| Clearly the unity theme presents in various forms. In some cases, it presents as a simple numerical description: one whole (unity) and many parts (multiplicity). In some cases, it presents as a matter of the unity between elements, as in the parts of a system working as one, people united as community, or distinct categories of things such as humankind, nature, and machines working in harmony. In some cases, the unity theme also suggests the dissolution of the boundaries between categories, as in the unity between organism and machine, or body and mind. Sometimes unity is revealed as something one participates in experientially as a place, a state, a time, or a condition that one enters, as in cyberspace. Sometimes unity implies a state of freedom, or freedom within bounds, belonging in the past or in the future, or residing in another place. Or the unity state may transcend what is normally accessible to the senses, as an idea, or an ideal. | Clearly the unity theme presents in various forms. In some cases, it presents as a simple numerical description: one whole (unity) and many parts (multiplicity). In some cases, it presents as a matter of the unity between elements, as in the parts of a system working as one, people united as community, or distinct categories of things such as humankind, nature, and machines working in harmony. In some cases, the unity theme also suggests the dissolution of the boundaries between categories, as in the unity between organism and machine, or body and mind. Sometimes unity is revealed as something one participates in experientially as a place, a state, a time, or a condition that one enters, as in cyberspace. Sometimes unity implies a state of freedom, or freedom within bounds, belonging in the past or in the future, or residing in another place. Or the unity state may transcend what is normally accessible to the senses, as an idea, or an ideal. |
