Model of individual decision-making
By members of the
decision-making inquiry, September 2004
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Will to live
• as individual (needs, wants…)
• as universal participant (participatory impulses, love…) | |
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Other world sloths
Competing needs
and wants
Habit
Custom and tradition (Out of date) former choices
that have gone unconscious
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The main diagram represents empowering factors that can have a
bearing on autonomous decision-making.
The items in italics, lower left and
lower right, are inhibiting or distorting factors that can affect
it.
Explanation of unusual terms
Shouter:
Friendly-ironic
term for immensely discreet and respectful presences in the other world.
Arcane norms: Principles that govern the interaction
between this world and the other world.
Other world sloths: Entities in the other world that collude
with human inertia.
