities, and thrive across generations.
The 4D Level represents the enduring realities that establish the backdrop within which systems develop. These include natural laws, historical patterns, as well as geographical features and their ramifications. Abiding conditions and their inherent tendencies span immutable scientific principles to slowly-evolving cultural and environmental trends — representing both limitations and opportunities, framing strategic adaptation and ethical decision-making.
Human systems are fundamentally shaped by inherent limitations: finite resources, time, energy, and human capacity. Eternal increase of entropy shapes all processes, compelling systems to maintain order through continuous energy expenditure — driving ongoing generative innovation and refinement of resource allocation. These constraints define boundaries for all adaptation and development.
Systems harness enduring realities to achieve ingenious adaptations within a foundational framework. 正, 奇, and the interdependent principles represent timeless structural patterns — their complementary interplay generates dynamics that manifest as diverse expressions across all contexts and timescales.
Through ever-present feedback (正), evolutionary selection promotes flourishing by dynamically reinforcing proven structures and fostering adaptive advances (奇). Likewise, factors of sustainability are timeless, since systems of all eras — empowered by emergent properties — must safeguard these critical domains.
Identifying and harmonizing with enduring realities promotes tenable advances for compounding growth. Maintaining coherence with deep-seated patterns anchors adaptation in ethical and natural foundations. Alignment with abiding conditions also mitigates short-sightedness and exclusive dependence on real-time data.
* Example *
Yacouba Sawadogo’s agricultural work in Burkina Faso illustrates how sustainable and purposeful development entails deep engagement with enduring realities. Leveraging natural fundamentals (e.g., soil chemistry, water retention, and termite behavior), geographic constants (e.g., Sahelian climatic conditions), and historical patterns (traditional Zai farming techniques), he elaborated enhanced methods that transformed degraded land into productive fields. His approach shows how the dynamic structuring of energy flows and resources can harmonize with foundations, variability, and emergent potential. Holistic development emerged through freedom to harness traditional variation and explore enhancements; abiding loyalty to sustainable practices serving nutritional needs; feedback-driven integrative application of structures, with new solutions building on ancient techniques; and farmer-to-farmer networks affording both knowledge transmission and adaptive connectivity. Integration of enduring wisdom with iterative refinement generated remarkable vitality, with resilient and diversified agricultural systems continuing to thrive and spread across generations.
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Please note that the author discovered some aspects of 4D Star, notably the 正 / 奇 duality, subsequent writing this article.
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