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This is a response to my friend David Strachan's [now lost] Paths of Living diagram. Looking at it I made the point that I disagree with its spirituality foundationalism, that somehow there is a driving force towards creative complexity which comes to one fruition in human consciousness. In response I decided to produce a hierarchical Mind Map ® or Spider Diagram, although it became so large using eMindMaps ™ that it overlapped itself visually (reaching an obvious maximum size). Thus principal branches were separated into separate Mind Maps (see below) although the text version was unaffected (and which follows). Such a Mind Map is not exhaustive or definitive in whole or detail. It does not explain itself, but only gives clues through the use of text headings and relationships. It is as much for reader reflection as author creation. They can be viewed microscopically at any part. Obviously I could not repeat the spirituality and creativity foundationalism that David uses or indeed its linear core. My principle objection to this is that evolution to be evolution must be local and particular and cannot contain any sense of a greater plan interfering (however gently, distant, tilting or whatever). Giraffes necks do not strive to reach tall trees: the animals with the taller necks succeeded over the others in this area of comparative advantage, even if this came about through a leap at a time of species-mixing (rather than the alternative of slow incremental increases) through copying and placing into the environmental advantage. We as the one reamining human species have not evolved significantly for many thousands of years: when there were many species and human-apes they did and the species best able to hunt, gather and plan succeeeded and destroyed its rivals, the last rival being the Neanderthals. David and I had this conversation. Now of course, as is David's interest, humans do develop themselves because they are self-conscious. They learn, store knowledge in forms of libraries and act technically. There is individualism and group dynamics, tribal rules and genetic preferencing. The key focus regarding consciousness and mind as a focus is language, and impacts upon collective and individual consciousness (understanding) are the discourses we use. My focus is on change, especially the more recent. I chose three areas for the Mind Maps: Sciences plus (the plus meaning mathematics), Cultural Study (preferred over Cultural Studies or Arts - click for its Mind Map) and Social Sciences. The discourses break down into smaller sections of impact. There are many area surely left out and people may have their own relationships and ordering structure. By discourse I mean rules of understanding which govern approaches to science and its parts, cultural study and its parts and social science and its parts. In the textual Mind Map movement to the right each time is a continuing branch. Texts equal at the left start are different equal branches off what was left above and may have their own extensions underneath representing movement to the right. Anything to the left yet below, is a dead end branch in respect to its one to the left above. Compare the text version with the diagrams. |
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Cultural Study
Creative Culture
Literature
Child
Observation
Naturalism
Mediaeval
Realism
Fantasy
Postmodern
Surrealism
Romanticism
Publishing concentration
Music
Plainsong - order in simplicity
Polyphonic - producing variety
Baroque - maths music
Classical - ear for regularity and flair
Romantic - richness and experience
Modern - creative edges
Painting
Art Nouveau
Impressionism
Expressionism
Pre-Rhaphaelites
Futurism
Romanticism
Pop Art
Modernism
Symbolism
Minimalism
Surrealism
Photography
Still
Following concave mirrors, optics and dark rooms
Paper and Leather
Mass archive of snaps
Aesthetic Intentions
Window-like Realism
Formalism of arrangement
Expressionism of effects
Moving
Film
Video
DVD
Still with Moving
Constructed Pictoralism
Naturalism
Relating science, beauty and art
Digital art
Avante-Garde
Realism
Golden mean
Pornography
Architecture
Classical - formal and mathematical
Periods
Modernist - not making the new person
Postmodern and Eclectic
Where we live - need for personal space
Where we work- conditions and communicative space
Audio
LP records
Tapes
CDs
Mini Disc
DVDs
Computers
5¼" Disk
3" Disk consumer
3½" Disk standard
Larger ROM
Larger RAM
Internet
Web
HTML to 3.2
HTML 4
Javascript
Java
Visual Basic
CGI-BIN
Emails
Chatrooms
Message Boards
Intranets
Pornography
CDs
Record and Read Write CDs
Record DVDs
Office
Word Processing
Spreadsheets
Databases
Desk Top Publishing
Presentations
Mind Mapping
Intellectual Culture
Historiography -Time
Empirical - history as documented
Quantitative - mass history
Annales - trends of "total history"
Sociological - systems and causality
Marxist - the powerful and conflict
Gender - missing women and feminist view
Psychohistory - impact of individuals and childhood
Oral - the present frames the past
Ethnohistory - primitive societies recalled
Postcolonial - corrective replacing the "alien other"
Narrative - building stories of our past
Poststructural - fact and fiction in a soup
Geography- Space
Quantitiative - the world as statistics
Qualitative - the world as description
Human organisation and movement
Shopping
Out of town
Urban centres
Transport changes
Physical change long term
World environmental challenges
Theology
Faiths
Near Eastern
Zoroastrianism
Oppressed
Reduced
Old rituals
Prophetic
Dualistic
Judaism
Zionist power
Wall
Settlements
Expansion
Messianic/ Non-Zionist
Ethnic identity
Ritual identity
Progressive/ Peace
Breaking barriers
Chosen People
Superiority
Holiness demand
Suffering
Egypt
Babylon
Spain 1492
Europe 1930s-1940s
Hebrew Bible
Family
Feminist challenge
Christianity
Conversionism
Evangelical
Charismatic
Fundamentalist
Pro-Israel Messianic and conflict
Creeds as certainty
Traditionalisms
Roman
Orthodox
Protestants
Creeds as unity
Compromise Liberal
Intellectual
Rural
Limited Heterodoxy
Meeting Faiths
Rationalised/ Reasonable
Creeds as big themes
Social concern
Radical Postmodern
Intellectual
Rave Spirituality
Heterodox Beliefs
Reinvented Paganised
Absorbing Eastern Faiths
Secularised
Creeds as questions
Creedless
Social justice
God died into writing
Informing traditions
Bible
Old Testament
Judaism themes
New Testament
Synoptics
Paul
Early Churches Faith
Other Gospels
Heterodoxy
Alternatives
Jesus of Nazareth
Teachings and Ethical
Modernist Historical puzzles
Christ dogmas
Postmodern Literary constructs
Islam
Militant defensive
Intellectual historical
Old regimes
Sunni orthodoxy
Shia orthodoxy
World brotherhood
Quran as revealed
History of revelation
Bahai
Modernist themes
Science and Religion
Equality
Unity World
Unity Faith and Politics
Covenant Breakers
Democratic Centralism
Eastern
Buddhism
Western interface
Mahayana ancient exotic
Hinayana minimalist
Zen nothingness
Spiritual hierarchy
Hinduism
Modernist/ International
Conservative/ Nationalist
Positive diversity
Unacceptable practices
Sikhism
Communal defensive
Pure faith - God as Name
Taoism
Philosophical balance
Confucianism
Conservative authorities
Philosophical
Shintoism
Nationalist
Private
Indigenous
Primitive forms
Reinvented
Religion and Ethics
Philosophy
Ethics/ Morals
Absolute retrenching
Situational
Inclusive of Diversity
Individual decisions
How to think
Positivism
Non-Positivism
Senses and Reliability
| Note on viewing the MindMaps: There is no successful way to print the final two images of the Mind Maps below as they are too large. Use the printer friendly text version (.PDF file: Acrobat Reader or similar needed). Left click on each image to examine in detail by viewing the opening .PDF file at between 200% and 400% (or more) according to preference. Use its hand cursor to move around the screen. The printing to paper of these .PDFs is too concentrated. |
