Relevance to much-valued psychosocial processes

Potential of Feynman Diagrams for Challenging Psychosocial Relationships? (Part #6)

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Learning: Given the importance of learning, both individually and collectively, are there subtle processes that could benefit from indication by analogues to Feynman diagrams? Would this help to clarify possible learning pathways and the manner in which inspiration is engendered -- or inhibited -- and the manner in which knowledge and insight are communicated? The mapping of metabolic pathways by biochemists is suggestive in that respect

Creativity: The importance of cultivating and eliciting creativity is widely recognized. Exploration of creative processes and experience of them in all their variety -- and the associated value of imagination -- makes extensive use of "light" as a metaphor. Would analogues to Feynman diagrams facilitate understanding of its emergence and how it may otherwise be inhibited? Would these patterns provide a context for comprehending the variety of ways these can occur?

Dialogue: Much is made of the reliance on dialogue in complex psychosocial situations. Both learning and creativity are potentially vital to fruitful dialogue. To what extent would such a pattern language enable a far richer self-referential appreciation of the processes and experience of dialogue with any "other" -- perhaps of a kind yet to be widely recognized. How might this be appreciated and vigorously enabled in a social networking environment? Clearly any such opportunity is worth exploring -- given the current inadequacy of discourse, whether parliamentary, interdisciplinary, intersectoral, interfaith, or that between those engaged in bloody conflict?

Given the evidently problematic nature of the climate change debate (even within disciplines), how might the interplay of "positive" and "negative" statements be more fruitfully associated with the emergence of "insight"? How might this be widely communicated? How better to understand the deficiencies and inadequacies of the unquestionable lecture/Q-and-A model of debate -- whether academic or otherwise? Can techniques of argument mapping be enhanced in the light of Feynman diagrams?

Romance: This is the inherently mysterious process fundamental to the lives and aspirations of many -- potentially to be compared experientially with the attraction of a Theory of Everything. It is characterized by a depth of subtle feeling and insight whose incommunicability is the theme of endless comment and aesthetic representation. Would the intimate familiarity with its complex subtleties and varieties offer a means of enriching appreciation of the processes encoded by the pattern language imagined here? Would the existence of such a language enable a more fruitful approach to much-stressed interpersonal relationships? Would it enable other patterns of elective affinity to emerge, as separately discussed (Marrying an Other whatever the Form: reframing and extending the understanding of marriage, 2013)

Contractual bonding: The potential cognitive embodiment implied by such a pattern language could give form to a wider spectrum of viable contractual relationships of greater subtlety, as discussed separately (Transcending Simplistic Binary Contractual Relationships: what is hindering their exploration? 2012).

Meditation: There is the further possibility that such a pattern language would offer a means whereby processes of meditational experience could be articulated by practitioners for wider appreciation. This could imbue with greater significance and coherence the complex multi-layered nature of the elemental processes indicated by such use of these patterns.

Questioning: This process is challenging to unexamined assumptions and is therefore fundamental to learning imaginatively, to enraging in dialogue, and to creative reframing. It is central to Zen Buddhism in the use of the koan. It is arguably vital to strategic initiatives (Strategic Implications of 12 Unasked Questions in Response to Disaster, 2013). How might questioning be indicated within a set of Feynman diagrams? Could this approach contribute to reframing understanding of "enhanced interrogation techniques", now that these are converging increasingly with the classical institutional procedures of the Malleus Maleficarum (1487) for dealing with unacceptable others?

Passing patterns: As noted in the Annex, of considerable potential relevance with respect to any form of "path awareness", and its "integration", is the widespread popular fascination with ball sports within which "passing patterns" (discussed separately) can be recognized, appreciated, emulated, and studied. It could be argued that this fascination derives from an unconscious recognition of analogous patterns in the psychosocial realm. The challenge is to relate the two -- potentially by using passing patterns to encode and embody those which might otherwise be represented by Feynman diagrams.

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