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Degrees of Cognitive Engagement with Interrelated Global Categories

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Annex A of Existential Embodiment of Externalities: radical cognitive engagement with environmental categories and disciplines (2009)

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Table 1: Source documents indicating issues
Table 2: Issues indicated in source documents
Table 3: Clustering of issues identified in source documents

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Table 1: Source documents indicating issues

The documents in Table 1 represent different degrees of cognitive engagement with various global categories (indicated in Table 2). These categories may be problems, framed as strategic challenges, or explored as more indicative of how they are apprehended rather than as any objective reality. Indeed, in a number of cases, the cognitive challenge may be represented in terms of the objective reality as a mirror of a subjective condition calling for a different kind of engagement..

Table 1: Source documents (indicating issues in Table 2, clustered together in Table 3)

World Dynamics and Psychodynamics: a step towards making abstract "world system" dynamic limitations meaningful to the individual (1971) Recontextualizing Social Problems through Metaphor: Ttranscending the"switch" metaphor (1990) Inter-sectoral Strategic Dilemmas of Sustainable Development (1992) Towards a New Order of Meeting Participation (1993) Being the Universe: a Metaphoric Frontier: Co-existent Immanence of Evolutionary Phases (1999) Promoting a Singular Global Threat -- Terrorism: Strategy of choice for world governance (2002) My Reflecting Mirror World: making my World Summit on Sustainable Development worthwhile (2002) Destructive Weapons of Mass Distraction vs Distractive Weapons of Mass Destruction (2003) Abuse of Faith in Governance: Mystery of the Unasked Question (2009) Review of the Range of Virtual Wars a strategic comparison with the global war against terrorism (2005) Celebrating the Value of Deadly Problems Worldwide: Planetary salvation in an era of inept global governance? (2008) Framing the Global Future by Ignoring Alternatives: unfreezing categories as a vital necessity (2009) Looking in the Mirror -- at Josef Fritzl ? Global conditions on reflection (2009)

Table 2: Issues indicated in source documents

Table 2: Issues indicated in source documents (see Table 1), clustered together (see Table 3)
Recontextualizing Social Problems through Metaphor: Ttranscending the "switch" metaphor (1990)
Substance abuse	Unemployment (including underemployment and absenteeism)	Ignorance (including functional illiteracy)	Homelessness
Illness	Hunger	Wastage (including environmental degradation)	Corruption (including crime)
Inter-sectoral Strategic Dilemmas of Sustainable Development (1992)
Population / Security	Well-being / Health	Learning / Education	Production / Trade
Environment	Regulation / Equity
Towards a New Order of Meeting Participation (1993)
Unemployment	Degradation of environment	Ignorance / Mal-education	Undernourishment / Malnutrition
Domination / Red tape / Mismanagement	Underproductivity / Overproductivity	Injustice / Criminality / Injured innocence	Illness / Malformation / Therapy
Impoverishment / Exploitation / Wealth maldistribution	Shoddy workmanship / Overskill / Overdesign	Misrepresentation and Disinformation	Tokenism / Hedonism / Ritualism
Being the Universe: a Metaphoric Frontier Co-existent Immanence of Evolutionary Phases (1999)
Geophysics	Cosmology	Astrophysics	Astronomy
Biology	Chemistry	Stellar evolution	Physics
Governance	Martial arts	Vehicles	.
My Reflecting Mirror World: making my World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002) worthwhile (2002)
Poverty	Hunger (including malnutrition	Disease (and pain)	Substance abuse (including drugs and alcohol)
Unemployment (including underemployment and absenteeism)	Ignorance (including functional illiteracy)	Homelessness	Wastage (including environmental degradation)
Crime (including corruption)	Inequality and injustice	Immorality	Degradation of the environment (including ecosystems and species)
Unproductivity	Insecurity (and violence)	Nuclear proliferation	Over-exploitation of energy resources
Disinformation and spin
Promoting a Singular Global Threat -- Terrorism: Strategy of choice for world governance (2002)
Overpopulation	Poverty	Disease	Food shortage
Water shortage	Injustice and discrimination	Unemployment	Environmental degradation
Nuclear warfare	Evil	Corruption	Energy shortage
Reduction of biodiversity	Reduction of cultural diversity	Drugs	Feminism
Review of the Range of Virtual Wars (2005) (includes "official virtual wars"; excludes "unofficial virtual wars")
Want	Poverty	Drugs	Waste
Hate	Weapons of mass destruction	Pornography	Illiteracy
Ignorance	Traffic	Noise	Corruption
Forced labour	Slavery	Crime	Disease
Malaria	Hunger	Landmines	Child labour
Racism	Locusts	Homelessness	Desertification
Pollution	Pests	Evil	HIV/AIDS
Terrorism	.	.	.
Destructive Weapons of Mass Distraction vs Distractive Weapons of Mass Destruction (2003)
Broadcast mass media	Democracy / Politics	Health	Natural resource management
Food security	Environmental management	Construction	Justice
Law enforcement	Human rights	Research	Morality
Management	Education	International institutions	Religion
Commerce	Security and intelligence services	Sport	Population planning
Celebrating the Value of Deadly Problems Worldwide: Planetary salvation in an era of inept global governance? (2008)
Exploding population	Starvation	Media violence	Suffering and misery
Arms trade	Inequality	Injustice	Urban violence
Crime	Nuclear armaments and biological weapons of mass destruction	Nuclear proliferation	Terrorism
Disease	Abuse of drugs and alcohol	Smoking	Unemployment
Delivery failure	Disinformation	Corruption	Degradation of the environment
Extinction and endangerment of species	Shortage of energy resources	Information overload	Undermining of democratic processes
Infringement of human rights	Double standards	Imprudent technical innovation	Accidental death
Framing the Global Future by Ignoring Alternatives: unfreezing categories as a vital necessity (2009)
Jobs (employment / work)	Resolutions	Drugs	Health
Safety	Death	Population	Energy
Extremism	Property	Education	Qualification
Growth	Corruption and Crime	.	.
Abuse of Faith in Governance: Mystery of the Unasked Question (2009)
Declarations of threat	Faith-based governance	Financial system	Economic expertise
Intelligence services	Military services	Police and security services	Clergy
Science	Medicine	Administration / management	Ctatistics
Democratic and due processes	System of justice	Human rights	Members of Parliament
Diplomatic corps	"International community"	Multinational corporations	Collective intelligence
Leadership	.	.	.
Looking in the Mirror -- at Josef Fritzl ? Global conditions on reflection (2009)
Withholding aid	Enforced sequestration	Living conditions	Rape
Incest	Engendering children

Table 3: Clustering of issues identified in source documents

Table 3: Clustering of issues identified in source documents (see Table 2)
Source documents	Switch metaph.	Strateg. dilemma	Meeting particip.	Universe metaph.	Single threat	Mirror world	Mass distract.	Virtual wars	Problem value	Faith abuse	Unfreeze category
Issues	1990	1992	1993	1999	2002	2002	2003	2005	2008	2009	2009
Media	.		.	.	.	.	s	.	a	.	.
Democracy & due process	.		.	.	.	.	a	.	d	m	.
(Ill)health & medicine	n		.	.	s	s	a	.	e	d	a
Resources	.		.	.	.	.	o	.	.	.	.
Hunger & malnutrition	n		n	.	o	g	o	.	v	.	.
Water	.		.	.	a	.	.	.	.	.	.
Environmental degradation	.		v	.	m	v	m	.	n	.	.
Biodiversity degradation	.		.	.	n	.	.	.	n	.	.
Wastage	s		.	.	.	t	.	.	.	.	.
(In)justice & discrimination	.		.	.	n	n	s	.	u	j	.
Law	.		.	.	.	.	c	.	.	.	.
Human rights	.		.	.	.	.	m	.	h	m	.
Unemployment & joblessness	o		m	.	m	m	.	.	m	.	y
(Im)morality & double standards	.		.	.	.	m	a	.	s	.	.
(Mis)management & (mal)administration	.		m	.	.	.	n	.	r	m / a	.
Ignorance & (mal)education	r		r	.	.	a	t	.	.	.	u
Religion	.		.	.	.	.	i	.	.	n / c	.
Violence and in(security)	.		.	.	.	c	c	.	v	g / a	a
Terrorism & extremism	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	r	.	e
Police	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	o	.
Military	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	m	.
Population planning	.		.	.	p	.	p	.	p	.	p
Financial systems	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	n	.
Economic expertise	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	m	.
Statistics	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	t	.
Government & parliament	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	a / r	.
Collective intelligence	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	c	.
Poverty & inequality	.		p	.	v	v	.	.	m / q	.	.
Nuclear warfare, proliferation	.		.	.	c	l	.	.	m / r	.	.
Evil	.		.	.	v	.	.	.	.	.	.
Crime & corruption	r		r	.	r	m	.	.	m / r	.	r
Energy shortage	.		.	.	r	n	.	.	n	.	n
Substance abuse and drugs	a		.	.	u	b	.	.	u / m	.	u
Sexism	.		.	.	m	.	.	.	.	.	.
Shelter & homelessness	m		.	.	.	e	.	.	.	.	.
Unproductivity	.		p	.	.	d	.	.	.	.	.
Disinformation & misrepresentation	.		n	.	.	n	.	.	n	.	.
Tokenism & hedonism	.		k	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Arms trade & manufacture	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	m / m	.	.
Information overload	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	m	.	.
Irresponsible innovation	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	c	.	.
Accidental death	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	d	.	a
Resolutions	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	o
Property	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	p
Qualification	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	u
Growth	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	o
Construction	.		.	.	.	.	u	.	.	.	.
Science & research	.		.	.	.	.	a	.	.	e	.
International institutions	.		.	.	.	.	a	.	.	.	.
Commerce	.		.	.	.	.	m	.	.	.	.
Sport	.		.	.	.	.	r	.	.	.	.
Workmanship	.		k	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Diplomacy	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	p	.
International community	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	n	.
Multinational corporations	.		.	.	.	.	.	.	.	u	.
Cultural diversity	.		.	.	c	.	.	.	.	.	.

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