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The e5 is poorly named, so I am
looking for a better name, if you have one let me know.
First off, the e5 is 6c's, maybe I
should call it that?
Content
Context
Conditions
Code
Culture
Core
These represent the following in
what I would refer to as a Meaning Making Architecture,
Methodology, or perhaps even Sense Making per se.
Content is the
actual objective representation of whatever it is, words,
behavior, whatever the object is that you are referring to
point at was present, or observed, or the anchor to what it is
you are making meaning about.
Context is the
location, you might say, of the object or content. Without
all contexts coming with content, and all content coming with
context, it's very difficult to make meaning.
You could say "chair" and that is
content, but the context is being invented, or hallucinated,
whatever the case might be, with just "chair". For context,
you might see a person point and say "chair" and then you have
observed content and context. You still don't have enough to
make much verifiable data, which is the key to using the
LADDER OF INFERENCE in meaning making observations.
Conditions are
those "requirements" that exist as the direction of the goal.
For instance, I could say “Move that chair over there.”
perhaps adding non-verbal’s, such as pointing or gesturing,
both of which are a part of content and context.
In Japan, I might bow, or in India,
I might clasp my hands together like praying or as in greeting
"Namaste" which might be like asking please, or saying it with
respect. I think you get my meaning here--the conditions are
--> to teach you about the e5, as an example.
Conditions are critical because
they dictate many things, including all the requirements for
satisfying, or exceeding expectations. Requirements as
conditions, you might say, are intentional expectations,
because they are not always met.
Code represents
the algorithm, or even heuristics (in management), or "ways of
doing things" that replicate. For instance, in our
house, we always had noodle soup and butterballs for holiday
meals. That was the code that we learned. Sometimes, I
see my children ask for it when we are together for a holiday,
because the holiday eating algorithm is "noodle soup and
butterballs" like grandma used to make, right?
Life is full of code, full of
algorithms that have already been used to solve problems that
are often related to conditions, or the "conditional"
environment. In some ways, they become the "sticky
resultants" or the "way" things are done around here.
Culture is
actually a collection of code...a system of problem solving
that is passed on from parent to child, from peer to peer,
from artifacts to people, as they read the signs of those who
previously solved problems. Culture is actually the
written and unwritten
scaffolding for behavior.
Core is
referring to the "epigenetic" nature of the genetic/mimetic
environment. For instance, we know that DNA can be switched
on and off and can be influenced by words, sounds, and
language. The core is in flux, albeit less much so than
all of the rest of the "5". In the graph attached, you
can see the shifting slope of change in the e5 depicted in
relationship to complexity.
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Action Step:
Read this quote from Wil Durant and
see if you can see the richness of meaning making and watch
the e5 dance: "Hence a certain tension between
religion and society marks the higher stages of every
civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to
harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a
people that unity of morals and belief which seems so
favorable to statesmanship and art; it ends by fighting
suicidally in the lost cause of the past.
For as knowledge grows or alters
continually, it clashes with mythology and theology, which
change with geological leisureliness. Priestly control
of arts and letters is then felt as a galling shackle or
hateful barrier, and intellectual history takes on the
character of a "conflict between science and religion”.
Institutions which were at first in
the hands of the clergy, like law and punishment, education
and morals, marriage and divorce, tend to escape from
ecclesiastical control, and become secular, perhaps profane.
The intellectual classes abandon
the ancient theology and—after some hesitation—the moral code
allied with it; literature and philosophy become anticlerical.
The movement of liberation rises to
an exuberant worship of reason, and falls to a paralyzing
disillusionment with every dogma and every idea.
Conduct, deprived of its religious supports, deteriorates into
epicurean chaos; and life itself, shorn of consoling faith,
becomes a burden alike to conscious poverty and to weary
wealth.
In the end, a society and its
religion tend to fall together, like body and soul, in a
harmonious death. Meanwhile among the oppressed another
myth arises, gives new form to human hope, new courage to
human effort, and after centuries of chaos builds another
civilization."[9]
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