Application of Model: Functional Synthesis of Viewpoints (Part III)

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Application of Model
Mental Experience
Physical and emotional experience
Audio-visual facility to clarify the conceptual model
Experiment to validate the conceptual model
Comment
Conclusion
References

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Short Summary: A conceptual model is described to supply a context within which the increasingly isolated fields of knowledge and experience can be related without jeopardizing their autonomy. This is achieved by defining a space such that every viewpoint held in society is uniquely determined and related within that space in terms of its purpose and its ability to organize its subject matter. The properties of the space are such that developmental, directional, unitary and convergent features are emphasized with regard to society as a whole, groups and individuals. The final model effectively constitutes a map of functions or modes of experience by which individuals or groups can relate themselves to other viewpoints. An audio-visual display is described which could illustrate the model and an experiment to validate it is discussed. [NB Images of better quality available separately (0.5mb pdf) ]

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This paper was one basis for the much later Functional Classification in an Integrative Matrix of Human Preoccupations (1982) used as the basis for the subject classification of the Yearbook of International Organizations and the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

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Contents

* Problem
* Definitions
* Argument
* Viewpoint Model
* Noosphere Model
* Combined Model
* Nature of Space in Model
* Mental Experience
** (a) Society
** (b) Individual in Society
** (c) Change of Discipline
** (d) Individual and Noosphere
* Physical and Emotional Experience
* Audio-Visual Facility to Clarify the Conceptual Model
* Experiment to Validate the Conceptual Model
* Comment
Appendix I: Typology of Explanations

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PART III

The model should be able to represent the link between individual, group and society for each of the three levels of experience, physical, emotional and mental, and have the properties listed in the Introduction. Mental experience will be considered first.

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