(Adapted from tables of Erich Jantsch, Design for Evolution)
| Rational level of perception/inquiry | Mythological level of perception/inquiry | Evolutionary level of perception/inquiry | ||||||||
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Spiritual space |
Policies | Iconological determination | Imagination, creativity | Objective will, love | ||||||
| Design concepts | Regulation, centering | Learning, hope | Paradigms (religion, ideologies) | |||||||
| Norms | Regularities | Values | Purpose, faith | |||||||
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Social space |
Policies | Social control, governmental | Participation, subjective will | Union, sharing | ||||||
| Design concepts | Behaviour, system forces | Role-playing expectations | Normative ethics | |||||||
| Norms | Behaviour patterns | Individual ethics | Ethics of whole systems | |||||||
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Physical space |
Policies | Physical control | Environmental quality | Continuity of life | ||||||
| Design concepts | Predictability | Interaction, possession | Harmony, aesthetics | |||||||
| Norms | Measure | Quality, wholeness | Oneness | |||||||
| Right-brain | Integrated | Left-brain | Right-brain | Integrated | Left-brain | Right-brain | Integrated | Left-brain | ||
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Basic experience ("What we...") |
Are | Creative (Being) | Self (Becoming) | Ego (Doing) | Drifting | Cybernetic actor | Homo Faber | Empty channel | Evolutionary agent | Rebel (Prometheus) |
| Feel | Instinct (Grounded-ness) | Continuation (Beauty) | Intellect (Mobility) | Compassion | Communication (Morality) | Rectitude | Eros | Communion (Truth) | Logos | |
| Perceive | Contents | Change | Form (Measure) | Gestalt (Quality) | Process | Structure | Attraction | Order of process (Evolution) | System | |
| Know | Viability | Efficiency (Know-how) | Utility | Dynamic forces | Goals (Know what) | Connections | Flow, change of regime | Purpose (Know where-to) | Defined regime | |
| Want | Basic drives (Needs) | Possession (Static security) | Achievement of targets | Non-attachment | Expectations | Demands | Self-abandonment | Hope (Dynamic security) | Clarity | |
| Conceive | Conservation | Force (Replacement) | Progress | Adaptation | Roles | Investment | Finding | Syntony (Tuning-in) | Invention | |
| Can do | Instinctual response | Behaviour (Learned response) | Leverage (Technology) | Receptivity | Action | Creativity | Inactivism (Man of Tao) | Regulation (Control of powers) | Activism (Don Quixote) | |