The inter-systemic mode of thinking involves examination of the consistency, completeness, economy, universality, and aesthetic value of the frameworks it compares. This shift to Zeta one cognition is not a simple identification of some assumption to common to different but otherwise similar world views. Zeta one cognition establishes a re-alignment of how reality itself is construed. Godel's theorem put an end to the 19th century program for a unified mathematics. The shift to Zeta one thinking calls into question the assumption that the world is rational in any general and final sense, whether that world is subjective, objective, or normative, whether it is concrete or abstract.
Rationality is confined to a bounded rationality within a possible world.
In this sense, the notion of relativity takes on a richer significance. Relativity is relativity as alternative realities, but realities nevertheless. The realization of Zeta one is not only that every thing one believes to be true about reality could be different, but to experience dual realities as integral totalities. The realization of higher order cognition takes focused attention, intelligence, time, and probably correct attitude. Record keeping in contemporary culture is relatively formal and depends, in an important way, upon individual effort.