To enhance understanding of TOP, I found the following examples from
AMY very useful:
in "Which Way Out", page 120, figures 17 and 18.
The first example deals with buying and selling stocks.
See
explanatory text pp. 118-120. I used this example, together with fig.
19, p. 121,
to develop a better understanding of the seven stages.
Fig. 18 deals with communication and shows the process
of registration
of sounds (second stage),
application of rules/alphabet (stage 3),
extracting words (stage 4),
establishment of meaning and sentences
(stage 5),
attribution of value, emotion (stage 6),
while thought in A
is designated as the first stage and thought in the receiver B as
seventh stage.
One can see that the second stage deals with "raw material" to be processed in subsequent stages
leading to emotion in stage 6.
This can motivate the receiver B to react to the input from A,
which means that a dialogue can ensue, forming a circuit, so to speak,
along which flows "charge",
emotion expressed through language
(verbal and non-verbal!), and meaning.