Unicist Theory of Evolution


The Birth of Conceptual Thinking and Abductive Reasoning

The unicist approach to conceptual thinking and abductive reasoning is based on the understanding of the human mind as a complex adaptive system that uses a set of logical structures to make sense of the world and solve problems.

The unicist approach recognizes that conceptual thinking and abductive reasoning are fundamental cognitive processes that involve the ability to form concepts, generate hypotheses, and make inferences based on incomplete or ambiguous information. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the underlying principles or concepts that govern complex systems, rather than relying solely on empirical observations or linear reasoning.

The unicist approach to abductive reasoning involves using the Unicist logic, which is a set of conceptual and operational rules that allow individuals to structure their thinking process in a way that leads to valid and meaningful conclusions.

Unicist logic is based on the understanding that reality is complex and that concepts, which are the fundamental building blocks of knowledge, represent the underlying principles or rules that govern complex systems. It provides a framework for structuring abductive reasoning in a way that allows individuals to form valid hypotheses, generate meaningful concepts, and make accurate inferences about complex phenomena.

The Origin: The Why Phase of Children

The “why” phase of children refers to a developmental stage during early childhood when children frequently ask “why” questions as a way to seek understanding about the world around them. It typically occurs during the preschool years, around ages 3 to 5, although it can start earlier or later depending on the child.

During the “why” phase, children are curious and inquisitive, seeking to understand the cause-and-effect relationships between things, events, and actions. They may ask questions such as “Why is the sky blue?”, “Why do birds fly?”, “Why do we have to eat vegetables?”, and so on. These questions reflect their natural curiosity and desire to make sense of their environment.

The Origin of Conceptual Thinking

The “why” phase in children can be considered as the initial stage of conceptual thinking. Conceptual thinking involves the ability to understand abstract concepts, make connections between different pieces of information, and think critically and abstractly. The “why” phase in children, where they ask questions to understand the reasons and explanations behind things, reflects their early attempts at conceptual thinking.

During the “why” phase, children are not only seeking factual information but also trying to grasp the underlying concepts and principles that govern the world around them. They are attempting to understand the cause-and-effect relationships, identify patterns, and make sense of the information they receive. This process of questioning, inquiry, and exploration lays the foundation for conceptual thinking as children develop their ability to think critically, reason logically, and make connections between different pieces of information.

How Conceptual Thinking is Inhibited

Conceptual thinking can be inhibited in environments that are criticism-driven. In environments where criticism is prevalent and emphasized, individuals may be discouraged from asking questions, challenging assumptions, or engaging in open and creative thinking. This can inhibit the development of conceptual thinking skills, as individuals may feel afraid or discouraged to express their curiosity, explore new ideas, or engage in higher-order thinking.

Criticism-driven environments can create a fear of making mistakes or being judged, which can result in individuals being hesitant to ask questions, challenge assumptions, or express their ideas openly. This can hinder the development of conceptual thinking, which relies on curiosity, exploration, and open-mindedness.

Abductive Reasoning

The “why” phase in children, characterized by their frequent questioning and curiosity, can be seen as an early stage of cognitive development that lays the foundation for critical thinking skills, including abductive reasoning. Abductive reasoning is a type of logical inference that involves forming plausible explanations or hypotheses based on limited or incomplete information, and it is often associated with creative problem-solving and generating new insights.

During the “why” phase, children are constantly seeking explanations and trying to understand the cause-and-effect relationships in their environment. They are engaging in a form of reasoning, even if it may not be formalized or conscious. By asking “why” questions and seeking explanations, children are engaging in a form of abductive reasoning, where they are trying to generate plausible explanations based on their observations and experiences.

Managing the know-why and the know-how of things

Abductive reasoning and conceptual thinking can help individuals understand the “why” behind things, by identifying underlying patterns, making inferences, and generating insights that provide a deeper understanding of the reasons, causes, or principles behind phenomena or situations. This can involve understanding the underlying concepts, principles, or theories that govern a particular domain or field.

On the other hand, operational and analytical knowledge typically involves the “know-how” of things, which refers to the practical knowledge of how to perform specific tasks or actions effectively. It involves the ability to apply established procedures, techniques, or methodologies to achieve desired outcomes or results. Operational knowledge is often task-oriented and focuses on the practical aspects of how things are done, while analytical knowledge involves the ability to analyze data, information, or situations to derive insights, identify patterns, and make decisions.

Both “know-why” and “know-how” are important aspects of functional knowledge, and they can complement each other in practical applications. Understanding the underlying concepts, principles, or theories through abductive reasoning and conceptual thinking can provide a solid foundation for developing operational and analytical knowledge, which involves applying that understanding in practical ways to achieve specific goals or outcomes.

Conclusion

The way children go through the “why phase” and develop their understanding of the world can have an impact on how they approach the “know-why” and “know-how” aspects of knowledge as adults.

During the “why phase,” children often display curiosity, asking questions, seeking explanations, and trying to understand the underlying reasons or causes behind things. This phase can foster their ability to engage in abductive reasoning and conceptual thinking, as they seek to make sense of the world around them.

The way in which children’s curiosity and questioning are encouraged, supported, or discouraged during this phase can shape their later approach to knowledge and problem-solving as adults. If children are encouraged to explore, question, and seek explanations, they may develop a positive attitude toward learning and a deep curiosity for understanding the underlying principles or concepts behind things. This can lead to a stronger ability to engage in abductive reasoning, conceptual thinking, and critical thinking as adults, which can enhance their ability to manage the “know-why” aspect of knowledge.

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Market Growth: Ensuring the Commercial Critical Mass of Businesses

Having the necessary critical mass to influence the market is necessary to build structural growth. Commercial critical mass uses the fundamentals of social critical mass to build concrete commercial actions that allow influencing the market.

Commercial Critical MassSocial critical mass applied to marketing is the integration of:

  • Superior aesthetics, which implies satisfying the manifest and latent needs of the potential customers.
  • Superior influence which allows stimulating the buying process
  • Superior credibility which implies that the superior value propositions are sustained by an adequate authoritative context.

The commercial critical mass building integrates:

  • Installing superior product/service attributes that are perceived as attractive by the market.
  • Building product/service brand attributes to differentiate the value propositions and influence potential buyers..
  • Building institutional brand attributes that sustain the credibility of the product brand attributes.

The use of critical masses requires a segmented approach that has to consider the functional, psychological, conceptual and lifestyle segmentations to ensure the functionality of the critical mass. These segmentations need to be transformed into profiles in order to be used by everyone.

Having a critical mass to influence buyers is a basic condition to be considered as the first choice in the mind of the potential buyer. To build commercial critical masses it is needed that the responsible person feels that s/he has a critical mass in the environment.

Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in using the unicist logical approach in complexity science research and became a private global decentralized leading research organization in the field of human adaptive systems. It has an academic arm and a business arm.
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Cooperative Corporate Universities as Business Catalysts

This is the case of In-company Unicist Corporate Universities to drive the clients towards an upper level of business or technology management.

They require proposing conceptual approaches to the restricted context of a business. When they deal with operational aspects of a business they generate no catalyzing effect.

They have to compete with the business giving conceptual solutions that provide a superior solution that makes the complementary value proposition of companies desirable.

They necessarily have to provide information that is above the operational level avoiding competing or providing recipes to the clients.

Two simultaneous actions are needed to make the competitive triangle work: develop maximal strategy driven processes and then minimum strategy driven processes.

Unicist Corporate Universities as business catalysts require managing them as part of an innovation marketing process. Driving companies to an upper level implies innovation.

The Unicist Logical Approach to Innovation Marketing

For any businessman or woman it is self-evident that marketing implies competition with the alternatives the potential customers have in their minds. This implies seeking for the positioning as a first choice in a segment or if possible in the whole market.

But this cannot be done when an innovation is being marketed. Innovations have no substitutes; the alternatives the potential customers can have in their minds are either succedanea or inaction.

In competitive non-innovation markets the active role of sellers is to compete and the energy saving function is given by the capacity they have to cooperate with the prospects. These are naturally demand driven markets because the alternatives are already in the mind of the potential buyers.

In innovation marketing there is no substitute; therefore the proposal stands alone to sustain its validity and cannot be compared. This has two evident consequences.

On the one hand, the core of the approach to the market is the cooperation with the buyer which transforms the competitive capacity with the succedanea or inaction into the energy saving function.

On the other hand, this is a supply driven market which demands a sound knowledge of the subjective value of the innovative proposal in terms of its use value, its referential value which defines the succedanea that are considered, and the opportunity value which deals with the “urgent” need this proposal satisfies.

These structural differences between innovation marketing and non-innovation marketing explain why companies need to separate the management of supply driven markets from demand driven markets.

It is self-evident that innovation marketing is more energy consuming than demand driven markets. But this is compensated by the prices of innovative products.

Innovation marketing will be managed as demand driven markets when both market actions are mixed without separation. They belong to different species and cannot be integrated.

The final problem is that after the innovation has been absorbed by the environment, the supply driven market is transformed into a demand driven market.

This is a mutation that requires reorganizing the marketing process. And the innovation wheel begins to rotate again.

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Professional participation in the Unicist Confederation

The Unicist Confederation is a multi-local, cooperative confederation. It is the business arm of The Unicist Research Institute (TURI), a pioneer in complexity science research that developed the unicist approach to businesses and became a world-class research organization in the field of human adaptive systems.

The positioning of research centers is objective; it depends on the breakthroughs produced and their added value to the market. Access TURI’s Brief: https://www.unicist.org/conceptual-thinking/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/turi.pdf

More than 4,400 unicist ontological researches were developed from 1976 to July2012 inthe field of individual, institutional and social evolution. The main countries that originated these researches were: US, DE,UK, FR, JP, SE, CA, CH, IN, BR, AR, CAT, RU, CN, AU.

The Business

Unicist Confederation’s members install spin-offs of business object driven solutions for the adaptive aspects of start-up, medium and large companies.

The professionals who participate need to have the necessary technical-analytical and fundamental knowledge in order to deal with the adaptive aspects of businesses. Naturally, there are four types of professional attitudes: fundamentals driven, diagnostics driven, objects driven and results driven.

The market expansion is organized based on corporate and professional spin-offs. Corporate spin-offs are business units that are installed in companies to provide solutions for their markets and activities. The business units might be insourced or outsourced.

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NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became a global decentralized world-class research organization in the field of human adaptive systems.
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Unicist Confrontation Strategies to Expand Market Share

The e-book on Unicist Market Confrontation by Peter Belohlavek has been presented and will be integrated in the Unicist Strategic Marketing Search Engine.

This Confrontation Strategy is one of the tools that have to be managed by the members of the Unicist Confederation in order to be able to compete in the global market.

“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”

George Washington


“Hard training, easy combat; easy training, hard combat”

Alexander Suvorov

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Presentation of the Unicist Conceptual Planning Model

Conceptual planning is a self-evident activity when using the Unicist Standard. Its goal is to integrate the long term planning with the concept of today’s actions.

Next week we will be presenting  the conceptual planning model that has been used for more than 25 years.

The conceptual planning model is a taxonomy driven model that allows managing the integration of the life-cycles of any business activity with the country scenarios and the technological trends.

The unicist standard in conceptual planning integrates the concepts of what is being done today with the evolution of these concepts in the short, middle and long run.

It is a tool that will be provided to manage growth programs of companies. There is also  a homologous tool  for the planning of  countries’ evolution.

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Unicist Standard: The power of a Nation is in its Archetype

The R&D e-book “Unicist Country Archetypes”  by Peter Belohlavek has been published.

The Power of a Nation provides a gravitational force for its external relations in the public and private fields that defines the level of synergy of the culture and establishes the standard for social, economic and political behaviors in terms of their capacity to influence the environment.

We are entering in one of the most obscure aspects of social behavior that deals with the power that cultures have and transfer to their members.

Essentially, the power of a Nation is synthesized in its archetype which has a level of energy that allows the Nation to follow a common goal with a natural path to achieve it.

The first obscure aspect is to accept that different countries have a different level of energy to influence the environment to transform nature for the benefit of their members.

Defining these differences is implicitly the explanation of the different levels of development of countries and explains also why the solution towards a higher level of power to influence the environment has to come from the inside and not from the outside.

This R&D e-book is the result of more than 30 years of researching and forecasting the evolution of countries until the fundamentals that define the power of Nations were refined and proven that they have no exceptions.

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Beta Version: Unicist Country Future Research Search Engine

The Beta Version of the Search Engine for Unicist Country Future Research using the Unicist Standard has been launched.

The discovery of the Unicist Ontogenetic Intelligence of Nature and more than 30 years of applied research allowed the development of the Unicist Standard for Country Future Research.

This Search Engine is now available to provide the unicist standard for future forecasts. It is a standard that allows the integration of fundamental analysis with technical analysis to develop reliable knowledge to exert influence on future scenarios.

You can access a Free 30-day Trial at:
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The Unicist Standard for Country Future Research provides the necessary information to deal with the fundamentals of countries evolution.

The future does not exist. To influence the future it is necessary:

1) to discover the concepts of reality in the “past”;
2) to consider the facts of the “present”;
3) to infer the possible and probable “future”.

To develop future scenarios, we strongly recommend using both the Unicist Fundamentals technology and the Technical Analytical tools.

After you have developed the two future scenarios of a country, a region or the world following the Unicist Standard approach and the Technical Analytical approach, you will have to ensure that their results are consistent. They cannot be contradictory. If they are, you have to revise your analysis, until they become compatible.

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NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the major research organization in the world in its specialty based on more than 3,000 researches in complexity science applied to individual, institutional and social evolution. The applicative researches are based on the discovery of the Ontogenetic Intelligence of Nature and the consequent Unicist Theory of Evolution.

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Org-Lab: The Unicist Standard in Outsourcing & Insourcing

The Unicist Standard in Outsourcing implies integrating Object Driven Organization, which is analogous to object oriented programming, with the specific characteristics of the processes involved. It requires integrating hardware, software and peopleware in a process design that allows developing improvements based on the upgrade of the objects involved in the processes.

Basically there are two types of outsourcing: expert and operational outsourcing.

Expert outsourcing is a synergic cooperative operation to increase productivity and reduce costs based on specialization and quality.

Operational outsourcing is a way to reduce costs without endangering the core business.

The recommendation is to define to outsource when it is convenient and to insource when it is necessary. But when outsourcing has been decided it is necessary to make a deep reflection to define which type of outsourcing should be done.

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Diego Belohlavek
Expert System Manager

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the major research organization in the world in its specialty based on more than 3,000 researches in complexity science applied to individual, institutional and social evolution. The applicative researches are based on the discovery of the Ontogenetic Intelligence of Nature and the consequent Unicist Theory of Evolution.

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Unicist benchmarks: Cruise liners are organized by objects

Cruise liners need to be perfectly organized in order to generate a context of pleasure that allows passengers to expand their internal freedom.

Their organization has to be perfect but should not be noticed. Only an unperceivable perfect organization allows passengers to expand without feeling neither pushed nor pulled. Organizing “joy” is a complex problem.

That is why all the activity that includes passengers is basically organized by objects which provide the pleasant context to enjoy. This object driven organization requires an extreme precise design to ensure that the objects generate a context but do not invade passengers’ intimacy.

The meta-context for such context is the necessary client orientation of all the crew members that participates on the cruise. It is said that if a member of the crew wants to progress in the company all the evaluations of the clients have to mention “outstanding”.

Reliability is a basic condition for being a crew member of a cruise-liner. It is a team and the goal is to satisfy clients who are not interested in intentions. All what is expected must happen.

Very simple and very easy if the attitude is there.

But things can go wrong. Therefore a quality assurance must exist to avoid that the problem transcend to the clients. Quality assurance implies the necessary alarms and alternative solutions in order to satisfy clients.

If you haven’t gone on a cruise we strongly recommend it in order to learn how simple organizations work when they emulate nature.

The Unicist Standard is not a “Love Boat” but a “Business Boat!

The same rules of the Cruse liner apply to the “Unicist Business Liner”:

1)  Object Driven Organization to save energy and ensure results
2)  Client Centered Management as a context to ensure customers’ satisfaction
3)  Unicist Reliability System to amend mistakes and ensure quality
4)  Unicist Quality Assurance to have alternatives for any problem.

It is fun if you enjoy it. If not it is unbearable.

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