Virtual learning

Characteristic of nonreflective consciousness and physical development, this is the first mode of learning posited by Jantsch and Waddington in their ontogenetic model of human consciousness. It is equivalent to sperm-egg consciousness, commencing in an awareness of source and culminating in conception with the development of perinatal consciousness; it is characterized by response. Changes forecast are very short-range. On a human scale, there is naive participation in the surroundings with submission to things as they are; transition from virtual to functional learning levels is equivalent to the struggle of the individual for survival, resulting in the development of social systems.

One of four learning processes distinguished (Lazslo, 1972) by the type of consciousness brought into play.