A Tree of Thoughts (Oliver Ding, v4/v5, March 31, 2024)
Update

The above diagram is the newest tree of my thoughts. This week I worked on editing a new possible book titled Mapping Creative Dialogue: The ECHO Way and Creative Life.
In the past several years, I developed a set of concepts, diagrams, knowledge frameworks, and metaphors to discuss a family of topics such as boundary innovation, opposite themes, thematic conversation, creative dialogue, etc.
In the past several weeks, I realized that “Creative Dialogue” is a significant aspect of Creative Life. So I decided to add “Creative Dialogue” as a new unit of analysis to Creative Life Theory and edit a new possible book.

Where did I put this new possible book in the tree?
See the piece below. I place it inside the box of Experience (Meaning).
Why?
Because “Creative Dialogue” is a new Unit of Analysis of Creative Life Theory. The new Unit of Analysis is for research and reflection. It is about Meaning Discovery.

The tree starts with the primary idea of “Container (Containee)”. See the map below.

This idea keeps the original structure of V3.
You can find more details in the links below:
- A Tree of Thoughts (Oliver Ding, v3, Feb 8, 2024)
- A Tree of Thoughts (Oliver Ding, v1, v2, Jan 5, 2024)
V5
I also tried a new version and modified the original structure of the tree. See the diagram below.

I added a new section called “Other(Self)” under “Life(Self)” and “Social (Cognition)” because one part of Mapping Creative Dialogue is called “ARCH” which is about intersubjectivity.
I also moved The ECHO Way from “Framework” to the section “Other(Self)”. In fact, one part of Mapping Creative Dialogue is “The ECHO Way”, so it is reasonable to place The ECHO Way under Mapping Creative Dialogue.

The v5 changes the structure of the tree. See the diagram below.

V4 and V5 are good solutions to placing the 30th possible book in the tree.
