Tentative adaptation and development from Arthur Young's Geometry of Meaning (1978). See commentary on learning cycles in Cycles of dissonance and resonance. See also adaptation to Typology of 12 complementary strategies essential to sustainable development and to Typology of 12 complementary dialogue modes essential to sustainable dialogue.
Characteristics of phases in 12-phase learning-action cycle | ||||||
Learning via... | Time-binding | Unconscious (In-volution) |
Unconscious registration of information | Homeostatic equilibrium Unconscious adaptation |
Auto-catalytic response Self-impulsion |
Uncoordinated action Victim of discontinuity |
Space-binding | Conscious (Re-volution) |
Timeless awareness Non-duration |
Conscious adaptive response Awareness |
Comparison with norms or
memory of previous experience Self-awareness |
Comparison with previous
comparisons Awareness of self-awareness Transendental discontinuity |
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Unconscious (In-volution) |
Conscious (Re-volution) |
Symbol | T0 | T-1 | T-2 | T-3 |
Unintended
shift of: - perspective - position - reference Displacement of focus |
Intentional
shift of - perspective - position - reference Range of conscious attention span "Distance" from object of focus |
M0L
Acts Abstract Schematic |
L
Observation; act of considering; position determination; reactive learning based on immediate registration of phenomena; assessment of distance; "sizing up" |
L /T
Adaptive change; reaction; passive adaptation or change of position in response to changing circumstances |
L/T2
Spontaneous initiation of transformative action; commitment to a new course of action |
L/T3
Control of transformative action |
Unconscious impression of significance | (see MLT0) | ML States Motivated Considered |
ML
Recognition of moment(ousness), relevance (as related to leverage), significance (as in "matters of great moment"); weight of facts; bringing matters into focus |
ML /T
Recognition of the momentum (of an issue) resulting from a change, namely the consequential transformation of awareness or perspective |
ML/T2
Forcefulness engendered, experienced or embodied as a result of transformative action; constructive (or disruptive) action potential; enhanced sense of being |
ML/T3
Establishment of disciplined pattern of response; consolidated or harmonious control of action potential; holding forces in check |
Subject to an unintended shift of perspective | Projection of an intended shift of perspective into reality | ML2 Relationships Application Follow-through Commitment |
ML2 Faith in current paradigm or perception of reality; unexamined or habitual commitment to a process projection or understanding, irrespective of inconsistent disturbing factors |
ML2/T
Decision or impulse to act or initiate a process determining the future |
ML2/T2
Achievement of a desired result by application of understanding (and adjustment of implicit beliefs) in response to external factors; working action on reality |
ML2/T3
Power of acquired knowledge; know-how; integrated or embodied experience; capacity (including that of not acting); non-action |
Unexplained
problems Imponderables External constraints |
Mass of
information Amassed experience Internal constraints Mass of evidence "Matter of fact" |
M | - | - | - | - |
Extracts from commentaries to Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
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