[Neurons] 2010 Meta Reflections #53

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2010 – #53

November 2010

 

 

NEURO-SEMANTICISTS

HYPHENATE FOR SANITY

 

I hyphenate.  When I write meta-states, Meta-Coaching, mind-body system,
Neuro-Semantics, etc., I hyphenate these words.  I do not gam the words
together, but put a hyphen between them.  I do this on purpose.  I do it
because Neuro-Semanticists hyphenate for systemic sanity!  What does that
mean?  What is hyphenating?  How does it work for sanity?

 

I’m glad you asked!  Alfred Koryzbyski introduced the use of hyphens and
describe them as safety devices.  They remind you that you are working with
a system of responses, a set of interactions and not just a singular thing.
Korzybski recommended hyphens as an aspect of the extensional orientation.
This is the scientific method of questioning, observing, evaluating, and
revising.  And for Korzybski this involved the development of numerous
extensional devices for operationalizing terms: indexing, etc. (et cetera),
dating, over/under defined terms, E-priming, quotes, and hyphenating.
Hyphens are used to reconnect words that when appearing in isolation convey
a false elementalism.

 

Korzybski spoke about the values of this by referring to Einstein.  Albert
Einstein recognized that “time” and “space” were not separate entities, but
part of a larger whole.  So he hyphenated and called into existence a new
concept— the time-space continuum.  And from there he was able to pioneer
new directions in physics.

 

Similarly Korzybski introduced the same thinking into the debate between
“mind” “body” and “emotion.”  These are not separate entities nor should
they be dealt with as if they operated in a distinct and separate way; they
are interactive.  So he hyphenated to refer to the whole system— the
mind-body-emotion system.  Hence the hyphenated term—
“organism-as-a-whole-in-environment.”

 

Hyphenating enables you to say, “What I’m speaking about is a rich,
interactive phenomenon and not just a singular thing.”  It also enables both
you, and the person receiving your words, to think systemically.  That is,
to recognize that something is a system of interactive parts and that
because it is a system, emergent properties will arise from that system.  So
with Meta-Coaching, I hyphenate these words because it refers to a system of
Coaching involving seven formal models each corresponding to the 7
distinctions that we made about the process of coaching itself.

 

With regard to the Meta-States Model, the hyphenation says that a meta-state
is not just a “state” of mind-body-emotion, it is more—much more.  It
involves meta-levels of the layering of other thoughts and feelings about
the primary level of experience.  We hyphenate Meta-States in order to
communicate the richness of the model and so that people can expect there to
be emergent qualities that result from meta-stating.

 

Obviously, the hyphenated terminology from Korzybski — neuro-linguistics and
neuro-semantics—speaks about the psychological system that emergences from
the way we use words and create meanings within our neurology.  This makes
for our psycho-logics— another hyphenation from Korzybski that highlights
the nature of “logic” inside the mind-body-emotion system.  Your
psycho-logics speaks about the nested states that construct the unique
meanings that you experience in your reality. 

Bateson also hyphenated.

“It is now empirically clear that Darwinian evolutionary theory contained a
very great error in its identification of the unit of survival under natural
selection. ... The unit of survival is not the breeding organism, or the
family line, or the society.   ...  The flexible environment must also be
included along with the flexible organism because, as I have already said,
the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself.  The unit of
survival is a flexible organism-in-its-environment.” (1972, p. 457)

 

Neuro-Semantics, following General Semantics, assumes a non-linear view of
how reality works.  So to avoid the world of "delusional verbal-splits"
which so much of our language assumes, we follow Korzybski in using
hyphenation as a linguistic device for putting the world back together again
as a whole.  Then we can deal with it holistically, as a whole or gestalt
with all of its inherent complexity.  And now you know why real
Neuro-Semanticists hyphenate!

 

 

 




 

 

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L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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