Determinants of Association PH'5CHK

Note: Details of Spirals and their Trees are or will be worked out in the Frameworks sections of this website. This topic is focused on the architecture and specifically on the contribution of psychosocial pressures to meeting our Primal Needs.

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Here is a summary of material that has been developed and explained in earlier Topics in this section and elsewhere. It is the basis for appreciating the Tree framework shown below.

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Summary of the PH'5 Control Diagram

The Communication Root Level-5 emanates the Primary Hierarchy of Communication-PH5, which is the foundation for association with others , its Primal Need.
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The PH5-L6 element is Meaning, and its dynamic form is proposed as Assign Meanings.
The critical factor in optimizing communication-RL5 is ensuring understanding.
Under pressure of autonomy, person assigns meanings optimally in accord with one or other of the methods for using language-PH'5.
Association with others depends on a commonality i.e. sharing a relevant reality, which becomes «the reality» for all involved. The degree of conviction and general sharing varies according to the way this reality is communicated and discussed. Each language method becomes the basis for a different mode of sharing.
The development of what is to be taken as a reality, and its ever firmer establishment as «the reality», occurs by a progressive cumulation of the modes of sharing via the TET Spiral.
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The 4 Cycle-1modes are values for Communication-RL5. However, the 3 Cycle-2 modes, despite emerging from communication-RL5 and its language methods-PH'5, have values primarily serving purpose-RL6. This is because participants in informal associations or members of formal groups experience autonomy. They feel free to exit and join others espousing a reality in tune with different values and perceptions.
As a result, the Emergent Tree, Determinants of Association, reveals that Purpose-RL6 ensures and constrains Communication-RL5.

A Shared Reality for «Association»

No single language use method guarantees that association will deliver the desired understanding, nor does any shared reality. Nothing guarantees the communication will lead to understanding on both sides: see Wiio's law. there are too many vagaries in life.

However, the more modes that are included, the stronger a shared reality can be. Incorporating modes takes time and follows a necessary order as explained in the Spiral framework.

The shared reality of any association will always be determined by the way mode essences (Tree centres) are used.

The inexorable passage of time and use of resources is represented in the Tree framework by its base in the Primal Nexus. Here, performance pressure orients generation of a shared reality (KL1) and performance pressure is also evident in using a shared reality (CL1).

The unavoidable deficiency in understanding associated with any association raises questions of continuing participation. That is why the shared reality, once the Nexus is secure, moves its orientation from communication-RL5 to purpose-RL6, which is driven by autonomy.

However, a continuing belief in any proposed reality depends on the goals and values of members of the group. The natural autonomy of members in this regard puts an unavoidable constraint on any association. That is why reality-oriented communication-RL5 turns out to be enabled and constrained by Purpose-RL6, whose psychosocial pressure is autonomy.

In the Tree, the interaction of actualization and transcendence is dramatic.

Given attention to the Primal Nexus, the lower part involving RL5-Communication requires:

use of actualizing pressures—in orienting input to the shared reality
i.e. KL2-certainty (about principles and assumptions), KL3-acceptability (in presentation of values), KL4-well-being (in regard to precise details);

but
use of transcending pressures—in producingthe shared reality output that brings association under control
i.e. CL2-selflessness (in relying on principles and assumptions), CL3-understanding (values in play), CL4-autonomy (in regard to precise details).

while the upper part involving RL6-Purpose requires:

use of transcending pressures—in orienting input to the shared reality so as to enhance autonomy.
i.e. KL5-understanding (of events and situations), KL6-autonomy (in regard to maintenance of convictions), KL7-selflessness (in accepting a narrative);

but
use of actualizing pressures—in producing the sense of self so that it enables and constrains lower levels in a way that generates autonomy
i.e. CL5-certainty (of accounts of events and situations), CL6-well-being (in regard to convictions), CL7-acceptability (in promoting the narrative).

This framework has implications for the management of groups and personal participation.

Now consider Determinants of Governance (PH'6CHK)

Initially posted: 23-Jan-2023