ON THE CREATION OF RELATIONAL SYSTEMS

ODODU (Jere Northrop http://www.ododu.com)

The Language You Use Determines What You Can Think

ODODU is a derivational language which is continually evolving towards the goal of a universal language.

It is derived from Relational Systems Theory and has led to the formulation of the Bion Technologies. ODODU has also been significantly influenced by the quaternion formulation of general relativity theory (see UDODEU).

ODODU is based on the assumption that the universe is comprised of conscious entities, like you and I, which communicate and interact with each other using many different languages, each of which is a partial reflection of an optimal universal language.  It is further assumed that the most fundamental concept in the universe, and the conscious entities and languages which comprise it, is the concept of relation.  This view of relation will be used to pragmatically build ODODU as a derivational evolving language which will continually change through its use as it steadily approaches its goal of a universal language.

This implies that all of the words in ODODU can be logically and rigorously derived from these assumptions and our personal and societal experiences.  This process should use all of the knowledge of all the world's cultures and languages.  It is truly the Cosmic Crossword Puzzle, and everyone is invited to play.

For detailed discussions and presentations you can go to a general site map at ODODU OZU.

The derivation of ODODU will begin by using the four fundamental types of relation, self relation, linear relation, relational relation, and interrelational relation (see Relational Systems), as the first four letter/concepts in ODODU, as follows:

 These first four vowels describe the relational space-time framework of the universe from my personal perspective.  Now introduce the concept of distinction and consider the rest of the universe external to myself. I can describe this external universe in terms of the next four letter/concepts as:

These last four vowels describe the relational space-time framework of the universe from an external perspective.  Thus the vowels can be viewed as describing a four dimensional personal space and a four dimensional external space, or how I view and interact with the rest of the universe.

These two sets of vowels can now be used to construct the consonants.  This will be done in a manner similar to how events are described in general relativity theory.  Here the description of a space-time point as seen from two distinct reference frames in relative motion with respect to each other is expressed in terms of 16 relations or transformation functions.  These relate how each one of the four dimensional descriptors in one frame changes with respect to changes in each one of the four dimensional descriptors in the other frame.  The same procedure is used to generate 16 consonants from the four vowels representing my (the observer's) perspective relative to the four vowels representing your (the observed) perspective.  (See UDODEU for a more detailed explanation.)