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By Kim Dong-ryul · Original publication: May 24, 2020

Original: https://gujoron.com/xe/notice/1204991

Despite advances in science and technology, humanity remains in this sorry state because philosophy has fallen behind. Every kind of doctrine and claim competes for attention. We are deadlocked on all sides, in a tunnel with no visible exit. Philosophy failed in the twentieth century. It was far too weak to cope with seven billion people. Now we are in the twenty-first century. History must face a new challenge and make a new response.

The problem is that philosophers' views amount to mere words. What can you do with a single word? It was the realization that humanity's system of language has a fundamental problem that led me to study Gujoron. We try to find answers to problems, but the real answer is not some fact. It lies in reforming language, the tool that conveys facts.

Even if you find something valuable, it is useless without a bag to gather it in. What will hold truth so that we can pass it on? We must overcome the limits of language. Take mathematics. Nearly all human progress has been achieved through mathematics; humanity's limits likewise intersect with those of mathematics. We must take one more step. What is the womb from which mathematics is born?

It is structure. Structure looks at relationships rather than objects. Mathematics measures the size of things, as a ruler measures length. In doing so, it separates the observer from the observed. Structure is distinctive because it examines the relationship between them. In Gujoron's world, observer and observed are integrated into a single event carried along by energy.

We speak about this and that, but the answer lies between this and that. Set them against each other and they become symmetrical; that symmetry is already the wrong approach. The answer is neither here nor there: neither in progressivism nor conservatism, monism nor dualism, reason nor experience, evolution nor creation, cause nor effect.

There is no answer in an isolated thing singled out by a human finger. If this exists, that exists. If this happens, that happens. Think of the balloon effect: what disappears from one side has moved to the other. The answer lies in the relationship between this and that. That is structure. We must grasp the energetic process operating within the relationship.

We know salt is salty and sugar sweet, but a molecule's chemical properties lie in the spacing of atoms and electrons. The spacing that determines a property is a relationship, not an object. Relationships change as energy moves within an event. The answer lies in change: its direction and sequence. The language that identifies these is quality, particle, force, motion, and quantity.

Searching for an answer fixed inside an object is like endlessly peeling an onion. Keep peeling and nothing remains. That approach is wrong. What matters is the direction and sequence of the layers. Structure identifies the direction and sequence between two symmetrical terms. Here, the circular logic of relativity makes the leap to the one-way direction of the absolute, and the real world opens up.

We need the right eyes to see that world and the right language to convey how it works. We must realize that the problem is not inside the object we observe, but in us, the subjects doing the observing. Our perspective is distorted, and the language through which we convey what we see has fundamental limits.

If awakening means correcting a distorted perspective, Gujoron means advancing to a higher level of language. Philosophers offer pronouncements on essence and appearance, form and content, cause and effect, possibility and actuality, progressivism and conservatism. But this is foolish. Why do they not examine what lies between them? Why not speak of the relationship between essence and appearance, form and content, cause and effect, possibility and actuality, progressivism and conservatism?

Why do they not recognize these as the head and tail of a single event? Within that event the two form one body, and differences in energy determine direction. Problems are truly solved when energy is brought under control. Any two symmetrical terms necessarily belong to an event that unifies them. Can we grasp the existence of that event?

The energy driving an event has a direction and a sequence. That is where the answer lies. Change the direction and sequence, and the problem is solved. Philosophers become heated in supporting one side of an opposition and rejecting the other, but this is foolish. The two are one, so the task is to direct the traffic between them. The problem is that we lack a language reflecting this foundation.

Everything began with language. Humanity acquired language and escaped the limits of other animals; it acquired mathematical language and created modern civilization. Now it must move to a structural language that explains events and designs energy. We must leap from the limits of things to the horizon of events. We need a new language that overcomes the confusion produced by deadlocked binary thinking and solves problems through the unity of events, energy, and relationships.

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