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than animals, is as much an understatement as saying that animals are more
intelligent than plants.
sequence
of complex sounds created by the human throat, tongue, mouth, and vocal
cords to represent, or symbolizethe ‘percepts’of reality created by the space-mind.
Recall from our earlier discussion. An‘event’is occurring in the ‘real’world.
sense data about that event and forms a pictureof ‘reality’—this is our scientific
‘object’, or in the language of human intelligence science a ‘percept’.
then uses a sequence of sounds—a spoken word, or in written form a
sequence of letters—a written word to‘label’that‘object’.
wordis our scientific‘label’, or in the language of human intelligence science a
‘concept’.
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we see:
representation of ‘percepts’with a sequence of complex sounds, or a
sequence of written letters is of great utility to the time-mind. It allows the time-mind
to think about things. And, since the space-mind is capable of survival all by itself, the
time-mind has ‘time’ on its hands to think about things—to figure things out.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933-48, ibid
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is in charge of understanding. It can understand because it is aware
of time. It is aware of changes that occur over time. Through it’s awareness of time
it has developed the ability to analyzereality. By noticing the changes that occur over
time, it has the ability to figure things out. It can notice what comes before what. It can
determine what events cause what effects. It can notice what events precede other
events in what sequences.
generates analytical thinking. We can understand that cause and
effect are sequential. We can analyze an event and discover that cause and effect are
different. Sequence is meaningful to our temporal intelligence—sequence is
meaningful to a time-binder.
Think about words. Spoken words are a sequence of sounds, and written words are a
sequence of letters.
my head and speak a sentence, imagine you could see those words as they emerged
from my mouth. You would see a string of words:
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sequence. First A then B then C then D» Etc.»Etc.. Sequenceis an orderedlinear
chain. And awareness of sequence allows Time-mind to comprehend duration—time.
Our human sensitivity to sequenceallows us to analyze process. This leads to the
concept of causality. An event that consistently occursbeforea followingevent is
thought to causethe following event. This is not to say that all preceding events are
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coincidents. However, often an event that consistently precedes a following event is the
cause of that following event. First something causes an effect then that effect becomes
the cause of another effect and so on and so on. Thus, the time-mind comes to
understand process through its temporal analysis of sequence.
is the secret of our human ability to understand. The human
mind has the ability to analyze sequence and determine cause and effect relationships
and thus come to understand. This leads to the ability to make predictions.
Cause2»Effect2
Cause3»Effect3
Cause4»Effect4
Causen»Effectn
And if I know the larger sequence, when I see Cause1, I can predict Effect4.
to each other. Time-
mind builds conceptsto explain Reality. Concepts are asymmetrical models of the
mechanism of Reality—models of process.
Conceiver places an arrow (->) between Percepts and/or Parts of Percepts. Concept is
the one dimensional symbolically-coded list of Percepts stored as to their order of
occurrence.
temporally sequential and linear. What is temporally sequential is THEN and THEN
and THEN. Concept is a one-dimensional algorithmic of THEN and THEN and THEN.
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STOP.
is SYMBOLIC. The ANALYTICAL time-mind
understands that "Red MEANSstop." That the red light is symbol representing the
recommended action. On the other hand, the ASSOCIATIVE space-mindbelieves
that"Red ISstop". The ASSOCIATIVE space-mindoften makes errors in processing
related to IT’Sidenticnature. Alfred Korzybski’s discovery of the error in the
IDENTIC representation of Reality is of importance here.}
eat the plants. But I can not eat bread, I have not made.
Conceiver to sense Time. To be aware of Past->Present->Future. To sense change over
time and eventually to control change over time. This leads to the main power of the
Time-Analytical Conceiver—the ability to conceptualize reality. This leads to mastery
of cause and effect.
c->e
c->e
c->e
c->e
Etc.
Etc.
phenomenon changed or eliminated.
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is different from Percept2is different from Percept3is different from Percept4.
Concepts are asymmetrical models of how reality evolves.
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into parts, distinguishes
differencesand sequences these parts into Concepts.
difference. When it finds difference it asks what are the Cause-Effect chains that will
explain those differences? If I can understand the Cause-Effect sequence that produced
this NOW. I can then be much more effective at making choices that will make that
Particular NOW more or less likely to occur in the Future. Depending on whether I
perceive that particular NOW as good for me or bad for me.
BECOMING—To become or not to become is a question of meaning.
PARTS —-> A -> B ->
DIFFERENTIATION
ASYMMETRICAL
CONCEPT
-> A ->
ASYMMETRICAL
ANYWHERE in the PAST->PRESENT->FUTURE
GLOBAL and SEQUENTIAL
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to effect. They are in essence time-blind, and so they confuse cause with effect.
that are not
identical, they are making an identificationthat is false to facts. Korzybski called
this theError of Identity.31
humans make this error. We assume without analysis that cause and effect are the
same—that they are equal—that they are identical. If the effect of a mistake is bad
then the cause of that mistake must also be bad. We don’t analyze the event for
sequence. We don’t use our time-binding power to understand.
And, certainty as explained earlier by Korzybski, Heisenberg, Eddingtonand
Bronowskiis not possible, because knowing is uncertain.
assuming. If we are unawarethat we are assuming, then we are ignorantof our
ignorance. Certainty means that we don’t know that we don’t know. We cannot seek
knowing when we believe our ignorance is knowing. Ignorance of ignorance is
leveraged ignorance—ignorance masquerading as knowledge. Ignorance of ignorance
iscertainty.
toward human error is the most damaging of human ignorances. We humans make
mistakes because, we make all our decisions without ALLthe information. This is a
major point that all humans must understand. The only cause of mistakes is
ignorance.
our ignorance, we can learn from our mistakes and protect ourselves in the future.
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933-48, ibid
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