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17. Feelings, Thinking and the Self Image

 

17.1 - The Dominant Rule of a Self Geometric Outline (SGO) is “All My Beliefs Are Right”. (Definition)

17.2 - The Self Geometric Outline (SGO) is the sum of interactions between a Dominant Rule “All My Beliefs Are Right” and all the Recessive Rules composing the SGO. (Definition)

17.3 - The Self Geometric Outline (SGO) defines an Identity. (Definition)

17.4 - A Rule is a Point of View. (Definition)

a) Dominant Rules = Dominant Points of View
b) Recessive Rules = Recessive Points of View

17.5 - Power is the capacity for and measure of energy transfer.

17.6 - Feelings = relative states of power (Definition)

17.7 - Feelings = Thinking (Definition)

17.8 - Ideal love is the equal influence of perceivable energy, in both measure and kind, between and among objects. (Definition)

17.9 - War is an unequal influence of perceivable energy, in both measure and kind, between or among objects. (Definition)

 

Feelings are generally defined and understood in terms of emotions – happy, sad, and mixtures between and extremes outside those two contexts. The American Heritage dictionary describes feelings as “An affective state of consciousness, such as that resulting from emotions, sentiments, or desires.”

Dimensional Thinking defines feelings in terms of power. “Happy” feelings make us feel more powerful than “Sad” feelings. The mechanical process that determines feelings is straightforward - essentially, feelings are the balance of power between the Self Geometric Outline and one or more other Geometric Outlines in a relationship with the SGO. Relationships affecting feelings include Recessive Rules within an SGO, as well as relationships with the Rules of other GOs.

One Base Geometric Outline required for the generation of feelings is the Self Geometric Outline (SGO) – the collection of contexts that we use to filter all incoming sensory contexts. It is what we are referring to when we say “I”. An SGO has one Dominant Rule – also known as the Point Of View – and many Recessive Rules (identical to Recessive Points of View). The Dominant Rule of an SGO is “All my beliefs are right.” When we watch a movie and see a character “change” because of events depicted in the movie, we are watching one Recessive Rule replace another Recessive Rule as the POV for a specific collection of contexts. A Dominant Rule is fundamental to a personal identity because it organizes every included context via shared contexts or container contexts.

The second Base Geometric Outline required for the generation of feelings is the collection of contexts processed by SGO filters. Filtering is no more than the application of logical operations by the SGO on new or old contexts. Contexts that can be assimilated (shared or included in a mixture) increase the power of the SGO – because they reinforce the physical structure of “All my beliefs are right”.

Plainly put, feelings are measurements of self power relative to particular contexts inside or outside the SGO.

A simple example illustrates the relationship between an SGO and a new filtered context. Imagine that you have lost your house key. Such a loss is interpreted by the SGO as a loss of power – “I” must expend energy looking for the key, “I” must lose time looking for the key, “I” must pay money to replace the key, “I” must … etc. Beyond that, the lost key context damages the physical structure of “All my beliefs are right” because it may damage one or more of that DR’s dependent Recessive Rules, such as “All my actions are right” or “I never make mistakes”, forcing secondary RRs to replace them: “Most (or Some) of my actions are right” or “I rarely (or sometimes) make mistakes.”

When these RR changes occur, physical structures are modified as new contexts are added and others removed from the SGO.

I hope it is obvious now that Dimensional Thinking regards feelings as both the thinking process itself, and also as the physical expression of thinking via the display of emotions. The phenomena of process and expression are the same – the apparent difference is only your POV – i.e., what part of the elephant you are looking at.

One common expression used to describe thinking is the “weighing” of alternatives. In these cases a final decision depends literally “feeling” which solution is a better match – has more shared GOs – to the context requiring a mate.

Love and war are common contexts describing the two general levels of energy transfer between objects. Ideal Love is the equal influence of energy, in both measure and kind, between and among objects. The terms “love” (as opposed to Ideal Love) and “peace” imply an unequal influence of energy, in both measure and kind, between or among objects, but with more perceivable energy traded than not traded. The term “War” as used in The Geometry of Ideas refers to a tipping point where there is less perceivable energy traded than not traded between objects. Physical combat is an extreme lack of influence between objects.

 

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