All PH-L1s involve Action-RL1
Colour-coding: Orange refers to THEE terminology. refers to THEE-names for specific cells or frameworks. Maroon refers to the Root Levels which are presumed to be necessary for their function.
Proposition
The function of every PH•Level-1 element has as an intrinsic necessary, but often implicit, feature.
What about the other Root Levels? 
Note: The elements examined below are not equally well understood.
In Willingness-PH7
| Element | Function: Provisional Formulation |
|---|---|
| To make | |
| To make one or many attempts even though failure is evidently possible. |
is about a readiness to start on something, or to make repeated attempts ('new starts') even though failure is possible or likely. This start or attempt is an action of some sort. The reasons for procrastinating or avoiding are diverse, including lack of interest, laziness, nervousness or a history of failure in the matter.
Example: There are many reasons why a person may not volunteer for a project. However, if asked to take it on, person who is willing would give it a try and start doing relevant tasks.
activates other functions like believing and risking. However, there is no intrinsic need to or—except contextually or as part of doing.
In Purpose-PH6
| Element | Function: Adjusted Formulation |
|---|---|
| A given precise concrete time-targeted result which is a step to a chosen outcome. | |
| To generate a given precise concrete time-targeted result which is a step to a chosen outcome. |
demand action. They are about taking steps that are pure means to produce an agreed result which is expected to be needed to achieve a higher level goal. The tactical objective can be broken down to smaller tactical objectives—smaller in the sense of shorter time-span and fewer actions. The more limited the ability of a person, the greater the needed breakdown, until eventually the tactical objective relates to the movement of a part of the body.
Example: «Enter the lift in your building no later than Noon» as the first step to getting food for the family for the week.
imply the presence of other functions like desired feasible outcomes. However, there is no intrinsic need to or. When the other Root Levels (like sensing, intuiting or communicating) seem to occur, they do so as part of taking action e.g. using experience (. They are not part of the tactic itself.
In Communication-PH5
| Element | Function: Current Formulation |
|---|---|
| To use elemental biological means to send a message so as to ensure its receipt. |
generate a sensory experience in another that can be construed as meaningful. Such a can only be produced by taking some action.
Example: «Waving» or «a shout» are communicative stimuli that may have many meanings.
A communicative activates other elements: e.g. it can be interpreted as a signal, a sign, or a symbol. However, stimulating does not intrinsically involve or. These other Root Levels, if they seem to occur, do so as aspects of doing.
In Experience-PH4
| Element | Function: Provisional Formulation |
|---|---|
| To provide direct physical-physiological immediacy of the world. |
involves some discrete biological change in oneself that is taken to correspond to a physical reality. From the perspective of the will and use of experience to gauge and evaluate, having the relevant or appropriate sensation depends on some action that ensures sufficient attention.
Philosophers refer to "qualia" as sensations that are just there as part of consciousness and might point out that if you are bumped them you have a sensation without taking action. (Of course, action was involved in getting bumped.) Sensory deprivation experiments typically use a flotation chamber designed to reduce the possibility of any bodily movement.
Example: Actively sensing «colour» involves looking; sensing «touch» involves touching or moving so as to be touched; sensing «sound» involves stiffening and orienting the body.
As well as activating or implying other elements, must involve action of some sort. However, can occur without any .
In Change-PH3
| Element | Function: Provisional Formulation |
|---|---|
| To provide an alteration that potentially enables a state. |
involves taking action to change the state of affairs in some minor way. Whether it enforces the status quo or leads to a difference, you cannot a state without something to ensure a difference of some sort.
Example: You vary your diet by buying and cooking different foods. You vary your work day by taking up different tasks.
may activate other elements and being a means is naturally driven by higher levels. However, it does not intrinsically involve , or. So the other Root Levels, if they occur, are only supportive.
In Inquiry-PH2
| Element | Function: Provisional Formulation |
|---|---|
| To register sense-data in a way that permits its later processing for knowledge. |
, being about the registration process, invariably involves personal and physical action. Sense-based data are obtained by focusing attention on some specific thing, but just sensing is not enough for inquiry. The specific observation will vary according to the aim of the inquiry, the context and object of study. You may need to tick a box, to take a photograph, to read a digital counter, to write down a description &c. That activity is typically personal and private: it lends itself to bias and falsification.
Example: Observation of bird flights involves positioning yourself, putting the appropriate equipment in place, and making recordings manually or via technology.
activates other elements. might appear to intrinsically involve because it follows a sensory interaction with some object or process about which knowledge is desired. However, this sensory interaction cannot be categorized as observing any more than the purpose behind the interaction can be. Deliberate sensory interactions occur all the time for a variety of reasons. Observation only occurs if there is a registration of something.
However, it does not intrinsically involve . So the other Root Levels are prior or subsequent, occurring as part of the inquiry endeavour.
In Action-PH1
| Element | Function: Provisional Formulation |
|---|---|
| To use the body's nervous and/or musculature system voluntarily. |
usually involves through muscular exertion, but also by nervous impulses e.g. when electrical pick-up enables thoughts to control a mouse pointer. It seems to be the most fundamental part of , and the basic means for action. That is probably why, when we want action in general, we say "get a move on" or "get moving"—rather than referring to one of the other levels as we might if we wished to be specific.
Example: Turning on the light requires that you move your hand to operate the switch.
is the most basic part of something. Bodily can occur without any or. So the other Root Levels, if they occur, are only supportive or part of a contextual endeavour. Slavery epitomized unwilling movement.
- Continue to explore all PH-L2's.
Initially posted: 26-Jul-2013. Last amended 11-Oct-2014.
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