Relational
Paradigm
The relational paradigm
is a process and a form. It enables an individual or group to know, understand,
simulate and act on the reality in which they exist.
POTENTIAL
The relational
identifies individual entities and groups of entities within a structured
space and time. It is “balanced” in space and time and it
imposes no preconditions on how independent entities will be connected.
PROCESS/FORM
In the relational
paradigm process and form are distinguished but not separated. The process
is contained within the form and the form within the process.
The relational acknowledges the existence and recognizes the balance and
relationship between both parts of the twofold operators: form/process,
hierarchy/network, analog/digital, measure/count, known/random, and space/time.
USER VIEW/WORLD VIEW
The relational
provides a way to map the tangled connections or many-to-many relationships
in our environment. It recognizes the connections or world views which
already exist and allows multiple world views to exist simultaneously.
The user view is a “relationship” of entities in space and
time—a combination of the hierarchy and network.
CHANGE
The relational
facilitates rapid construction of alternative world views. It provides
a process and a form to communicate, plan, control and execute changes
to existing world views. It is re-creational.
AXIOMS OF RELATIONAL PARADIGM
(A Seven-Fold/Eight-Fold Path)
0. AND THEY CAME IN PAIRS
The Void and The One are two.
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VOID/ONE |
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MANY |
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1. FORM/PROCESS
Without form there is no process.
Without process there is no form.
You can distinguish but not separate the two.
2. HIERARCHY / NETWORK
A complete map requires both a hierarchy and
a network.
3. EXPERIENCE / PERCEPTION
You measure and count both space and time to obtain
a complete perception.
4. KNOWN / RANDOM
I and thou.
5. ANALOG / DIGITAL
There is always a sequence and a jump.
6. BALANCE / RELATIONSHIP
You jump from balance and experience a relationship.
7. COMPLETION / EMERGENT
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
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