Author: Curt Doolittle

(NLI)
Update: Volume 1, System of Measurement.
(Team: Thanks for the feedback so far.)
FYI:
1. The Grammars chapter can’t move. I tried moving the chapter on grammars forward so that it followed measurements, but it’s not possible without losing the reader. I need to stick with a step by step revealing the layers of the onion so to speak.
2. Five Hard Questions: I’ve added the five ‘hard questions’ to the beginning of reciprocity but now I have to write a bridge to explain the relation.
3. FInishing First Principles: I’ve collected all the references to first principles so Brad and I can work on them tomorrow and made a few early edits, and I can see how to complete the section without making it overwhelming – as if the whole section isn’t overwhelming already. 😉
4. Higher dimensions of Indexing: I’m currently integrating the higher orders of measurement into the chapter on measurement because it helps the reader understand the emergence of dimensions and multi-dimensionality. (which is why I wanted to move to the grammars, but without covering first principles first it’s too confusing.)
5. How to explain it. I”m thinking about how given point 4 I’m going to explain all that without causing heads to explode.
6. Hard problem: I’ve sent Brad my outlines of the explanation of how group strategies affect evolutionary consequences and in particular the production of trust. And, the non obvious differences between civilizational differences in decidability: western individualism as a means of producing commonsism but the consequences of it. The middle eastern priority of family and tribe. The Sinic priority of family and state as extended family. These trade offs lead us to understand that the ternary logic and the western trifunctional strategy are necessary rules (limits) that prevent evolutionary collapse at all levels.
Previous Frame: We cut the consequences from he book on the system of measurement. It was expedient in time, shortened the book, but does the book’s message further our objective if it’s just a system of measurement without its application to current conditions of crisis?
Does this coverage of civilizational consequence break the frame? But would this hard problem end that separation?
Why does this matter? The question is what are we trying to cover in this book? How will it anchor the public’s ‘first impression’ of our work? And what’s necessary to prevent that anchoring from increasing resistance rather than decreasing it?

My feeling is that if there is a short lag between books it’s probably ok. If there is a long lag it’s not. My opinion is that the system of measurement alone might not have the traction that the system and its application would.

But I”m not sure.

Thanks for advice if you have any.

@WerrellBradley