MindArc Depths 5–6: Understanding and Management Competencies, 128 Skills

This article presents the Meaning and Regulation layer (L2) of MindArc, the integrative mind architecture, in detail. The layer has two depths: meaning organization (D5), which has four understanding tasks, and the regulation of options and reusable rules (D6), which has four regulation tasks. One understanding task connects with one regulation task to form a line, giving four lines: Situational Framing, Signal Prioritization, Stakes Appraisal, and Course Projection. Every task has a single dimension and two poles of its own. In a given episode, each task is at one pole or the other. Competency is read from the lines that are at the pole for lines whose number is in the code, so each side has 16 codes, and the code is then read in the domain set by the drive of the same episode, namely people, work, the situation, and oneself. This yields 64 forms of Understanding Competency (R4–5) and 64 forms of Management Competency (R4–6), 128 skills in all, which form 64 pairs. The article presents the definitions of the eight tasks, the pole names in each domain, the tiers of the code, the cell names, the full names of all 128 skills, the comparison of understanding tasks with regulation tasks within one episode, and four example pairs from the four domains. The theoretical base comes from appraisal theory, the value-based decision framework, the stress-and-coping framework, work on attentional control, and work on implementation intentions, which support separating understanding tasks from regulation tasks and the mechanism of each task; but no work proposes four lines, two poles, or the definition of competency on lines. This part is therefore a proposal of the model that has not yet been tested empirically. The article summarizes the principles of measurement from real events that respondents recall, and the testable hypotheses of this layer. This article is a part article of the MindArc overview article (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23578802). The record holds the article in Thai and English.