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Many thanks for this. I am definitely getting increasingly excited by this formulation. Indeed, we can see that it fills in a key piece of the puzzle when we put it into the Map of Psychology I operate from…
This kind of stuff coupled with the increased intertwining with my work with John’s view is, I think, cause for optimism.
Best,
Gregg
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Bravissimo maximus! 🧐
I cannot wait to listen to the product - please, make available to read, as well - it deserves extended study, contemplation, and re-consideration.
The product seems to be a coherent, consilient, and contemporary statement of the human condition.
There is an tremendous need for this work and it is fundamental to traversing the next joint point.
Best regards and earnest anticipation,
Waldemar
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On Feb 19, 2022, at 7:51 AM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi TOK Folks,
As some of you know, I have been playing around quite a bit with the concept of the psyche yesterday. John V and I (along with Garri H) are doing a new cognitive science show series called Psyche-Pathology and Well-being and the episode we just recorded (the fourth in the series) delved further into the concept.
The major frame I have been playing with that seems to really come on line is the idea that we can frame a new relationship between the science of human psychology and “psyche-ology”. The former is grounded in an exterior epistemological position that tracks patterns of behavior, specifically human mental behavior. Using UTOK, we can frame that behavior in terms of the descriptive metaphysics and ontological referents given by the ToK System, the Periodic Table of Behavior and the Map of Mind1,2,3. The task of science is to generate generalizable nomothetic “laws” or “habits” or principles that afford a coherent description into a causal explanatory framework. So, UTOK gives BIT, the Matrix and JUST as the general metatheories to explain human mental behavior. Having synced up with John, I can now add his 4P/3R metatheory of cognition. Together, we now have a metatheory of human psychological behavioral processes that is available to frame and explain the behaviors that we can film with a video camera. The epistemic vector (John’s term from yesterday) is from the outside in and what you “see” is behavior. In terms of the Map of Mind, the domains of 1b, 1a, and 3b are available. Mind2 is especially difficult to access from the language game of modern empirical science.
The position of the psyche is subjective, embodied, and “real,” as opposed to theoretical, descriptive, causal explanatory. The epistemic vector is inside out. It is that which observes and generates epistemic meaning/value/quality. The epicenter of it is the domain of Mind2. And it is local, idiographic, and not available to intersubjective observation. The iQuad Coin is a psychotechnology that serves as a placeholder for each unique particular psyche. At its core, the Human Identity iQuad symbol is meant to serve as a mirror for the psyche.
I think John and I were in agreement that no system has heretofore developed a clear metaphysical, ontological, and epistemological mapping and metatheory for the outside in general scientific human mental behavioral view taken by human psychology and inside out particular unique view of the personal psyche-ology position. But now we seem to be able to do just that. In so doing, we can actually now reframe the so-called hard problem of consciousness as the hard problem of the psyche. And now with an emerging metatheoretical synthesis that is up to the task for framing both the outside in epistemic vector given by the science of human psychology (framed by the ToK system, and the BIT, Matrix, JUST, and 4P/3R metatheories) and the inside out epistemic vector personal psyche-ology (explicitly framed by the Coin), we appear to have stitched together a qualitatively better solution than any previous frames. The reason it that the frame both gets the metaphysics, ontology and epistemological issues correct, and it gives rise to a transjective metatheoretical causal explanatory framework that affords alignment between the general, scientific behavioral outside in and personal, qualitative inside out epistemic vectors.
I welcome thoughts or reactions.
Best,Gregg
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