¶ Rose
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… Packages consist of complexedly interrelated and not as-yet differentially analyzed phenomena which, as initially unit cognitions, are potentially re-experienciable. A rose for instance, grows, has thorns, blossoms, and fragrance, but often is stored in the brain only under the single word – ‘rose.’
‘As Korzybski, the founder of general semantics, pointed out, the consequence of its single-tagging is that the ‘rose’ becomes reflexively considered by man only as a red, white, or pink device for paying tribute to a beautiful girl, a thoughtful hostess, or last night’s deceased acquaintance. Thetagging if the complex biological process under the single title ‘rose’ tends to detour human curiosity from further differentiation of its integral organic operations as well as consideration of its interecological functionings aboard our planet. We don’t know what a rose is, nor what may be its essential and unique cosmic function. Thus for long have we inadvertently deferred potential discovery of the essential roles in Universe which are performed complementarily by many, if not most, of the phenomena we experience…’
