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Both experts and geniuses have intuitions they operate from. The difference between
the structure and categories of these intuitions has much to do with the differences
between how experts and geniuses operate and where. First it is critical to point
out that the usage of the words 'expert' and 'genius' refer to my own application
and not to any particular definition. For the purposes used here 'expert' refers
to someone who has a thorough knowledge (expertise) with some given subject, whether
intellectual or experiential. So using this application we can say that an expert
can operate in the field of their expertise be it tennis or art or philosophy. The
expert is totally familiar with the patterns that exist in their field of expertise
and in their application. In addition an expert would, as used here, be thoroughly
familiar with the detection and recognition of these patterns. A genius goes beyond
having knowledge of the subject, and may in fact be less knowledgeable than an expert
in that subject. What a genius does for our purposes as used here is create new
ways of operating within the field of their genius. They create patterns that do
not yet exist. A genius, as used here, is capable of generating a pattern that has
never been used before or in using an existing pattern in a way or ways that it
has never been used before.
The Intuition of Expertise
The "Intuition of Expertise" is "pattern dependent", that is in the detection,
recognition, replication and application of pattern. The "Intuition of Genius" is
"pattern independent", that is operating outside of pattern, generative. If this
is true, and expertise is 'pattern dependent' than I would say that the art of modeling
is the domain of expertise and is constrained by the limitation of pattern.
Both of these positions require a different 'ontology' to support the structure
they employ for operating in the world. Specifically the position of 'genius' is
internally generated - maintaining an internal stability regardless of external
stimulus whilst maintaining an external flexibility in response to the external
stimulus in relation to the internal stability being maintained. This is a recursive,
generative loop. In comparison I would suggest that the position of 'expertise'
is a dynamic of matching internal and external position based on what is know about
the external stimulus perceived. This is a constantly shifting position adjusting
internal to external balance in relation to one another.
What's the Difference?
Using the above characteristics, the 'expert' knows themselves in relation to
the information present in sensory perception. The 'genius' knows themselves apart
from the sensory perception. I'm suggesting that 'genius' may be of a higher logical
level than 'expertise' as I'm using them here.
In differentiating between 'expertise' and 'genius' as I have used them there
is the simultaneous differentiation of epistemology and ontology. 'Expertise' is
an operational epistemology as I have defined it, where 'genius' is an operational
ontology. That is, 'expertise' flows from an epistemological bias, "What does the
'expert' know and how do they know what they know in relation to external data?",
and 'genius' flows from an ontological basis, "How does the 'genius' know to be
who they are, regardless of the indications of the external data?"
This may be the basis for the 'Structure of Genius', operating from an ontological
as opposed to an epistemological basis as primary. Intent (Result as Outcome when
operated as a way of being) ® Innovation (operation outside of pattern) ® Genius
Pattern and Process
Pattern operated as Process will always lead to failure over time in any given
system is the constant in the system is change. In order to ensure success over
time in the system the intervention has to be systemic, taking into account the
total system and it's state in time, to create a 'generative' response.
The difference that makes the difference is attending to CONTEXT as opposed
to PROCESS. CONTEXT can not be contained in pattern in a dynamic system, especially
if the system is sentient.
What is required in generating success in a systemic intervention is 'bringing
the future present'. In 'real' terms for the individual operating within the system
the 'future expectation' must be set into the somatic process ® loop the pre & post
conscious experience.
Specifically what is occurring is that in the structure of genius the focus of
attention is on the post-conscious (transconscious) position, this is the position
of 'expectation'. By contrast, in the operational position of expertise the attention
is fixed on the conscious or semantic position of knowledge or knowing.
From the position of the 'expert' the senses are trained to sort for what is
known and to respond to sameness and difference there. In this way any intervention
will be localized to the variants found from this particular sort, which may or
may not be systemic. In any case they will be limited by the limits of the experts
knowledge in noticing what is present.
When the sorting is done through the filtering process of 'genius' the senses
are trained to detect what would make the expectation held possible, regardless
of what is or is not present. This allows the genius to operate generatively from
the creative bias. From this operating position any intervention will be at the
systemic level, intervening in the context that the system operates within.
When the context is attended to and an intervention is made at this level with
regard to what is expected, regardless of the present situational limitations, then
we can say there has been a vertical shift in the response potential of the system.
This is a non-local, non-linear event.
Genius
Genius is the output of the creative tension between the conscious and the unconscious,
both of which use different forms of logic. These forms can be said to relate to
the pairs of sense and intuition, detail and pattern, present and potential. Genius
is the resolution of the apparent duality present in these seemingly incongruent
pairs. Genius operates in paradox, resolving it.
To summarize and review we can say that the proposition put forth here is that
'expertise' is pattern dependent while 'genius' is pattern independent. The distinctions
outlined above indicate that 'expertise' is a linear, local and temporal event =
mechanical. While 'genius' is non-linear, non-local and a-temporal = quantum event.
'Expertise' operates in the domain of epistemology – what is known and how it is
known as applied to the production of specified results, while 'genius' operates
in the domain of ontology – what "is" and the internalized experience of existence
and 'being' leading to generative output of as yet unrealized potential.
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