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In Quest of Mnemonic Catalysts -- for comprehension of complex psychosocial dynamics

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Annex to Imagining the Real Challenge and Realizing the Imaginal Pathway of Sustainable Transformation (2007)

-- Fish-pond dynamics | WH-questions and non-linear dynamics | Martial arts | Symbol systems | Resilience | Consilience
-- Five-fold pattern | Beyond two-dimensional representations | Möbius transformations | Catastrophe revisited
-- Configuring catastrophes | Wu Xing (5-element theory) revisited | 4-wheeled drive vehicle | Musical epistemology
-- Optical systems | "Dual-use" technologies

Contents of main paper:
-- Figure 1: Interrelating problematique and resolutique in terms of "real" and "imaginary"
-- Problematique
-- Resolutique
-- Figure 2: Interrelating problematique, resolutique, "imaginatique" and "irresolutique"


In Quest of Mnemonic Catalysts
Fish-pond dynamics
WH-questions and non-linear dynamics
Martial arts
Symbol systems and playing cards
Resilience
Consilience
Five-fold pattern
Beyond two-dimensional representations
Möbius transformations
Catastrophe revisited
Configuring catastrophes
Wu Xing (5-element theory) revisited
4-wheeled drive vehicle
Musical epistemology
Optical systems
"Dual-use" technologies

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Introduction

The diagrams (Figure 1, elaborated in Figure 2) in the main paper are an effort to hold within a single framework a number of strategic dimensions and dynamics descriptive of the contemporary challenge. They endeavour to interrelate the problematique, resolutique, "imaginatique" and "irresolutique". This poses a challenge to comprehension.

The arguments for identifying the following mnemonic aids were articulated for a meeting on Forms of Presentation (Geneva, 1980) of the Goals. Processes and Indicators of Development project of the United Nations University (Minding the Future: thought experiment on presenting new information, 1980). It is to be expected that different aids would appeal, or not, to different people to a different degree. The items included below are therefore necessarily indicative of possibilities rather than definitive. The principal criterion is the ability to facilitate understanding.


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