Lieber Waldemar, ja, natürlich ist es beschreibend gemeint, aber nicht nur metaphorisch, sondern mir spukt da etwas im Kopf herum (kein Wunder, nach Genuss von DCP in der gnadenlos schlecht schmeckenden DCP-SM-Version), von dem ich glaube, dass es verdient, beschrieben und bedacht zu werden. Ich tue mir schwer, es zu formulieren, was natürlich an meiner gedanklichen Beschränktheit liegen kann, oder am Trunk, oder an Größewahn, und auf jeden Fall an beschränktem Wissen, aber hier im Kreis darf man sich ja frei äußern :-) Ich hänge dazu mal wieder einen eben verfassten Textabschnitt zu meiner Idee von „semantischer Energie“ an, sorry, schon wieder auf Englisch, ich bin unter Zeitdruck, weil ich den entsprechenden Artikel für ein englischsprachiges Journal bald fertigkriegen muss, darum schreibe ich je gleich auf englisch und nicht erst auf deutsch… Viele Grüße, Thomas Conclusion: Semantic energy is a process resource, stored in form of potential readiness to coherently act and interact. It is fuelled in individual orchestrated interaction as the energisation of these contributions. Semantic energy is the first sleeping and then enacted interactional force and focusing orientedness of an individual processes’ coherent interaction. It is a process resource, stored in form of potential readiness to coherently act and interact. It is fuelled in individual orchestrated interaction as the energisation of these contributions. It can only be judged retrospectively form the point of an eventual overarching coherence merger. Being a co-forming coherent processing, it cannot be formatted into discrete packages because it inherently consists of structured interactional, active and coherently reactive dynamics. It has both a temporal and a goal-oriented quality. It cannot be allocated to process contributors singled out and decontextualised; instead, it as a non-quantifiable share to an eventual cooperation product. It has an enabling, inciting and exemplifying quality, in each energised process serving as an example and tuning-in target for another process. As hypostasised from the point of view of a successful convergence, it is not a feature allowing reliable prediction. Other than in simple addition or in equations using the equal sign, like differential equations there is no fixed causative relation form a starting point towards a final result. The limits discretising a text from its context are not finite separation lines but usually gradually fade out. Metric distances are outplayed if communication overrides them. The same holds true for the semantic volumes created in successful use of semantic energy. An event may have an energising aura, a cooperation an intriguing charm, a performance an overwhelming charisma, a landscape can have a strong resonating effect in us, to use examples of human processing and interaction. It is composed of the individual contributions to active and interactive cooperation capacity resulting in an ensemble’s internal harmony, alias coherence. Only if this final product is realised one can estimate the qualitative value of its individual ingredients. It is the aspect of the intrinsic power fuelling an ability to meaningful interact, to successfully modulate the own processing and this way to eventually jointly achieve a product. All in all, semantic energy, both as a hibernating resource and as a coherent processing’s component is the energy needed to make a transient, contextually embedded, internally and externally interacting system a system. It corresponds to the force that promotes combination to inherently unified, internally homogenously processing wholes, as systems. It has the force to round up a flock of sheep, acting from the outside, or attracting people to join at a place, acting from the inside to the outside. It always emerges from at least two, or more interaction partners, and acts on, and consist of the specifics of their relation and relatedness. So, it is a genuinely bi- or multicentred communicative and informative force, acting on relatedness and not on isolated, single objects. Dynamic in nature, it connects one coherence-based processing with another to co-create a shared, not simply additive, but co-processual, joined dynamic. It is nothing beyond the individual processes themselves, but nevertheless extending beyond both or all in terms of co-present partnering as well as in terms of an intended shared future. It hence is directed in itself, prospective, distinctively future-oriented. It is an eschatological and transcendental impulse without being transcendental and non-empiric itself. It is a feature on the ground pointing towards the sky and the future. In humble admitting our limited access to this phenomenon, we have to confess that we can only imagine this combining force by co-living, by imitating it in a mental or bodily move, by co-creating a dynamic in which we experience it as being an integral part of. It is real, embodied and not spiritual in the sense of a psyche separated from the body. Using the Aristotelian concept of psyche for example, a concept which is quite different from the modern one in relating to whatever structured processing in living beings, and even extending this approach to whatever coheres, we may nevertheless call it a team’s or any cooperation’s ‘spirit’.