You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

The structural differential diagram / 37
We call this NO FRAMES OF REFERENCE—
NO REFERENCES TO FRAME
“The free-hanging strings represent energies of reality
by a nervous system; they get left out. In general, any
human experience is represented by strings in the object
level disk. Korzybski wrote, ‘. . . our actual lives are lived
entirely on objective, unspeakable levels. ’ (Korzybski,
Science and Sanity, p. 477) A living person, who is constantly
sensing some energies of reality, is represented
by the object level disk.” (Sawin)
Please not that what Korzybski says is that we live on the
non-verbal (I AM) level. This occurs prior to the Object Level
Sensation (F2 in The Substance Diagram on page 30). Unfortunately,
as we will come to see as the abstracting process
continues, so does the place we imagine we live at and on.
“For the sake of clarity, let’s simplify the Structural
Differential Diagram (page 41); but remember that to
be more accurate, there would be many billions of dots
in the process level parabola, each one with a string attached.
The disk would actually hold many thousands
of dots, which would represent thousands of strings
connecting the parabola with the disk.
It also should be pointed out that although the process
level is supposed to represent all the material of the
universe and, strictly speaking, a person is part of that
material; we show the person as the object level disk
‘outside’ the parabola 5 . The person is separated from
the process level only to illustrate how a person should
not confuse her experiences with the process level itself 6 .
5 The “person” has not appeared yet; hence; “it,” the concept of a person
appears much later, after “doing” has occurred.
6 Why? Because the person has not yet appeared.