Our spoken language and the language we read can not adequately map the complexity that I m talking about . Our language can not adequately engage multiple factors simultaneously. Nor can our language adequately map in our on-going minds the circularity of cause and effect producing causes producing effects. Nor give the dynamic feel of a system sustaining itself as a system by virtue of the in-built, circular, mutually influencing feedbacks that hold boundaries together. In fact, our language compounds these complexities because it unavoidably distorts a world of simultaneous multiple circular processes.
Boundaries circumscribe turf, relationships, concepts, identity, property, gender, time, and more.
Without boundaries, we can t make sense of anything. Boundaries are how we discriminate, partition experience in order to create meaning, not just turf. All systems, including social systems, require boundaries in order to be coherent. It s the feedback that is filtered and shared within the boundaries of the system that allows a system to be self-sustaining. Here are some examples, just to remind you the blurriness that goes now with those boundaries that are claimed for political correctness, identity, public versus private, intellectual property, biological ethics questions all of these are blurred, ambiguous, areas, taken very seriously, that nevertheless don t allow the kind of linguistically and behaviorally discriminating boundary defining that would be necessary to begin to comprehend the incomprehensibility of the complexity that we humans live in.