| Topic: | I Yam uh Expert Modeler |
| Posted by: | Caefu |
| Date/Time: | 01/11/2002 13:57:33 |
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You're right. I was just being over-dramatic, playing on apprehensions noted by John Grinder about NLP dissolving unless new modeling was emphasized. My point, and forgive me for in/misdirection, is that the best, or at least the most significant modeling was done *before* there was a methodolgy for modeling, actually before there was NLP. And not that I believe that one must "reinvent the wheel" in order to do new modeling, but maybe something else besides a wheel is needed. The NLP conventions: Meta Model, Representation Systems, Meta Programs, Triple Descriptions, Submods, etc., are useful and mind-empowering tools (themselves models produced by modeling), and are also filters, and filters may, in some cases act as blinders. Hate to drift into zen-like cliche, but "expertise in modeling" may be an oxymoron. I appreciate that this issue is what John Grinder has been trying to grapple with all the while he has been developing New Code, but -- and this comes from a fairly naive perspective, granted, since I've only been around NLP for a couple years -- I don't think most people get it. It's almost as if "the map is not the territory" unless it's the NLP map. best, C |