- Contents

- Title Page

0. Abstract
1. Introduction
2. A new ontological world model based on triadic categories

2.1. The three existential world centers: SUB, OBJ, SEM
2.2. A model of fundamental triads
2.3. The fundamental triad of SUB, OBJ, SEM

2.3.1. SUB: The world of subjective phenomenal experience
2.3.2. OBJ: The world driven by impressions of material and physical processes
2.3.3. SEM: The world of intersubjective societal reality

3. The world of relation: SEM

3.1. Whitehead's view of the world as system of societies
3.2. The SEMsphere

3.2.1. The home of the unicorn
3.2.2. Lotman's semiosphere

3.3. Paticca samuppada as first principle of cognition

4. The morphological study of pattern

4.1. The structural principle of the Gestalt method
4.2. Morphology: a cognitive approach to the general study of pattern
4.3. Goethe's morphology
4.4. The Kulturmorphologie movement
4.5. Harold Innis as cultural morphologist
4.6. Cultural pattern stability, transmission, synchrony and diachrony

5. The morphology of metapatterns: the Triad of Entity-Relation-Transaction

5.1. The attractor principle of the Entity-Relation-Transaction triad
5.2. Metanoia: a Gestalt flip of cognitive dynamics
5.3. The cognitive model of Entity
5.4. The cognitive model of Process
5.5. The cognitive model of Relation

6. Literature

6.1. Literature on Buddhist philosophy

Index