Scheler develops a phenomenology of values and of feelings. For IEQ and for monads this provides starting points to make affective energies and value orders formally connectable. His emphasis on intentionality and on value-feelings allows us to read emotions not only psychologically but also structurally. For the monad field this means: affective energies shape the order and act like “forces” inside couplings.
World-openness means: the human being can loosen itself from immediate stimulus-binding
and consider alternatives. In our terms this expands the accessible state space of the monad.
We model this capacity as a freedom or distancing operator Ď that allows us to test couplings
before they are strengthened.
Scheler’s ordo amoris provides the value weights with which
IEQ qualifies coherence – spiritual/ethical coherence counts more than mere utility.
Scheler’s hierarchy – utility, vital values, spiritual values, the holy – is translated into a weight vector for interactions. An IEQ gain does not arise from energy alone but from value-conform energy. Operationally this means: couplings are only reinforced if they do not undercut the higher value levels; otherwise, ethical brakes and re-calibration kick in.
Ď reduces stimulus-binding,
enlarges options and protects against premature coupling.Measurement protocols link IEQ with value checks; contributions of individual edges are shown transparently as value-conform or value-conflicting.
Ď (XDM).Scheler’s anthropology offers a counter-model to mere stimulus/environment binding: world-openness founds freedom and responsibility. In times of accelerated technological and AI couplings his framework provides the reason why we should not measure coherence without values – and how value levels set the direction of technological amplification.
In the quantum monads these insights become operators, weights and thresholds – connectable to XDM, IEQ and to the coupling logic of XQM.
Max Scheler – Value phenomenology & intentionality
This text supports the concepts of world-openness and value levels (ordo amoris) as an anthropological foundation.
Intentionality & “right feeling”.
Technics & acceleration.
Complementarity & context.
Non-locality & coupling.
It is the capacity to break away from immediate stimulus-binding and to open alternatives – the basis of freedom and responsibility.
The order of values and preferences that guides our affirmation/negation. In IEQ we translate this into weighting vectors.
XDM models the freedom operators (e.g. distancing), IEQ measures value-weighted coherence. This way, world-openness becomes measurable and can be governed.