| Topic: | Re:Re:First Access |
| Posted by: | John Grinder |
| Date/Time: | 10/05/2003 17:52:30 |
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Hello Chee Tan You certainly have lots of questions. 1.You wrote: "a. What level you believe that the f transform acts on?" The f1 transforms have as their domain all the neurological and biochemical events between stimulation at the receptors and the arrival of information at the very first point in our neurology where we have access to it (FA). The f2 transforms are partitions on FA induced by various higher level transforms, chief among them, language. The pure visual recognition of the three letters "NLP" is a f1 mapping that first becomes available at FA. What you refer to as the level of the concept of NLP (or for that matter, the recognition of the letter forms as members of the set of letters from which English words are constituted) requires an f2 mapping. 2. You wrote, "How can first access processes be usefully elicited? How will anyone be able to define a fitness function for first access?" These are excellent questions - there are responses to these issues in Whispering - I am reluctant to attempt to reproduce the material in the book. May I request you read that material and then present any residual questions? 3. You wrote, "How precisely can first access be quickly and usefully trained or retrained? It would seem that decomposition would be relatively easy however the acquisition of new distinctions rather more challenging. Could new first access functions be 'installed'?" First Access(FA) is simply another phrase for what we call experience. So, your question translates to, How can we increase the acuity with which we perceive experience? The obvious answers are calibration drills, use of special community resources (people who have developed more refinements in some channels as the result of the loss of another), the ability to select state, the competency to suspend expectations, beliefs and other feedforward filters. 4. You wrote, "Much of this does not seem to be taught explicitly in NLP at the moment." We teach it as an essential portion of whatever else we are presenting - calibration competency is the most fundamental skills of NLP, one that is never fully developed (there are always more distinctions to make) and without it, wanna be practitioners are quite dangerous creatures. All the best, John |