Emergent Channels

Warning: This page has become a historical record. The approach used here provided initial help and orientation, but its value turned out to be limited. The names are now updated irregularly as these are finalized through investigating specific emergent Tree frameworks.
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Assumptions & Method

The architectural pattern for Channels in Trees has been demonstrated on many occasions by analysis from first principles. It is therefore assumed that this pattern will apply here.

In a conventional Tree, like the Root Hierarchy shown at right, the core Centre is KL4_B which interacts with all other Centres except KL1_B.

In the reordered Tree (lower diagrams), Willingness, which is L7_B in the Root Hierarchy moves to the central KL4_B position. Experience, which is L4_B, then moves down to the KL2_B position.

Note: See a full comparison of these two Root-Level Trees in the next Topic.

The channels are considered in the following order:

Transverse channels connecting Centres within a Level i.e. KL3, KL5, KL6.
Channels that connect with Willingness (here in KL4B position)
Channels that connect with Experience (here in KL2B position)
Channels in an outer ring bypassing both Willingness-KL4 and Experience-KL2.

Transverse Channels

These channels are about ensuring an effective connection between person and situation for elements where a mis-fit will be damaging, perhaps disastrous.

KL6: Change of State

In ordinary endeavour, change is much lower (at RL3) and refers to an identifiable target state to be realized by suitable action i.e. it is part of content in endeavour. However, in these emergent frameworks, the change state is contextual and provides guidance. The necessary change in yourself and the desirable change in the environment/situation cannot be wholly disentangled because you are part of the situation. Some mutuality or give-and-take to ensure tolerance and consistency seems essential.

Suggested Channel Name: Reciprocity

KL5: Inquiry

Understanding that focuses on your own inquiry criteria and concerns, regardless of what others might think, should respond to and shape public inquiry—and vice versa. It is contextual because the Centres are about developing understanding in the situation, rather than getting information to shape an action. For guidance to be effective, understandings emerging from each Centre should complement and generate a fit with the other.

Suggested Channel Name: Complementarity

KL3: Purpose

It is never possible to make progress if socially significant values or situation-based goals are ignored. However, the special effort must spring from you and you cannot succeed if you neglect your own values and objectives. In identifying what will be given importance in each Centre, some consideration for the other perspective is essential.

Suggested Channel Name: Consideration

Channels To/From Willingness

Under normal circumstances, being willing can be taken for granted because of the goal. Here your degree of willingness is the main concern, and the basis for feeling good about the effort. In its L4_B location, the willingness element is directly modulated by all other Centres, except for the action element in the L1_Bposition.

Provisional Channel Names
Note: For readability, the reference to specific elements is omitted; and the bi-directional nature of the influence is assumed.

From KL7: Respect for communication challenges sustenance of willingness.
From L6: Your personal state must be enabled so that willingness is sustained by becoming committed. You must also require a situational state that can get support your willingness.
From L5: Your private understanding can ensure that your willingness is becoming realistic. However, appreciating public inquiry is needed to ensure willingness gets acceptance socially.
From L3: Support for social importance should ensure that your willingness becomes credible. Insistence on personal significance is, however, essential to get encouraged to remain willing.
From L2: Appeal to experience allows for energizing and sustaining willingness.

Channels To/From Experience

In endeavour, experience is in the central KL4_B position (see top diagram). In this position, it serves as a way to evaluate what is going on, both in regard to the endeavour's creation (in the upper transcendental levels) and in regard to its practical aspects (in the lower actualization levels).

In the present situation where a transcendent effort is shaping a problematic endeavour, experience is found in the KL2_B position. From here, it interacts more closely with willingness (now at KL4), and it is also closer to relevant purposes and values (now at KL3). Most significantly, the experience element is now directly linked to the action element (at KL1_B). The function is therefore about directly providing inspiration or instigation or emphasis on a particular form of action.

Provisional Channel Names:

From KL4: Appeals to experience can energize sustenance of willingness.

From KL3: Appeals to experience must align with support for social importance, and both require attunement. They also reaffirm your insistence on personal significance.

From L1: Your appeal to experience can confirm reliance on the action element.

Channels in the Outer Ring

The upper channels—KL7 ↔ KL6, KL6 ↔ KL5—do not bypass a level in the context part of the framework, but they twice bypass a level in the lower content part i.e. KL5 ↔ KL3, KL3 ↔ KL1.

Provisional Channel Names

KL7_B and KL6 Centres provide the potential in any Tree. Here respect for communication focuses the essential personal change, and releases a demand for supportive changes in the situation. Both are needed to renew the effort.
The two channels between KL6 and KL5 Centres provide a crucial bridge between that potential and what actually can happen. The essential personal changes and personal explanations strengthen each other. A channel also joins desirable environmental changes and appreciation of what others understand because they encourage each other.
Channels between KL5 and KL3 Centres bypass keeping willing. These ensure that the inquiry element deals directly with the purposes. They also enable purely personal and purely situational Centres to interact. So private inquiry is used to validate your identification of what is socially important. Appreciation of public inquiry justifies your insistence on what is personally significant.
Channels between KL3 Centres and KL1_B bypass appeals to experience and ensure that all action elements are controlled by purposes. Social importance channels the handling of the action element, while insisting on personal significance constrains its handling.

Now compare the emergent Root-Level Tree with the standard Root Hierarchy Tree.

Last draft: 1-Mar-2014.

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