In John Warfields work on complexity which is, in my opinion, work on human pedagogy, he states that humans cannot conceive of more than seven separate units at any one time. Seven sides to a problematic situation. He quotes various psychometric tests for that.
It resonated with me because of the seven sides of a traditional medicine circle in our council houses where the central fire represents the transformation and evolutionary character of the problem being examined. There are seven clans with seven different points of view. Kierkegaard wrote, (if I remember right from so many years ago), "Point of view for my work as an author" as a Western version of the importance of individual context in exploration of a problem. As an Artist I also do the same when creating a stage direction and picture for a story. Seven is a common number in all of this. I'm told there are even seven tectonic plates on the earth. Resonance is another way of saying all of this. But it seems that we are limited to seven if Warfield is right. His Integrated Structural Modeling ISM program for Interactive Management IM uses a computer to expand these views to over 200 different syllogisms in examining a problem. On a medicine Wheel there are 32 different perspectives inhabited by 32 individuals who have a context. They examine the problem from 32 different contexts and then they adjust the context with distance which expands the context into the thousands of different views of the problem. It takes a minimum of 13 months to complete but usually up to two years. I think of the Congressional size of bills as a version of this. What the duality or binary view does is objectify and freeze the process as Law which then makes it a rule rather than an evolving solution to a problematic situation. Working with an evolving solution to a problematic situation is what Congress should do in my opinion, but the binary system of election subverts that. The problem is that the whole fraccing culture is built on war thinking and so a "more perfect union" is an imbecilic thought. REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Stennett Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 3:35 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Hedges' position summarized. Ray, can you elaborate a bit on "seven sided thinking"? I'm not sure of what you meant with this idea. Thanks. Barry On Oct 23, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Ray Harrell wrote: > Considering that the human is really capable of seven sided > thinking, binary > thinking is just plain old lazy thought. It creates group > pathologies and > the destruction of justice. > > REH _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
