Behold The Pie Map: The Dimino Challenge

While other articles will refer to the Lasker Award itself, this article will look at a very large picture with respect to known knowledge about medical treatment, with the thought that even that body of knowledge can be expanded upon and hopefully whoever is able to do this, will qualify for the Lasker award in the future.

If one was to take all of the currently known knowledge about medical treatment, as a collective whole and to place it in one all encompassing circle, the image that one might perceive is a tremendously large one, almost totally beyond our human comprehension.

I will suggest that this could be referred to as looking at it from a wholological perspective, or the science of the whole, with respect to the entire or complete body of known knowledge about medical treatment. This in itself, is a relatively new concept.

Of necessity, this would have to include anything and everything that is currently known, or the sum total of all of the existing knowledge about medical treatment, in the entire world. It would also have to include all past, present and future knowledge.

That would take a humungous library. Who could ever catalogue it?

Let us take this diagram one step further, by cutting that global circle of known knowledge about medical treatment, into four pie-shaped wedges.

The first cut one might suggest, could be made from the top of the pie to the bottom, or from the bottom of the pie towards the top. This may suggest a polarity of north and south, or south and north, depending upon which way the cut was effected, in terms of positing any actual direction.

The second cut might be that of left to right, or right to left and could be used in this case to depict east and west, or west and east.

Now we begin to see four segments or wedges of the pie, as it has been cut into four distinct pieces.

We have used this kind of mapping imagery many times over the generations of humankind, in order to draw global maps, so this is not something new or different.

But what does all of this discussion about cutting a pie into four pieces, mean in terms of known knowledge about medical treatment and where it is heading?

Taking this a bit further, these four wedges of the pie could be used to represent the four global wedges or segments of known knowledge about medical treatment, if perceived as being on a global plane of existence.

For the moment and for many other

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