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Seminar Summary - Sunday 18th March 2018

 

"GS Formulations Overview"

A general overview of GS formulations
and how they fit together as a system. 
What they can do, and can’t do for you. 
What we know and what we’ve forgotten.  Etc.
Presented by Mr David Hewson

Our seminar
at "Cifftop View" Bonnet Bay in Sydney was hosted as usual by Pauline and Gavan - Thank you both!

 

"Catching-Up"
Sharing of triumphs and tragedies and miscellaneous yarns.

 

GS Diary
In the spirit of "applying general semantics principles" to our lives, as opposed to dwelling in theory, we considered members' accounts of observations and applications relating to the principles and formulations of our discipline.


Goal:
 
A general overview of GS formulations and how they fit together as a system.  What they can do, and can’t do for you.  What we know and what we’ve forgotten.  Etc. 

Summary:


We sat a GS formulation test with 46 questions, to find out which GS formulations we knew and remembered.

Then we looked at GS formulations as a network of formulations.

Finally we related Watzlawick’s book “Ultra Solutions: How to Fail Successfully” to GS formulations.

Examples covered:

a.
Twice as much is not necessarily twice as good – relates to GS formulation of non linearity, e.g. twice as much oxygen or twice as much medicine is not necessarily twice as good for us.

b.
Good can be bad: if something is bad, its contrary must be good - relates to GS formulation of either/or,  e.g. The evils of alcohol were outdone by prohibition in the US.

c.
The Excluded Middle – classical logic says that any assertion must be true or false and GS looks at multi valued logics.

d. L
ife is a zero sum game, where you either win or lose. – assumption or premise which leads to theory and behaviour. 

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Business Meeting

We reflected on the year past and planned for the year ahead, in our usual style.


Next Meeting:

Saturday 19 May:  "Mindfulness"

Can we apply time-binding principles to build on ancient traditions, or is this just a New-Age craze with little new to offer?
Presented by Robert James


Disclaimer: This "summary" is a collection of notes derived from our discussion by a number of means.  It is by no means a scholarly dissertation on the subject as presented.  It does not purport to be the "policy of AGS".  Comment and criticism (constructive or otherwise) is welcome.  If anyone has been misquoted, copyrights infringed or confidences betrayed, please Contact us.

 

 

Updated by RJ 18 March 2018

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