[Neurons] 2011 Meta Reflections #59

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2011  #50

Dec. 26, 2011

Teasers from the Book (#2)

 

The following is from Chapter 1

of the new book: Neuro-Semantics: 

Actualizing Meanings and Performance

For how to order the book, see the end

of this email. 

 

 

CHIEF VARIABLES IN

THE NEURO-SEMANTIC MODEL

 

The definitions of Neuro-Semantics which you just read (last week's post)
identify several variables, elements, or components that stand out as
central to the Neuro-Semantic model.  When you know these seven key
variables, you will have an even fuller description and understanding.  So
here goes:




.                     1) Meaning:  Neuro-Semantics is all about meaning-what
it is, how we call it into existence, how we create it, how we keep it
within us, live it, embody it, how we can change it, suspend it, and even
release it.  When Korzybski said that we humans are a semantic-class of life
he identified meaning as the key variable within our mind-body-emotion
system that determines the conditions and quality of our life.  This makes
meaning absolutely crucial to how you experience life, your actions,
relationships, and the significance of your life.

 

Meaning is not a singular thing, nor is it a linear thing.  In fact, it is
not a thing at all.  To speak of meaning as a noun (a nominalization)
falsely betrays its true nature.  Meaning is a process-it is something you
and I do.  We make meaning.  And we do so in numerous ways.  As you will
learn, we make meaning via associating one thing with another so that they
become linked and connected.  The things don't have to be logically linked
or connected.  But link them, and you make that as your "meaning."  This
starts the journey into the fuzzy world where you can create all kinds of
"logics" (reasonings).

 

.                     2) Neurology: It is by, and within, your nervous
systems that you create meaning.  Your neurology entails all of your nervous
systems (central nervous system, autonomic, immune, sympathetic,
parasympathetic, etc.).  It also is part and parcel of your spinal chord and
brain including all of the levels of your brain.  Korzybski mapped the major
components of the brain and identified the sequence of their functioning,
how lower level impulses that enter into the brain at the thalamus and are
processed by being sent to the higher levels.  It is within the neurology of
your body, physiology, neuro-chemistry, neuro-pathways, etc. that you
construct and hold meaning.  Mind-and-body together, as an integrated
system, creates your neuro-semantic existence.

 

.                     3) Performance: From the interactions of your
neuro-semantic mind-body-emotion system arise your internal behaviors as you
somatize your meanings into your emotions, and then react, gesture, speak,
and act.  All of these behaviors, micro- and macro-, comprise the
feed-forward loop of communication as you  turn "information" or "data'
about the world and yourself into actions.  As a mind-body-emotion system,
your life is a matter of information into the system and energy out. The
energy out shows up as performance -this includes both actions that are
healthy and effective and those that are neurotic and dysfunctional.

 

.                     4) Development: As a neuro-semantic class of life, at
birth you are born only partially developed.  Your brain does not fully
develop until puberty when certain hormones facilitates the maturing of your
physical brain.  And from infancy to young adulthood, many of your semantic
dimensions develop through stages that have been well-mapped out by
Developmental Psychologists.  During that period, you develop cognitively,
socially, sexually, and ethically.  As you develop through definite
cognitive-emotional stages, if you evolve in a healthy way, you move beyond
the cognitive distortions of childhood and discover how to effectively cope
with your basic or lower needs.  Abraham Maslow identified the mechanism of
deficiency as the nature of these lower needs, and if you successfully
evolve beyond the lower animal needs, you move to the truly human needs-the
"self-actualization" needs that operate by the mechanism of abundance,
being-ness, and meaningfulness.

 

.                     5) Self-Actualization: You are an evolutionary
developmental class of life who develops by the effectiveness of your
semantic mapping.  First you have to create a mental model of what your
needs are and how to fulfill them (chapter 9).  Then you have to generate a
mental model that allows you to learn, practice, and integrate accurate and
effective ways to cope with those needs.  Semantically coding your needs
accurately brings true gratification so that you keep evolving to the next
level of needs [survival, safety, social (love and affection), self,
self-actualization].  That's when you semantically code the higher needs in
a way that brings out your highest visions and values in life and transfer
them to your best performances.

 

.                     6) Inner and Outer Game: A user-friendly way to talk
about Neuro-Semantics is to speak the inner game of constructing your frames
of meaning so that you have useful, actionable, and relevant mental models
for how to cope with the demands of everyday life.  This is what "learning"
is all about-learning what things are, how they work, what they lead to, how
they operate in social contexts, and how to cope with life's challenges.
The inner game comes first because if your understandings, beliefs,
decisions, identities, intentions, etc. are wrongly formatted, then your
actions will fail you as you seek to navigate the territory to which they
refer.  Conversely, the outer game of effective actions that produce results
in all of the dimensions of life indicate that you know, understand, and
have an effective strategy for that domain.

Psycho-logics is the term that describes the unique meaning of your inner
games.  This term was created by Korzybski by hyphenating the terms
psychology and psychological.  When you make meaning using your
neuro-linguistic mind-body-emotion states, you create a world of meaning for
yourself that is "psycho-logical."  This means that from within the frames
and references that you create about your world, it all makes perfect sense.
It may not make useful, productive, or enhancing sense, but it makes
"psycho-logical" sense as you have created a world of meaning by the way you
reasoned.

 

As you make meaning, you do not do so only by associations and the wild
forms of psycho-logics that emerge, but you do so mostly by how you mentally
frame things.  This refers to the higher forms of your meaning-making.  You
first link things, then you take that linkage inside yourself by
representing it as a map of the external world.  This representation
operates as the way you "think"about something.  Then some higher level
"magic" occurs.  You do not just represent things, you alter and play and
manipulate and change the things you represent.   You also then step back to
think about those things again and again, layer upon layer.  This creates
higher level abstractions.  And this process of reflexive thinking
reflecting back onto your previous thoughts never ends.  You can always
think-feel about whatever you think.  

 

As a symbolic class of life you use symbols to "stand for" things out there.
Then you create symbols to stand for those symbols.  This complicates things
as you create internal contexts which you then use to understand and
interpret things.  As you create these layers of mental contexts (frames)
you generate more complex conceptual understandings as your schemes and
paradigms.

 

.                     7) Modeling: Given your neuro-semantic nature, the
central key to successful navigating of the territory is finding, creating,
designing, and installing an effective mental model.  The process of doing
that is called modeling.  So Neuro-Semantics is a model of how to model
experiences.  Neuro-Semantics, following the pioneering modeling work of
Maslow (Self-Actualization Psychology) and of Bandler and Grinder
(Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is centrally about the modeling process
(chapter 17).  Primarily we model human excellence and expertise.  We also
can, and do, model dysfunctional experiences in order to understand the
frames of meaning (beliefs, decisions, intentions, understandings, etc.)
that make the dysfunctional experience work as it does.  This informs us
what to do to create generative change.

 

Neuro-Semantics provides flexible tools for tracking the vertical or higher
dimensions of mental processing.  It even provides models for tracking the
systemic nature of mind as it moves round and round the circuits of ideas,
memories, concepts, imaginations, etc.  As a tool for more fully identifying
the higher and ever-changing levels of human consciousness and meaning that
drive behavior, Neuro-Semantics enables us to track, model, and replicate
human excellence.

 

 

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