Applying Human-Centric Functional Modeling and General Collective Intelligence to the Process of Observation

Resumen

Eastern existential traditions focus on practices meant to increase one’s ability to observe what is true in one’s awareness of this existence. The accuracy of surveys depends on the ability of the respondents to observe truth. Practices that increase one’s ability to observe what is true are formalized in this paper through the methodology of Human-Centric Functional Modeling, so they can be used to pre-qualify survey respondents according to their ability to understand principles of truthful observation. These principles are namely, that truth is what is true within one's own experience (what one can observe directly or prove through "first principles", that is prove from such direct observations). Truth is not what is within one's beliefs, with the exception of what in one’s own observation those beliefs function to achieve. Nor is truth what any given academic tradition might assume, unless those assumption can be observed directly or deduced from first principles. In addition, this paper explores why the use of General Collective Intelligence or GCI is required to remove barriers to the complexity of observations that can be truthfully made. The justifications for these conclusions is presented, as is a methodology for using these conclusions to continuously and adaptively improve survey results.

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Williams, A. E. (2020). Applying Human-Centric Functional Modeling and General Collective Intelligence to the Process of Observation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/avrbc