The easiest way to detect “looking at the phone” is to ask someone a yes or no or question, and see how long of an answer you get. If somebody starts talking about the past or future, they’re not actually paying attention to their inner experience, because inner experience is always present tense. e.g. “I see my mom yelling at me” is an experience, while “my mom used to yell at me” is a commentary on experience. Causal chains (x happened because y) are also commentary, as are generalizations.
This is a really really good paragraph. You can also watch eyes more closely for the defocus moment. Hypnotists use this one.
a training program for people to recognize these verbal patterns and to then verify their own spoken or written statements using them
This is a really really good paragraph. You can also watch eyes more closely for the defocus moment. Hypnotists use this one.
Korzybski’s failed ambition. Also similar to the early (good, prior to cult) work of the NLP people on their ‘meta-model’ of map-territory confusions.