Multi-perspectualism: Overlooking and Overlooked [Tom Mandel, ISSS 1998
Paper Session, July 20/98]
These notes are a rough transcription,
prepared as each individual presenter and/or commentator spoke at the ISSS
1998 conference. Gaps and errors have likely occurred. For more accurate
citations, please consult the original presenters. These notes have been
contributed to the ISSS by David Ing, of the IBM Advanced Business Institute
(sabi@systemicbusiness.org).
[Paper session, July 20/98, 4:10 p.m.]
Tom Mandel
Multi-perspectualism
Idea to create primer, got a note from Linstone on T, O and P perspectives.
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Didn't use the approach, initially.
Then got a paper for Zhichang Zhu
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Li means essence.
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Wu Li, matter
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Shi Li relation
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Ren Li, personal
Same idea, coming from a different part of the world.
Bela Banathy came up with the term: LENS
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Trying to create a zoom lens to see far and close.
Talk to systematics people:
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John Bennett thinks systems can be from a numbers view.
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Monad has a universal attribute.
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Two has complementary attribute.
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Three has relation
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Four has action
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(There's five, six, seven, eight ...)
Came from Zen Buddhism which doesn't like dualism -- a bad thing.
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Complementary also means contrast (which is what science does).
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All of these views are valid, and none are wrong.
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Then the problems in the world are all different perspectives, and it's
not that some are wrong and some are right.
Diagram:
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A dot in space is location.
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A second point creates an emergent property, distance -- not predicted
by location.
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A third point creates area -- not predicted by distance.
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A forth point creates volume -- not predicted by area.
It all depends on how you look at it!
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