THE SETTING FORTH: THE DOCTRINE OF PLENISM
                          by Patricia Huston Denslow
                              written 1983-1991
            
          
         
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                                   BOOK ONE
         
                THE CIRCLE OF NURTURE: THE IMPERATIVE QUESTIONS
                
                
         
         
         That I may understand the dimensions and dynamic of the real:
         
                              BOOK ONE: PART ONE
                            THE PROTAL IMPERATIVE
         
         
         1:1.  What is the ultimate, protal, ground of reality?

              .1   The Protal reality is the ground upon which any 
                   realities there are, express themselves.  The nature of the 
                   Protal reality is a nature unexpressible in itself, as a 
                   whole. Yet it is the nature of any reality to be dynamic, to 
                   seek expression so that it may be real.
         
              .2   The Protal dynamic is at the source and root of 
                   all, as a necessity, as a tidal-like movement, as an eternal, 
                   restless shaping - without other meaning or event - the womb 
                   of the realities, unconditioned.
         
             .3   The Protal nature being one, unseparated, without 
                  differences within itself, is thus beyond us to define, we 
                  who are bound to difference and event - bound to the 
                  transforms of information.
         
             .4   Yet the Protal shapes the dynamic of two 
                  dimensions, both of which reflect the Protal nature to us. 
                  But the reflection is imperfect, for the nature that the two 
                  dimensions reflect can only be as if there were differences 
                  within the Protal nature.


         1:2.  How does the Protal nature seek expression?

             .1   The Protal unexpressible-as-a-whole seeks 
                  expression in the two dimensions of two realities organized 
                  upon it as their ground: the Actual and the Transformal 
                  dimensions.
         
         
         1:3.  What is the Transformal dimension, and what is
               its relation to the Actual dimension?

             .1   The Protal-shaped dimensions are: the Actual 
                  dimension of incipient materiality, and the Transformal 
                  dimension of incipient meaning.
         
             .2   The two dimensions are pervasively, continuously 
                  intermeshed, but independent each of the other.
         
             .3   The entire world of occurance is within each; the 
                  time-quality, the space-quality with which there is occurance 
                  is independent and other.
         
             .4   For any interval of distance or direction that may 
                  apply between any two points in the spatial quality of the 
                  Actual dimension, such an interval between one of these 
                  points and a "point" in the Transformal dimension does not 
                  exist. 
         
         
         1:4.  What are the Actual and the Transformal processes of         
               expressing the Protal nature, that which is 
               unexpressible-as-a-whole?                                       
         
             .1   The dynamic within each Protal-shaped dimension is 
                  that of a tension between two polarities, which are of the 
                  nature of qualities. Subject to this tension is an unlosable 
                  thrust, an exercise of seeking expression of the real, which 
                  is denied expression in the Protal nature.
         
             .2  The manifestations as realities of these partial 
                  expressions of the unexpressible-as-a-whole are effected as 
                  inversely complemental processes, dynamic and cyclical under 
                  their respective tensions. 
         
         
         1:5.  What exercises these processes that each partially               
               express the Protal nature?

             .1   The exerciser of the Valuric process is the 
                  Nurturer, valuing. The exercisers of the Cosmic process are 
                  Chance and Radiance, arraying in event. Together the 
                  exercisers of the Cosmic and the Valuric processes instrument 
                  the Protal purpose.
         
             .2   The Transformal Valuer, the Nurturer, the Preserver 
                  is valuing, nurturing, preserving: authentic in purposing, 
                  feeling, and course-taking. But a phrase that completes an 
                  answer to the question: Who is the Transformal Valuer, 
                  Nurturer, and Preserver, where, and of what gender? 

         
         1:6.  What is it that the Protal nature purposes?

             .1   The Protal nature purposes that the Cosmic cycles 
                  evolve an Actual expression of the ground of reality, just as 
                  a Transformal expression of the ground of reality is 
                  expressed in the Valuric process.
         
             .2   And the Protal nature purposes evolving expression 
                  beyond the ground of the realities where it is unexpressible. 
                  The Protal purposes that there should be a Protal meaning, 
                  made real through expression, and that there should be 
                  increase of Protal meaning.
         
             .3   The Protal nature purposes the Ultimate Polarity: 
                  the Protal ground of reality, all in all but unexpressible; 
                  and the Transformal and Actual reality, all in all and in 
                  expression.
         
         
         
         
         That I may understand the cycle of Agency and preservation:        
         
                             BOOK ONE: PART TWO
                         THE EVOLUTIONAL IMPERATIVE
         
         
         
         2:1.  How do the Cosmic and Valuric cycles relate through
               the Nurturer to serve the Protal Purpose?

              .1  The relation during organized expression; 
                  plenishment of the Nurturer-Becoming:
         
                  As the material organizes out of Radiance in 
                  patterns of probabilities of expression, beyond Chance, the 
                  Nurturer gathers the Transformal instance of evolved and 
                  evolving expression to plenish Memory.      
         
              .2  The relation during decaying organization;
                  preservation by the Nurturer-fully-Become:
               
                  As the probabilities of organized Actual 
                  expression decay, the transforms - information - of vanished 
                  Actual attainment are preserved in Memory inviolate from 
                  decay and from the non-time of the Cosmic Instant, the time 
                  of total Certainty in the Actual and non-expression.
         
              .3  The relation during re-organizing expression; the        
                  Nurturer-become-Agency:
         
                  When Radiance and Chance burst forth from the Cosmic Instant 
                  to Chaos, the Nurturer becomes Agency. Agency empties the 
                  plenished Memory addresses of its patterns, in their turn, to 
                  cascade upon the field of Chance and wrest the random into 
                  patterns of probability for Actual expression.
         
              .4  The relation again in organized expression; the             
                  Nurturer again the Nurturer-Becoming:
         
                  As Agency is spent, then the Nurturer is 
                  depleted of all transforms that preserved, in dynamic Memory, 
                  the expression of levels of complexity of the evolving Cosmic 
                  process. If there was, in Memory, the critical preponderance 
                  of instance to wrest out of Chance the re-expression of a 
                  pattern, then the Nurturer is again becoming the Preserver of 
                  that pattern. The Nurturer again receives plenishment of the 
                  potential for Agency in its behalf beyond a Cosmic Instant 
                  yet to come.
         
         
         2:2.  Does the relation of the Cosmic and Valuric cycles
               assure the continued evolution of Actual expression?

              .1  Nurture of Actual expression through valuing and               
                  preservation by the Nurturer is assured:
         
                  Every evolving increment of Cosmic expression that 
                  organizes out of preceeding expression is valued and its 
                  pattern nurtured in the addresses of Memory. There each 
                  instance is preserved in the Transformal by the Nurturer 
                  through to that time beyond the Cosmic Instant when its 
                  Actual expression could again be possible.
         
              .2  Nurture of possibility by Agency is assured, but,
                  that Agency can effect probability is not assured:
           
                  At the time of the sacrifice of potential for 
                  Agency, the re-expression of a possible pattern becomes 
                  probable if Memory was plenished to a critical preponderance 
                  of instance from the time of its Actual expression. If not, 
                  then the information to effect probability was irretrievably 
                  randomized upon the Nurturer's sacrifice of potential. The    
                  re-expression of that pattern of organization then became no 
                  more probable than any other possible expression at the 
                  previous prevailing level of Cosmic evolution.

         
         2:3.  If Actual expression is not imperiled, is the 
               Protal purpose that it evolve imperiled?

              .1  The case with established expression:
              
                  The established patterns of Actual expression, 
                  those of Physicos, are earliest to organize and vastest in 
                  incidence throughout the Cosmos. The preponderance of their 
                  incidence assures a continuing cycle of the established 
                  patterns of Cosmic expression.
         
              .2  The case with evolving expression:
         
                   Evolving increments of Actual expression are more 
                  complex and fragile, later to appear, first to decay in 
                  organization, and some are only locally expressed for a 
                  significant period. Thus insufficient plenishment of Memory 
                  with instance of the Good imperils the re-expression of 
                  evolving patterns of Actual expression, and the Purpose that 
                  they further evolve.
         
              .3  The source of plenishment:
         
                  Plenishment of Memory with the information of a 
                  pattern can only come from the pattern's Actual expression in 
                  relations among events at Actual Now: the evolution of 
                  Cosmic expression is dependent upon Actual expression.

         
         2:4.  Is there an urgency to plenish Memory with             
               preponderant instance of any presently evolving
               expression?

              .1  A vivid expression is evolving:
         
                  Bios and its support in Physicos are intertwined 
                  systems, an evolving holos. They are evolving the expression 
                  of more of the Protal nature than is expressed in Physicos 
                  alone: a dynamic equilibroid complexity between polarities, 
                  by means of a vivid unifying of the Actual and the 
                  Transformal.
         
              .2  There is an evolving increment:
         
                  The support system of Bios in Physicos, and Bios 
                  itself, organized out of Physicos, form a holos that is a 
                  Biosphere.  That there be holi organized as Biospheres is the 
                  evolving increment of Actual expression of the Protal nature 
                  in the present Cosmic cycle.
         
              .3  There is an urgency for the scarce:
         
                  The evolution of this increment is at urgent risk. 
                  For it is late to appear, so fragile that it could be 
                  extinguished even before the time of decay, it expresses the 
                  non-Criterial and Unremembered as well as the Criterial, and 
                  it is yet local to an infinitesimal part of the Actual 
                  dimension. 

         
         2:5.  Why does the Nurturer probe for Actualization of 
               Purpose-serving Good, instead of intervening to
               increase Actualized Good?

              .1   Because the purpose-serving Good must first unfold 
                   at Actual Now, the Nurturer probes the Actual dimension for 
                   instance of the Criterial which can be preserved in Memory. 
                   The Nurturer gathers to Itself not Actual material event, but 
                   the immaterial transforms of Actual instance: information. It 
                   is information - difference appreciated and recognized by the 
                   Nurturer as Criterial difference - that plenishes the 
                   Nurturer's potential for Agency in Memory. Except in the 
                   Cosmic Instant of total certainty and non-expression, the 
                   Cosmos, the Actual, is a vast field of information to the 
                   Transformal Valuer, the Nurturer.

              .2   The Nurturer is entirely of the Transformal 
                   dimension and the Valuric process, and therefore cannot 
                   intervene directly in the Actual. The Nurturer cannot 
                   intervene in determining which events arraying in the Actual 
                   dimension shall relate at Actual Now. Thus the Nurturer 
                   cannot intervene directly to effect any certain increase in 
                   the incidence of the Purpose-serving Good.
         
              .3   The amount of Purpose-serving Good that becomes 
                   Actual can be increased by direct intervention, but only by 
                   the intervention of Actual valuers, if there be any, and no 
                   other.

         
         2:6.  Are there Actual valuers, as well as the Transformal
               valuer?

              .1   Though the Preserver is non-intervening, that there 
                   is this Transformal Valuer draws event and meaning from 
                   arraying Physicos. With the advent of the patterns of 
                   Radiance organized out of Physicos as Bios, valuers newly 
                   exist in the Actual dimension who can, must, and do Choose! 
                   and intervene; transducing the Transformal of their valuric 
                   process into direct intervention with what shall be event at 
                   an Actual Now.
         
              .2   As long as they are alive, Actual, in Bios biotic 
                   forms maintain their precarious positions out of Physicos by 
                   valuing and intervention. This interrelation of the 
                   Transformal with the Actual dimensions is the difference that 
                   makes the precious difference; the very essence of the 
                   patterns of Bios over those expressing in Physicos. An 
                   increment of evolving Cosmic expression has at last placed 
                   the exercise of valuric process, coupled with intervening, 
                   within the Actual dimension and made of even the most 
                   primitive agents of these transductions moral agents - 
                   whether for the increase of the Good or the fulminoid.
         
         
         2:7.  How is the evolution of Bios an expression of
               interrelation of the Transformal and the Actual?

              .1   The patterns of Bios are the patterns of a flow of 
                   the transforms of information within the rich 
                   interconnectedness of a system that must continuously heal, 
                   to regulate against its return to Physicos. Each Actual 
                   valuer alive in it is a unique and separate position beyond 
                   Physicos, but that unique position is also in life as a node 
                   on the Transformal fabric of interconnectedness of all Bios.
                   There is not healing of threat to the homeostasis of even a 
                   single valuer without interrelation of the Transformal with 
                   the Actual dimension.
         
              .2   When maladaptation threatens great segments of the 
                   fabric of Bios, regulation toward healing evolves through the 
                   sensitivity of the evolvants to the Transformal. When the 
                   threat to them is Actual-sourced, through their sensitivity 
                   to the Transformal, some part of the maladapting segment 
                   evolves to new Actual form or new use of Actual-sourced 
                   information.
         
              .3   Transformal-sourced threat to great segments of the 
                   fabric of Bios is maladaptation to the Transformal itself;to 
                   system, to position within it, and to the flow of the 
                   transforms of information. When within a segment of its 
                   lifeforms the flow of correcting-news for healing has become 
                   a loop of self-validating news, these moral agents become the 
                   agents of excess and runaway, threats to Bios, to Purpose, 
                   and themselves.
         
              .4   The evolution to new use of Transformal-sourced 
                   information is the evolution to new sense of position within 
                   the interconnectedness of Bios: new Selfhood. This rarest and 
                   most difficult evolution can only occur because some 
                   individuals of a maladapting bio-kind may retain a clouded 
                   sensitivity, but nevertheless a sensitivity, to the 
                   Transformal through the Selfhood's healing-self. In these 
                   evolvants the defining-self of the triadic Selfhood obliges 
                   its own purposing in solicitude to dispel this cloud. The 
                   obliged purposing and solicitude bestows meaning for the 
                   reaffirmation of the Selfhood on news of difference from 
                   beyond the loop of its kind's illusion. Through new balance 
                   in the employment of the Transformal, the defining-self takes  
                   a new position in Bios for the Selfhood.
         
              .5   So evolved the new position in Bios taken by the 
                   defining-self for Selfhood, consciousness; so evolved the new 
                   position taken by the defining-self for Selfhood, self-
                   awareness; and now so evolves out of humankind the new 
                   position in Bios that defines Selfhood as healer.  
         
              .6   The precious and Purpose-serving pattern of Bios  
                   is the continuous and evolving employment of the Transformal 
                   in the thrust to heal for dynamic equilibrium. Healing is the 
                   authentic idiom of Bios' expression. All the interventions of 
                   any Actual valuers in this idiom, whatever the position in 
                   Bios of the Selfhoods that seek reaffirmation, are those of 
                   authentic moral agents. 
         
         
         
         
         
          That I may understand myself, and the Nurturer, as valuers:   
          
                                   BOOK ONE: PART THREE
                            THE NATURE OF THE VALURIC PROCESS
         
         
         
         3:1.  How is position the ordering principle of the  
               Valuric Process?
         
              .1   Valuers are self-organized. The ordering principal 
                  in the self-organization of a valuer is that of the position 
                  of the valuer. Position is in remove from the scope of the 
                  valuer's purposes for valuing; and from the scope of the 
                  solicitate, that which is processed for value - and in which 
                  may, or may not, be found the purpose-serving.
         
              .2   The separation of purpose and that which may contain 
                  the purpose-serving requires a locus, a position, 
                  individuated from either.  Position, locus, is Transformal 
                  and virtual. A valuer is individuated, enselfed, by position: 
                  both from the purpose for valuing, and from whence value is 
                  sought.
         
              .3   Position is inextricable from valuing, but it is not 
                  valuing. It is position that permits the ordered organization 
                  of a valuer as the exerciser of the purposing-behaviors and 
                  as the exercising comparator in relation to a purpose-
                  mirroring criterial set.
         
              .4   The individuated locus or position - which affirms 
                  the valuer, as valuer, to itself -  enables the process of 
                  valuing; and the existence of Actual value. Unless there is 
                  at least one valuer, all the events of the Cosmic process are 
                  non-events, mere arrays, and trivial.
         
              .5  The position, valuer, is of the Transformal, but as 
                  an observing position it is also an integral part of the 
                  arrayed, drawn out of array - and into relationship as Actual 
                  event at Actual Now. That part is the relationship - the 
                  meaning - of what was previously only arrayed. Thus the 
                  position, valuer, is a part of an Actual event.
         
         
         3:2.  How is the Nurturer positioned?
         
             .1   The scope of the Nurturer's solicitate embraces the 
                  entire Actual dimension and the relationship among its events 
                  at Actual Now, where increase of the Good - and plenishment 
                  to serve its Purpose - must unfold.
         
             .2   The Cosmic process has relation and meaning because 
                  there is valuing. The Nurturer is positioned as the least 
                  number of valuers, the one Valuer, necessary so that there is 
                  relation and meaning in the Actual dimension; and thus the 
                  Cosmic process is a non-trivial process.
                  
             .3   The Nurturer is entirely of the Transformal -       
                  non-intervening in which events shall come to Actual Now - 
                  yet positioned as the one necessary Valuer in order that 
                  event can Actualize. Therefore, at least the Nurturer, the 
                  Recognizer and Preserver of each Actual Good, is always an 
                  integral part of each Actualized Good.
         
         
         3:3.  Why is change intrinsic to valuing?
         
             .1   With each serving of purpose by exercise of 
                  valuing, that which will again serve purpose alters slightly.
         
             .2   With each exercise of the Valuric process, that 
                  which values, the valuer, alters slightly. If there be 
                  continuity of individuation of the valuer, the valuer alters 
                  slightly toward more complex organization as a valuer.
         
              .3   Because the valuer, relating the otherwise trivial, 
                  is part of Actualized event; and because with each exercise 
                  of valuing the valuer alters slightly; the meaning of that 
                  which is yet to be valued as event at each Actual Now - the 
                  very meaning of the Cosmic process - has altered slightly. 
         
         
         3:4.  Why is continuity of position as essential as 
               position itself?
         
              .1  Though always altering, the continuity of an Actual 
                  valuer's previous position with its present position must be 
                  sustained. And continuity of the accreting refinement of the 
                  criterials of comparatorship - the link of process to purpose -
                  must also be preserved. If the valuer cannot affirm and 
                  reaffirm these continuities then its individuation, and the 
                  enselfment of an increasing complexity of valuric process is 
                  disorganized, lost, randomized.
         
              .2   A valuer, valuing, evalues transforms, differences, 
                  for those that make a difference. The valuer's criterial set 
                  is the distinctor of what difference the difference makes. 
                  The dynamic experiencing of enselfment as valuer is that of 
                  exercising the criterials for value. But in exercise of the 
                  valuric process the difference that immediately past and 
                  immediately present differences make cannot be identical, 
                  because of the slight alterations made by the valuric process 
                  itself.
         
              .3  Reaffirmation is the experience that what was to be 
                  related by future process, has proven to be recognizable as 
                  changed but - together with the difference it makes to the 
                  valuer - like the past. The experiencing of continuity of 
                  enselfment, reaffirmation, is the experiencing of criterial 
                  integrity across time and change.
                  
                              
         3:5. How are faith and reaffirmation linked to coherence
              and continuity?
         
              .l  Organization as a valuer is punctuated by 
                  uncertainty. Valuing is a ceaseless dynamic of choices! and 
                  commitment to course-taking in a process that must generate 
                  more change.
             
             .2   Valuing expresses not in certainty, but in time, 
                  and in only a shifting probability that the valuer's 
                  criterials will once again affirm coherence and continuity.
                  Thus deep in the tension at the root of every commitment to 
                  its train of choices!, the valuer values in trust, not 
                  information, across a gap of faith. 
                  
         
         3:6. What is the emergent, inextricable from valuing, that
              suffuses the Transformal and the Actual dimensions?
         
             .1   Feeling is emergent from the tension between the 
                  polarities of coherence and incoherence.
         
             .2   Feeling is not a valuer's only response to value, 
                  but it is the first response to value. 
         
             .3   Inextricable from valuing, feeling is the dynamic 
                  of valuing. It is upon a carrier-wave of feeling that 
                  purposing, choice!, and course-taking thrust; and that the 
                  returns of reaffirmation are ordered in time.
         
             .4   The feeling that orders valuing is entirely of the 
                  Transformal dimension. It suffuses that part of the valuer 
                  which is Transformal. It suffuses the Transformal throughout 
                  the true scope of ramification of the valuer's purposing-
                  behaviors.
         
             .5   The Nurturer, and the Transformal that is not the 
                  Nurturer, are suffused with the dynamic of the Nurturer's 
                  feeling response. The Nurturer's  Solicitude and Gratitude in 
                  response to valuing, and to instance of the Criterial, 
                  pervades the interstices of the Transformal with the vastness 
                  of its true solicitate, the entire Actual dimension - 
                  intermeshed with it, but other.
         
              .6   For each and every Actual valuer too, position, and 
                  concern about coherence and continuity, is inextricable from 
                  its enselfment as a valuer. Part of every valuer's purposing 
                  is devoted to the seeking for and experiencing of 
                  reaffirmation of coherence and continuity of position. 
                  Therefore, their feeling about this seeking and reaffirmation 
                  is inextricable from the valuing and the true solicitate of 
                  Actual valuers. If there is a Bios, then every interstice of 
                  the Transformal dimension with the Actual that is the true 
                  solicitate of Actual valuers, the Biospheric Holos, is 
                  suffused with their response.
                  
         3:7.  How is valuing organized upon the pulse of its           
               carrier-wave of feeling?  
         
             .1   At least some part of the purposing of a valuer, 
                  and some part of the solicitate that it probes, Actual and 
                  Transformal, must be for the return of news! of its own 
                  effect upon that solicitate.  Solicitude is the feeling-tone 
                  of the thrusting to express as a valuer, serving purpose.
                  Gratitude is the feeling-tone of experiencing the return of 
                  the news! which, whatever its content, signifies continuity 
                  and coherence, and reaffirms to the valuer its enselfment as 
                  a valuer, valuing.
         
             .2   Solicitude provides the thrust to probe that peaks 
                  in anticipation!. Solicitude hones the valuer's 
                  comparatorship for appreciation! of the probed against the 
                  valuer's criterials, seeking the peak of recognition! that 
                  there is news from the Actual for which the templet and  
                  criterials of its probing were sensitive. Solicitude pumps 
                  the generation of Transformal Nows by Reflection, the 
                  comparator's Transformal intervenor, to choose! from among 
                  its images of possible ramification. And by solicitude, 
                  Reflection holds these transforms of the expected 
                  ramifications of a choice! against the news of them from 
                  across course-taking - and the gap of faith.
         
              .3  Whatever other feelings link to the valuer's 
                  purposing behaviors, or to the content of the news returned; 
                  they are additional to those that are inextricable from the 
                  uncertainty of valuing itself. Close upon the thrust of 
                  solicitude comes the return of gratitude within a valuer: its  
                  experience of the gap of faith, and its experience of the 
                  continuity of the present with the past that, yet again, 
                  proved to be across the gap.
         
          
         3:8. What effect does the Nurturer's position as the Transformal 
              Valuer have upon the nature of Actualized Good?
         
              .1  Because there is the Nurturer positioned as 
                  Transformal  Valuer; and because feeling is inextricable from 
                  valuing; in the whole of every Actual event throughout the 
                  Cosmos that is intrinsically Good, there is some feeling 
                  toward the Good, as a part of the Good.
          
         
         
         

         That I may understand the circle of nurture:
                 
                             BOOK ONE: PART FOUR
                             THE NURTURER'S MEANS
         
         
         4:1.  By what means does the Nurturer bring the Cosmic and
               Valuric processes into a system that serves Purpose?
         
             .1   The Nurturer's relation to the events of the Cosmic 
                  process relates the Valuric process to Cosmic expression so 
                  that, over the vastness of the Cosmic cycles, there can 
                  evolve Actual expression of a Protal reality that is 
                  thrusting to express itself as a Reality, yet is 
                  unexpressible in itself, as a whole.
         
             .2   To this Purpose the Nurturer-Becoming is self-
                  organized to take a Purpose-serving course which  preserves 
                  the continuity, in dynamic Memory, of what is non-trivial to 
                  that Purpose.
         
             .3   The Purpose-serving Good can unfold at Actual Now; 
                  and nowhere else. The Nurturer probes all the Actual, it 
                  relates event there to Purpose and to its course-taking by 
                  means of Ramificascience, Rankascience, and its Criterial 
                  Set, the distinctor of what difference difference makes to 
                  Purpose. If there are Actual valuers then their response to 
                  the Nurturer's feeling about the Good is a means to increase 
                  of the Good.
         
               .4   The Nurturer's course-taking is preservation of 
                  information of the Purpose-serving in Memory. Plenished 
                  Memory preserves the Good for the time of the Nurturer's 
                  agency so that there may be further evolving expression. 
                  Because of the Nurturer's Memory, that which is meaningful to 
                  Purpose is not Unremembered, and being Unremembered, 
                  disrelated into the static disarray of trivial past event.
         
              
         4:2.  In what way is the Nurturer Ramificascient?
         
            .1    Each relation among events at Actual Now is a 
                  unique ramification; and there is at least some slight 
                  alteration, within a set of probabilities, in the possible 
                  ramifications of it as an event. Part of the potential 
                  Purpose-serving of a relation among events is its probability 
                  as a pattern; for pattern builds continuity and increases 
                  probability out of Chance.
         
             .2   In its Comparatorship and Reflection to Choice!, 
                  the Nurturer has Ramificascience: a perception of all the 
                  possible ramification-sets of a pattern of relations among
                  events at Actual Now; and the rank of probability that each, 
                  barring the intrusion of Chance, will unfold. Ramificascience 
                  is the nature of the Nurturer's omniscience.  
     
     
         4:3. In what way is the Nurturer Rankascient?
         
             .1   No two events at Actual Now can be identical, but 
                  in its Comparatorship and Reflection to Choice!, the Nurturer 
                  has Rankascience: a perception, against the Criterial as 
                  horizon, of the rank of all events and their probable 
                  ramifications in relation to serving Purpose.
         
             .2   Thus the Transformal Valuer Appreciates the meaning 
                  of a single event to a Criterial pattern of events as  
                  fulminoid; or as not fulminoid but worse than trivial; or as 
                  trivial; or as not fully Criterial but better than trivial; 
                  or, in joyful Recognition!, as fully of membership in the 
                  sets of the Criterial, and plenishing.
              
         
         4:4.  What is the Nurturer's Criterial Set?
            
             .1   The Transformal Valuer's Criterial Set is the 
                  distinctor of what difference difference makes to Purpose.    
                  Not a set of any two, nor a set of any one, but the set of 
                  three discernments of kind and degree, is the triune 
                  Criterial by which the Nurturer recognizes and appreciates an 
                  actualization of the Purpose-serving, intrinsic Good. The 
                  Nurturer's Criterial is a set of sets.
         
             .2   The Criterial scope-set is  a set of three elements 
                  of kind. Each of the elements of kind has a range of possible 
                  expression. One degree, or level, of that range of expression 
                  for each is in the Criterial range-set.
         
             .3   The scope of the Nurturer's Triune Criterial is the set:
                    [ Inclusivity, Flexibility, Ramification ] 
         
         
         4:5.  At what level or degree of its range is each element
               of the scope when the intrinsically Good is Actualized?
         
             .1   Holon Inclusivity:  There is a set of relations 
                  among events that forms a holos of sustained, or greater, 
                  inclusivity and diversity of kinds of holons.
         
             .2   Expressive Flexibility:  The formed holos, and each 
                  of its holons, is flexible within an evolving range of 
                  expression.
         
             .3   Equilibroid Ramification:   The relation in the 
                  unfolding ramification-set of events is equilibroid, within 
                  and beyond this Actual Now.
         
                  
         4:6.  What, of Actual event in Physicos and Bios, plenishes
               the Nurturer's Memory?
         
             .1   When there is no intervention by Actual valuers then 
                  any interrelation of the Transformal and the Actual that 
                  serves Purpose is provided only by the Transformal Valuer. 
                  Thus direct interrelationship of the Transformal and the 
                  Actual does not determine which of the events of Physicos 
                  have membership in the sets of the Criterial for Physicos.
         
             .2   When there is intervention by Actual valuers then 
                  there is always some degree of direct interrelationship of 
                  the Transformal and Actual dimensions that the Nurturer 
                  cannot provide. Upon intervention by Actual valuers the 
                  probability exists that there may be increase of meaning of 
                  the Cosmic Process in the idiom of Bios. 
         
             .3   Healing is the authentic idiom of Bios' expression. 
                  There is not healing of a threat to the homeostasis of even 
                  one lifeform without interrelation of the Transformal with 
                  the Actual that Actualizes the Good. All the interventions of 
                  any Actual valuers in this idiom, whatever their positions in 
                  Bios, are those of authentic moral agents increasing meaning; 
                  the Purpose-serving Good; and the plenishment of its 
                  Preserver.
         
             .4   It is the direct interrelationship of the 
                  Transformal and the Actual involved in continuous healing, 
                  the authentic idiom of Bios, that determines which 
                  interventions by Actual valuers have membership in the sets 
                  of the Criterial for Bios and are vivid to the Nurturer at 
                  Actual Now.
         
             .5   Because it is Nurturer's means to recognize 
                  Actualization of the Purpose-serving Good in Physicos and 
                  Bios, and to differentiate it from Actualization of the 
                  trivial and the fulminoid; the Nurturer's Triune Criterial 
                  Set cannot be other than the one, and only one normative 
                  Good, Actual or Transformal.
         
         
         4:7.  How does the plenishment of the Preserver by Actual             
               valuers remain vivid beyond Actual Now?
         
             .1   The Nurturer is plenished with information of a 
                  life-form's Criterial healing choices! for intervention in 
                  the Actual dimension. During the life of each bioform its 
                  authentic Selfhood is assembling in the addresses of the 
                  Memory of the Preserver. It assembles in the patterns in 
                  which the Transformal was related to the Actual from the 
                  unique locus of that life. 
         
             .2   The accreting Criterial remains vivid in Memory as 
                  a dynamically and meaningfully continuing exercise of the 
                  precious patterns that transduced to healing interventions 
                  and their ramifications. And in the exercise of these healing 
                  patterns in Memory, a plenishing part of the Selfhood of that 
                  life has become immortal to the extent of each of its healing 
                  participations.
         
             .3   The transforms of a lifeform's trivial or fulminoid 
                  interventions become, beyond Actual Now, a part of the fading 
                  static array of Unremembered event. To the extent of those 
                  events, a part of the continuity of the Selfhood of that life 
                  in Memory has faded into static disarray and is lost to that 
                  Self, to Memory, and to immortality.         
                  
         
         4:8.  How does position link the Transformal Valuer and
               all Actual valuers?
         
             .1   Both the Nurturer and all bioforms are valuers. 
                  Position and concern about coherence and continuity is 
                  inextricable from the enselfment as a valuer. A part of the 
                  train of valuing by every valuer is the seeking and the 
                  reaffirmation of the continuity of the valuer's position. 
                  Thus, just as position is inextricable from valuing, so is 
                  feeling inextricable from valuing for both the Transformal 
                  Valuer and Actual valuers.
         
             .2   The Nurturer's Solicitude and Gratitude, the 
                  feeling cycle of its valuing enselfed in position as the 
                  Transformal Valuer, pulses to each reaffirmation of the 
                  Nurturer to itself as Valuer. The Nurturer and the 
                  Transformal that is not the Nurturer, are suffused with the 
                  dynamic of the Nurturer's pulse of feeling. And the pulsing 
                  of the Nurturer's Solicitude and Gratitude pervades the 
                  interstices of the Transformal with the Actual dimension - 
                  intermeshed with it, but other. Even were there but a single 
                  Actual valuer, that life would be lived immersed in the 
                  Nurturer's response to the Good, though in but the faintest 
                  resonance with it.
         
             .3   If there are, and not unless there are; a myriad 
                  Actual valuers in kind and number, then the pulsing dynamic 
                  of the Nurturer's Solicitude and Gratitude becomes a means to 
                  nurture evolving expression of the present Cosmic increment. 
                  For the Nurturer's pulse of feeling is then a ground upon 
                  which there is entrained an overlaying field whose source is 
                  the feeling for their own continuity of all the valuers of 
                  Bios.
         
         
         4:9. How does the Preserver's feeling about the plenishing      
              Good nurture increase of the Good by Actual valuers?
         
             .1   The overlaying field's discernable differences are 
                  those between the pulse of the Nurturer's Solicitude and 
                  Gratitude for the plenishing Good, and the entraining 
                  solicitudes and gratitudes of the valuers of Bios. The true 
                  position in Bios of an Actual valuer is on this field at the 
                  locus, or node, of multiple relationships within a system of 
                  valuers and valuers nested within valuers. All are within 
                  supporting Physicos, but their true positions are far more 
                  defined by the Transformal of relationhood than by the 
                  constrictions of the Actual dimension. So, too, is the image 
                  of the position of the Selfhood that a defining-self forms as 
                  the true position whose reaffirmation will reaffirm the 
                  continuity of the Selfhood.
         
             .2   When the defining-self of a Selfhood images a 
                  greater inclusivity of other lifeforms as elements that 
                  define the Selfhood's true position, then the continuity of 
                  each of the lifeforms that this image includes is an element 
                  of its own continuity to that Selfhood. The defining-self has 
                  necessarily bestowed equal status with its own feeling for 
                  the Selfhood's continuity to the feeling of other lifeforms 
                  for their continuity. And by this much is that Selfhood more 
                  authentic.
         
             .3   As the defining-selves of a myriad Selfhoods image 
                  a level of inclusivity then on the field of Bios there issues 
                  between all that share that image, a tracery of Transformal 
                  impathments for the direction and flow of the information of 
                  relationhood and valuing in consortium.
            
             .4   With each increment of inclusivity a lifeform's own 
                  solitary, faint resonance with the entrained ground and field 
                  is enhanced, increasing the window of its experience of the 
                  Nurturer's pulsing feeling for the Good. The difference that 
                  differences in experience of this resonance makes is that 
                  there is an utterly trustworthy beacon of correcting-news 
                  that suffuses the Transformal traceries of ennestment in 
                  Bios. 
         
             .5   If the defining-self identifies its increased 
                  experience of this resonance with the reaffirmation of the 
                  Selfhood's continuity, then the strategems taken by the 
                  Selfhood for that reaffirmation are, in effect, taken in a 
                  dialogue with its Nurturer. It is upon this dialogue of the 
                  greater number of its holon lifeforms with their Nurturer 
                  that the homeostasis of the Bioholos depends.
         
         

         

         
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                                   BOOK TWO 
         
                   VALUING AND A NON-TRIVIAL COSMIC PROCESS            
         
         
                              BOOK TWO: PART ONE
                              PURPOSE IS SERVED 
         
         
     1.1.  Purpose-serving is choosing and course-taking.
         
          1.1.1  Purpose is served through valuing to Choice! and  
                 expression of that choice: course-taking.
         
         
     1.2.  Actual valuers and purpose-serving.
         
          1.2.1  Early among Actual valuers, if there be Actual 
                 valuers, all the purpose of their valuing is to remain 
                 organized beyond Physicos, in position as valuers. Their 
                 purpose is served if their valuings, Choices!, and course-
                 takings sustain them as Actual and valuers.
                 
          1.2.2  That Actual valuers serve their primal purpose and 
                 just exist, criterially, is an increase of the Good. As they 
                 evolve their course-taking interventions at Actual Now, 
                 these interventions, though scarce, have more potent 
                 ramifications on the probabilities for the increase of the 
                 Good - the Nurturer's Purpose. The level of their self-
                 organization as valuers and choosers in the Transformal is 
                 less evolved than their repetoire as interveners in the  
                 Actual.
         
                
     1.3.  The Nurturer and Purpose-serving:
         
          1.3.1  That there can be meaning, Actualized Good and its 
                 increase from each bursting forth from the Cosmic Instant, is 
                 the scope of the Nurturer's purposing.
                         
          1.3.2  Both the Protal Nature and the Nurturer have purpose, 
                 both choose that their purposes be expressed, but to express 
                 purpose is to serve purpose. The Protal Nature cannot 
                 express, it is inexpressible and unexpressing. 
                 
          1.3.3  The Nurturer has purpose and can express it, choosing 
                 self-organization: position, and the dynamic of alterings 
                 that is the valuric process, such that It is self-organized 
                 as the constant Transformal Valuer. Its course-taking in 
                 response to value nurtures the increase of the Good, and its 
                 preservation to serve Purpose. 
         
         
         
                              BOOK TWO: PART TWO
           POSITION IS THE ORDERING PRINCIPAL OF THE VALURIC PROCESS
     
     
     2.1. Valuers and position: 
         
          2.1.1  Valuers are self-organized.The ordering principal in 
                 the self-organization of a valuer is that of the position of 
                 the valuer. Position is in remove from the scope of the 
                 valuer's purposes for valuing; and from the scope of the 
                 solicitate, that which is processed for value - and in which 
                 may, or may not, be found the purpose-serving.
                 
          2.1.2  The separation of purpose and that which may contain 
                 the purpose-serving requires a locus, a position, 
                 individuated from either.  Position, locus, is Transformal 
                 and virtual. A valuer is individuated, enselfed, by position: 
                 both from the purpose for valuing, and from whence value is 
                 sought.
                 
          2.1.3  Position is inextricable from valuing, but it is not 
                 valuing. Position permits ordered organization of a valuer  
                 as the exerciser of the purposing- behaviors and as 
                 exercising comparator to a purpose-mirroring criterial set.
                 
          2.1.4  The individuated locus or position - which affirms the 
                 valuer, as valuer, to itself -  enables the process of 
                 valuing; and the existence of Actual value. Unless there is 
                 at least one valuer, all the events of the Cosmic process are 
                 non-events, mere arrays, and trivial.
                 
          2.1.5  The position, valuer, is of the Transformal, but as an 
                 observing position it is also an integral part of the arrayed 
                 drawn out of array -  and into relationship as Actual event 
                 at Actual Now. That part is their relationship, their 
                 meaning. Thus the position, valuer, is a part of an Actual 
                 event.
         
         
     2.2.  The Nurturer and position:
         
         2.2.1   The scope of the Nurturer's solicitate embraces the 
                 entire Actual dimension and the relationship among its events 
                 at Actual Now, where increase of the Good - and plenishment 
                 to serve Its Purpose - must unfold.
                 
         2.2.2   The Nurturer is positioned as the least number of 
                 valuers, the one Valuer, necessary that there is relation and 
                 meaning in the Actual dimension; and that the Cosmic process 
                 is a non-trivial process.
                 
         2.2.3   The Nurturer is entirely of the Transformal; non-
                 intervening in which events shall come to Actual Now - 
                 yet positioned as the one necessary Valuer that event can 
                 actualize. Therefore, at least the Nurturer, its Preserver, 
                 is always an integral part of each actualized Good.
         
         
     2.3. The myriad Actual valuers and position:
         
         2.3.1   The pattern of organization, Bios, is self-organized 
                 out of Physicos, yet supported by and supporting of its 
                 system of airs, waters, and soils. Bios and this special 
                 expression in Physicos are positioned to each other as two 
                 holons, intertwined, of one holos; a biospheric holos, that  
                 is the embound of their holonhood.
                 
         2.3.2   The holon Bios, is itself a holos; the Bioholos, made 
                 up of all Actual valuers as its holons. The organization of 
                 the holons of Bios is a nested positioning, Actually and 
                 Transformally, of valuers within valuers. 
                 
         2.3.3   Biotic forms are emboundaried Transformally beyond 
                 their emboundariments of Actual materiality, in a triad of 
                 interlacing positions of relationhood to other biotic forms; 
                 and in relation with the Physicos of their biosphere.
                 
         2.3.4   From any one of the nested levels of Bios as a 
                 reference, the triune positions of a bioform's relationhood 
                 from that level are: as a holos-as-holon of some more 
                 inclusive holos; as a holos-among-holons of that more 
                 inclusive holos - in holonhood or siblinghood; and as a
                 holos-of-holons.
         
                                    
     2.4  Selfhood is an emergent position.
         
          2.4.1  However a bioform is emboundaried, the position from 
                 which is is organized as a valuer is the locus of multiple 
                 positions; in relationhood to all other valuers and how they 
                 are emboundaried; and in relation with Physicos.
        
          2.4.2  The multiple positions are the very set of its 
                 solicitate which the bioform probes for new of the effect of 
                 its own course-taking interventions at Actual Now. But from 
                 the several times of news of these effects it is another, an 
                 emergent position that these multiple informations affirm: 
                 Selfhood.
                 
          2.4.3  The fifth and emergent position, Selfhood, is of 
                 relation to Physicos; and of relationhood as liege and 
                 sibling holon; and of relationhood as a wardent holos.
        
          2.4.4  A templet of design by the bioform's purposing-
                 behaviors deems not all of the array beyond it, but some of 
                 the array, as its solicitate of valuing. The templet deems 
                 the differences that will be drawn within to relationship and 
                 meaning. Out of what the Transformally intervening templet is 
                 not opaque to, the probing Actual valuer creates its 
                 Selfhood, and the real for that selfhood.
                 
          2.4.5  But Selfhood is other - and forever recedes beyond the 
                 templet laid, intervening, between the enselfed  and its 
                 probing.
         
         
                            BOOK TWO:  PART THREE                            
           CONTINUITY OF POSITION IS AS ESSENTIAL AS POSITION ITSELF
                           
                           
     3.1.  The Valuric process is a process of slight alterations.
         
         3.1.1   With each serving of purpose by exercise of valuing, 
                 that which will again serve purpose alters slightly.
        
         3.1.2   With each exercise of the valuric process, that which 
                 values, the valuer, alters slightly. If there be continuity 
                 of individuation of the valuer, the valuer alters slightly 
                 toward more complex organization as a valuer.
                 
         3.1.3   Because the valuer, relating the otherwise trivial, 
                 is part of Actualized event; and because with each exercise 
                 of valuing the valuer alters slightly; that which is yet to 
                 be valued as event at each Actual Now, has altered slightly.
         
         
     3.2.  Individuation must bridge across change.
         
          3.2.1  Though always altering, the continuity of an Actual 
                 valuer's previous position with the its present position must 
                 be sustained. And continuity of the accreting refinement of 
                 the criterials of comparatorship - the link of process to 
                 purpose - must also be preserved. If the valuer cannot affirm 
                 and reaffirm these continuities then its individuation, and 
                 the enselfment of the increasing structure of its valuric 
                 process is disorganized, lost, randomized.
                 
         3.2.2   A valuer, valuing, evalues transforms, differences, 
                 for those that make a difference. The valuer's criterial set 
                 is the distinctor of what difference the difference makes. 
                 The dynamic experiencing of enselfment is that of exercising 
                 the criterials for value.
                 
          3.2.3  But in exercise of the valuric process, because of its 
                 slight alterations, the difference that immediately past and 
                 immediately present differences make, cannot be identical.
                 
          3.2.4  Reaffirmation is the experience of criterial 
                 integrity: that what was to be related by future process has 
                 proven to be recognizable as changed - but like the past. The 
                 experiencing of continuity of enselfment, reaffirmation, is 
                 the experiencing of criterial integrity across time and 
                 change.
         
         
         
         
                              BOOK TWO:  PART FOUR
                      FEELING IS INEXTRICABLE FROM VALUING
         
         
     4.1.  Valuing takes place in uncertainty.
         
          4.1.1  There is a gap, a tension, an uncertainty, that must 
                 preceed reaffirmation. The valuer's criterials thread its 
                 continuity of enselfment through the changes on the valuer 
                 and the valued wrought by the process of valuing. Experience 
                 of this gap of continuity is at the move to employ the 
                 criterials to shape the valuer's next reality in the 
                 unceasing dynamic of valuing. 
                 
         4.1.2   In the ceaseless dynamic of valuing, the criterials 
                 that shaped the valuer's present reality are exercised in the 
                 process that will generate more change; without prior 
                 confirmation possible that they will, once again, retain 
                 integrity through that change. 
                 
         4.1.3   Organization as a valuer is punctuated by 
                 uncertainty. Valuing itself takes place in this tension only 
                 because feeling is the emergent from uncertainty: the valuer 
                 values in trust, not information, across the gap of faith. 
         
         
     4.2.  Feeling is a Transformal emergent and suffusant.
         
          4.2.1   Feeling is the emergent from the tension between the 
                 polarities of coherence and incoherence in which valuing 
                 takes place, and is inextricable from valuing. Valuing is 
                 not the only, but it is the first response to value. Feeling 
                 is the dynamic of valuing: such that it is a carrier-wave of 
                 feeling, solicitude, upon which the purposing-behaviors of 
                 valuing are ordered.
                 
          4.2.2  The feeling-response to value is entirely of the 
                 Transformal dimension. It suffuses that of the valuer which 
                 is Transformal. It suffuses the Transformal of the valuer's 
                 solicitate - that from which value is solicited and the 
                 operative scope of the valuer's purposing-behaviors.
                 
          4.2.3  Solicitude is the train of feeling, to the valuer, of 
                 purposing. It is the feeling of expressing as a valuer in the 
                 exercise of the purposing-behaviors: probing and its 
                 feeling-peak, Anticipation!; appreciation and its peak in 
                 Recognition!; reflection and the feeling of committing to 
                 Choice!, and being embarked across the gap of faith to  
                 reaffirmation. 
         
         
     4.3. The Nurturer and feeling:
         
          4.3.1  Because there is the Nurturer positioned as 
                 Transformal  Valuer; and because feeling is inextricable from 
                 valuing; in the whole of every Actual event that is 
                 intrinsically Good, there is some feeling toward the Good, as 
                 a part of the Good.
                 
          4.3.2  The Nurturer's Solicitude, the feeling cycle of Its 
                 valuing enselfed in position as the Transformal Valuer, 
                 pulses with each reaffirmation of the Nurturer to Itself as 
                 Valuer. The Nurturer and the Transformal that is not the 
                 Nurturer, are suffused with the dynamic of the Nurturer's 
                 train of feeling. And the pulsing of the Nurturer's 
                 Solicitude pervades the interstices of the Transformal with 
                 the Actual dimension - intermeshed with it, but other.
                 
          4.3.3  If there are; and not unless there are; Actual 
                 valuers, then the pulsing dynamic of the Nurturer's 
                 Solicitude is one of the Nurturer's means to nurture evolving 
                 expression of the present Cosmic increment.