A Proposition

Self[ves]-Truth and Time[s]-Binding: A Korzybski/Dawesian Analysis of Hamlet's Wisdom

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A Proposition. To be Refined Based on Future Further Discoveries... Knowledge, Understandings, Knowledge and Understandings of Knowledge and Understandings—a start, as We Cannot Know or Understand “All” about “Any Thing”: Including Our-Selves; let us try,. Hat tip to Milton Dawes for contribution, inspiration of the above as well as inspiration, motivations,. of what follows below.

Self[ves]-Truth and Time[s]-Binding: A Korzybski/Dawesian Analysis of Hamlet's Wisdom
JVS / timebinder / 7.29–31.2025 [updated: 11.8.2025]

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” — Hamlet, Act I, Scene III

Timeless Counsel and the Time[s]-Binding Organism

Re: the above Bacon/Shake-speare quote. Shakespeare through Polonius, offers timeless counsel. Read casually, this sounds like moral advice. But when examined through Korzybski's General Semantics, Milton Dawes’ conscious time[s]-binding excellence/ethics, and the visionary aspirations of the Conscious Time-Binding Alliance (CTBA) in conjunction with the Dynamic Human Cooperation Council (DHCC), it reveals a systemic, evolutionary imperative.

To “be true to oneself”/selves is not merely to live authentically—it is to serve the geometric progress of humanity by maintaining the integrity of the very process that defines us as Homo Conscious-Time[s]binders.

Korzybski recognized that:

Plants bind energy chemically.

Animals bind space behaviorally.

Humans bind time symbolically.

Through symbolization, abstraction, and transmission,. we evolve. But conscious time[s]-binding evolution is not guaranteed. It requires integrity at every node of transmission—and that begins with individual selves.

Milton Dawes and Conscious Time[s]-Binding Excellence and Ethics

Dawes extends Korzybski’s work by emphasizing consciousness of abstracting, semantic responsibility, and the deliberate participation in human evolution. His call to “be aware of being aware” elevates Shakespeare’s line into a daily discipline.

In Dawesian terms:

“To thine own self [selves] be true” becomes meta-cognitive hygiene.

It becomes a prompt to inspect our maps, semantic structures,. and internal feedback loops.

It becomes a practice of excellence in self-awareness, epistemology,. and cooperation.

By avoiding self-deception, we:

Preserve the integrity of knowledge,

Prevent semantic pollution,

Ensure our contributions are trustworthy links in the chain of conscious time[s]-binding.

This is not a private virtue but a species-level responsibility.

The CTBA and DHCC: Embodying Conscious Time[s]-Binding Excellence and Ethics

The Conscious Time-Binding Alliance (CTBA) was conceived as a living network of humans,. committed to advancing our species’ potential through semantic, ethical, and technological refinement. Its ethos aligns with Hamlet’s line:

Self-truth is foundational to transmission clarity.

Transmission clarity fuels geometric advancement.

Geometric advancement, when coupled with ethical alignment, becomes excellence-in-cooperation.

The Dynamic Human Cooperation Council (DHCC) builds on this by recognizing that:

→ Cooperation is not just a political or social virtue—it is the medium through which conscious time[s]-binding accelerates.

→ Only by trustworthy self-honesty can collaboration reach non-zero-sum synergy.

In both frameworks, conscious time[s]-binding ethics implies more than “don’t lie.” It means: don’t allow your inner distortions to distort, fragment collective futures.

Geometric Progression Through Semantic Responsibility

In mathematical terms, geometric progressions grow multiplicatively. So too with conscious time[s]-binding human,. advancement—where each generation and peers not only add but multiply value conscious time[s]-bindingly through refinement, correction,. new insight.

But a false premise left unchallenged corrupts the exponential curve. An unconscious,. ignorant, self-deceived or corrupted scientist, propagandist, politician,. can delay progress for centuries. This is anti-time[s]-binding.

Homo Conscious Time[s]-Binders ask:

What assumptions am I making?

What am I abstracting,. away,.?

How will my current understandings and actions affect those here-now and those who come after?

Every logical, semantic upgrade is a refinement in the LIFE geometry of collective knowing.

The Spiral Path of Human Becoming

Both Korzybski and Dawes conceptualized human development not as linear but as LIFE spiral—with each cycle revisiting old insights at a higher level of abstraction.

The CTBA and DHCC recognize this LIFE spiral as the topology of human evolution that can best be cultivated through:

→ self [selves]-refinement,

→ cooperation, cooperative design,.

→ systems that honor clarity over ideology, responsibility over ego, possibility over fear,.

A few CTBA foundational principles:

We are not static beings. We are dynamic LIFE spirals in motion, the power-being-conscious. The geometry of conscious time[s]-binding begins within and radiates outward—ever inspiring, refining, tranforming, uplifting,.

Conclusion: Hamlet as Meta-Ethical Design

“To thine own self [selves] be true” is not merely personal advice—it is a protocol for semantic sanity, a catalyst for systemic coherence, and a mandate for intergenerational integrity and integral transformations.

As Homo Conscious-Time[s]binders:

We do not merely think—we build futures.

We do not merely feel—we transfer emotional intelligence.

We do not merely live—we compose legacies.

In the face of accelerating change, this call is more pressing than ever to prevent, rectify anti-, unconscious time[s]-binding fragmentations. To be true within is to consciously align and transform the without. From what can be termed Korzybski’s structural isomorphism, to Dawes’ epistemic vigilance, to CTBA’s evolutionary vision and DHCC’s cooperative conscious time[s]-binding advancement and ethics,. truth to self → selves is the axis around which human LIFE spirals turn, transform, ever advance.

True to LIFE’s dynamis, let each of us strive to be conscious, ever-dynamic nodes—creators, co-creators, co-operators, ethical,. magnanimous transmitters and transformers in the living geometries of advancing, enhancing, truly beneficent, LIFE conscious time[s]-binding.

This is not merely a document. It is an invitation:

To spiral forward consciously. To co-create with humility. To build a new world by refining our symbols, our selves, and our systems of cooperation.

To unite individuals, communities, and civilizations in the conscious cultivation of time[s]-binding excellence—integrating Korzybski’s General Semantics/Dawes’s,. spiral dynamics, and the living ethics of self-reflexive, non-violent symbolic action. We aim to co-create a humane, high-sanity, cooperative world guided by evolving geometries of understanding and positive, meaningful, productive, outstanding, transformational,. actions.

Some refs:

Hello World
https://pc93.substack.com/p/hello-world?r=55nkvn

Dynamic Human Cooperation Council (DHCC) Human Commonwealth Vision
https://pc93.substack.com/p/dynamic-human-cooperation-council?r=55nkvn

Join the Conscious Time-Binding Alliance (CTBA)—A Work in Progress and Call to other Conscious Time-Binders.

The ‘power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring’. — Sir Francis Bacon
https://pc93.substack.com/p/join-the-conscious-time-binding-alliance?r=55nkvn

“There could be a happy world, where cooperation was more in evidence than competition, and monotonous work is done by benevolent and beneficent machines, where what is lovely in nature is not destroyed to make room for hideous machines whose sole business is to kill, and where to promote joy is more respected than to produce mountains of corpses. Do not say this is impossible: it is not. It waits only for men to desire it more than the infliction of pain. There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.”— Bertrand Russell, (From Last Essay, 1967)

“In humanity's manhood, patriotism—the love of country—will not perish—far from it—it will grow to embrace the world, for your country and mine will be the world. Your "state" and mine will be the Human State—a Cooperative Commonwealth of Man—a democracy in fact and not merely in name. It will be a natural organic embodiment of the civilizing energies—the wealth-producing energies—characteristic of the human class of life. Its larger affairs will be guided by the science and art of Human Engineering…”

Milton Dawes on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/milton-dawes-20182618

Interview with Milton Dawes https://standincentral.com/2011/11/23/interview-with-milton-dawes/

About Milton Dawes
https://miltondawes.ca/about/

Advanced Thinking
https://miltondawes.ca/

Institute of General Semantics [IGS]
https://generalsemantics.org/

New York Society for General Semantics
https://nysgs.org/

Sir Bacon
https://sirbacon.org

A 400 Year Secret: A Bacon-Shakespeare Ludibrium
https://youtu.be/dx_S3Fmy6gM?si=ubc_FEnS-aQAxOK?

A single whisper is faint, but millions banding together can roar loudly enough to topple a kakistocracy and demand The Clean New Deal
https://pc93.substack.com/p/a-single-whisper-is-faint-but-millions?r=55nkvn

We the People, petitioning for redress [Clean New Deal] in the millions, should include:

1. Create a new Glass-Steagall Act to prevent too big to fail banks and our financial system from gambling with other people's money through fraud to then having the backing of the full faith and credit of the United States at their disposal
2. End Citizens United and dark money corruption
3. Demonstrate how $71 trillion was looted illegally by a tiny percent of our country which represents our financial system
4. Expand SCOTUS to 13 Justices and enforce a canon of ethics to make corrupt perpetrators accountable to the law
5. End Qualified Immunity
6. End Judicial Immunity
7. End Presidential Immunity
8. End the Electoral College
9. Institute term limits for US Senators and Representatives
10. Prohibit all insider trading for all members of the Senate, House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, administration’s cabinet members