Integration, Differentiation, & Meaning

(IDM)

The Properties and Methods of Personal and Social Identification

(copyright © 2002-2003 C. J. Lofting)

Abstract

[Last Revision : 17 August 2003]

By identifying the basic methodology used by the brain in the process of deriving meaning, of identifying something of significance or of potential significance, akin to Gregory Bateson's "difference that makes a difference", we can identify the properties and methods within that methodology that go to giving the species its ability to identify and re-identify and as such we can map-out the basic set of universal categories used in the identification process. From this general perspective we can go on and refine the more particular categorisation systems used in different collectives since those categorisation systems all serve as metaphors for the general categorisation process that is shared across our species as well as across all neuron-dependent species. Furthermore, besides giving us insights to our general species nature, so we gain insights into the implementation of a sense of meaning for AI systems.

"...a science that is free from metaphysics is on the best way to become a dogmatic metaphysical system" - P.K.Feyerbend

"Genuine progress can only happen through increasing enlightenment, which means the continuous destruction of myths" - G. Orwell

"The world we have created today as a result of our thinking thus far has problems which cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them."
— Albert Einstein, The Price of Excellence.

"Our psychological geometry is a geometry of dichotomies rather than the geometry of areas envisioned by the classical logic of concepts, or the geometry of lines envisioned by classical mathematical geometries." - George Kelly [Personal Construct Psychology]

"To achieve adjustment and sanity and the conditions that follow from them, we must study the structural characteristics of this world first and, then only, build languages of similar structure, instead of habitually ascribing to the world the primitive structure of our language." - Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Differentiation & Integration
3. Original Distinctions
4. Initial Eight Categories

   1. 111 - DDD
   2. 110 - DDI
   3. 101 - DID
   4. 100 - DII
   5. 011 - IDD
   6. 010 - IDI
   7. 001 - IID
   8. 000 - III

5. Hyperbolic Development - Extending the Categories
6. The Dimension of Precision
7. Further Perspectives on Transforming and Transcending
   1. Transform(integrating with context)/Transcend(replacing context)
   2. Protect/Exploit
      1. Protect/Exploit : An Example - Capitalism/Socialism/Conservationism
      2. Protect/Exploit : Another Example - Marx's Circuits
   3. Evolution/Revolution
      1. Evolution/Revolution : An Example - Awareness
      2. Evolution/Revolution - Another Example - Truth
   4. A Possible Source - Bosons/Fermions
   5. The Sense of The Eternal - IDM and the Spiritual
      1. Time Processing - Additional Examples
      2. More on Timing - Five-Phase Dynamics
8. Refining the Categories
   1. Issues of Trust
   2. Living vs Living Through
   3. The Dynamics of Stimulus/Response
   4. The Archetypal and the Typal
   5. Waves and Particles
9. Getting Technical
   1. Induction, Abduction & Deduction
   2. SVTM (Scalars, Vectors, Tensors, Matrices)
   3. Development Paths
      1. Recursion of General to Particular
      2. Extending the Categories - The Details
      3. Transcending the Extended
         1. Transcending the Extended : An Example - IDM, the MBTI®, and the I Ching
10. IDM Related Pages
    1. Paradox Processing as a Root Source of Meaning
    2. IDM and the Categorisation of Emotions
    3. Physiological Processes Reflected in Our Ontologies
    4. Two examples of IDM-sourced disciplines - The MBTI© & the I Ching
    5. The Five-Phase I Ching
    6. IDM roots for Mathematics
    7. Hegel : How We Think Determines What We Think
    8. Commutative Symmetry - More on Fermions and Bosons
    9. IDM and Jung's concept of the Collective Unconscious
11. Reference Lists/Abstracts/Further Reading

Related Pages: [paradox processing] [exaggerate-balance] [analytical-dialectical] [physiology expressed in maps] [IDM and Emotions]

Reference Lists etc : [References on Transformation] [References on Transcendence] [NeuroScience Abstracts/Refs] [General Reference/Further Reading List]