What is qOSTW and OSTW?

Selected fragments of my answers to questions that I am asked by others, which explain what is qOSTW and OSTW:

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I treat qOSTW as a way to the goal: Pan (General)-Structural Theory of Everything. It is a huge and distant goal; maybe I'm able to realize it only partially.

I also treat qOSTW as a Holistic Structurology, perhaps a new science, which will provide ideas, questions, tools for a holistic look at the reality. It seems to me that the system analysis  or systems dynamics will be detailed subdomains of this new science. It may also be (occur) that qOSTW will be another way (method) of looking at the reality - an alternative one to the currently applied.

I do what I can do best thanks to the structural and holistic mind: a coherent network of concepts and definitions that describe the reality at the highest level of abstraction.

qOSTW is one model that is expanding. Ultimately (as a goal): it will be possible to look at everything through the glasses of qOSTW, to look at the world as one big network of systems, where the change within relation moves along the link. Ultimately, it will be a system of concepts that is internally consistent, interconnected.

qOSTW - provides a set of concepts for a holistic look at the reality, and eventually, maybe in several dozen of years, will lead to create a structural map of reality.

OSTW - the Pan (general)-Structural Theory of Everything or structural map of concepts for a holistic reality testing or a structural map of questions. Each definition of OSTW can replaced with a detailed question asked while analyzing a part of reality. The answer to this question will build the scientific knowledge of this part of reality.

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We have the science in two dimensions:

1.       Ready scientific results. These results are confirmed in accordance with modern methodology,  not always correctly.

2.       A process of creating a science, which consists of several stages, including:

• observation of the world

• capturing some regularities

• expressing the regularity into a formal language of definitions and theorems

• proof of these theorems with different methods

From my fortune I got a holistic mind. What I can see I express in definitions and theorems, and my life is not long enough to prove it; others can do it.

I had a choice: to get some scientific results and to prove them, or to create a coherent system of concepts describing the reality on the highest level of abstraction. I have chosen the latter, because only one person can do that. Others can complete and prove it. The core of qOSTW must be done by one mind, the holistic mind.

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The holistic mind is needed to create the core of qOSTW.

Non-holistic mind, capable to move between levels of abstraction, one can understand qOSTW and its significance, as well as learn to apply qOSTW.

I use qOSTW, because that is my natural way of functioning. Others have to learn how to use it. Others will run qOSTW  in the way they activate other intellectual technologies learned.

I think that qOSTW will be a useful tool for structural and holistic reality testing. It will accelerate acquiring skills and tools to cope with complexity. I’ve got it because I have had it evolved in place of the missing memory. Others have to learn it.

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The science explores the world piece by piece: this piece, that piece. The science does not explore the world as a whole. There is no conceptual apparatus to explore the world as a whole, in which we look at each scrap as a component of the network of dependences - this kind of a study brings new insights. qOSTW intends to provide some of these concepts.

Why is that? Our natural state is to study the details: atoms, photosynthesis. In order to explore a wholeness, it is needed to go up to such a level of abstraction that many of the phenomena, which our mind -  trained on details - recognizes as different, are seen as belonging to the same class. qOSTW soars to the highest level of abstraction, and therefore enables the study the world as a wholeness.

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What is OSTW (a goal, which qOSTW leads to) - in brief.

Imagine that you are looking at the skeleton of the world, you are stripping the outer wrapperand you can see the structure in all areas.

You can find structural concepts, which you are using as " bricks" to build a structural map of the world; on which you with a mouse (because in a computer) as with a finger you will be moving and encountering following, different structural elements.

Behind the same structural element of the map, in different areas of reality, there will be other components of the real world hidden - but they will have one thing in common - they will contain the same pattern - a structural element of OSTW.

The structural map or the OSTW theory (names used interchangeably):

·        Provides questions, where answers build scientific knowledge of a selected part of reality.

·        Enables a holistic view of reality, a bird's eye view. Thus reality appears as a unity of the distinguished elements creating a huge network. These elements are extracted by their role in the world. Links of the network are interactions between these elements. A change within the network is transferred along these links.
     
      6.I will use a metaphor. We have the human body (in our metaphor, this will be ‘All’). You can make different cross-sections of ‘All’ and describe them. One of such cross-sections will be the circulatory system, the lymphatic – will be another. Let's take a cross-section of the circulatory system. If we make a description of the given cross-section, then we take only the part that meets our condition out of the ‘All’; here: it collects or delivers blood. We create a grid of concepts (with definitions, theorems and descriptions) that appears in our cross-section in different areas such as: components, processes. This grid of concepts creates a general theory of the body in the cross-section of the circulatory system. If we want to create a special theory for the selected individual human being, then we shall take concepts from the general theory of and search for their counterparts in this particular body.

      OSTW makes cross-section of ‘All’ through the structure, determined by the change. Hence the adjective Structural.

      We have already illustrated adjectives: General and Structural. It remains to depict an expression Theory of Everything. OSTW will be something more than a model; it will be a theoretical description of reality at the highest level of abstraction, so I took the word Theory in the name.

      The word Everything remains. Why do I think that every part of multidimensional reality can be (after finishing OSTW) described using the concepts OSTW is a description of reality at the highest level of abstraction. The higher we climb through the levels of abstraction, the more items we can embrace with the concept. Let's take an example: Scooby, dachshund, dog, canines, mammals, animals, living creatures, systems. Thus, the highest level of abstraction will cover Everything.

      I am not attached to the name OSTW, perhaps in the future a more relevant one will emerge. But the name in the form: The General-Structural Theory of Everything is a goal that gives the direction to my creative activities.