Pill Pod 78 - Posthumanism Manifesto
Added 2022-04-29 13:01:03 +0000 UTCErik and Pills do the thing. If you wonder whose name is being referenced throughout, it's the forgotten sociologist, Niklas Luhmann.
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What helps me to understand social systems and closure is the example of a football/soccer game. Imagine you can only see the referee of the match (that would be the humanistic viewpoint), and then you try to explain the referee's action. You will fail to get it right. But it becomes clear if you see the whole system (the game). Furthermore, the trainer staff is another system. It can try to irritate the game (i.e., their players, etc.) by shouting, but it can not go on the field and directly communicate within the system. How the system reacts is uncertain. Maybe the player gets demotivated or motivated. And even if they get motivated, the system is so complex that this might not lead to the goal of winning. Maybe the players get exhausted faster, which results in a loss of the game in the end. Furthermore, there are other systems in the environment of the game (the fans, clubs, ...), and the players on the field get irritated by these systems.
Dalia
2022-07-17 14:23:18 +0000 UTCIs there the concept of an influencing or dominant observer or self observing observer in 2nd order observation? A center of power, which the majority of observers feel compelled to observe and to take as objective reality? Lived reality seems to indicate an influencing observer, unions, government, advertising, financial institutions, blah blah blah, but since I don't live through the perceptive lense of systems thinking, or can lay claim to be one of those influencers, it's hard to tell whether my lived experience is even relative to the concept of a "observation center" until I am able to shift the intellectual framework through which I live.
ageOfBumFires
2022-07-17 14:00:11 +0000 UTC
