seven plus or minus two (miller)
“What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead” (norbert wiener)
“To live effectively is to live with adequate information.” (norbert wiener)
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions (norbert wiener)
we stand in relation to the world as in a mirror that does not tell us how the world is (varela)
the fact that we can coordinate our own sense data into recurrent structures can never prove that these structures are ontologically real
(Ernst von Glasersfeld)
Break the pattern which connects the items of learning, and you necessarily destroy all quality (Gregory Bateson)
some sort of self-fulfilment, occurs in all organisations and human cultures (Gregory Bateson)
A living system, due to its circular organization, is an inductive system and functions always in a predictive manner; what occurred once will occur again. Its organization (both genetic and otherwise) is conservative and repeats only that which works (Humberto Maturana)
disagreements can only be solved by entering a domain of co-inspiration, in which things are done together because the participants want to do them
(humberto maturana)
the self resides in no place at all, but merely manifests itself in the continuity of our acts of differentiating and relating and in the intuitive certainty we have that our experience is truly ours (Ernst von Glasersfeld)
I would be inclined to argue that all of us would be better off if we set out to be something other than what we are (george kelly)
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
There’s no sense in being precise when you don’t even know what you’re talking about.
John von Neumann
The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. adorno
“for machines that deal with people rather than people that deal with machines!” (mxhz.org)
“everything that can be marketed will eventually vanish” (mxhz.org)