META a prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, with the meanings “after,” “along with,” “beyond,” “among,” “behind,” and productive in English on the Greek model: metacarpus; metagenesis; metalinguistics.
Oxford Concise Dictionary 11th edition 2008
Beyond, behind ,together with, changes
Oxford Concise Dictionary 1995
The Principles of Meta Communication (an approach in communication)
The Principles and the importance of Meta Communication in the fields of Psychology, focusing primarily on the approaches of professional communication in teaching, education, therapy, coaching, and supervision.
The goals are.:
How to create a succesful dynamic relationship without "interference" between client and therapist.
How to communicate to the surface level of consciousness and the deepest level at the same time.
How to communicate advice, without giving advice. (interference)
How to create an environment, where "ownership " for this environment belongs to both parties.
Notes; James 2008. (I use the meta defintions 1) behind/beyond 2) together with 3) changes. All 3 definitons interact together and each definition describes the various attributes in what Meta is, and what meta does. My usage of the simple Lego Brick, demonstrates in concrete terms what and how Meta works in practise).
Meta is used to define:
what is behind or beyond. (for example; a model, a technique, a method, a science)
what is together with (a model, a technique, a method, a science)
what changes (a model, a technique, a method, a science)
(adding psychology, for example, into the equation)
Meta goes further. Meta defines:
how to come behind/beyond, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
how to come together with, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
how to change, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
Meta is dynamic "in time" and interactive. Meta also defines:
when to go behind/beyond, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
when to come together with, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
when to change, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
Meta is spatial in its positioning Meta defines:
where to go behind/beyond, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
where to come together with, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
where to change, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
Meta is also cognitive in communicating. Meta defines:
why to go behind/beyond, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
why to come together with, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
why to change, (a human being, a model, a technique, a method, a science)
Meta communication has the ability to cover the 5 areas above, and do so with style. For example in regards to therapy, it is advanced, a kind of "super detective" "super sensitive " at finding the "essence" of the problem /challenge.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Saturday, October 4, 2008
From meta ability to meta Intelligence
A Question: Is Play (playful ) a way of being, and intelligence something else?
Being Logical is ”a way of being” and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)
Being Musical is “a way of being” and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)
Being Natural is “a way of being” and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)
Being Playful is a way of being and an intelligence. (They are one and the same)
The key to any Intelligence is in having the “ability”. The intelligence called “Logical” is based on a combination of several abilities if not dozens. Which eventually develops, through a playing with various abilities, (combining various abilities) until they fuse together into a seemingly single unit which we call Logical intelligence.
Due to the works of Howard Gardner and others, the classical definition of Intelligence has now broken free from its restraining prison. And The definition of intelligence, has become more flexible more fluid and varied. The 8 or 9 Intelligences so far being defined is only the beginning, I predict it will be discovered that there are as many intelligences as there are “ways of being”, And the role of abilities (Human Universals) will play a major role, for all these multitudes of intelligences “are” based on “Having the ability” Play develops naturally this ability, one learns this ability simply because play is all about “how to Learn” not what to Learn, (Which we tend to overlook when we are studying Children and play).
Such Intelligences open up new ways of understanding ourselves and they blossom up in our human mind. They are spreading outward and growing like branches in a tree, from this tree I call Play, the Meta Intelligence, behind all these branches, together with these branches and changing these branches as they grow and mature.
Just like the neurons in our brain we are Playing, and neurons when stimulated create new branches and link up in new ways to find the best and most optimal way to create a” New Ability” Our brain is designed to play, we are born with a Meta Intelligence. You could say we are playing automatically. Even when we think we are not - our brain is still playing.
As children we are more conscious of how important play is. It is a human need to learn “How to Learn “ We are born with a Meta Intelligence, our brain which is a super computer a meta computer is designed to “Learn How to Learn” Learning how to Learn, is without a doubt, an Intelligence worth having. Loosing this Meta intelligence, is not good for the brain.
Research into Altzeimers Disease would benefit from the importance of Play to stimulate the neurons to grow again. The more we play the more neurons we create. It is possible to reverse the loss of neurons in the brain as we get older.
From the beginning we use our brain, (or our brain is using us) to learn the ability to survive what is happening and to develop abilities as quickly as possible to help prolong our survival. This raw survival instinct matures into a “mastering” of what is happening. This is an ongoing process throughout life. Learning means mastering. (I have learned to cycle, I now have mastered a bicycle).
Maintaining the optimal level of the brain, in my opinion, is clearly linked to maintaining, and consciously being open to play. To play in such a way as children do - with everything! To play (open to building and breaking down and rebuilding)with ideas, thoughts, feelings, language, images, systems,principles,models, senses, objects, knowledge, sciences, relationships, The happier we will be. As Gregory Chaitin replied to my letter where I asked him to look at the possibility that Mathematics is playing. He replied, the worlds top meta- mathematician , “Yes! I am also playing with Ideas.”
Any society in the future which places Play as a priority will be a prosperous and contented society
This has been predicted by “future researchers “worldwide it is known as the 5th Society
What Odense Council is doing now- “Consciously” and what Denmark for years has been doing (supporting the value of play and children) already proves the point.
Denmark is one of the richest nations in the world, and has been voted by Unesco every year for the past so many years as “the happiest nation on earth”.
The more conscious we become of play as the underlying key to enrich our lives, intellectually and emotionally, the more we will enrich society and the world around us.
Being Logical is ”a way of being” and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)
Being Musical is “a way of being” and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)
Being Natural is “a way of being” and an intelligence. ( they are one and the same)
Being Playful is a way of being and an intelligence. (They are one and the same)
The key to any Intelligence is in having the “ability”. The intelligence called “Logical” is based on a combination of several abilities if not dozens. Which eventually develops, through a playing with various abilities, (combining various abilities) until they fuse together into a seemingly single unit which we call Logical intelligence.
Due to the works of Howard Gardner and others, the classical definition of Intelligence has now broken free from its restraining prison. And The definition of intelligence, has become more flexible more fluid and varied. The 8 or 9 Intelligences so far being defined is only the beginning, I predict it will be discovered that there are as many intelligences as there are “ways of being”, And the role of abilities (Human Universals) will play a major role, for all these multitudes of intelligences “are” based on “Having the ability” Play develops naturally this ability, one learns this ability simply because play is all about “how to Learn” not what to Learn, (Which we tend to overlook when we are studying Children and play).
Such Intelligences open up new ways of understanding ourselves and they blossom up in our human mind. They are spreading outward and growing like branches in a tree, from this tree I call Play, the Meta Intelligence, behind all these branches, together with these branches and changing these branches as they grow and mature.
Just like the neurons in our brain we are Playing, and neurons when stimulated create new branches and link up in new ways to find the best and most optimal way to create a” New Ability” Our brain is designed to play, we are born with a Meta Intelligence. You could say we are playing automatically. Even when we think we are not - our brain is still playing.
As children we are more conscious of how important play is. It is a human need to learn “How to Learn “ We are born with a Meta Intelligence, our brain which is a super computer a meta computer is designed to “Learn How to Learn” Learning how to Learn, is without a doubt, an Intelligence worth having. Loosing this Meta intelligence, is not good for the brain.
Research into Altzeimers Disease would benefit from the importance of Play to stimulate the neurons to grow again. The more we play the more neurons we create. It is possible to reverse the loss of neurons in the brain as we get older.
From the beginning we use our brain, (or our brain is using us) to learn the ability to survive what is happening and to develop abilities as quickly as possible to help prolong our survival. This raw survival instinct matures into a “mastering” of what is happening. This is an ongoing process throughout life. Learning means mastering. (I have learned to cycle, I now have mastered a bicycle).
Maintaining the optimal level of the brain, in my opinion, is clearly linked to maintaining, and consciously being open to play. To play in such a way as children do - with everything! To play (open to building and breaking down and rebuilding)with ideas, thoughts, feelings, language, images, systems,principles,models, senses, objects, knowledge, sciences, relationships, The happier we will be. As Gregory Chaitin replied to my letter where I asked him to look at the possibility that Mathematics is playing. He replied, the worlds top meta- mathematician , “Yes! I am also playing with Ideas.”
Any society in the future which places Play as a priority will be a prosperous and contented society
This has been predicted by “future researchers “worldwide it is known as the 5th Society
What Odense Council is doing now- “Consciously” and what Denmark for years has been doing (supporting the value of play and children) already proves the point.
Denmark is one of the richest nations in the world, and has been voted by Unesco every year for the past so many years as “the happiest nation on earth”.
The more conscious we become of play as the underlying key to enrich our lives, intellectually and emotionally, the more we will enrich society and the world around us.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Play is a Meta Intelligence
Who would ever believe, that play would sneak up on us and bite us on our tail?
Who would ever believe, that play is the essence of all things regarding thought reason and knowledge?
Who would ever believe that all philosophies exploring the worlds of reason, logic and truth are forms of play
Who would ever believe, that the very thing we are striving to find, reach and achieve,
we already have within us, and are using this, to find, reach
and achieve
James
Who would ever believe, that play is the essence of all things regarding thought reason and knowledge?
Who would ever believe that all philosophies exploring the worlds of reason, logic and truth are forms of play
Who would ever believe, that the very thing we are striving to find, reach and achieve,
we already have within us, and are using this, to find, reach
and achieve
James
Friday, March 21, 2008
Play is a Meta Intelligence
The Meta Code is a binary Code
I include the final piece of the puzzle regarding the Meta Model, which strangely enough in this illustration is also the first! The Meta Code is a Binary Code. 0101010101010101010101010101010 infinite
Mathematics is a process not a product
The original lego brick has the binary code 01
The Underside of the brick is (0)
The top side of the brick is (1)
The 3 models appear to be complete, but in fact they are still open ended and this open endedness contains more (0) than (1) though at first glance it appears that there is (1).
The top of the brick has more (0) than (1). There is more space than there is object, though it appears that there is more object than space. The lego brick is designed to create more space than object. And this is what all Meta models do.
One could say (in a very simplified form which children with lego bricks would understand);
From the view point of Meta; These 3 models at their edges contain more (0) than (1)
From the view point of Meta; These models more- do not exist , than they exist.
The models are built more out of nothing than they are something
The universe does not exist, or the universe has created everything out of nothing.
Everything is created inside (0) nothing.
The More you create and expand in the universe the more (0) there will be.
Lego Is a Meta Model - just like our brain - a processor which demonstrates the principle of infinite possibilities while at the same time creating the abilities (tools, models) to realize it. To Live it out.
Have a Happy Easter (creating new tools and models)
James Findlay
I include the final piece of the puzzle regarding the Meta Model, which strangely enough in this illustration is also the first! The Meta Code is a Binary Code. 0101010101010101010101010101010 infinite
Mathematics is a process not a product
The original lego brick has the binary code 01
The Underside of the brick is (0)
The top side of the brick is (1)
The 3 models appear to be complete, but in fact they are still open ended and this open endedness contains more (0) than (1) though at first glance it appears that there is (1).
The top of the brick has more (0) than (1). There is more space than there is object, though it appears that there is more object than space. The lego brick is designed to create more space than object. And this is what all Meta models do.
One could say (in a very simplified form which children with lego bricks would understand);
From the view point of Meta; These 3 models at their edges contain more (0) than (1)
From the view point of Meta; These models more- do not exist , than they exist.
The models are built more out of nothing than they are something
The universe does not exist, or the universe has created everything out of nothing.
Everything is created inside (0) nothing.
The More you create and expand in the universe the more (0) there will be.
Lego Is a Meta Model - just like our brain - a processor which demonstrates the principle of infinite possibilities while at the same time creating the abilities (tools, models) to realize it. To Live it out.
Have a Happy Easter (creating new tools and models)
James Findlay
Play is a Meta Intelligence
Defining intelligence is highly problematic. Is there an 'intelligence' that equips us to solve all kinds of problems and answer all questions, regardless of their nature? Or are there different intelligences that help us deal with particular problems and solutions? The scientific community is divided on the issueOne of the main tenet's underpinning the idea of a single entity 'intelligence' is the concept of 'General Intelligence', or 'g'. Devised by English Psychologist, Charles Spearman, in the early 20th Century 'g' was a statistical measure of performance across a variety of tests.
Spearman found that the same people who did well in a variety of mental tests tended to use a part in their brains that he termed 'g'. This 'g' laid the foundation for the notion of a single intelligence, which enables us to undertake everyday mental tasks.
A recent study seems to endorse Spearman's theory. Research has found that a part of the brain called the 'lateral prefrontal cortex' is the only area of the brain to increase in blood flow when volunteers tackle complicated puzzles.
Spearman's concept, however, is still highly controversial with many people questioning both the statistical process and the simplistic nature of 'g'. There is also a body of research that states that our mental ability is a function of social factors such as education and not one's inherent biological make-up.
Spearman found that the same people who did well in a variety of mental tests tended to use a part in their brains that he termed 'g'. This 'g' laid the foundation for the notion of a single intelligence, which enables us to undertake everyday mental tasks.
A recent study seems to endorse Spearman's theory. Research has found that a part of the brain called the 'lateral prefrontal cortex' is the only area of the brain to increase in blood flow when volunteers tackle complicated puzzles.
Spearman's concept, however, is still highly controversial with many people questioning both the statistical process and the simplistic nature of 'g'. There is also a body of research that states that our mental ability is a function of social factors such as education and not one's inherent biological make-up.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Play is a Meta Intelligence
Is there the possibility that deep down in the innermost crevices of the human mind, there is a vestibule, the recipient and harbinger of a secret?
“All that which is human; intelligence, learning, moving, growing and living, lies in the very essence, in the seed of human endeavour – the urge to play…and play, is the source of all that is human.
play is more than an intelligence.
Play is a meta intelligence
Play is, the Meta Intelligence
and the mother of them all"
James Findlay
“All that which is human; intelligence, learning, moving, growing and living, lies in the very essence, in the seed of human endeavour – the urge to play…and play, is the source of all that is human.
play is more than an intelligence.
Play is a meta intelligence
Play is, the Meta Intelligence
and the mother of them all"
James Findlay
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