Domains of Reality and their Dynamics

Introduction

I have been thinking a lot about domains as they relate to reality as I continue to re-read portions of Humberto Maturana's work, namely the articles "The Nature of Time," and "Reality the Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument," his book The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love, and John Mingers' synthesis of Maturana's work through the late 1990s. Reading through the literature again I have been seeking to understand the domains of reality we live our lives through and in during the course of our daily life, or what Maturana calls the "praxis of living."  

My curiosity in this area has been longstanding, though it has been heightened by COVID-19. At work, my own experience during the early days of the pandemic included an apparent attempt to keep functioning in the same domain of "business as usual" despite signals we were collectively moving through or at the very least toward the boundary of that domain into one we had never been in before. …