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Anam cara experience implemented as a contextual graph

An activity is accomplished by an agent in a given situation with available means in the local environment. For that, the agent develops a mental model of the activity in a specific context that can be implemented as a path in a contextual graph that corresponds to actor's mental representation where mental models, realised in numerous contexts are already accumulated by the actor.
 
 Following a path in the contextual graph (the development of a mental model) implies the instantiation of a sequence of contextual elements, called proceduralised context, that is the context of the activity at any step of its realisation. There are four sources of context: the actor, the activity, the situation and the local environment. More details are provided in Part Four, chapter 3: "Modelling proceduralisation of contexts in anam cara interactions".
  
"Proceduralising Context" is a context-based model of an Agent's reasoning when faced with decision making about "a problem I need fix" . From the analysis of the contextual elements in the agent's reasoning. By means of this process, it becomes possible for an agent (playing a seeker role) working in interaction with his or her Aman Cara (playing a provider role) to identify the contextual elements for his or her initial "rational choice' reasoning that led to a trap.
 
In such interactions the Anam Cara has a role to play to accomplish the activity "solving the problem to be fixed", but with a mental model difficult to build because the context of the Decision-making agent's initial mental model is too partial (e.g., "I do it because I am obliged.") and is a kind of "acceptance-oriented mental model" of a decontextualised problem.
 
Thus, "Solving the problem to be fixed" may requires moving to a new context that, when proceduralised, contains the needed explanations on the problem; hence the Aman Cara becomes interested in knowing the context correctly through the exploitation of the proceduralized context.
 
Hence, the Aman Cara analyses of the proceduralised context, thus decompiling the Agent's initial reasoning and identifying rapidly the basic contextual elements behind the Decision-making trap that the Agent got into. The anam cara, taking an external viewpoint, can guide the decision-making agent to have this type of introspection by laying on the table all the sensible contextual elements--especially those left implicit in the proceduralised context, in order to discuss with the decision-maker whether another instantiation is possible or not. Making explicit contextual elements that were previously hidden to the decision maker. This enables enrichment of the contextual graph by the addition of these hidden contextual elements in order to form a new context that can be shared between the decision-making Agent and the Anam Cara.
 

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