Topic: | ReReReReReReReRe:Re:note-able quotes |
Posted by: | Daisey |
Date/Time: | 22/03/2003 14:40:29 |
Subject:NLP NEW CODE, Ericksonian Hypnosis and Batesonian Philosiphy re: unsconcious and conscious process's "We now know with consciderable certinty that the ancient problem of whether the mind is immanent or transcendent can be answered in favor of immanence, and that the answer is more economical of explanatory entities than any transcendent answer: it has at least the negative support of Occam's Razor. On the positive side, we can assert that any ongoing ensemble of events and objects which has the appropraite complexity of casual circuts will show mental characteristics. It will compare, that is , be responsive to difference ( in addition to being affected by ordinary physical "causes" such as impact or force). IT will "process information" and will inevitably be self corrective eitherv towards homeostatic optima or toward the maximation of the variables. A bit of informationis definable as a diffrnce which makes a difference. Such a difference as it travels and undergoes succesive transformation in a circut is an elementary idea. But most relevant in the present context, we know that no part of such an internally interactive system can have unilateral control over the remainder or over any other part, The mental characteristic are inherent or immanent in the ensemble as a whole." Gregory Bateson Steps to an Ecology of Mind The Epistemology of Cybernetics pg 315 happy days Daisey |