Options & Choices, Doubts & Decisions (Precisioning the Pivot Point of Power)

p. 402-412

Abstract

All man made models are reflection of our own functioning, origin, and involvement in life. 'Reality' is in fact a Realisation, totally dependent on, and conditioned by, the way, we relate to our environment. This Involvement can be described in terms of a Boundary Transition; relating the perspectives of an Insider, Inter-actor, Reactor and Outsider. In our body and being, these are simultaneous modes of being (and determinant for our experience of life, and health). These changes in degree of involvement are in essence the same as the changes in degree of recursion, as seen in the relationship between, e.g. solids, liquids, gas and plasma; all of which can be unified in a description of relations of Phase. By using Phase Space as the common denominator' for our perception of reality, we can describe the characteristics of our realisations in the same terms. The relationships between Options & Choices, Doubts & Decisions then are clarifiers for the changes in involvement, perspective, realisation, and thus the 'reality' (life health) that we live (individually and collectively). This pattern of involvement (with its dynamics and conditions, and fundamental basis) needs to be explicitly described, and accounted for, because all the models we make are based on our own functioning (including the shortcomings in our own self-understanding). By explicitly describing the changes in involvement, we can reconcile difference between our own experience, and those with of others, which helps reconcile fundamental issues of (mis)understanding. It also makes it possible to relate seemingly different models, which is again relevant for resolving issues such as the difference between Subjective and Objective observation, which again can be expressed in terms of Crossing a Boundary; for which our shift in involvement (thus Locus of Control) is the key concept. The ([4D]) logical relationship between our Options & Choices, Doubts & Decisions are the our most immediate 'handle' on the reality and life that we live.

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Bibliographical reference

Otto van Nieuwenhuijze, « Options & Choices, Doubts & Decisions (Precisioning the Pivot Point of Power) », CASYS, 10 | 2001, 402-412.

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Otto van Nieuwenhuijze, « Options & Choices, Doubts & Decisions (Precisioning the Pivot Point of Power) », CASYS [Online], 10 | 2001, Online since 10 July 2024, connection on 20 September 2024. URL : http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1337

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Otto van Nieuwenhuijze

Independent Research Scientist, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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