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The 3 creative forces of life

Metaphysics of Quality

Robert Pirsig

Philosophology is to philosophy as musicology is to music, or as art history and art appreciation are to art, or as literary criticism is to creative writing.

Philosophology

Welcome to the Meaningful Participation website. Read this to find out more about what this site is about.

Welcome

Fractal Principle Principle

Opposed thinking is a kind of thinking in which habits of thought are triggered without the intervention of conscious thought.

Opposed thinking

We have a cultural habit of only seeing individual elements but not the larger context that connects them together.

Third force blind

Language

A Dependable practice is generally catalysed when a person decides they’ve had enough and they want to make a change in their life. They want something different and have decided they’re going to take responsibility for making it happen.

Dependable practice

Why postmodernism was a misstep in responding to Cartesian objectivity

Postmodernism

Projected authority is a state where we have given away our authority to define ouselves, what is important and how to realise that.

Projected authority

Circularity is a feature of living systems that means we can become invisibly trapped inside of arbitrary limits.  Definitely something important to be aware of.

Circularity

Suffering is a universal and uncomfortable experience in life, but is it all bad?

Suffering

My participation matter is an affirmation of the preciousness & finiteness of life

My participation matters

Systematics is the name given by John G. Bennett (1897–1974) to a branch of systems science that he developed in the mid-twentieth century.

Systematics

Distinctions are the building blocks of intelligence

Distinction

George Gurdjieff

The law of Reciprocal maintenance is a model of life that speaks to the role that humankind plays in the universe.

Reciprocal maintenance

An introduction to Meaningful participation

These 6 capabilities are the most fundamental skills of life & living systems

The 6 capabilities

Self authorship is an affirmation that my participation matters in the quality of my life.

Capability is the essential quality of life that enables potentiality to be converted Into actuality.

Capability

Every choice we make has 2 sides; a cost and a reward, and 2 impacts; an immediate one and a non-immediate one.

The red pill path vs the blue pill path

The triholon is the core architectural fractal structure of life and living systems

Triholon

Re-selfing

This is the fundamental structure of the metaphysics of Meaningful Participation.

What is important

Dyad

Together thinking

Authority

Multimodal user interface (MUI) theory

Donald Hoffman

Constructive Developmental Theory

The Hacker: Reflection & Problem solving

The Guide: Meaning & Motivation

Triad

Radical constructivism

Effort

Practice

The Self-mediator: Autonomy & Re-selfing

The Grunt: Wilfulness & Practice

The Witness: Awareness, Appreciation & Nourishment

Responsibility

Holon

Value-theory

Morality

Perceptual Control Theory

Reawakening is the first of the 6 Life Skills of Self Authorship

The Reawakener: Reawakening

Morning remembrance

Finiteness

Meaningful Potential is the universe’s answer to the question “What is important now?”

Meaningful potential

Constructivism

Manifest value

Re-noticing

Asleepness

Already always listening

These are the key influencers whose ideas have catalysed, affirmed and resonated with my own thinking

My influences

Kegan’s “Self and Other” triadicised

Robert Kegan

Habituality

Alfred North Whitehead

Werner Erhard is an American author and lecturer best known for his original work in the area of self-improvement.

Werner Erhard

Martin Heidegger

Authenticity

Integrity

Pride

Emotion

Meaning gap

Conscience

Imtuition

The Law of three is the most significant abstract principle of life and living systems.

Robert Pirsig

Metaphysics of Quality

Robert Pirsig

Philosophology

Core concepts

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