Human Being Theory. For Dummies. Jacob Feldman

      There was a table set out under a tree in front at the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carrol

      Person-to-Person game has three different cases.

      1) Levels are equal.

      2) Levels are neighbors

      3) Levels are far away

      When levels are equal, the result is draw and relationship is competition.

      When levels are neighbors, the result is win-win. Prize for higher level is higher. Relationship is cooperation; the higher level is a chief.

      When levels are far away, the higher level loses to death. The lower level celebrates victory. Relationship is war.

      Fig.34. Person to person

      Group to Group game

      First came ten soldiers carrying clubs: these were all shaped like the three gardeners,

      oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners; next ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carrol

      At the beginning of the game first side has a set of card of one red suit, second side has a set of card of one black suit. Sides make move in turn.

      Move means I show you one of my card. But card shown is still in the hand and can be shown again if needed. Choosing next move player has in mind two reasons.

      First, every card wants to be shown.

      Second, pair his-last-move + my-current-move must be good for me (as good as possible) according to rules of game person-to-person (taking in account the first reason).

      Look at the two examples:

      Fig.35. Group to group, case 1

      Fig.36. Group to group, case 2

      Interpretation begins

      It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds ad animals that had fallen into it.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carrol

      Now we will build mapping the levels into real life. Every level means a state of mind. Columns of the table are (left to right): philosophical categories, age of a child, historical epoch. Philosophical categories go in pairs, one internal, one external.

      ONE: I identify freedom with age 12—15, epoch of Renaissance and category chance. I identify Middle Ages with role system, age 9—12 and category method.

      TWO: I separate first group from the second.

      Fig.37. Table for levels

      Levels of Attention

      …there was a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the way and the whole party swam to the shore.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carrol

      I always was amazed by difference between art of Middle Ages and art of Renaissance. Look at these examples.

      Fig.38. Cologne Cathedral

      Fig.39. Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus

      What do we know about these two pieces of art?

      1) We know that they are famous masterpieces (chef-d’oeuvres).

      2) They belong to specific epoch. Nobody could attribute them to wrong epoch. It means that they grasp some essential feature of their epoch. What feature?

      I think that this mysterious essential feature is a special kind of movement. The Cathedral pulls you into Heavens. Botticelli’s Venus whirls you in spirals and circles.

      Is the second movement in any sense more clever that the first one? YES! In clear mathematical sense, the second movement is 2-dimensional while the first movement is almost 1-dimensional.

      The great artist (architect) chooses from all kinds of movement one the most important for the epoch. Millions of his contemporaries confirm he is right. The artist holds this movement in his attention with pleasure. They hold it with pleasure too.

      What we can hold in attention?

      1) One object (point)

      2) Many objects

      3) One process (line)

      4) Many processes

      5) One map (plane)

      6) Many maps

      7) One system (space)

      8) Many systems

      Level of attention could be a demand of specific task. Or it could be readiness of a person to keep one’s attention on this level. See the case PERSON TO TASK above.