Humberto Maturana's....

[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

"Ontology of Observing" is
 online at 
www.inteco.cl/biology/ontology/index.htm



> From: John Schinnerer <eco_living@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:57:06 -0800 (PST)
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Re: 1/2 OT Re: Alfred Korzybski ad nauseum
> 
> Aloha,
> 
> Well, call it 1/2 OT if y'all wish.
> 
>> 1. The map is not the territory.
>> 2. The map doesn't cover all the territory.
>> 3. The map reflects the map maker.
> 
> Bingo, especially #3.
> 
>> I want to state here with vehemence that I reject
>> the assumption that tradition has more value than
>> modern forms of knowledge. On such a foundation
>> rests the anti-human character of doctrines as
>> diverse as rightwing social darwinism, Nazism,
>> political correctness and institutional religion.
> 
> This appears to me to be a confusion of message with medium.  There is
> plenty of "positive" knowledge conveyed through "traditional" means,
> and plenty of both that and of death and destruction (and just plain
> muddleheadedness) conveyed thorugh modern means.  As to the message
> *of* the medium...opinions vary.  ;-)
> 
> 
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