Telesis "...an ancient Greek word signifying the achievement of a steady progress towards an objective through careful planning & the intelligent use of resources"
"We are each defined, not by a statistical average and where we fit on a two-dimensional population curve, but rather by a unique locational-state , that is a personal history traced through time and place representing all of the conditions (states), which prevailed at the time we were at any specific location. This locational-state traces out the history of our individual lives. The human and environmental conditions we experience at any specific time and location represent a complex combination of phenomena, which we internalise as our unique personal experience. No one else really knows what this experience has been or what in that experience has contributed to the shaping of our outlook and opinions. Much of this is subliminal, unconscious experience and some is at the conscious level. We each have only a notion of what experience others have had and what they have drawn from this to shape their current outlooks. As Charles Dickens observed in his work "A Tale of two Cities":
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."
The point is that we are all individuals."
Reference: Page 248, Chapter 23, "The Minority Principle" in "The Briton's Quest for Freedom - Our unfinished journey", McNeill, H.W., HPC.
Locational-State Theory
Today a considerable amount of judgement on the state of affairs of communities made up of unique individuals is based upon deductions by businesses, politicians, planners and others based upon the use of statistics. Because of the cost of undertaking surveys many compromises are made in the questions asked and the effective coverage of the population. In fact it is virtually impossible to undertake surveys which contain a large number of detailed questions. Attempts are made by applying "sample surveys" designed according to assumptions of variance within a given population so as to increase the detail within questionnaires.
Rejoicing in diversity
There is a politically correct statement that a population should rejoice in its diversity with such a statement implying a reference to different racial and ethnic groups. However, within any single ethnic, racial and family group there are even more significant ranges of individual diversity. This is because each individual from birth, and throughout their life, has a unique experience. The totality of this experience cannot be detected through sample surveys nor does it relate to ethnicity, race or social class but is rather the experience of each human with their environment which of course can include the influence of specific aspects of ethnicity and race.
Locational-state theory
This unique experience cannot be described in the form of conventional statistical analysis even if it were possible to identify and measure all of the different aspects of the environment which interact with a person's genotype to create what each person is today, as expressed in their phenotype. The only way to trace individual and unique personal histories is through an analysis which takes into account the state of critical variables which influence each individual when they are at different locations at different stages in their life. Thus what is required to describe and analyse this is an approach which has dynamic and cumulative components. Location-state theory is an approach to solving this analytical issue.
Individual-centred
Locational-state theory does not start out with the premise that there is, like statistical analysis, a way to determine the best "survey design" as a basis for capturing the "formative" components of people's experience.
In preparation...
A paper entitled:
"An Introduction to Locational-State Theory"
The reason for this is that it is only the individuals themselves who in fact know what was and what was not formative in their experience.
Locational-state theory
Locational-state theory was first proposed by Hector McNeill in 1985 as a way to define in exact form, information requirments in terms of reliability and precision for taking important decisions, somewhat like a method of dimensions; it was referred to as a locational-state methodology. However, on further analysis it was found that the approach could be used to provide a method for tagging and following the evolution of an identiable person, animal, plant or object, through time and distance. The methodology therefore was found to underwrite a very large range of relevant applications where the understanding differentiation or individual uniqueness was more important than the normal statistical approach seeking to identify similarity or classes of similar groups (strata). Indeed, the method was found to be generic. Therefore subsequent development of the methodology was referred to as Locational-State Theory
Banal applications include such things as consignment tracking and traceability and more sophisticated applications include corporate support systems (see Structural Production Functions and Seel-Telesis® Program) and the best means of assisting children in education and subsequently throughout life.
