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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.
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!
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.
Want people with different local optima... Even failed solutions for one problem may work really well for other problems... If you think about why we've had such sustained growth, how is it these ideas have been able to be combined, we have to recognize there had to be some way to communicate those ideas... In the Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr talks about how the rise of things like modern universities, printing press, and scientific communication allowed ideas to be transferred from one location and one person to another. And so what really led to this, you know, huge burst of activity, sometimes called the technological revolution, was the fact that we could now share those ideas and then recombine them.Like a tree, if an idea falls in a forest, nobody hears it, and nothing happens to it.
9.5 Recombination, Model Thinking, at Coursera.Org
It tells us that we can work hard, but if we don’t invest in new technologies, in new innovation, if we don’t become better at what we do, by possibly learning new models, learning new techniques, by developing new skills, we’re probably gonna level out. In fact, if you look at the data on what makes for really successful people, people who are very successful in their careers, one thing you find is they continue to learn. So, it’s almost like their own personal A, their own personal technology perimeter. They keep upping and upping. So what this model tells us what we can apply to another context is that continued growth depends on innovation and getting better. You can’t just do more. At some point, the rate at which things fall off and the rate at which things increase are just gonna even out, and that sustained growth requires innovation, becoming better at what you do. So just like countries have to invest in innovation, so should a person, and that’s where personal growth and sort of personal success can come from.
8.6 Why Do Some Countries Not Grow? Model Thinking, at Coursera.Org
...very simple rules can aggregate to form, also it's interesting macro level phenomenon. Now, one of the things that people gonna ask is what's the limit of what you can get. The answers is almost nothing. Anything you could do with the computer, you can actually do with The Game of Life... each cell is just following its own those same rules, and you're getting this really elaborate pattern... ...you can create something that actually counts things, or you can even use it to compute things if you interpret what those cells means. So, when those patterns have a functionality we can think of that as being emergent. So you can think of things like consciousness and cognition, as being emergent phenomena... simple rules can produce incredible phenomena.
3.4 Game of Life, Model Thinking, Coursera.org
...essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. He doesn't base his decision entirely on that model. What the model does is gives him guidance as to what he should think. It's a blending of what the formal model tells him and what experience tells him. So smart people use models but the models don't tell them what to do.
1.4 Intelligence Citizens of the World, Model Thinking, Coursera.org
Collective action
It can be very difficult to figure out if there's gonna be some sort of uprising, because you've got to not only know the average level of discontent, you need to know the distribution of discontent. You've gotta know if there is a handful of people, a group of people who are really willing to rise up. And, in addition to knowing that, you've gotta know if those people are connected to one another in an interesting way.
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