Subsystem structure

To understand a d-SoC, we must grasp the nature of the parts, the psychological structures/subsystems that compose it, and we must take into account the gestalt properties that arise from the overall system-properties that are not an obvious result of the functioning of the parts. For example, the parts of a car laid out singly on a bench... 

The systems approach providers a conceptual framework for organizing knowledge about states of consciousness and a process for continually improving knowledge about the structures/subsystems. The ten subsystems sketched in chapter 8 are crude concepts at this stage of our knowledge and should eventually be replaced with more precise concepts about the exact nature of a larger number of more basic subsystems and about their possibilities for interaction to form systems. 

I stress again, however, that our need today, and the primary value of the systems approach, is useful organization of data and guidance in asking questions, not prediction. Prediction and hypothesis-testing will come into their own in a few years as our understanding of structures/subsystems sharpens. 

Finally, even more detailed studies can be done on the nature of particular discrete states and the structures/subsystems comprising them. This sort of investigation should come at a late stage to avoid premature reductionism we must not repeat psychology s early mistake of trying to find the universal Laws of the Mind before we have good empirical maps of the territory. 

The concept of dissociation may supply an answer. Some structures/subsystems may form a (semi-) independent entity from the rest of the system, so that more than one d-SoC can exist simultaneously in one individual. Thus, some aspects of william are structured into a d-SoC I loosely call void consciousness other aspects are structured/patterned into a kind of consciousness that can (at least partially) observe what the void consciousness part is doing, can understand my questions, and can reply to me. is this Observer discussed in Chapter 11, or a dissociated series of subsystems forming a d-SoC, or what Grappling with this sort of question forces confrontation with some basic issues about the nature of consciousness. 

Method in Flexible Pavement Using the VESYS Structural Subsystem, FHWA office of research, March 1976. 

The systems approach providers a conceptual framework for organizing knowledge about states of consciousness and a process for continually improving knowledge about the structures/subsystems. The... 

Compositions based on liquid rubbers are divided, according to their degree of filling, into a number of structural subsystems including some that are described as a... 

The basic predictive operation is cyclical. The first step is to observe the properties of structures/subsystems as well as you can from the current state of knowledge. You ask questions in terms of what you already know. Then you take the second step of organizing the observations to make better theoretical models of the structures/subsystems you have observed. The third step is to... 

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