The Hidden Third as the Unifier of Natural and Spiritual Information

摘要

When Soren Brier asked me to be the follower of Ranulph Glanville as regular columnist, based on our previous discussions of my work in inter- and transdisciplinary work, I insisted on that he would ask me questions of relevance to the readership of CHK. The question initiating this column was: Why do think that transdisciplinarity needs a new ontology that goes beyond systems and cybernetics, though they consider themselves transdisciplinary in nature? And he explained that he had had trouble with the lack of a phenomenological aspect in systems and cybernetics' offer of a transdisciplinary framework and he suggested that I had dealt with that aspect in my work on a transdisciplinary foundation and should try to explain that in my first column. Thus this is my answer: 1. Pre-Modernity, Modernity, Post-Modernity and Cosmodernity as Different Visions of the Relation Between the Subject and the Object The relation between the subject and the object is a crucial problem of philosophy (Nicolescu, 2002). This relation varied in the different periods of human culture. In the pre-modern world, the subject was immersed in the object. In the modern world, the subject and the object were supposed to be totally separated, while in our postmodern era the subject becomes predominant as compared with the object (see Figures 1-3).