"Breaking out of an established framework of thinking or perceiving occurs in creating a theory or artistic object, yet it is not restricted to these; it is important to be able to "break frame" in our everyday lives also.
Sometimes the breaking of frame will be a direct action violating a previous framework of expectations that defined which actions were admissible or were allowed to occur, but which excluded the most functional actions or even effective ones.
The pieces of the frame - other's expectations, cultural traditions, our own habitual patterns of behavior resulting from past reinforcements, our own rules of thumb for acting - affect what range of choice we perceive, which alternatives are salient, which ones come to mind, which ones get excluded immediately, even whether we think we face a choice rather than simply a direction we must move in."
- Robert Nozick
1) Exploration begins from a framework, or "home base", of contours of significances and beliefs, and consists in the harmonic synthesis of new experiences, and therefore the reorganization of the meaningful interrelations among these frameworks, within the bounds of the affective and cognitive principles underlying the attachments to these frameworks. A three-level re-orientation takes place - phenomenology, belief, relation to principle.
2) Interestingly, while non-contradictory by necessity, these frameworks tend to be irreconcilable, and creative acts function to draw links between them that alters their place in a larger whole.
3) Rules of harmony differ according to the situational, and hence functional, context of the synthesis. Different principles reflect different approaches.
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