What If Human Rules Bomb Where MetaModel and Rule of Seven Meet ?

I am studying both disciplines here lately

• NLP ( in this case the MetaModel )
• Business Rules (a way to sort out the "if this, then that" logic that guides actions.)

No relation to each other, I just like them both.

But if I add in a third thing called the Rule of Seven it seems that humans are just not ready to do both rules and NLP in one easy operation. Pick any two

1. Be a human, thinking on the fly
2. Run rules fast in your head
3. Use NLP MetaModel to abstract out your problem set

So here is what keeps jumping out at me.

• Rule Of Seven says humans can "think" about seven things
• Business Rules says separate the if then logic out of the deal
• NLP's MetaModel has more than 7 pieces at it's more granular level

So pretty much by definition, "you can't get there from here" if you want to think your way out of a problem using MetaModel and Business Rules in everyday random situations. Just too many parts, breaks the rule of 7 thing.

Metamodel Review

These are the pieces of a MetaModel if you ever want to use it to abstract out a problem experience into a set of rules

• Context
  • What
  • When
  • Where
  • With whom
• Criteria
  •  this
  • that
  • other
• Cause and Effect
  • Any cause and effect relationships that are a part of this experience
• (Complex Equivalencies (CEq)
  • for example "looks at me funny" might be a CEq for "I'm about to get criticized"
• Internal Computations (thoughts)
• Internal Sensations
  • feeling in my gut
  • tightening of my shoulders
  • stuff like that
• External Behaviors
  • whatever I might do like get the heck out of here

You will note that it's a lot more than seven things to keep in your head.

Rule Of Seven Review

Some day I gotta properly source this because I got it from Howard Berg and he got it from one or more of the zillion books he's read and teaches about.

The main rule is that if you are a human being and you are "thinking about things" and trying to analyze things dynamically. But there seems to be some limit that says you get more than seven things up there to think about ( 5 on a bad day ) it's going to go into overwhelm and good stuff won't happen.

Rules Review

This whole rules thing is pretty simple, it just says basically to heck with all that analysis crap, the only thing that matters is what you do.

if

this fact

then

that action as a result

So then I would do whatever analysis the medamodel stuff prescribed but the only thing that matters is that if someone gave me a funny look i might want to take some other action than just running away thinking they were going to criticize me (using the above metamodel example.)

Conclusion

The lesson for me today is that I'm pissing in the wind if I expect to just throw some kind of logical process at a program and have it come up with an instant result. It's more complex than that. Not sure what follows from that complexity, but I guess I'll find out.