Meta Model, Reality and Symbolic Reality

What is the relationship between reality, the meta model and symbolic reality?

We live in a complex reality. Millions or bits of information impinge on us every second, of which we are consciously aware of only a few. When experiencing our personal reality we use the three universal modeling processes:

• Deletion
• Distortion
• Generalization

When we speak to describe our personal reality we use the universal modeling processes:

• Deletion
• Distortion
• Generalization

Hence it seems we apply the universal modeling processes twice, once in creating our symbolic reality, and once in talking about it.

Given that we operate in (and represent) a cybernetic system then:

• our creation of a symbolic reality impacts upon the external reality that we experience
  
• our description of our symbolic reality (which is the only reality that we normally discuss) impacts on that symbolic reality, locking aspects into place, changing other aspects
• the symbolic reality we create impacts on the language we use
• the language we use impacts upon our perceived external reality

And so on