Conceptual architecture
Different layers, different questions.
The architecture brings together functional relations, historical trajectories and descriptions of lived experience. Its proposed distinctions have not been empirically validated.
Three planes
A trajectory can be read from more than one perspective.
- Functional plane: proposed relations among Continuidade Vivida, Coerência, Reconhecimento, reorganizing orientation, CREC, Integração and Habitabilidade. This is not a universal chronology.
- Historical plane: Espiral da Realidade concerns successive reorganizations across a trajectory; it is not the final step of a sequence.
- Phenomenological plane: Marés da Travessia describe configurations of lived experience that may coexist, recur or overlap. They are not obligatory stages.
Distinctions
Keep the questions separate.
No one-to-one mapping is established among dimensions, regimes, gradients, macrophases and tides. One layer cannot be inferred automatically from another.
| Concept or record | Question or description |
|---|---|
| Dimensões Fundamentais | Through which aspects is experience being considered? |
| Regimes do Eixo | How is the Eixo configured or operating? |
| Gradientes de Formação do Eixo | To what extent is the Eixo formed, accessible and recoverable? |
| Macrofases do SEEP | What broad longitudinal organization is being considered? |
| Marés da Travessia | How is the experience lived or described? |
| CREC | What mechanism of structural reorganization is proposed? |
Eight dimensions
A conceptual vocabulary for examining relations.
These names identify the eight proposed dimensions. Their presence in the architecture does not depend on an instrument being available and does not authorize a score or profile.
- CD · Coerência Descritiva
- CO · Consciência Operativa
- AR · Autorreconhecimento
- OS · Orientação de Sentido
- IR · Inserção Relacional
- CG · Coerência Genética
- IE · Integração Experiencial
- PA · Plasticidade Adaptativa
Four regimes
Qualitative configurations of the Eixo.
These are proposed qualitative descriptions, not identities, diagnoses or rankings of people.
- Eixo Vivo: a configuration proposed to support openness, integration and continuity.
- Eixo Defensivamente Contaminado: defensive responses come to organize the configuration.
- Eixo Encoberto: the Eixo remains difficult to access or recognize.
- Eixo Fragmentado: limited articulation among dimensions and experience.
Longitudinal relations
Readjustment and reorganization require distinct accounts.
Afinação Viva is presented in a harmonization proposal as a readjustment of relations among dimensions while structural identity is preserved. CREC concerns structural reorganization. The documentary status and empirical limits of each formulation must remain explicit.