[betty boop]

I believe the tiled concept (or compartmentalization) is a false image of both reality and knowledge and thus cannot help us to derive meaning from it.

I couldn't agree more, A-G! "Tiled concepts" (i.e., compartmentalized knowledge specialties) are "parts" of wholes whose meanings depend on their relations with the wholes of which they are the parts. No part -- taken singly or in any combination -- can explain the whole of which it is the part. This seems to be a difficult concept for many to grasp. But I don't know why that is.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your reply and encouragements!

No part -- taken singly or in any combination -- can explain the whole of which it is the part. This seems to be a difficult concept for many to grasp. But I don't know why that is.

Indeed. And that is also the challenge of the collective consciousness or intelligence of bees, ants, musk oxen, schools of fish, penguins and so on. It is also the challenge of the integration of complex functions (molecular machinery) within any organism which individually pursue life and collectively pursue life as a greater organism.

If intelligence is the ability to solve problems - then in groups of such creatures as bees, ants and termites - the intelligence itself is a property of the collective. Each individual bee or termite does not have the mental capacity to solve every problem on its own. The same can be said of the molecular machinery within an organism.

Moreover this whole process implies a collective memory which exceeds the mental power of the individual.

This points rather strongly to something beyond the bio/chemistry of the individual ant or molecular machine - most likely, a yet unidentified field.