With yesterday’s writings, I now have all the items and concepts in the ‘keep’, like a shepherd his or her sheep. I now want to create a document that combines these concepts from the last two weeks or so in a proper document. It will form the basis for a proper composition or essay on the topic of the constructed belief framework.
As a final note under this rubric and in this format I want to add a note on the writings of 04-25, 29, 30 and 05-01. The principles of Theology are formal to that field and are the oldest in my collection.
Next in ‘age’ comes the ‘Structuring Function’ that I formulated for myself in ca 1988, after I had concluded my reading of Campbell’s Mythology oeuvre. Most recent is the list of ten principles, which I tentatively called ‘Framework for human experience’. These separate observations - principles - occurred over a long span of time in my own life.
For example principle one (1), about becoming conscious I noted in my left hand art work back in 1991, while number eight (8) about the continuity of consciousness dates to ca 2012, with number ten (10) being the most recent concept or insight to surface and persist.
Until just now, I had never even realised that this list of ‘gatherings’ had such a long pedigree:-)!
That makes for a span of twenty four (24) years of reading, thinking, examining, testing and experience. Until just now, I had never even realised that this list of ‘gatherings’ had such a long pedigree:-)!
A word on the categories of Theology. I like to use the following five: Cosmogony, Anthropogeny, Soteriology, Law and Community and Eschatology.
I regard Theodicy, the reconciliation of god with evil, and Theogeny, the origins of the gods, as specialised topics that be classified in Soteriology and Cosmogony respectively. That reduces the theological categories down to five (5), making it more handsome.
In summary then we have the following:
1. Theology with five categories.
2. The Structuring Function with three principles.
3. The Framework for the Human Experience with ten (10) principles.
That makes eighteen (18) parameters using a mathematical term.
It is the limit for an organisable system, bordering on the random sate, according to ‘Systems Theory’, a book I read in around 1980. I had borrowed it from Rod Blais, a prof in Geodesy at UoC at the time.
As I write this now, I recall my writings from last year spring and summer, in which I explored the idea of Concept Space, with independent - orthogonal - base vectors. In paring down the above eighteen (18) concepts, I will keep in mind these ideas about independence of those eighteen parameters that may define the concept space of the Human experience framework.
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