Ninth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

I start by defining the processing and production the body does in the world as the basis of a hermeneutic dialectic between body and world. I relate this to the six symbiotic behavioural outcomes; predatory, parasitic, commensalist, herbivorous, mutual, and competitive. I proceed to show how triangulation between two bodies and world can create language. I then show how triangulations proceed to create social groups including cultures; a “geodetic socialisation”; the way comforts produced by triangulations in common by many individuals developmentally “educates” a mob of individuals into a tradition in which “things” have become “objects” some of which have achieved a “sacred” status in what is by then adjusted to a “public perspective” dependent on individual opinions. Once achieved it is difficult to adjust individuals in that perspective back to the individual condition they had at birth, partly because of early years developmental learning. For this reason we need to grasp an understanding of the underlying basis for understandings, and in this paper I explain the way in which secular philosophy achieves an understanding of the underlying basis for human understandings, allowing a common understanding amongst a global public; a philosophical geodetic understanding as a mass persepective for the anthropocene. The global public understanding of all six symbiotic outcomes, rather than just one, is a necessary public challenge to the predatory monoculture of neo capitalism which is establishing an impoverishment of the human condition globally.