From: Sehkenenra (Sehkenenra@netzero.net)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 21:06:16 MDT
>A very interesting and thought-provoking post.
>
>Of course, using an analogy to reason about reasoning is always somewhat
>risky. We should not imagine that we have exactly three levels of our
>cognition, the lines are likely far more blurred and there might be
>tricky loops in there. But still the analogy seems fruitful, since it
>makes the multimetalevel (ouch, what a horrible neologism! :-)
>predictions of the brain more clear.
Marc's model sounds an awful lot like that of Jean Gebser (The Ever-Present
Origin, 1966), who similarly posited a "dimensional" model of consciousness
working it's way through three dimensions (with a possible fourth and beyond
in the offing) through the evolution of human history. While interesting, I
don't think that Gebser's model is nearly as helpful as the work of Clare
Graves or the later developments of Spiral Dynamics (although the current
website isn't the most pleasant thing in the world to look at
(http://www.spiraldynamics.com/), it still presents the model pretty well.
A better explanation is available in Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values,
Leadership, and Change (Don Beck and Chris Cowan, 1996), Integral Psychology
(Ken Wilber, 2000), and A Theory of Everything (Ken Wilber, 2001)... I
highly recommend all three.
-Nicq MacDonald
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