Questions to Apitholo #32

Further questions to apitholo, about apithology and humanity inquiry ...

Question #32 – To help the newly arriving, what are the known pitfalls to avoid in this field?

Apithology practice represents a different potential for human activity. It involves a generative inquiry. There are clear forms of guidance as to the appropriate conduct that sustains this easily. These guidances are available from simple to profound levels. They are easy to access; as tips, etiquettes, ethics and commitments. The helpful hint is to learn these early and hold to them clearly.

However, we have found on some occasions, there is no point in time where these can be communicated early enough, to stop the pitfall being sought out and jumped into.

Not surprisingly, if a newly arriving learner’s first action is to break parts off (the canon of knowing), appropriate content (for own vanity or promotion), or change the foundational concepts (into simpler own notions) - there is not much opportunity for recovery.

These innocent transgressions create an immediate barrier to entry or progression. This is not because of the harm itself (which in other contexts might be acceptable), but in what it says about the learner’s mind of first action. New learning and attentiveness is required before proceeding.

These ethical pitfalls do have a name (the Three Harms). Their avoidance is summarised as a commitment not to ‘take, teach, or tell’; before understanding how to hold new knowledge with caring regard. While similar conduct may be excusable ordinarily, in a generative learning environment, the effect is to dissipate, denigrate, and deprecate. This can’t be acceptable.

More significantly, the preliminary learning step is actually an invitation and commitment to enact their opposite (ie to make a positive contribution). Rather than avoiding pitfalls, the emphasis is on, an attention to generative affordances.

Apitholo ~The Centre For Humanity Learning

"Pathways for the Humanity Contributive"

“If you hold some of apithology’s questions, you may as well ask for all of its answers.” - willvarey

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