Life Discovery: The Unfoldness of Activity
Unfolding, Modeling, and Storytelling
This article aims to introduce the concept of “Unfoldness” and the related term “Unfolding” for the Anticipatory Activity System (AAS) framework and the AAS for Life Transitions (AAS4LT) framework.
The Unfoldness of Relevance
On April 14, 2022, I sent an email to a theoretical sociologist after I received a recommendation from Academia. We had an email conversion in the following ten days.
I started re-reading his books, papers, and articles. He developed a meta-theory of theoretical sociology and wrote three books and many academic papers in over 10 years.
On May 7, 2022, I had a wonderful afternoon in a beautiful park with my family. I read books and articles and wrote notes. Then, I had an insight into the theoretical sociologist’s work. I should consider his work as a case for the Slow Cognition project.
The “Self, Other, Present, Future” schema is the core of the (Anticipatory Activity System) AAS framework. The “Self — Other” Relevance is related to the “Present — Future” Complexity. Both are not static, but dynamic. I’d like to use the concept of “Unfoldness” and the related term “Unfolding” to describe this idea.
