While endeavouring to understand what the Universe is and humankind’s place within the overall scheme of things, the creative power of Life has led me to take the abstractions of mathematics, computer science, and information systems modelling methods in business to the utmost level of generality.

The notion of generality is all powerful, as we can see from its numerous Indo-European cognates, including, in English, general, generalize, and generalist; generative, generate, generation, genesis, genius, ingenius, genetic, and gene; generous, gentle, genuine, ingenuous, and kind; kind, genre, and genus; nature, nascent, natal, and innate; and cognate, nation, kin, kindred, and genealogy. Also, in Sanskrit jana ‘generating’, janaḥ ‘offspring, child’, janas ‘race, class of beings’, janati ‘begets, bears’, from root jan ‘to be born, generate’, and jāta ‘born’.

Going back to the PIE base of these generative words (ĝen‑, ĝenǝ‑, ĝnē‑, and ĝnō‑), we see that they are also cognate with know, knowledge, diagnosis, connoisseur, cognitive, and cognizance; ignorant, ignore, and agnostic; narrate, narration, and prognosis; can ‘to have power to, be able’ and could; quaint, originally ‘wise, clever; ingenious, cunningly devised’, and cunning; recognize, acknowledge, acquaintance, kith, noble, and nobility; and Gnosis and Sanskrit Jñāna ‘inner knowing’.

Almost the entire history of human learning—as a generative, evolutionary way of developing knowledge—is thus encapsulated in a single common ancestor. Indeed, we can trace cognitive evolution through ever-increasing levels of generality, most noticeably in mathematics during the last two or three hundred years, culminating in the meta-algebra that is Integral Relational Logic.

So, to act through our Genuine Nature as humans—who are all our kith and kin, from PIE bases *gnō- ‘to know’ and *genə- ‘to give birth, beget’, respectively—we need to treat each other kindly and generously, especially as we accelerate towards the inevitable extinction of our species.

It is pertinent to note here that while English uses know in both ‘to know something’ and ‘to know someone’, in other languages, these two types of knowing use words with different etymologies. For instance, in French and Swedish, in ‘to know someone’, cognates of know are used, as in connaître and känna, which also means ‘to feel’.

On the other hand, ‘to know that and how’, as facts and skills, French uses savoir, from PIE base *sap- ‘to taste, become aware’, root of sage and sapient, and Swedish uses veta, from PIE base *weid- ‘to see, know’, root of wisdom, visionary, and idea, and Sanskrit Vedanta ‘end of [symbolic] knowing’ in Advaita.

However, to be wise sages, as Gnostics, it is first necessary to recognize that Life generates all knowledge from the Divine Origin of the Universe. With this sound Gnostic Foundation, we can then take the abstractions of human learning to the utmost level of generality, within the Cosmic Context that unifies spiritual and rational worldviews.

But then, having found the meaning and purpose of life, we need to abandon this entire evolutionary process in indivisible Wholeness, to fully realize Inner Peace. For, from a Holoramic perspective, the Cosmos is utterly meaningless, as interacting structures continuously grow and decay for eternity in the Eternal Now.