Description of a 2002 Workshop on the Transcendental Feedback Phenomenological (TFP) Method:

(This workshop was conducted at the 20th International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) at Palermo, Italy in August 2002.)

TFP is a system dynamics-based method for converting Husserl's important, but difficult, transcendental phenomenological method into a relatively simple formalized science. TFP analyzes consciousness and imagination to resolve traumatic experiences. The key reason TFP succeeds is it structures consciousness as a multiloop nonlinear feedback system, the same structure as the neurophysiological system underlying consciousness. Thus, TFP opens up phenomenology, consciousness studies, and deep psychotherapy or psycho-analysis as new territories for system dynamics applications. Focus of the one hour workshop will be on my 30 page paper (pdf; 289Kb), entitled Transcendental Feedback Phenomenology (TFP), which will be published in the Proceedings of that conference. The method will be illustrated by its application to a 16 hour religious experience. An integral part of the workshop will be questions and criticism from attendees. System dynamicists at all levels, phenomenologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, theologians, and other scholars are invited to attend, but I hope most of those who wish to comment will download my paper, carefully read it, and then bring it to the workshop.

Arlen Wolpert
MS (Mechanical Engineering)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
http://world.std.com/~awolpert/gtr477.html
(June 3,2002)

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