Having become familiar with connectivity and architectivity you should notice them at work in yourself and in the world around you. If you look carefully, you will see that every event, every relationship in your life, every phenomenon you encounter, whether physical, biological or social, displays the features of connectivity and/or architectivity.

The phenomena you encounter will have meaning for you. They may be meaningful because they are useful, interesting, beautiful, valuable or even scary, but some of their meaning will spring from their connective and architective features. I use the term serial meaning to denote the contribution of connectivity and architectivity to the meaning of things.

Serial meanings arising from the features of architectivity, like having a unique identity, I say are of the architective mode, while those arising from the features of connectivity are of the connective mode. That is, I talk about connective and architective modes of serial meaning.

For example, you may find value in having a unique identity or in having things separate from each other - which are features of architectivity - or you may get pleasure from the flow and interference of a wave play like music - which are features of connectivity; or you may find both kinds of serial meaning in a phenomenon.

As I sit and write I happen to look up and notice some passing clouds and feel the breeze on my face through the open window - I momentarily skip into the connective mode of serial meaning from the architective activity of arranging words on a page.

For us, the main implications of serial meaning lie in the ways phenomena are sequenced and arranged, in the patterns we discern and manipulate in them, and in the games we play with them. To give you an idea of how significant serial meaning is to us, some examples follow:

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