I am a Chilean professional engineer and have made a living working in different roles in multiple engineering and industrial projects that have taken me and my family to many places around the world.
As an amateur thinker, philosopher and model maker I have struggled for 25+ years on a multi dimensional model of humanity that lead me to this Model Thinking I intend to present interacting with you in this blog.
I have not writen and do not intend to write books on the subject, but instead, I have chosen to make and show presentations, write short tales and comment and complement on other people’s thinking and writing in order to polish the thinking tool I have been developing over the years.
I believe that technology is relentlessly taking us away from writing and reading, and back to the spoken word that started All.
January 14, 2016
Presentation of Model Thinking
- When did the first human beings started living, roaming and acting on earth?
- When did the first human, by grumbling and acting, showed to another fellow human being, how much and where to act and thus became the first trainer?
- When did the first human stopped acting instinctively and started thinking on how to improve acting?
- When did the first human decided that acting and thinking for strict survival did not take all day and started thinking in order to understand reality?
- When did the first human, by speaking and acting, explained to another felow human being, how and when to think and thus became the first instructor?
- When did the first human decided that understanding all reality was too monumental a task, and chose to surrender to reality instead and started praying in order to contemplate and feel one with her?
- When did the first human, by reciting and acting, transmitted to another fellow human being, what and who to pray to and thus became the first master?
- When did the first human decided that contemplating reality was just the path, and chose to welcome reality instead and started meditating in order to admire and be one on her?
- When did the first human, by whispering and acting, demonstrated to another fellow human being, why and for what to meditate and thus became the first guide?
- When did we started taking notes and distributing disaggregated phragments of the wise spoken words of our guides, the inspired spoken words of our masters, the spoken words full of knowledge of our instructors and the powerful spoken words of our trainers?
- When did the real, fake and self appointed trainers, instructors, masters and guides, started making a living out of writing for the general public, thus despising the spoken word as the only efficient communication tool with their own tribes?
- When did All Us started reading those writen words trying to distill and interpret their sense, and gave up looking for real live trainers, instructors, masters and guides to learn from them directly?
- Why after so many centuries of speaking, listening, writing and reading? All Us still:
- Do not seem to be able to agree on building a Human World for All Us?
- Despise meditation?
- Abhor praying?
- Most of the time do after-the-act-thinking?
- Act looking for our own good?
This Model Thinking Manifesto pretends to ChangeThis undesired reality, by sharing a vision and outlining and proposing a new and more human way to act, think, pray and meditate upon her, so All Us can start enjoying and rejoicing while travelling on this wonderful blue planet that was Given to All Us, the People of Earth....
Who are All Us?
No matter what do we feel, do or possess while we live and totally depend on Earth, this wonderful blue planet we travel on around the sun, she or any part of her will never actually belong to you, me, him, her, us, or them.
She will always belong to this uthopic “All Us”, the Global Being we are relentlessly becoming aware of. In fact I believe that somehow All Us belong to her until we wake up from our sleep and can thus fly on our own. However, our bodies and our crawling, floating and flying body carrying vehicles, seem to be trapped and fatally atracted to her as science and technology already know.
By now:
We might even believe to know:
But, Who is, or better, Who are All Us?
That is a very good and important question that deserves to be formulated properly and then asked.
Trying to answer it, we will first ask ourselves 4 more similar questions:
Since it appears to be easy, we will first propose negative answers to each one of them:
Thus we can provide a temporary negative answer to our original question and say that:
What about looking for a positive answer?
Let’s assume that:
I know who I am.
and
You know who you are
Then we are: You and I and some others
And
All Us are: You and I and All Others. (Definition 1)
And if any one or both of us do not believe to belong into All Us:
All Us are: You and All Others (including me). (Definition 2)
Or
All Us are: All Others (including you) and I. (Definition 3)
Or
All Us are: All Others (including you and I). (Definition 4)
So, when it comes to All Us there is no way out!!!!
But,
Do we really know who we are?
And, assuming that we know,
Is it sufficient to know who we are?
Or, we also need to know:
Why are we?
For what are we?
It is obvious that we are who and why we are, even if we do not know or like who and why we are, so, in order to look for some sense and purpose for our being , let us concentrate on for what we are....
She will always belong to this uthopic “All Us”, the Global Being we are relentlessly becoming aware of. In fact I believe that somehow All Us belong to her until we wake up from our sleep and can thus fly on our own. However, our bodies and our crawling, floating and flying body carrying vehicles, seem to be trapped and fatally atracted to her as science and technology already know.
By now:
- You might believe to know who you are.
- I might believe to know who I am.
- We might believe to know who we are.
We might even believe to know:
- Who he is.
- Who she is.
- Who they are.
But, Who is, or better, Who are All Us?
That is a very good and important question that deserves to be formulated properly and then asked.
Trying to answer it, we will first ask ourselves 4 more similar questions:
- Who are you?
- Who am I?
- Who are we?
- Who are the others?
Since it appears to be easy, we will first propose negative answers to each one of them:
- You are not what you possess, do or feel, you are somebody else.
- I am not what I possess, do or feel, I am somebody else.
- We are not what we possess, do or feel, we are somebody else.
- The others are not what they possess, do or feel, they are somebody else.
Thus we can provide a temporary negative answer to our original question and say that:
- All Us are not what you, I, us and the others posses, do or feel, All Us are also somebody else.
What about looking for a positive answer?
Let’s assume that:
I know who I am.
and
You know who you are
Then we are: You and I and some others
And
All Us are: You and I and All Others. (Definition 1)
And if any one or both of us do not believe to belong into All Us:
All Us are: You and All Others (including me). (Definition 2)
Or
All Us are: All Others (including you) and I. (Definition 3)
Or
All Us are: All Others (including you and I). (Definition 4)
So, when it comes to All Us there is no way out!!!!
But,
Do we really know who we are?
And, assuming that we know,
Is it sufficient to know who we are?
Or, we also need to know:
Why are we?
For what are we?
It is obvious that we are who and why we are, even if we do not know or like who and why we are, so, in order to look for some sense and purpose for our being , let us concentrate on for what we are....
Thesis
I believe that in spite of our ever increasing diversity of real, unreal or virtual identities (who) and reasons (why), All Us Human Beings have a generic purpose (for what), and that our economic (how much), geographic (where), politic (how) and historic (when) differences are irrelevant.
In order to be generic, that purpose could not be other that to welcome and love our neighbor....
The thesis of this Manifesto is precisely that creative and speculative thinking have always blurred our vision and made All Us blind to that simple fact.
Since All Us are not what you, I, us and the others posses, do or feel, All Us are not just for possessing, doing or feeling, but simply for being and rejoicing ourselves while enjoying this wonderful Earth that was given to All Us.
And we are back to where we started: if we accept that we are for being, we need to understand what is that state of being that lays beyond the states of possessing, doing and feeling.
And here is where an integral and coherent model of humanity and Model Thinking can become handy....
In order to be generic, that purpose could not be other that to welcome and love our neighbor....
The thesis of this Manifesto is precisely that creative and speculative thinking have always blurred our vision and made All Us blind to that simple fact.
Since All Us are not what you, I, us and the others posses, do or feel, All Us are not just for possessing, doing or feeling, but simply for being and rejoicing ourselves while enjoying this wonderful Earth that was given to All Us.
And we are back to where we started: if we accept that we are for being, we need to understand what is that state of being that lays beyond the states of possessing, doing and feeling.
And here is where an integral and coherent model of humanity and Model Thinking can become handy....
What is this Model Thinking?
Can be understood as designing, customizing, adapting or simply choosing an integral and coherent model of our humanity and then “let it think on its own, following its own internal rules”.
The resulting thinking tool will release our minds from impossible, presuntuous, and therefore useless and distracting, attempts to understand all (as opposed to the somewhat more realistic understanding everything) and creative and speculative thinking.
This in turn will allow our limited minds some more useful time for productive and extractive thinking, for understanding and explaining reality, and for planing, coordinating and supervising our acts.
The proposed thinking tool, by resorting to “humble-showing-and-half-thinking-understanding-and-explaining” higher dimensions of reality, will allow our hearts more time for creative contemplating and praying and our spirits more time for speculative admiring and meditating.
The resulting thinking tool will release our minds from impossible, presuntuous, and therefore useless and distracting, attempts to understand all (as opposed to the somewhat more realistic understanding everything) and creative and speculative thinking.
This in turn will allow our limited minds some more useful time for productive and extractive thinking, for understanding and explaining reality, and for planing, coordinating and supervising our acts.
The proposed thinking tool, by resorting to “humble-showing-and-half-thinking-understanding-and-explaining” higher dimensions of reality, will allow our hearts more time for creative contemplating and praying and our spirits more time for speculative admiring and meditating.
Are you ready to accept that we have four complementary dimensions?
One day we are down to earth pragmatic and believe there is all about perceiving reality or we care about what we and others possess.
Other day we believe there is some room for understanding reality or we care about what we and others do.
Another day we believe there is some room for contemplating reality or we care about what we and others feel.
Then one good day we believe there is some room for admiring reality or we care about who we and others are.
I believe that those four different “states of being” (I posses, I do, I feel and I am) correspond to our four basic dimensions and since we can not separate them, we can say they are complemantary.
So here we have the basic model we were looking for....
Other day we believe there is some room for understanding reality or we care about what we and others do.
Another day we believe there is some room for contemplating reality or we care about what we and others feel.
Then one good day we believe there is some room for admiring reality or we care about who we and others are.
I believe that those four different “states of being” (I posses, I do, I feel and I am) correspond to our four basic dimensions and since we can not separate them, we can say they are complemantary.
So here we have the basic model we were looking for....
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