Meta-Programs

• Perceptual patterning that remain constant or relatively stable over a range of contexts, contents, and/or processes
• The distinctions in experience that make the experience we distinguish
• Colloquially - the filters through which we perceive the world; perceptual filters
• Well formedness conditions for meta-programs
  • Each is formed of the simplest possible experiential distinctions: Perceptual Primes
  • Each is a different set of distinctions that are independent of all other distinctions
  • Each has a neuro-linguistic form
    • Internal representational form
    • physiology
    • language and/or grammatical evidence
• Meta-Programs Elicitation
  • Number of utterances/words
  • Intensity of expression of the utterance
  • Ranking as a sequence of utterances

Visualizing Meta-Programs

Meta-Programs & Strategies

Meta-Programs

Content

• People, things, activities, information, place

Direction

• Away from, toward

Authority

• External, internal

Perceptual Position

• Self, other, observer

Decision Factors

• Same, comparison, difference

Level

• Sequential, random

Reason

• Procedures, options

Choice

• Necessity, possibility

Scope

• General, specific

Chunk Size

• Abstractions, details

Flow

• Deduction, induction, abduction

Strategies

Decision

• Function: Selection
• Attention: Choice
• Info Type: Digital
• Content
  • People, things, activities, information, place, time
• Perceptual Position
  • Self, other, observer
• Attention Direction
  • Self, other, observer
• Time Frame
  • Past, present, future
• Scope
  • General, natural, specific

Motivation

• Function: Engage/Act
• Attention: Energy
• Info Type: Analog
• Neuro-Logical Level
  • Values/beliefs/criteria
• Direction
  • Toward goals, away from problems
• Level
  • Practive: active
  • Reactive: considers & waits, passive
• Decision Factors
  • Similarity, comparison, difference, polarity responder - "fixed" difference
• Reason
  • Precedures, options

Conviction

• Function: Verify
• Attention: Congruence
• Info Type: Reflexive
• Authority
  • Self, other, data
• Criterial Evidence
  • A see, hear, and feel description of what wil fulfill the criteria
• Representational Systems
  • Visual, auditory, kinesthetic
• Evidence Patterning
  • Frequency, duration, automatic, never

Memory

• Function: Reference
• Attention: Experience
• Info Type: Access

Creativity

• Function: Generative
• Attention: Alternatives
• Info Type: Meta/All

Learning

• Function: Incorporate
• Attention: Responsiveness
• Info Type: Re-contextualize

Reality

• Function: External/Internal
• Attention: "Real"
• Info Type: Distinctive