Questions to Apitholo #37

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

Question #37 – What is the most surprising finding in apithology (to date)?

As apithology is the study of the generative in formation, mostly using abductive logics, each discovery is a surprise when referenced to existing knowing. It is not trite to say that every new finding, and there have been many, has been surprising.

However, the most surprising findings relate to how people relate to apithology itself and its processes of discovery. For this one aspect of apithology's novelty, there is a general observation and some specific examples.

The general surprise is how people are unsurprised by the surprising. Like the experience of meeting someone in person for the first time, we quickly adjust the fragments of prior expectation and come to a novel reconciliation when faced with the new. The tendency is to later believe that we always knew the newly discovered.

This is an illusion caused by the processes of assimilation and accommodation in new learning situations. Where the learning is novel, such as in the apithology of unknowing, the learning process instead involves ‘acclimation’ (ie becoming accustomed to taking in new vistas). Acclimation knowing involves learning beyond the known. The discovery about the dynamics of the enablement of progressive acclimation as a form of generative learning is a novel contribution to learning theory by apithology.

The examples of specific surprising findings relate to three components of this general finding (ie the Three Surprises).

The first is how apithology as a concept is not something to which we are immediately receptive. The second is how in extending ourselves in caring there are self-preserving limits to our choicing. The third is how in the invitation to new learning there is a preference for habituations in the familiar (... even if this is not working).

These findings have names in apithology and are called: occlusion of the horizonal, contraction to the manageable, and repetition in the uncontextual. The removal of these as barriers, to being newly surprised by the possible, is a central feature of a generative humanity learning practice.

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Apitholo ~The Centre for Humanity Learning

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