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Newsletter Nr. 827
Amsterdam, January 16th, 2020



SOME NOTES ON PERSONALISM - How the AQAL Model Shapes Our Perception - FRANK VISSER

The two models have one thing in common: they both stress the difference between the singular and the plural, there is not much disagreement here. In the four quadrant model, the upper quadrants represent the singular (I and It), and the lower quadrants represent the plural (We and Its). In the personal pronoun scheme: the upper row (I, You, He/She) represents the singular, and the lower row (We, You, They) represent the plural.

The major differences exist, as noted above, in the other dimension, which complements the singular/plural dimension. In the four quadrant model, the left and right hand sections are defined as the inner versus the outer dimensions of a certain "occasion" (let's take the human organism as example for the sake of simplicity). Therefore, the Upper Left quadrant is filled with thoughts, feelings, stages and states, whereas the Upper Right quadrant is the field of brain processes and observable behavior.

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