The Dimino challenge: Behold
the pie map
Looking at possible,
undiscovered approaches to medicine and thus, scientific achievement presents a
challenge. This article will look at a large picture with respect to known
knowledge about medicine and medical treatment, with the thought that even that
body of knowledge can be expanded upon.
If one was to take all of the
currently known knowledge about medicine and medical treatment, as a collective
whole and to place it in one. all-encompassing circle, the image that one might
perceive is a tremendously large one, almost
beyond our human comprehension.
This might be regarded as
looking at it from a wholological perspective or the science of the whole, with
respect to the entire or complete body of known knowledge about medicine and
medical treatment. This is a relatively new concept.
Of necessity, this would have
to include anything and everything that known or the sum total of all of the
existing knowledge about medicine and medical treatment, in the entire world. It
would also have to include all past, present and future knowledge.
That would take a humungous
library.
Who could ever catalogue it?
Take this diagram a step
further, by cutting that global circle of known knowledge about medical
treatment into four pie-shaped wedges.
The first cut one might suggest
is from the top of the pie to the bottom or from the bottom of the pie towards
the top. This may suggest a polarity of north and south, or south and north,
depending upon which way the cut was made in terms of positing any actual direction.
The second cut might be that of
left to right or right to left and could depict east and west, or west and east.
Now we begin to see four
segments or wedges of the pie cut into four distinct pieces.
We have used this kind of
mapping imagery many times over the generations of humankind, in order to draw
global maps, so a pie model is not something new or different.
What does this discussion about
cutting a pie into four pieces, mean in terms of known knowledge about medicine
and medical treatment and where it is heading in the future?
Taking this a bit further,
these four wedges of the pie could represent the four, global wedges or segments
of known knowledge about medicine and medical treatment, if perceived as being
on a global plane of existence.
For the moment and for many
other reasons, let us stick to knowledge currently known, rather than delving
into previous historical knowledge that has been or may have been forgotten, or
into the vast realm of knowledge that can still be known in the future.
Even these images of four, global wedges appear to be far too great in scope for human comprehension,
because no one can fully comprehend that extent of known knowledge about
medicine and medical treatment.
Some people might comprehend,
at least in part, one segment of a wedge in this global pie, or a part of one
quarter of all possible known knowledge.
These people are likely to
be generalists in terms of their way of perceiving and thinking. Even that
could boggle the human mind, just because of its tremendous magnitude.
The human mind allows a
generalist to process and comprehend vast amounts of knowledge and thus, they
are able to perceive beyond what the majority of people can see. Those who
perceive as generalists can generalize their thoughts, with respect to their
human comprehension or understanding, but in varying degrees.
At the other end of the
continuum, on this train of thought, other people tend to think as
particularists. The particularist tries to grasp and perceive the specific
minute particle and comprehends that particle, at least in part, rather than
seeing the larger picture or a whole, as a generalist would do.
The generalist would see and
comprehend where the particle fits into the larger whole, while the
particularist would not perceive that. The generalist tends to see a much
greater picture, with a continually enlarging horizon of curiosity,
comprehension and understanding.
The particularist chooses to
explore the particular or particle to the nth degree, always seeking something
smaller, but usually, totally ignoring the place of the particle within the
whole, at least to some extent.
Most people tend to perceive
somewhere in between the two poles. Some see both, or a part of what the generalist
would see, and a part of what the particularist can see.
Take this further.
"East is east and west is
west and ne'er the twain shall meet."
Is that statement true?
There are those who state that
east never meets west and west never meets east. Obviously, in terms of this
kind of thinking, north and south cannot meet either.
Shall we believe that, merely
because it what we have been told or taught? Or, is this merely some figment of
our imagination with respect to our belief system, simply because we do not or
cannot see, much less think that way?
There is an actual, dimino
meeting point for the four poles, at the very center or heart of that pie. A
fine line separates the northern and the southern realms. The same is true
about the eastern and the western realms.
In reality, we just do not know
where that meeting point actually is or where those lines might be drawn.
One must ask if this is
relative.
Nor do we comprehend how it can
be possible for north to meet south, south to meet north, east to meet west and
west to meet east or what it means to have a common meeting point for north,
south, east and west.
Yet, it is possible. There has
to be a mutual, meeting point where there is some kind of a merging.
In actuality, the four segments
of the pie that we depicted, do come together at one point in both time and
space.
We can prove this by the
reality that the pie can be cut in four separate wedges. We can just as easily put it back
together again, unless there are no longer any crusts or if they are destroyed
in the process.
Each segment has a tip and the
four tips do merge into one point
In other words, north meets
south, south meets north, east meets west and west meets east. All four
segments do meet.
What did not appear to be
existing previously, actually does exist in real time and real space.
It exists now, in our reality,
because we can perceive of it this way, based upon the model of the pie. We
have not even begun to look at layers or layering, much less smaller wedges of the pie, in this model. These layers could be crusts.
What does this mean to us?
With respect to global known
knowledge about medicine and medical treatment potential and its possibilities,
we invariably try to divide and separate eastern and western thought. We seldom
take any time to think about northern and southern perspectives in terms of
known knowledge about medicine and medical treatment.
Is this because no one has
recognized or discovered the dimino meeting point, in terms of global known
knowledge about medicine and medical treatment potential in the past? This is
extremely difficult to believe.
Add another factor, which
represents a holological perspective. This could be referred to as representing
both the sacred and profane realm in all four wedges, and the picture of the pie
changes again.
Now we are beginning to look at
more complex layering or the crusts, in terms of the whole of the pie model.
This could be representing,
depicting or actually being, the holy versus the unholy realm of thought. With
respect to what we now know, it could also refer to the holistic versus
non-holistic realm of global known knowledge about medicine and medical
treatment potential.
Add this factor. Put a large
box around the entire circle. That could reveal or depict some empty corners
that are not even inside the known knowledge about medicine and medical
treatment circle.
Now we are delving deeper and
getting into the unknown realm
There is so much that we do not
know or comprehend yet, in terms of knowledge about medicine and medical
treatment.
Put another circle inside each
box that is drawn around the circle. There are still empty, undiscovered
corners of knowledge.
If you were to draw yet another
circle, this time only inside the part of the wedge that is inside the circle,
the known body of knowledge about medicine and medical treatment gets even
smaller. It too has empty corners representing what might represent only
partially known knowledge about medicine and medical treatment.
How much there is that still
waits to be discovered by humankind.
The big question becomes one of
how we can comprehend known knowledge about medicine and medical treatment
potential from a global plane perspective.
Then, we might ask how we might
be able to help each sector of the globe, northern, southern, eastern and
western realms, in terms of known knowledge or unknown knowledge about medicine
and medical treatment and its future, potential implications.
There is still the individual
aspect to consider.
This could mean the individual
universe as one universe, the individual globe as one world, the individual
country as a single country, the individual community as a single community,
the individual family as one family, the individual couple as one couple and
the individual as one person, each representing mere pixels, placed in a
greater picture of humankind. Yet, each pixel is equally important.
The initial challenge for
humankind is that of trying to behold the reality of this kind of imagery, in
terms of a pie map model.
The next task would appear to
be that of locating or finding the dimino point, so that east can be perceived
as actually meeting the west and vice versa. Discovering where north meets south and vice versa, is important, as well. All four directions do come together at the dimino point. Four lines
depict the segments.
After that, one might examine
what is the known and unknown knowledge about mediine and medical treatment,
inside the smallest circle, next the larger circle and finally, the largest
circle.
Each one of the four
boxes that have been created must be examined in terms of the both the known
and the unknown.
What we will begin to see is
the actual reality of a totality, when all of these four boxes in the picture, are one larger box outside the circle. There is still something missing here.
There is still the unknown outside the larger box.
Can we comprehend the current
known knowledge about medicine and medical treatment and the unknown, in terms
of past, present and future? One must suggest that we understand this only in
part.
Behold the pie map represents
the dimino challenge for medicine and medical treatment of the future. This may
be one, possible, hitherto undiscovered approach to medicine. .