Circle Square

In the fall of 1972, I had just returned to Cornell from the University of Reading (at Reading I used statistics to study the commodity-buying behaviors found in the EEC) and my dad challenged me with an insightful question.

“What are you going to do with this fine education, which we are paying?”

 - William John Deines

The question means what only a dad can ask.  This took a few months to resolve.  My answer was, “In my lifetime, I’d establish a philosophy of information processing, as it relates to business.”  I thought it would take 20 years to do this.  It has taken 40.

I name this philosophy: Circle Square or Circle Squaring.  This is because these are the two most fundamental symbols that I know.  Bouton ideation is based on circle-squaring.  Consciousness beats these two.  Let me explain.  This insight has useful and practical application.

Let’s start with the synonym names.

Circle	Square	Free	Contained
Radian	Vector	Page	Data
Heurism	Algorithm	Ontology	Matrix
Judge	Do	Hierarchy	List
Intuitive	Deductive	Document	Report
Implicit	Explicit	Emotional	Rational
Future	Past	Affect	Effect
Opportunity	Realization	Outside	Inside
???	Tensor	Top	Down
Open	Close	Semantic	Syntax

??? The math beyond Tensor Math is affective.  It is not named yet.  I’d offer Sensor Math, as a name.  The Future has an impact upon the Presence.  The Presence senses what the Future holds, and moves toward opportunity.  That sensation is material: it has an energetic affect.  So says conjugate variable Uncertainty and all the Quantum Mechanical experiments (including the Delayed Choice Experiment).

The Big Picture

Where does this circle/square idea come from?  Where does it fit?  Why is it a useful and productive thought?

In short, it’s a universal: created by the expanding universe, which contains things.  That is, nothing created by and contained by the Universe can know it all (circle).  Therefore, all contained things place their knowledge in square containers. Content is relative to context.

Circle/squaring is the base of how anything knows.  We know content characteristics via the context frame.  This is useful.  It is also a skew.

Down to Earth

Stepping back from the Cosmological, we epistemological philosophers can say:

“All things are understood in context.”

Let’s get even more specific, let’s talk about that meeting you just attended.  Did the people stay on point?  How much time was wasted with off-point dialogue?

OK.  Let’s be even more personal: do you know how to think on-point?

Is on-point, emotive and rational thinking (circle/square) a good thing?

Practical Knowledge

Circle/squaring is a very practical idea that is used in all domains of expertize.   Math uses circle/squares.  Logic uses circle/squares.  Writing uses circle/squares.  Engineering uses circle/squares.  Website design uses circle/squares.  Consulting uses circle/squares.  Relationships are give-and-take circle/squares.  Etc.

In fact, you cannot identify a domain of human intelligence that is not based on circle/squaring.  Even the phase “domain of knowledge” is a circle/square.

So what practical thing can you now do based on the new philosophy called Circle/Squaring?  Let me know how you use this insight for your social, economic, rational, and emotional benefit. 

Send me an email:

gld@boutonics.com

Note:  Michael Deines and I are applying circle/square to a new Website design method called padame (page data me).  In short, we link pages and data reports to “surround information” the targeted audience.  Doing this is more affective.  The benefit is more eyeballs.

With the circle/square thought, there is a more productive fit.  Less now gets more.  This is a good thing.