Interaction

I have been thinking about interaction between two systems and it appears that in non-human systems all interaction has to traverse hierarchies.
The most obvious example I can think of is the OSI Network Model where information has to traverse several levels of translation before reaching the human user



The non-human system communication hierarchies led me to wonder about what hiearchy could be used to reflect human communication
I began to think of Maslow’s hierarchy as level not only of need, but of consciousness
I began to think that human communication has to traverse several levels of consciousness when information is received and sent



With a hierarchy of consciousness in mind I began to think about James Moffett’s concept of the Universe of Discourse
How could traversing consciousness and traversing levels of discourse come into the fold
Did different stimuli have a different level of conscious response by the human organism? Maslow said that the level of human need affected the response to stimuli. Why not functions of discourse.
Moffett also added a dimension of Audience
What about the levels of psychological and social consciousness?
James Moffett believed that there were four levels of human consciousness when it came to audience and discourse
The next several slides will explore this

At first Human Interaction appears to have five distinct categories:
Generalization Supertype – within the individual
Generalization Subtypes - within the individual
Recursion – within the group
Relation – a member and another group
Association – representatives between two groups










Based upon the above analysis there are five audiences of conscious interaction
Intrapersonal Supertype - Physiological
Intrapersonal Subtype - Safety
Interpersonal - Belonging
Intrapublic - Esteem
Interpublic - Self-Actualization

We can also extrapolate that there are five functions of interaction
Sensing - Physiological
Recording - Safety
Reporting - Belonging
Generalizing - Esteem
Theorizing - Self-Actualization



I think if we study how interaction traverses function and audience in the human organism we will have a better understanding of how to cooperate effectively
However, I am not satisfied with the conclusions I have reached as there are more dynamics involved
All we have addressed is who and how