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\section{Why Worlds Plural?}  \parskip  The tools described above began from an individual point of view. They emerged from interdisciplinary discussion of three investigators and grounded local application and refinement by another. The reality of being-in-the-world as humans is deeply personal, dependent on when and where we live our lives, our language, mentors and experience. It became very apparent to us that we had to work to understand each other even when speaking the same language and using the same words. The world of experience both separated and stimulated us by variety. However communication and inexact meanings must be worked thru: worlds shared. Organizations and systems, academic disciplines keep work manageable, their structure intact, limit their responsibilities through language. Special meanings violate common usage, or special terms limit what can be used in action. This is out of awareness most of the time and for those outside the group or discipline. These limiting usages become apparent when one deviates from standard behavior, tries to change behavior or simply applies for something using the wrong language. The problem grows directly with the size of the organization or system and the rigidity of so-called intelligent systems. Misunderstanding increases with the loss of face to face human contact and the precision of language, when achieved is matched by the difficulty of changing the supposed mathematical certainty of the input, processing, and output back to human behavior. This is a reason \emph things don't change.  When we embedded in the structure of the tools recognition of the following concepts, we knew, we had learned through experience in application, that initial cognition was necessary but not sufficient. Cognition has to be repeated and corrected for at least these variables. We do not presume we have exhausted the possible variables, cognitive versions or meaningful questions. We are trying to increase the awareness of them.