Optimizing information processing and judgment New integrated system -
for Information processing and Judgementin any area.
Combining four dimensions:
Psychology, logic, causal analysis and language/ communication.
Organism (system)
Individual or social system
Living system (individual, group, organization or society ..)
with awareness, information, communication and behavior. Example: scheme
Basic Dimensions in mental processes
Subjective experience
Valuation, appraisal Immediate Experience,
Bubble of Perception: Quality of experience is most essential motivation of the organism.
'You can not climb out of your mind' (R. Rorty).
Implies subjective consciousness.
'Consciousness is a major thing not to notice' (R. Grush & P. Smith Churchland, 1995)
. Example: scheme
Human information processing
Semantic network
Association, synthesis
Content and consistency of experience : model, determines associative thinking.
'We anticipate events by construing their replications' (Kelly, G.A., 1955;
Construct Theory, Construction Collorary').
'The map is not the territory' (A. Korzybski). Example: scheme
World and world model
Information
Selecting + Deciding Planning Patterns:
Abstract structure, represents logical combinations and implications: preconditions for truth value.
'To discover truths is the task of all sciences, it falls to logic to discern the laws of truth'
(G. Frege). Example: scheme
Structure of Decisions
Syntax
Encoding + Decoding 'Rules' and 'vocabulary'
- from language, culture, events or improvisation - for expressing information.
Preconditions for communication.
'The choice of the signifier.. has no natural connection with the signified'
(F. de Saussure, 1916; 1922: p.200).
'The connection of linguistic forms with their meanings is wholly arbitrary'
(L. Bloomfield, 1933, p.145). Example: scheme
Encoding and decoding
Information-application
Physical behavior
Using information to achieve desired results.
Information exchange
Observation + Expression
Collecting and distributing information.
Psychology
Model of functioning/system
What determines well-being, responding, decision-making of people?
Logic
Laws of truth,
valid schemes of inference
How do you know what is true, probable, or plausible?
Causality
Laws of cause-effect,
causal hypothesis/model
What is causing a phenomenon - and what are its consequences?
Communication and Language
Sending and receiving of information
What does language 'tell'? What does communication 'do'?
(·) Is a necessary condition for all experience and information that we can know of.
(·) Includes quality of experience, intrinsic value, sensory experience, emotion, qualia
etc..
Examples:
• Conscious awareness.
• Conscious noting something (on grounds of difference).
• Degree of global intensity of consciousness.
• Subjective sensations (sentiency).
• Quality aspects of experiences (qualia).
• Clarity, sharpness and detail of experience (lucidity).
• Dynamics of experience (vividness).
• Degree of specific intensity of experience (impressiveness).
• Sense encountered (pregnancy).
• Meaning perceived (intensionality).
• Overall experience of quality
(e.g. experienced degree of happiness, contentment, gratification, fulfillment, satisfaction).
(see a.o. Miller, Kaplan, Searle, Nagel, Chalmers, Lanier, etc.).
(·) Is open to discrete difference, basis of information.
(·) Is quantifiable. Quantity includes e.g., size, number , sign, syntax, structure, complexity
, etc..
(·) Is systematically 'creative'. Combinatorics gives rise to differentiation, by which other
aspects and variations appear.
(·) Is, by combinatory explosion, infinitely expandable (up to unlimited cardinality).
However, any valid expansion or transformation will always be immediately and
inherently reversible, i.e. reducible again to its starting parameters.
(·) Embodies extrinsic organization . Implies Multiple Realizibility .
Offers raw material for Virtual Reality.
(·) Is subject to logical laws, which are described in formal logic and meta-logic.
(·) Is apparently inherent to physical phenomena such as matter, energie, space and time.
(·) Implies intrinsic organization.
(·) Comprises cause-effect relations (causality).
(see Kant, Peirce, Wehl, Popper, Lakatos and others).
(·) Communication consists of 'the offering and accepting of meaning' (V.Satir, 1976)
.
(·) Communication enables mutual understanding. The value of shared experience comprises more than '
the sum of its parts'.
(see Korzybski, Leech, Heider, Keller & Brown, Satir, etc.).
Immaterial / mental domain
A.o. consciousness, contingency, freedom of choice
Intangible / mental domain.
Includes subjective consciousness, meaning, 'room' for freedom of choice.
Material / physical domain
Matter/ energy, time-space,
quanta
Material / physical domain.
Laws are described in relativist physics (eg Lorentz, Einstein) , quantum mechanics
(eg De Broglie, Schrödinger).
Semantical empiry
All possibly accessible sources of experience, information and knowledge Traceable reality
at the disposal of our experience - both material and immaterial.
Complete reality
All possible phenomena, entities, patterns and 'beables
', in whatever domain, level or stage of existence, and irrespective of degree of accessibility All of reality
- All beings and beables.
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