By Ian O. Angell, Dionysios Demetis
This textual content deconstructs the method of information discovery and conception development. Grounded within the culture of second-order cybernetics, the idea that of self-reference is utilized in the context of structures conception for you to learn the mode during which statement, paradox and fantasy turn into "structurally coupled" with cognition.
To placed this easily, actual scientists take it as a provided that the entire universe is explainable as soon as we've got came upon the underlying ideas. while social scientists and philosophers are extra delicate to the problems round how the observer really affects that that is being saw.
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Even our use of the word because is paradoxical; it being just another product of our insistence on imposing causality on the world, and our willingness to be convinced by the delusions fed back through cognition. What is more, the authors themselves have to admit that the descriptions they expound in this book, and which convince them and hopefully the readers, are also paradoxical, and necessarily so. There is no causality in the Chaos; causality is all in our heads. Chaos does not operate causally according to mathematical laws.
Yet we cannot know the cost. The price yes, but not the cost. Cost has a life cycle. The price is here and now, the cost accrues from here to eternity: ask any owner of real estate with asbestos-lined buildings in their portfolio, or with other challenged properties; ask the Central Banks, which early in 2008 had to pump huge sums of money into collapsing financial institutions following the failure of the sophisticated financial instruments that were manipulating sub-prime mortgages in the USA, and in doing so precipitated a maelstrom of nonlinear feedback.
Any embarrassment vanishes because we are no longer aware of the peculiarity. For how can it be peculiar when so many of one’s fellows accept it? It is the basic tenet of this book that all social norms, specifically the way theory is used, as in all other social endeavours, are just mystical beliefs become sensible through shared acceptance. No society is homogeneous in its strange beliefs. That is where tensions arise. ‘My’ beliefs are ‘realistic’: that is reasonable, true and sensible. ‘Yours’ are ‘mystical’: that is unreasonable, false and absurd.