Comment by quinnjh
2 days ago
Forgive me if you’re already familiar, but if you’re interested in this metaphor you may like reading Stafford Beer’s work on organizational and system models. (1959, 1972)
2 days ago
Forgive me if you’re already familiar, but if you’re interested in this metaphor you may like reading Stafford Beer’s work on organizational and system models. (1959, 1972)
The interesting thing to me about Beer's work, is that the complexity of control systems, is that it's not directed, it's inherent.
This leads me to assumptions about the inherent nature of language, in that it is not the contents of thought, but the vehicle.
Hence, different languages create their culture to perhaps a much larger degree than we tend to credit it.
Assumptions, but I tend towards this view.