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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 core elements exhibit a fractal dynamism, replicating their intricate interplay at every scale 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 considers how systems thrive and flourish across all timescales, from near-term to intergenerational, by sustaining critical factors including health, ecology, infrastructure, freedom, solidarity, strategic posture, and productive capacity. Through this temporal dimension, the interplay of the six interdependent principles enables strategic foresight and generates emergent properties: adaptability, resilience, diversity, trust, civilization, and language. These properties continually reinforce the system’s capacity to maintain these essential factors, 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 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 responsive involvement; innovation blends the integrative application of existing structures with discovery; organization integrates stable structures with responsive 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 mirroring how the structure of 4D Star achieves harmonious balance between enduring realities and temporal adaptation. The fundamentals of the 4D Level contrast 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 human element, encompassing dignity and values + development and virtues, is the central pillar 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.
Freedom: Variation empowers the recognition and fulfillment of diverse needs, while enabling the expression of values — thus giving meaning to human dignity. Exploration, through the interplay of principles, informs development and deepens virtues.
Loyalty: Allegiance ensures that variation serves needs and values — thereby fostering social connection, trust, and resilience. Responsive engagement enables virtuous development to manifest itself and promote sustainable flourishing through harmonious adaptation to evolving contexts.
Innovation: Integrative application of existing structures drives foresighted and effective harnessing of energy and resources — thus promoting empowerment and well-being. Discovery allows for new solutions and expanding connections, which enable dynamic interfacing with opportunities and challenges.
Organization: Stable structures channel resources, information, and energy flows to the service of needs and the advancement of values. Adaptive processes extend virtues through approaches that foster development and build resilience in the face of change.
Ring of Harmony: Supportive communication fosters success and happiness, while data illuminates development and virtuous adjustment of approaches. Adaptive connectivity catalyzes the linking of human potential with resources and synergies — thereby driving purposeful advancement. Consistent with human dignity and variation, the Ring of Harmony unifies without imposing uniformity.
Human: Needs and values give variation a purposeful foundation, thus aligning diversity with flourishing. Abilities and virtues enable exploration to discerningly expand possibilities, thereby fostering harmonious adaptation.
Loyalty: Allegiance directs variation towards foresighted, sustainable, and harmonious well-being — thus organically preventing chaos or disunity. Simultaneously, through the interplay of principles, adaptive engagement powers exploration, thereby enabling the integration of diversified solutions and insights to fortify adaptive thriving.
Innovation: Integrative application of existing structures harnesses variation, thereby optimizing proven patterns for sustainable vitality. Discovery opens novel pathways for exploration, thus expanding adaptive capacity while maintaining alignment with enduring realities.
Organization: Stable structures balance variation with order, preventing both stagnation and chaos. Adaptive processes shape effective exploration, fostering harmonious responses to data and discoveries.
Ring of Harmony: Data transmission integrates signals related to needs, values, and historical patterns, thereby orienting informational variation toward purposeful advancement. Dynamic connectivity forges paths between real-time sensing and enduring realities, thus catalyzing exploration that spans temporal and social domains. Adaptive channels enable systems to explore historical wisdom and novel relationships, illuminating possibilities that scale from individual opportunities to network-wide synergies.
Loyalty with élan constitutes ever-present, scalable tenacity for systemic flourishing and sustainability (正) — as well as responsive involvement that holds on to proven approaches while also seizing adaptations enhancing fitness (奇). True to their allegiance, living systems at all levels manifest adaptive engagement, from cells that preserve essential functions while evolving new capabilities, to human communities that maintain foundational values while adapting to change. At an evolutionary timescale, steady selective pressure serves to dynamically reinforce beneficial traits and eliminate detrimental ones.
Human: Sustainable advancement of values and fulfillment of needs provide a foundation for allegiance, aligning it with ethical prosperity. Through the integration of principles, abilities and virtues drive engagement that generates adaptability, trust, and resilience.
Freedom: Purposeful allegiance can only exist in an environment of freedom, where commitments are made voluntarily. Without freedom, fealty becomes rigid, servile obedience — it lacks the sustainable dynamism of loyalty with élan.
Innovation: Integrative application of existing structures enables allegiance to direct energetic and strategic momentum toward sustainable flourishing. Discovery and new solutions enable engagement to propel the system toward higher levels of adaptation, synergistic bonds, and development.
Organization: Stable scaffolding ensures that allegiance reliably serves sustainable flourishing. Adaptive processes enable strategic engagement with limited energy and resources. Through the interplay of principles, organization promotes loyalty with élan that is anchored, agile, and generative of resilience.
Ring of Harmony: Bonds and effective communication reinforce loyalty, grounding it in values and infusing it with virtues. Continuous feedback loops, an ever-present form of communication, orient and galvanize allegiance — while dynamic connections guide a system’s adaptive engagement with exploration and discovery.
Human: Needs, values, and sustainable success provide innovation with a raison d’être. Abilities and virtuous engagement enable systems to adaptively leverage exploration and connectivity to achieve generative discovery.
Freedom: Variation provides the substrate for integrative application of existing structures, enabling autonomous solutions attuned to diverse needs and contexts. Exploration drives discovery and new solutions, yielding principled, synergistic advancement.
Loyalty: Allegiance to systemic needs and values ensures that integrative application of existing structures upholds well-being sustainably. Powered by adaptive engagement, discovery opens new pathways and reinforces proven attributes.
Organization: Structured environments facilitate innovation by channeling resources, coordinating energy flows, and enabling efficient operations. Databases, as essential structures, store and organize data across scales, from biological systems like the brain to technological and institutional frameworks. Data repositories enable efficient access to information, supporting decision-making, adaptability, and analysis.
Ring of Harmony: Stable data transmission informs the skillful and foresighted integrative application of existing structures — thus promoting judicious use of abilities, energy, and resources for purposeful success. Dynamic connection facilitates discovery by linking diverse sensory data, historical representations, and enduring patterns. Through the interplay of principles, the Ring of Harmony illuminates feedback integration and structuring of future scenarios.
Human: Human needs provide stable foundations for structuring information, resources, and processes. Within the interplay of principles, adaptive capabilities promote sustainable optimization of frameworks and approaches. Grounding in values and abilities empowers organization to maintain coherence while adjusting to evolving challenges and opportunities.
Freedom: Variation enables diversified structures optimized for vitality, while exploration catalyzes the discovery of enhanced processes. Through the interplay of principles, freedom empowers systems to uphold stable frameworks while flexibly realigning processes with needs, opportunities for development, and changing conditions.
Loyalty: Allegiance fortifies structures that sustainably channel energy and resources toward positive outcomes, thereby promoting scalable synergy and resilience. Adaptive engagement drives the alignment of processes with needs and opportunities, thus powering optimized vigor and harmonious vitality.
Innovation: Integrative application of existing structures extends the utility of stable frameworks and enables scalable synergy. Discovery orients processes toward configurations harmonizing with change. Innovation thus maintains coherence while ensuring responsiveness aligned with values.
Ring of Harmony: Stable data transmission and constructive communication enable development of structures aligned with current needs and enduring utility. Dynamic connectivity facilitates structuring of threats, opportunities, and methodological feedback — while integrating structured representations of past events and enduring patterns. Through the interplay of principles, the Ring of Harmony facilitates generative structural coherence and continuous refinement of processes.
The Ring of Harmony integrates stable data transmission with dynamic connectivity, enabling systems to adapt harmoniously to their environment while maintaining alignment with enduring fundamentals. Through this balanced duality, the Ring of Harmony maintains reliable information flows while fostering connections that adapt to shifting needs and contexts, recognizing that even disagreement and competition serve as valuable sources of information.
These channels span the full spectrum of connectivity, from physical conduits carrying signals like photons from object to eye, to the emotional bonds between family members that enable nurturing communication, to the digital networks that connect global communities. Each type of channel enables both reliable data flow (正) and flexible reconfiguration of connectivity (奇).
Channels arise within enduring realities like natural boundaries (4D Level), evolve through differentiated trajectories (3D Level), and adapt to immediate contextual needs and signals (2D Level). This multilayer interplay shapes connectivity patterns through time.
The Ring of Harmony supports real-time environmental sensing, while maintaining connection with structured representations of past events, enduring realities, and future scenarios. This temporal integration enables effective threat identification and opportunity recognition. Through this awareness, systems harness information flows to structure efficient patterns of energy expenditure, promoting seamless coordination and sustained vitality. By continuously incorporating feedback from the environment, this principle promotes responsive optimization of resource allocation.
Integrating stable data flow with dynamic connectivity, the Ring of Harmony helps drive the formation and adaptation of structures by synthesizing information across all temporal scales. In conjunction with the interplay of the other principles, this integrative power enables human intelligence and creativity to engage structures that effectively interface with threats and opportunities, while also facilitating alignment with human-centric values and development.
Human: Needs and values imbue data flows and connections with purpose, while cognitive development facilitates the structuring of significance and patterns. Through the integrated action of elements, virtuous abilities engage responsive channels and purposeful bonds to achieve vibrant sustainability.
Freedom: Variation diversifies data, corresponding to the evolving nature of reality, while exploration develops communication pathways and supportive bonds. Freedom promotes a Ring of Harmony that is responsive, aligned with flourishing values, and in service of holistic sustainability.
Loyalty: Allegiance ensures that data and communication serve to inform an accurate structuring of reality conferring foresight. Adaptive engagement forges and strengthens channels and bonds to dynamically expand access to data and social synergy, fostering strategic vitality and sustainable flourishing. In the interplay of principles, loyalty plays a key role in generating trust, which fortifies genuine connection and mutual support.
Innovation: Integrative application of existing structures informs the joining of data flows, while discovery expands and reinforces informational channels and social bonds. The duality within innovation enables the Ring of Harmony to fuse historical patterns with real-time sensing, powering sophisticated environmental interfacing.
Organization: Stable structures establish the frameworks that transform raw data into meaningful information flows, enabling reliable transmission across temporal and systemic scales. Adaptive processes facilitate dynamic reconfiguration of connectivity patterns, allowing systems to forge pathways and synergistic linkages. Organization enables both the accessing of knowledge from past events and the integration of real-time sensing, empowering systems to discern significance and maintain coherence amid evolving contexts.
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When Shining Path terrorists attempted to shut down Villa El Salvador’s soup kitchens through intimidation in 1992, María Elena Moyano demonstrated the Ring of Harmony’s vital role in systemic resilience. Her community networks enabled real-time threat sensing, while connection to structured representations of historical resistance patterns informed strategy. Through radio broadcasts and community meetings, she maintained stable information flows while adaptively forging new bonds of solidarity — embodying the Ring of Harmony’s essential duality of reliable data transmission and dynamic connectivity. The principle catalyzed the action of the other 2D Level elements: human courage, exploration of ways to resist tyranny, loyalty to community values and freedom, innovative combinations of existing and new approaches, and coordinated actions through the FEPOMUVES organization. In conjunction with the interplay of the other elements, the duality of continuous communication with dynamic relationship-building empowered the community to heroically and innovatively counter oppression while maintaining vital food distribution networks — thus generating resilience, adaptability, cohesiveness, and trust through time (3D Level).
Human needs; e.g., nourishment, reproduction, and protection from harm; act as selective pressures and are foundational (正).
Abilities are context-dependent and evolve adaptively (奇).
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 conjugation, which indicates timeless or habitual actions, and the continuous (progressive) tense, which reflects responsive or evolving action, illustrates this temporal tension.
Freedom: The Universe’s initial variation and heterogeneity lay the groundwork for active, ongoing human exploration. Exploration, in turn, enables human systems to integrate variation in sustainable configurations.
Loyalty with élan: A human system shows enduring allegiance through its disposition toward committed, adaptive engagement. Thus, responsive involvement allows loyalty to extend into systemic functionality, such that actions align with selective pressures, serving systemic needs and development, even as methods evolve. The balance of commitment with adaptive engagement avoids both detachment and blind devotion.
Innovation: A human system’s integrative application of existing structures, through time, generates discoveries and novel solutions. Thus, the synergy between integrative application and discovery empowers systems to advance meaningfully while optimizing energy use — the former providing tested foundations while the latter opens new horizons, together preventing both untethered novelty and stagnant repetition.
Organization: Robust, stable structures support adaptive processes by establishing frameworks that effectively channel adaptation. Adaptive processes, in turn, empower structures to remain effective and relevant over time. This duality creates organization that enables rather than constrains.
Ring of Harmony: Human systems rely on dependable data transmission, and the enduring value of incoming 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, efficiently harnessing data flows requires effective reach and dynamically evolving connections.
The conjugation of principles reflects the balance between 正 and 奇. 正 conveys “staying on the proper path” and connotes orthodoxy and stability. 奇 conveys “ingenious”, “wonderful”, and “strange”, and connotes ability and great potential. The dualities within each interdependent element interact harmoniously, generating synergistic power that integrates ethics, strategy, vitality, and knowledge. 正 provides guidance through enduring foundations, while 奇 allows for marvelous adaptations, leading through balance rather than force.
Each principle embodies 正 and 奇 in nested patterns across contexts — where 正 (fundamental/enduring) provides essential guidance while 奇 (adaptive/ingenious) 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).
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In a marriage, loyalty exhibits nested patterns of stability and change: The core allegiance ( 正) itself contains both unchanging elements (the fundamental commitment) and active reinforcement (daily recommitment), while the ways spouses express and reinforce their commitment (奇) combine enduring patterns of adaptation with creative responses to circumstances. This interplay enables the relationship to harmoniously align with enduring human realities while generating sustained vitality. This same 正/奇 dynamic appears throughout marriage, shaping both Ring of Harmony and human flourishing.
The 3D Level reveals how systems achieve survival and success across time through emergent properties. These properties — adaptability, resilience, diversity, trust, language, and civilization — arise from the interplay of the six interdependent principles of the 2D Level. The emergent properties enable systems to seize opportunities, overcome dangers, and optimize energy flows — while safeguarding sustainability factors such as health, ecology, infrastructure, freedom, solidarity, strategic posture, and productive capacity.
The emergent properties, once manifest, influence how the interdependent principles operate and interact — creating reinforcing cycles that strengthen the system’s capacity to harmoniously adapt (奇) while maintaining alignment with 4D Level fundamentals (正).
The 2D Level principles work together to enable temporal understanding and adaptation: human development provides the cognitive and ethical foundations for temporal thinking; freedom enables variation in temporal strategies and exploration of possible futures; loyalty with élan ensures committed yet adaptive engagement with temporal objectives; innovation yields generative applications and new solutions to power iterative advancement; organization offers frameworks for storing and analyzing temporal data; and the Ring of Harmony enables dynamic connection to information across timescales.
Through this interplay of the elements, systems develop structured representations that integrate current circumstances, historical patterns, and future possibilities. Just as the 2D Level elements each balance 正 with 奇, systems’ temporal engagement combines stable frameworks for understanding time with dynamic adaptation to changing conditions. This integration manifests in approaches like predictive modeling and scenario planning, allowing systems to adapt and thrive while maintaining alignment with core values and long-term objectives.
The 3D Level encompasses the balance between short-term responsiveness and intergenerational flourishing, driven by the emergent properties that arise from adaptations rooted in fundamentals. Synergistic vitality arises from the time-informed interplay of 2D Level principles, guided by the enduring realities of the 4D Level.
The 4D Level represents abiding conditions such as historical patterns, natural laws, and geographic ramifications. It also includes slowly-evolving realities linked to environmental conditions, productive patterns, cultural foundations, and demographic trends. These fundamental constants and their innate tendencies provide both constraints and possibilities, forming a stable context for strategic and ethical decision-making across all levels of the paradigm.
Through ever-present feedback (正), evolutionary pressure promotes flourishing by dynamically reinforcing proven structures and processes, while favoring beneficial adaptations (奇). Eternal increase of entropy shapes all processes, compelling systems to maintain order through continuous energy expenditure — thus driving ongoing optimization of resources and generative innovations.
The inherent limitations of resources, time, energy, and human capacity represent fundamental constraints that shape all human systems. These eternal constraints, alongside the laws of nature, historical patterns, and slowly-evolving factors like environmental conditions and cultural norms, form the enduring backdrop against which all strategic adaptation and development must occur.
The meaning of “enduring” varies across temporal scales, from immutable natural laws to slowly-evolving cultural foundations. Systems engage with enduring attributes to generate new solutions within fundamental constraints. Indeed, the 4D Level enables the interplay of 正 and 奇, as timeless patterns manifest themselves through diverse expressions.
By acknowledging and integrating these enduring realities, systems can develop comprehensive, proactive strategies and sustainable adaptations. Maintaining coherence with deep-seated patterns and principles fosters long-term viability and ethical alignment, informing robust responses to changing circumstances. Thus, the 4D Level mitigates short-term biases and prevents pitfalls of excessive dependence on real-time data.
* Example *
Yacouba Sawadogo’s agricultural innovation in Burkina Faso illustrates how success emerges from deep engagement with enduring realities. By carefully observing natural laws (soil chemistry, water retention, termite behavior), geographic constants (Sahel’s climate patterns), and historical patterns (traditional Zai farming techniques), he developed enhanced methods that transformed degraded land into productive fields. His work shows how innovation succeeds when it aligns with fundamental constraints while adapting to long-term environmental trends. Understanding these 4D Level patterns enabled effective engagement of the 2D Level elements: human development through knowledge-sharing, freedom to experiment with traditional methods, loyalty to sustainable practices serving human nutritional needs, innovative adaptations of ancient techniques, organized implementation of new approaches, and the spread of successful methods through farmer-to-farmer networks (Ring of Harmony). This integration of enduring realities with dynamic adaptation generated remarkable vitality through time (3D Level), creating resilient and diversified agricultural systems that continue 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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