III. Generative Human Processing
All science begins with the sensory experience of the scientist! This universal principle is the source of our commonality in scientific processing. It is also the source of our diversity in processing.
Commonality and diversity?! Commonality implies “merged” images of phenomena. Diversity dictates “diverged” images of phenomena. How can we integrate these mutually exclusive images?
The answer is processing! Processing integrates diverse images of phenomena into merged images. From these merged images are generated new and diverse images.
To be sure, continuous interdependent processing ensures periodic integration followed by periodic decomposition. It is found in the manner that our great thinkers generate new ideas and then innovate new initiatives aligned with their generativity platforms. Indeed, it is found in the continuing genesis of our universes where “singularity” explodes in an instant to generate our continuously expanding universes which converge again in “new singularity.”
In our animation of human processing, we are illustrating a paradigm of generative processing representing scientists ranging from Albert Einstein to Jack Kilby.
In exploring phenomenal explanations, the generativity paradigm emphasizes the following principles:
- Expanding alternative constructs and processes;
- Narrowing convergent constructs and processes.
As theoretical scientists, we expand and elevate constructs to generate hypotheses which account for phenomena. As applied scientists, we narrow the constructs to those which meet our values and phenomenal requirements.
It is those constructs which most efficiently and effectively meet our human values and phenomenal requirements that we label “elegant.” Scientifically, elegance means that we have accounted for maximum phenomena with minimal data. Elegance means that we are powerfully “leveraged” with our scientific constructs.
Einstein’s “Relativity”
Einstein was “privileged” in his position analyzing patent applications. Because he was “empathic” with all forms of ideation, he was able to become “one” with the phenomena being addressed in the proposals. In other words, he captured the diversity of constructs explaining phenomena. His great intellectual power was to integrate the explanations at the highest levels of ideation. In so doing, he sought out the highest levels of information representation in mathematical formulas representing the relativity of processing.
Translated conceptually, this formula may be read as follows: Energy (E) equals mass (m) times the speed of light squared (c2). This integrated formula defined the known sources of energy. It is the foundation for the platform of “Relativity” upon which most 20th century scientists posited their explanation of phenomena.
Kilby’s “Monolithic Idea”
Functioning as an electronics engineer, Kilby built upon Einstein’s Relativity in generating the “Monolithic Integrated Circuit.” Known as “The Monolithic Idea,” Kilby integrated all parts of an electronic circuit—resistors, transistors, capacitors, and diodes—in a simple block of semiconductor material, silicon derived from sand, one of Earth’s most plentiful elements. Now, barely 50 years later, the integrated chip has pervaded all areas of human endeavor—land, sea, and sky. As simple machinery once enhanced humankind’s physical power, now the tiny silicon chip enhances people’s intellectual power and frees them from the drudgery of mindnumbing intellectual labor.
More important than his products, however, were the processes by which Kilby generated them. In personal interviews in the 1990s by David N. Aspy, Kilby described a process that moved from “saturation” (goaling by defining) through “concentration” (exploring by analyzing) to “imagination” (understanding by synthesizing) and, finally, to “implementation” (acting by operationalizing). In so doing, just as his generative predecessors in science and engineering, Kilby moved from expanding alternative constructs to narrowing necessary requirements.
We label these operations “The Generative Mind” as contradistinguished from “Human Brainpower.” “The Mind” is a “hypothetical construct” representing the functions of thinking. “The Brain,” in turn, represents the physiological components of thinking. In a fully functioning person, then, “The Brain’s Components” are dedicated to achieving “The Mind’s Functions.”
The processes by which the brain’s neurological components accomplish the mind’s ideational functions are labeled “Human Processing.” At the highest levels of performance, they are called “Generative Human Processing” because they generate new and elevated forms of ideation which we have never known before.
In transition, it is not the products of thinkers such as Einstein and Kilby that lead to our study of their processing. They were indeed “geniuses:” they processed at the “genesis” of new ideation which had never before been conceived in human history.
It is the process itself which demands our study. The “thinkers” may never pass this way again. But their processing paradigms may live forever in the brains and minds of future generations!