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| title | date | layout | tags | permalink |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| systems | 2026-04-06 | column.njk | column | /columns/2026/systems/ |
Rough Notes
"The greatest empiricist of the 20th century!"
- Boulding? - Spaceship Earth, General Systems Theory
- Meta-laws, generalizations, that leap from one discipline to another.
- We group a body of knowledge together under an umbrella of a domain, and in that box, the roots of connection may grow, but we miss the cross-cutting relationships that may have been realized, had we not kept knowledge as a house plant, bundled in a box.
- Teaching the truth vs. teaching a model. Do we confuse the latter for the former, or is it misrepresented from the get-go?
Questions
- Have we kneecapped ourselves through rigid classification, and artificial specialization?
Quotes
The power of reason must be sought
not in the rules that reason dictates to our imagination,
but in the ability to free ourselves
from any kind of rules to which we have been conditioned
through experience and tradition
- Reichenbach
ToDo
- Max Planck Scientific Autobiography