Advanced version of the Feedback Phenomenological analysis of purgation: Two projected revisions to the flow diagram.

1. Any system dynamicist will note that there are at least two missing stocks or state variables at the center of the present flow diagram. The reason is that during the period when I was developing it - December 1984 to December 1994 - my heart refused to let my analytical faculty recognize that the missing mental image or archetype in question could be objectified using a stock. Therefore, I innovated the central region of the flow diagram in such a way that it would allow me to accurately simulate a reference mode that I am able to recall very intimately. The innovation for filling in for the missing stocks or image was mainly to manipulate the shape of the two table functions, FearDeathDueToKnot and PsychicStress, and then, in addition, fine tune constants and other table functions until the accurate reference mode was produced. In late November 2000 - aided by six years of meditation on the present flow diagram - I finally gained the perspective and detachment to identify the nature of the two missing stocks: Just as KnotsInHeart and HeartOpenness together represent a mental image, the two missing stocks will be representing a second mental image. This important second mental image or archetype of Death is briefly described as follows:
   The archetype of Death that appeared was a silent, watchful, divine, dark, austere, male Judge. This Judge, who was felt to be a close and intimate agent of the Lord, could grant me forgiveness and pardon me from death, if He saw fit to do so. But He was a firm taskmaster: He required that my prayers be both true and backed up by all my heart and soul. Since then I have begun thinking about the new flow diagram for purgation, but it will take some time before I can develop and then post the results of this new diagram and its associated mathematical model. Of course, the old reference modes, and hence their present simulations, will remain the same. What will be new will be the reference modes of the new variables.
2. Work by cognitive neuroscientists on the cognitive mechanism over the past decades (Simon 1993) could be incorporated into the model, expanding the complexity and detail of that sector. To test this new, more complex, cognitive mechanism, the lower sector of the present flow diagram could be used as a 'test stand.' Constants in the new cognitive mechanism could be tuned to obtain the reference mode. (This is step 6 of the 9-step Feedback Phenomenology recursion.)

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(Draft of October 26,2001)

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