Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:NLP Changework vs. Therapy and Coaching |
Posted by: | nj |
Date/Time: | 30/04/2003 01:45:06 |
Hello, Mr. Schertzer. 1. You wrote, "I would only disagree..., that either researchers or artists can specifically choose what they want the future to include." Do you agree that researchers and artists can generally choose what they want the future to include? 2. You wrote, "I believe accident and discovery play very important roles all the way through." If you don't want to utilize the product you discover by accident, you can set that product aside. You could build additional products on what you discovered by accident, but first decide if you want the world-at-large to receive those products. 3. You wrote, "The process of research develops products, but alters context as well. What we want the future to include may not be appropriate when the time comes." You could say that any potential research products might be valuable, and so you perform research even though your expected research products are not what you want the future to include. I disagree with that approach to research, whether or not the products that you or someone else produces might unpredictably change future contexts. Any research you perform might produce products you can't expect with certainty. But you can imagine possible undesirable research products in advance, and use your imaginings to guide your decision-making. Some NLPer's think that all you need to do is imagine what you want to produce, and that is all you'll get. Not so. Other people can do differently with your research products than you will. Toward the end of "Whispering In The Wind", the authors Ms. Bostic St. Clair and Dr. Grinder discuss lack of human identification with other humans. A Science Of Representations might influence people to conceptualize humans as machines, as if human cognitive products are technology products. Who knows what financial or cultural or intellectual or social forces make a product flourish? If a research activity could produce undesirable products... should you do that research? If you are a researcher, you can answer that question. -nj |