4D 7C Model Thinking

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What has all this stuff, to do with Tumblr and Culture?

Everything! because this biased project engineer’s coarse definition of a human being is:

A human being is the only animal that identifies, explores, defines and executes projects, to solve (or sometimes create) problems, while communicating with other human beings in the process.

Therefore, this communication platform that we know as Tumblr, to qualify as a Cultural Platform, must:

1.    Permit the stablishing and sustaining of communitarian service and education situations.

2.    Allow the occurrence of personal surrender and becoming situations.

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A Basic Model of Human Communications

A simple model of Human Communications is shown on Figure HC01, while a graphic representation of the 8 Communication Situations, I managed to identify by graph playing, namely: in communication, abuse, monologue, dialogue, service, education, surrender and becoming, are shown on Figure HC02.

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My current 4D 7C Basic Model of Humanity

Even if I am today a semiretired professional engineer, for the last +30 years I have fancied to be an amateur philosopher and sociologist like most of us end-up being, regardless of our background.

My personal motivation has been to try and understand, with my own mind, this wide and other people’s world of ours, that despite being so marvelous and fascinating, is at the same time so unequal, enslaved, disunited and not fraternal. Since nobody around me, explains this paradox to my full satisfaction, I feel obliged to research and come up with my own answers.

My engineering mind very soon discarded the classic reading-thinking-interpreting-thinking-writing classic vicious loop of traditional scholars, and instead, chose modelling-presenting the fragments of reality I could perceive, understand, admire and contemplate.

Everything was just a funy game, until that day (probably a long summer Sunday), when I decided to tackle this lifelong and self-imposed challenge to integrate those partial models into an Integral Model of our Humanity and try and interconnect it with Divinity.

Engineering models ought to be simple and useful for its application. Therefore, they must be evaluated, only in terms of simplicity and usefulness. If on top of that they also contribute some beauty, truth, good and totality, so much the better.

The ever-evolving model I am using, has 4D (4 Dimensions) and 7C (7 Colors).

Why more colors than dimensions?

Because, our 4 Dimensions are:

Body, Mind, Spirit and Heart, and the basic attributes of our:

Body are: Life, Vitality and Power

Mind is: Knowledge

Spirit is: Wisdom

Heart is: Sanctity

And each of the above dimension or attribute related words, has their own color. However, since Tumblr still doesn’t support color words, you will not be able to see their color for the time being.

Why do “we need” a 7th color?

“I needed” a special color for Divinity! However, if Divinity is not a Dimension for you, to be consistent, simply don’t use any red words from now on. At least my mind, never mind my heart, can no longer understand or explain Humanity disconnected from Divinity.

Our Integral Humanity, can be represented with a 4-dimension 7-color (4D 7C) model, as shown on Figures BM 01, BM 02, BM 03 and BM 04.

The latest collection of the many “color words” I have used over the years for this model thinking (Perspectives and View Points of our Integral Humanity) is shown on Figure PMHI (Spanish acronym for Perspectivas y Miradores de nuestra Humanidad Integral). So, to check it out, you might have to refresh your Spanish.

We wrongly believe that all words are the same “color”, just because the letters we invented to spell and write them, are in fact one color. At the beginning this was not so bad of a problem because people was illiterate, but we can say that the whole world started to become “color blind for words” right after Mr.Gutenberg’s time. It’s not exaggerated to say that ever since that time, we have been getting better and better at thinking-writing-reading-interpreting-thinking-writing in B&W words! No wonder so often the future, the past, the present and even eternity looks so black!

Have you ever noticed how those magic words become colorful as soon as we stop reading and writing them from our minds, and start listening and speaking them from our hearts? If not, start paying more attention!

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What do I understand by model thinking?

After so many centuries of speaking and listening less and less, and writing and reading more and more, we still:

1.    Do not seem to agree on how to build a more humane world for all.

2.    We abhor prayer, we despise meditation, and act before thinking.

3.    We act pursuing our own good, without caring for the good of all.

Model thinking, based on a simple 4D model of our humanity, aims to help us to “meditate, demonstrate, think and explain” seemingly unrelated aspects of this reality, and propose ideas and examples to humanize it, sharing a vision of our integral humanity and outlining a new and more humane way to perceive, think and meditate.

Model thinking can be understood as designing, adapting, copying or simply choosing an integral and coherent model of our humanity, and, after contrasting it with our own collective, individual, communitarian and personal experience, “daring to let her think and meditate on her own, following her own internal rules.”

The 4D 7C Thinking Model that I propose to use, being multidimensional, recognizes:

1. Technical (Economic), or 1D Thinking, the poorest manifestation of human thought, considers only the Collective. If closed to the Individual, relentlessly drifts into collectivism.

2. Scientific (Political), or 2D Thinking, considers the Individual as more important than the Collective. If closed to the Communitarian, relentlessly derives into individualism and collectivism.

3. Philosophical (Cultural), or 3D Thinking, considers the Communitarian as more important than the Individual and the Collective. If closed to the Personal, relentlessly derives into “communitarianism”, individualism and collectivism.

4. Creative (Religious), or 4D Thinking, the richest manifestation of human thought, regards the Personal as more important than the Communitarian, the Individual and the Collective. If closed to the Divine, relentlessly derives into personalism, “communitarianism “, individualism and collectivism.

In a world like ours, with:

1. Many private individuals, refugees in private collectives of all types.

2. Less public free individuals, or driving private collectives of all types.

3. Few public persons, refugees in public communities of all kinds.

4. Very few private fraternal persons, that have transcended their public communities, or driving public communities of all kinds.

It is difficult to perceive and understand, never mind explain, this multidimensional reality in continuous change, without a back-up thinking model.

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Making TUMBLR a Site of Culture

I decided to join TUMBLR motivated by the sad news I read in Pocket that TUMBLR and her millions of fans don’t have a future.

The Important Issue for a Site of Culture is neither to have a yesterday (and therefore a past) nor to have a tomorrow (and therefore a future.)

THE VITAL ISSUE FOR A SITE OF CULTURE IS TO HAVE A TODAY (AND THEREFORE A PRESENT.)

Our questions determine the time we inhabit.

If we accept that our What? and Who? questions are common to all times: 

If we only ask: How Much? and Where?, we live in the past.

If we also ask: How? and When?, we discover the future.

BUT, ONLY WHEN WE DARE TO ASK FOOLISH QUESTIONS SUCH AS: FOR WHAT? AND WHY?, WE FIND OURSELVES IN THE PRESENT.