There is no perspectiveless perspective. Everything we sense reflects and represents and is reflected and represented in our species and culture specific sensing apparatuses and artefacts with their specific scopes and scales of reference.
Take complexity, for example. Apparent complexity, actual or abstract, is a function of scope > scape + scale > spect: perception and conception, reconciling experience past and present. A mountain in itself, as a percept and concept, doesn’t seem particularly complex to perceive and conceive. However, in its place within a range of mountains formed at a particular moment in time as a result of tectonic movement, as a site of past, present or potential volcanic activity , in its persona as a climbable peak as a set of faces and faults and flaws and ascent approaches, in its geoclimatic role as the boundary of a watershed, it acquires complexity as a content of complicated contextual conditions and constraints.
Complexity as character emerges fractally in examination of experience across scopes and scales of scapes and spects. All that complexity means is myriad multiply materially ‘meaningful’ materials mutually metabolically implicated, that may require to be disentangled so that their mutual material ‘meaningfulnesses’ might be discovered and displayed. Complexity alludes to the complicated compressed compacted intricacies of apparent or assumed abstract and actual material implications of interactions to be disentangled, and is a function of large-scope spects of small-scale scapes.
Our apparatuses and artefacts enable us to see relatively large or small areas in relatively fine detail – relatively large or small compared to ourselves in our usual sensory lives – and we make sense of what we see by applying categories and classifications that are themselves entirely/merely aspects of the action of reconciling earlier experience with and of existing meanings to experienced emerging and potentially (re)merging meanings under examination. This examination and attempted reconciliation of experiences is meaning-making and/as meaningfulness-making.
