Hi John and Carmen, Thanks so much for taking the time to help a newcomer understand better! I'm starting to "get it" but was wondering if you could recommend any other sources (books or websites) that have explanations of the different positions that are congruent with your explanations? Not that yours aren't excellent, just that I'm one of those annoying people who likes to have the same thing repeated in different ways to help comprehension!  :-) You said - "Your description of 2nd position strikes us as entirely too left brained" - point taken, but hopefully I can justify that in a constructive manner... As a computer-programmer I do a lot of work with the National Health Service in the UK. Recently I've been investigating systems to record and disseminate Clinical Guidelines (a way of capturing "best practice" procedures for treating different conditions), and workflow systems (where objects move between different states via triggers and transitions). On page 53 of WITW you said that you would like to create a "standard format whereby modelers can report their findings (patterning) in a manner that allows easy evaluation of their work" - and it struck me that there may be many similarities with the formats being developed to describe Clinical Guidelines and workflow. So, as I've been reading WITW, part of me has been wondering "How could one represent these ideas as state-diagrams, guidelines, flowcharts, or similar". For example, you might say "There are these states called 'Positions', of which there are 3 types. Positions have the following attributes/variables - Scope, Resources, Focus?, .... The states are differentiated by the values of the variables, and transitions between the states are triggered by changing those variables. Here are the required/optional variables for each state, and some recommended techniques for making/triggering the transitions......" It might also be useful to describe the filters that you apply to FA (or to your internal thoughts/memories/representations) in different states, as inputs to be processed in certain ways? If that sounds useful, I'd be happy to help in any way I can, or just to point out some useful websites, if you prefer? Cheers, Jon