![]() Korzybski stated that the “Theory of Multi-Ordinality” (i.e., General Semantics) addresses map/territory confusion. ![]() Yet if you are using linear thinking to understand this, you will not and cannot understand this. Can you go meta (step back to a higher perspective) to the process of meta (stepping back)? Yes, of course and you can do that level upon level. The term meta has multiple meanings precisely because it is a multi-ordinal term. The disregard of these complexities is tragically disastrous in daily life and science.” (p. This self-reflexiveness of languages introduces serious complexities, which can only be solved by the theory of multi-ordinality. A word is not the object it represents and languages exhibit also this peculiar self-reflexiveness, that we can analyse languages by linguistic means. … If we reflect upon our languages, we find that at best they must be considered only as maps. “A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. For this reason I added multi-ordinality to the extended Meta- Model (Communication Magic, 2001). They fail to distinguish the levels of abstraction (logical levels). Korzybski argued that his Theory of Multi-Ordinality and Reflexivity solved the problems created when we confuse map and territory. “‘Mankind, science, mathematics, man, education, ethics, politics, religion, sanity, insanity, iron, wood, apple, object, etc.’ We use them not as one-valued terms for constants of some sort, but as terms with inherently infinite-valued or variable referents.” (pp. Linguists say that such terms are polysemous, that is, “marked by multiplicity of meanings.” Korzybski writes (Science and Sanity, 1933/ 1994): This means that at all of its levels (“multi-”) the term is reflexive-it can be used on itself. He termed these infinite-valued terms multi-ordinal. That will then allow me to specify how linearly thinking is the problem in preventing a person from seeing the richness of the term meta.Īlfred Korzybski describe terms that have an overgeneralized meaning and whose meaning changes according to its level. To explain this, I will first describe multi-ordinality and then the “magic” of meta within a system and as a systems dynamic. In reflecting on this, I suspect that a possible reason is that some people simply do not see the wonder and the “magic” of meta is that they do not recognize that the term meta is both a multi-ordinal term and a systems term that requires the acceptance of numerous system principles. ![]() I feel that he did not really seek to understand the multiple meanings that are entailed in the term meta. In my view, I fully answered his questions. Steve claims that I did not answer his questions. And while I pretty much anticipated that, I really do not understand why we could not get on the same page. You will probably noticed that in the discussion, we both seemed to talk past each other and as a result we did not come to a meeting of minds. You can read that discussion on either the Neuro-Semantic website or Andreas’ website. You could live in the metaverse with digital products, experiences and currencies.During the past year I engaged in an extended discussion with Steve Andreas about the term meta. To experience the metaverse, people may need to wear virtual reality headsets to experience a virtual world. The metaverse is a concept that blends augmented reality and virtual reality together, providing people with the future of the internet. Meta is a direct reference to the metaverse, something that experts say will be the next phase of the internet.
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