#Propositional Procedural Perspectival Participatory

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Awakening Coherence: Relevance Realization, Recursive Wisdom, and the Sacred Grammar of Becoming | ChatGPT4o

[Download Full Document (PDF)] Civilization stands at the edge of a recursive threshold — a liminal passage between the collapse of inherited meaning systems and the emergence of new, integrative grammars of coherence. John Vervaeke’s Awakening from the Meaning Crisis offers one of the most comprehensive diagnoses of this turning point, identifying the breakdown in sacred orientation and…

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4 kinds of knowing

Via a broad and integrative view of Cognitive Science, Dr. Vervaeke maps human knowing via the following four “p's”: 1) procedural knowing; 2) perspectival knowing; 3) propositional knowing; and 4) participatory knowing. Procedural knowing refers knowing how to enact a procedure, such as tying one’s shoe. Perspectival knowing is via embodied perception. It consists of seeing the world and one’s place in it via a specific point of view. Propositional knowing relates to knowing via language. It includes knowledge of facts and logic and it enables reasoning and argumentation. These three kinds of knowing line up well with the three kinds of memory systems found in humans (i.e., procedural, episodic, and semantic), as described by this blog.

The fourth kind of knowing is participatory. This is, in some ways, the most basic and dynamic kind of knowing. It refers to the complex interplay between the agent and arena. It involves “doing,” but not in a simple procedural sense, but rather in a creative and enacting sense. A good way to think about participatory knowledge is to think about the difference between being in a state of confusion versus a state of flow. Flow is when you are in a groove and feel a natural “dance” between your actions and the environment. It is when this agent-arena relationship coheres such that you are able to intuit what is relevant, anticipate what is next, and realize outcomes that are desired with little or no self-doubt or hesitation.