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Perceptual positions are first on the partial list of new code patterning (p. 239), essential ingredients of the new code.
I want to ask the reader to pause briefly to respond to a hypothetical proposal from someone that the five representational systems be relabeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (instead of visual auditory etc.) I doubt that you would consider that an improvement, because numbers are a much more abstract and general verbal coding than words like visual that already have a simple meaning that is reasonably close to sensory-based experience.
The perceptual positions were probably numbered by following the terms first person, second person, third person familiar to linguists, but I think this is a carryover from the early modeling that ought to be revised to make learning easier. For over 15 years we have been using self, observer and other. This makes learning much easier, and also avoids other errors that are more likely with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd coding.
In order to take other position, you have to spatially leave self position and thenstep into (p. 251) the other persons position. As you do this you have to pass through observer position as you make the transition between self and other.
Since one has to go from 1st position into 3rd position in order to get into 2nd position, the number sequence is misleading. The 1, 2, 3 coding imposes a sequence which is not only functionally inaccurate in terms of the process that one has to go through in order to change positions, it is also different than the sequence in which the positions are usually taught and learned.
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