Friday, August 30, 2013

The Ability to Abstract!

When I was a medical student in England, in the course of a lecture, I was told about a human ability. The lecturer said it was: 
the ability to ability to abstract

However, nothing further was said about it in the lecture and it was left to my co-students and me to reflect on it and to work it out . . . if we had a mind to do, or not. In fact we never did; but i kept thinking about it.
Then in time I read that Psychology had renamed this ability to abstract as the:
global function.

Of course by this time, I appreciated how it was that Psychology would rename the ability to abstract the way it did. This is because I had long realized that it is by one's the ability to abstract that one gets one's abstraction. And the abstraction is a gestalt about a given item of consideration be it a person, thing, context, field of study and so forth; and it was self-evident to me that the gestalt I got, could and would, fall into different categories. These categories were those of our:
    opinions about          thoughts about             ideas about          
    judgments about       evaluations about         conclusions about
    fixations about         determinations about    views about
    feelings about           emotions about             beliefs about
and so forth        

Then from the emergent field of study known as Neuro-Semantic Programming, NSP, came the realization that whatever may be my abstraction, since it is mine it must be RIGHT. Since mine is RIGHT, then the other's must be WRONG.
Then, from NSP, flowed the realization that since an 'about' of a thing is the meta of the thing, then the ability to abstract is about our ownership of the meta function, m(f).
By this m(f) we can in turn get the about of the about; and then the about of the about of the about and so forth to infinity.
By NSP then came the realization that how we get our sense and grasp of what our reality about ourselves, others and the world we live in is by our m(f).
By NSP then flowed the realization of the Blame Frame, a.k.a. as the Aristotelian system of Cause and Effect that the secondary 'benefit' from it that:
our realization of reality is the one that is 
ALWAYS RIGHT.

Then came the discovery of the teaching of Alfred Korzybski, the father of General Semantics. It is:
the ABOUT  of a thing cannot be IT!

So, it is the position of NSP:
you can have any meta you want
but be sure it is 
accurate-to-fact
true-to-fact
real-to-fact.

If a person's meta is not accurate-to-fact, you can see how he/she can take off into his/her cuckoo land.
From what we have cited above, it becomes self-evident  that from NSP one can see how all the mental disorders of Psychiatry, as listed in its opus magnum 2013 - DSM V have their root in the ill-formed operations of a person's m(f).
From NSP, you can see how, if another can you read and adumbrate you really well, he/she can palm off onto you a meta(s) that you will suck up to because it is exactly yours; and without realizing, the other has you now on his/her hook.
From NSP, now comes the realization, how it is that it is so difficult to be mature.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The ability to be an asshole! So damn magical! POOF!