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There are a couple of contingencies surrounding the trials of learning from one's own experience, issuing from and bearing on the complexity of that very experience, that appear to be tangled up with each other.  Echoing the mythology of the Gordian knot, the Herculean Hydra, the Laocoonian serpent, and the Persean Medusa, each of which accounts of perverse polymorphism seems to reflect a variant aspect but to capture a sheer fragment of the underlying archetype, these two factors can be addressed by means of the following allegory:

There are a couple of contingencies surrounding the trials of learning from one's own experience, issuing from and bearing on the complexity of that very experience, that appear to be tangled up with each other.  Echoing the mythology of the Gordian knot, the Herculean Hydra, the Laocoonian serpert, and the Persean Medusa, each of which accounts of perverse polymorphism seems to reflect a variant aspect but to capture a sheer fragment of the underlying archetype, these two factors can be addressed by means of the following allegory:

# '''The Knot.''' It is frequently difficult to learn anything at all from the encounter with one's own experience, especially while one is still faced with the full complexity of that experience.

 

# '''The Knife.''' One tends to establish a personal array of mental or conceptual ''frames'', ''planes'', or ''sections'' on which one can reliably and reductively ''chart'', ''map", or ''project'' one's experience.

1. The Knot.  It is frequently difficult to learn anything at all from the encounter with one's own experience, especially while one is still faced with the full complexity of that experience.

 

2. The Knife.  One tends to establish a personal array of mental or conceptual "frames", "planes", or "sections" that one can reliably and reductively "chart", "map", or "project" one's experience on.

The relationship between these two factors is such that the Knot leads to the Knife as its adaptive or expedient remedy, but that the Knife affords only a transitory relief for the problems bound up in the Knot, and further, an excessive reliance on any fixed array of armaments and stratagems under the emblem of the Knife has the contrary tendency to worsen the troubles experienced under the category of the Knot.

The relationship between these two factors is such that the Knot leads to the Knife as its adaptive or expedient remedy, but that the Knife affords only a transitory relief for the problems bound up in the Knot, and further, an excessive reliance on any fixed array of armaments and stratagems under the emblem of the Knife has the contrary tendency to worsen the troubles experienced under the category of the Knot.

Thus, it is fair to say that the difficulty of learning from the full complexity of one's own experience is a problem condition that partly leads to and partly arises from the very configurations of artificial sections and arbitrary coordinates that one contrives to project one's experience on and to judge one's experience by, respectively.  Although one's idealizations, simplifications, and other pet schemes of reductive representation can serve to render one's experience initially manageable, they can ultimately and adversely interfere with seeing the obvious.

Thus, it is fair to say that the difficulty of learning from the full complexity of one's own experience is a problem condition that partly leads to and partly arises from the very configurations of artificial sections and arbitrary coordinates that one contrives to project one's experience on and to judge one's experience by, respectively.  Although one's idealizations, simplifications, and other pet schemes of reductive representation can serve to render one's experience initially manageable, they can ultimately and adversely interfere with seeing the obvious.

In this setting, it is possible to bring about an accommodation between the mathematical and the psychological concepts of "projection" and to reconcile their discordant uses of the term within a concerted paradigm.  For example, in dealing with the joint configuration space of a multiple agent system, one considers this "yoked extension space" (YES) to fall within a "common extension" (CE) of all the single agent state spaces.  Each agent involved in such a system "projects", in a geometric sense, the total action of the system on its own "section" of the whole CE, its "local outlook", "mental plane", personal "frame of reference" (FOR), or "point of view" (POV).

In this setting, it is possible to bring about an accommodation between the mathematical and the psychological concepts of ''projection'' and to reconcile their discordant uses of the term within a concerted paradigm.  For example, in dealing with the joint configuration space of a multiple agent system, one considers this ''yoked extension space'' (YES) to fall within a ''common extension'' (CE) of all the single agent state spaces.  Each agent involved in such a system ''projects'', in a geometric sense, the total action of the system on its own ''section'' of the whole CE, its ''local outlook'', ''mental plane'', personal ''frame of reference'' (FOR), or ''point of view'' (POV).

What does the POV of an agent consist in?  Generally speaking, agents are not dumb.  They are not limited to a single view of their situation, nor are they restricted to a single scenario for its ongoing development.  They can entertain many different possibilities as candidates for the so called and partly self describing "objective situation" and they can envision many different ways that these potential situations might be developing, both before and after their passage through the moment in question.  Furthermore, under circumstances favorable to reflection, agents can invoke POVs that help them to contemplate many different possible developments in the constitution of these very same POVs.

What does the POV of an agent consist in?  Generally speaking, agents are not dumb.  They are not limited to a single view of their situation, nor are they restricted to a single scenario for its ongoing development.  They can entertain many different possibilities as candidates for the so called and partly self describing "objective situation" and they can envision many different ways that these potential situations might be developing, both before and after their passage through the moment in question.  Furthermore, under circumstances favorable to reflection, agents can invoke POVs that help them to contemplate many different possible developments in the constitution of these very same POVs.