Topic: | Re:Re:Neuro-logical levels |
Posted by: | Pete West |
Date/Time: | 19/12/2003 12:22:20 |
Hello GSM, JG/CBSC on p.303 of WITW have posed the question, "By what ordering principle is this hierarchy (Dilts' Neuro-Logical Levels) generated?". Setting aside the issue of de-nominalizing Dilts' partitions for the time being, I would like to propose that rather than a hierarchy, Dilts' model could be more usefully viewed as being a heterarchical or (following Stephen) a holarchical (you know...holons) arrangement and that, following McCulloch, hierarchies do not exist in nature. One example of a heterarchy is a neural net, where there is no 'highest' node. Power/control is distributed. I would like to submit that IMO only the set f2 is subject to hierarchies; whereas the set f1 is subject to hetararchy or holarchy. I find doughnuts to be much more tasty than trees, but then again, that's just me (which me?). As always, I value your reponse. -Pete |