I would comment on two tracks - cosmology, and anthropology.

There are issues with the Big Bang which I will not elaborate other than to
suggest a ?question mark? be added to it.

Nothing(God) - Big Bang- order- linear time line- chais - entropy- heat
death
vs
Eternal Source/energy & space - time/change - chaos- cycles - creative
evolution- organization - order - consciousness

Some form of discussion or recognition of different perspectives could be
useful.

On a shorter time scale of Anthropology
Dropping the linear progress time line for cycles of evolutionary
development and periodic catastrophe, movement and redevelopment I think is
important. Climate change is an ongoing process, not new. We’ve had it easy
for 3500 years.

I have a graphic connected to this, the last 130,000 years, on Substack
with lots of papers cited.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__themysteriousdeepblack.substack.com_p_anthropology-2Dtimeline-3Futm-5Fsource-3Durl&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=tKOqtJGXyLC7FgqQGspx-zJqoc10cGob9Z43nTLq0cg&s=uGClSAOnSKkOutugbPy5prsT_7CEsEw_HopmZk0_9DQ&e= 

Cheers
Tim

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> Gregg,
> Thanks for this.
> The idea of slices through big history is intriguing.
> You mentioned Behavior and technology as maps of the territory.
> I can imagine analogous maps concentrating on governance, economies,
> social organization, land management (and ownership), mythology, family
> life, leisure time, sexual practices, etc.
> Repressing an integrated and accessible view of the information will be a
> challenge and a great opportunity.
> In the idea incubator I have previously suggested “Wiki Mural and The Big
> History Timeline”.
> See:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikiversity.org_wiki_The-5FIdea-5FIncubator_Wiki-5FMural-5Fand-5FThe-5FBig-5FHistory-5FTimeline&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=tKOqtJGXyLC7FgqQGspx-zJqoc10cGob9Z43nTLq0cg&s=ILLG6gmJ3kNnz-VnbG8YEsDI583qbYO3sVaFhJe--Vg&e= 
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> Imagine being able to navigate through the three dimensions of time,
> geography, and “slices” with an interactive visualization that allows the
> user to zoom in to see detail or out to see perspective.
>
> It would be important for this to be carefully integrated. For example a
> single ontology would be at the core of the data representation. This would
> demonstrate consiliance and stimulate a unification of vocabulary.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee Beaumont
>
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2022, at 5:39 AM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi TOK Folks,
>   I joined a Big History (BH) Research group and was invited to present on
> the ToK System model. It was a productive meeting as we were sharing
> different maps of BH. I thought I would share my note to the group here to
> give a flavor of what emerged. The idea of a coordinated attempt to
> systematically arrange the various maps of BH in proper relation has appeal
> to me.
>
> >>>
>
> Thanks, Dave and David.
>
> I enjoyed the meeting. I have a few thoughts. First, I would be interested
> to see if everyone would be in agreement, as it sounded like they might,
> that Big History represented thinking of the universe (or cosmic evolution)
> on the dimensions of time (Big Bang/Big Beginning to Present) and
> complexity. If so, that would be a potentially interesting joint statement.
>
> Second, I found myself wondering if people would agree that the various
> approaches and representations can be thought of as maps of that territory.
> If so, then we can frame the interrelations as different maps that have
> different legends.
>
> The “legend” that the Tree of Knowledge System, and its extension the
> Periodic Table of Behavior, operates on is “behavioral complexification.”
> That is, the ToK System represents and unfolding wave of behavioral
> complexification across time, which is defined by that increasing
> integration-differentiation of part-whole-group relations. The ToK System
> posits that nature is stratified into both these levels (i.e., Matter is
> organized into particles, atoms, and groups of atoms (molecules) across
> scale) and that there are dimensions of complexification that give rise to
> new complex adaptive planes of existence (i.e., Life, Mind, and Culture).
> These planes of existence are organized patterns of behavior that exhibit
> functional awareness and responsivity in qualitatively different ways as a
> function of novel information processing systems and communication
> networks. That is, cells, animals and persons behave qualitatively
> differently from inanimate matter as a function of evolving adaptive
> complexity that arise from the variation, selection, and retention feedback
> loops. The Periodic Table of Behavior shows how to arranged the stratified
> layers of nature into a 3 levels (parts, whole, groups across scale) by 4
> dimensions of complexification (Matter, Life, Mind, and Culture). The ToK
> System and PTB extension thus give us a map of Big History that is focused
> on the stratified layers of nature framed in terms of behavior and
> complexification. It is argued that this onto-epistemology is a primary
> “language game” of natural science. That is, natural science is concerned
> with obtaining an ontological map of nature via an exterior empirical
> epistemological frame that is structured to “see” complexity and change
> (see E O Wilson’s Consilience).
>
> The ToK System is a map that is explicitly structured to deal with the
> problem of psychology. That is, the field of scientific psychology
> completely lacks a coherent definition and subject matter. My overall
> system, the Unified Theory Of Knowledge, of which the ToK System is a key
> idea, argues that this failure or problem is cause by a deep
> scientific/philosophical set of problems that arose during the
> Enlightenment, which I call the Enlightenment Gap. The EG refers to the
> fact that the Enlightenment failed to produce a coherent synthetic
> philosophy (or descriptive metaphysical system) that effectively framed the
> proper ontological relations between matter and mind (i.e., the mind-body
> problem) and the proper epistemological relations between scientific and
> subjective and social knowing (which can be seen in the postmodern critique
> of the modern science sensibility). The UTOK is structured to resolve the
> EG and solve the problem of psychology in a way that addresses the nature
> and function of the human psyche consistent with the insights of modern
> psychotherapy.
>
> I share this to help this group situate what I am doing with UTOK in
> general, and the ToK System/PTB in particular. I offer this as an example
> of what I mean by framing different approaches to Big History via the
> shared time by complexity cosmic evolutionary frame and by the more
> specific point that there will be different maps of BH that are structured
> to address different kinds of problems. The ToK System/PTB is designed to
> give rise to a descriptive metaphysical system that is up to the task of
> solving the problem of psychology. I would be curious about other
> approaches and if other authors see their works as maps designed to address
> a particular aspect of our understanding of BH. If so, a collection of such
> maps, with clarity about what they are getting at and their interrelations
> would be fascinating. To give one example of clarification, the ToK System
> is about “naturalistic evolutionary processes” meaning that it does NOT
> represented human technology explicitly. There are reasons for that, but,
> of course, many BH maps would include human technology and
> society/civilization more explicitly. These maps are not inconsistent with
> the ToK System, but simply are highlighting different aspects via a
> different legend.
>
> Best,
> Gregg
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