| Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 14, Iss. 3, Jul, 2010, pp. 209-238 @2010 Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences Archetypal Dynamics, Emergent Situations, and the Reality Game Abstract: The classical approach to the modeling of reality is founded
upon its objectification. Although successful dealing with inanimate matter,
objectification has proven to be much less successful elsewhere, sometimes to
the point of paradox. This paper discusses an approach to the modeling of
reality based upon the concept of process as formulated within the framework
of archetypal dynamics. Reality is conceptualized as an intermingling of
information-transducing systems, together with the semantic frames that
effectively describe and ascribe meaning to each system, along with
particular formal representations of same which constitute the archetypes.
Archetypal dynamics is the study of the relationships between
systems, frames and their representations and the flow of information
among these different entities. In this paper a specific formal representation
of archetypal dynamics using tapestries is given, and a dynamics is founded
upon this representation in the form of a combinatorial game called a reality
game. Some simple examples are presented. Keywords: objectification, process, semantic frame, tapestry, reality game |