Reducing Complexity
Simplifying Entity Formulation
An important scientific urge is to simplify. The taxonomy with its 5000+ entities is somewhat reduced by the use of formulae. For example, the same numerals can reflect different entities by association with different letters. However, the number of formulae remains large. Once familiarity is obtained, formulae are intelligible.
Formulae were designed to be architectural i.e. to locate a cell.
Formal names were designed to be evocative i.e. to be usable in everyday life
However, now that the investigation of Root Projections has been successfully completed (including in relation to the Q-expansion), the distribution of just 7 psychosocial pressures, one for each Root Level, throughout the architecture offers the possibility of a much greater reduction in entity (cell) identification.
With this approach, every cell in the taxonomy has a unique combination of one or more psychosocial pressures. The cost of this reduction is a loss of any sense of what the entity defined in this way could possibly be. However, what is gained is a sense of the biological functioning of the entity.
In what follows, examples of cell definitions are provided. The RL6-Purpose Domain will be used as it is the most complex. Guidance is provided by the graphic.
Example
Definition Notes
In specifying the combination of pressures that define a cell-entity, certain rules will be followed:
The most recent operative pressure is specified first and the pressure closest to the Root Level origin is specified last.
Whole hierarchies will necessarily involve all 7 pressures: labelled a7P.
Trees have a set of input pressures (i) based on the Root Hierarchy and a set of output pressures (o) based on the origin of the Tree. So a hierarchy level and the same level in its Tree differ due to the presence of an input pressure in Trees.
Because everything emanates from the Will (R) and is subject to SURVIVAL pressure, this pressure is not mentioned.
» = "is subject to"
Further compression (but not further simplification) is possible by reducing names of pressures to a single letter as follows:
P = Performance
C = Certainty
A = Acceptability
W = Well-Being
U = Understanding
F = Autonomy
S = Selflessness
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7 = a7P
Domain Fundamentals
| RL6 | = Autonomy | A | Purpose |
| = Certainty » Autonomy | CA | Strategic Objective | |
| = Autonomy » Autonomy | AA | Value System | |
| = a7Po » Autonomy | 7A | Purpose Hierarchy | |
| = a7Pi + a7Po » Autonomy | 7ioA | A Worthwhile Project | |
| = Understanding (o) » Understanding (i) » Autonomy | UoiA | Social Values Centre | |
| = a7Po » a7Po + a7Pi » Autonomy | 7o7oiA | A Community Evolution | |
| PsH6G3 | = Performance » Certainty » Autonomy | PCA | Drive??? |
| PsH6G33 | = Acceptability » Performance » Certainty » Autonomy | APCA | ??? |
| PsH6K | = a7Po + a7Pi » a7Po + a7Pi » Autonomy= |
Domain Controls & Ethical Controls
| PH'6 | = Autonomy + a7P » Autonomy |
| = Selflessness » Autonomy » Autonomy | |
| = Autonomy » Autonomy + a7P » Autonomy | |
| = Certainty » Autonomy » Autonomy+ a7P » Autonomy | |
| = Certainty (o) » Understanding (i) » Autonomy » Autonomy » Autonomy | |
| = Understanding (o) » Certainty (i) » a7P » a7P » Autonomy » Autonomy » Autonomy | |
| PH"6 | = Selflessness + a7P » Autonomy » Autonomy |
| PH"6L7 | = Well-Being |
| PH"6KL1 | |
| PsH"6G4 | |
Q-expansion
| = Performance (1°) + ????? (2°) » Autonomy + a7P » Autonomy | ||
| = XXXX » Performance (1°) + ????? (2°) » Autonomy + a7P » Autonomy | ||
| = | ||
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Originally posted: 25-Jan-2023.