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Comment on Mind – The need for a new model (part 3)

wonder_ly Mon, Jul 27, 2009
Thank you Spaceweaver for this fascinating post. The whole idea of mind as an image within an image, that evolves by knowing itself, requires more than a moment to ponder about.

Would like to ask about a certain point:
Spaceweaver: "Because both (polytopia and open-ended humanism) explore a novel kind of distinctiveness which is inherently a-territorial and incomplete."

thinking about what territory can be in the mind
- context may be considered a territory of mind, but as i understand it, the model of open-ended humanism is not devoid of contexts, but defines a different manner of emergence of contexts (as described by Spaceweaver):
concept as a process of ever extracting its own context while bringing forth its transitory (persistent momentary) instances.

- i (myself) treat myself as a defined territory within a wider happening, which resides in the center of everything i experience. i have borders, and those borders defines what is in me and outside of me. does a-territorial mean a different kind of self?

What is the meaning of "a-territorial" in this context, and why is it inherent within an open-ended humanism?