Glossary
The building blocks
Each term is its own page with a short, clear definition.
Entity
An entity is a node in the network — a thing, a feeling, an action, a process, a person, a system or an organisation.
View termRelation
A relation is the connection (edge) between two entities. It has three states: empty, active and passive.
View termSignal (“Schwingung”)
A signal is an impulse or stimulus that emanates from an entity and activates a relation. Nothing mystical.
View termThe three states: empty, active, passive
Every relation is either empty (l, never activated), active (a, currently sending and receiving), or passive (p, learned but currently quiet).
View termNetwork level
A network level groups entities of one kind — such as everyday life, mind and body — so a problem can be seen as a whole and yet examined in a focused way.
View termZoom in / zoom out
Zoom in / zoom out means abstracting clusters of entities: an entity is made of further entities and relations.
View termThe six viewpoints
A new viewpoint is an entity you had not yet activated. Six questions help you find it: the other person, time, the level, the outside view, the unknown, and distance.
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