REFERENCES AND QUOTES Philosophy 2021 World view -
References and quotes THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER Linear minds in a nonlinear world. 91 “Ideally, we would have the mental flexibility to find the appropriate boundary for thinking about each new problem. We are rarely that flexible.” “Think how many arguments have to do with boundaries - national boundaries, trade boundaries, ethnic boundaries, boundaries between public and private responsibility, and boundaries between the rich and the poor, polluters and pollutees, people alive now and people who will come in the future.” 98“Boundaries are of our own making, and that they can and should be reconsidered for each new discussion, problem, or purpose.” 99 “your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension” 163 Kuhn, changing paradigms, “You keep pointing at the anomalies and failures in the old paradigm. You keep speaking and acting, loudly and with assurance, from the new one. You insert people with the new paradigm in places of public visibility and power. You don’t waste time with reactionaries; rather, you work with active change agents and with the vast middle ground of people who are open-minded.”, build models to get perspective 164 transcending paradigms gives us freedom from world view lets us choose one that best serves our purpose 166 I DANA (DONELLA) MEADOWS LECTURE: SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS progenitor of systems is mindset/world views/paradigms 7.22 screw up mindset 09.54 play 22.17 I MEASURING REGENERATIVE ECONOMICS: 10 PRINCIPLES AND MEASURES UNDERGIRDING SYSTEMIC ECONOMIC HEALTHself-organization and evolution of intelligence 23 I THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: THE RACE TO GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN A WORLD IN CRISIS Descartes, dualism, Spock and Captain Kirk and removing what is being human, “Perhaps the most indispensable thing we can do as human beings, every day of our lives, is remind ourselves and others of our complexity, fragility, finiteness, and uniqueness”, Damasio 145 Mental phenomena an organisms interacting in environment, “the act of thinking combines sensations, feelings, emotions, and abstract reasoning in an embodied way”. We are relational. “To be means to communicate…. To be means to be for another, and through the other, for oneself. A person has no internal sovereign territory, he is wholly and always on the boundary; looking inside himself, he looks into the eyes of another or with the eyes of other”, Bakhtin 147 a priori truths vs embodied experience, development of thought and language as relational 148 “In a very real sense, each of us is an extended being, living of the entropic flow.“ See Prigogines dissipative structures 149 “that the very properties for concepts are created as a result of the way the brain and body are structured and the way they function in interpersonal relations and in the physical world”, Lakoff and Johnsson “reason is not disembodied, as the tradition has largely held, but arises from the nature of our brains, bodies, and bodily experience,….The same neural and cognitive mechanisms that allow us to perceive and move around also create our conceptual systems and modes of reason… Reason is not in any way, a transcendent feature of the universe or of disembodied mind. Instead, it is shaped crucially by the peculiarities of our human bodies, by the remarkable details of the neural structure of our brains, and by the specifics of our everyday functioning in the world.” , Lakoff and Johnsson 151 We humans transform our bodily experience/perceptions into primary metaphors, then used to create abstract. Through metaphors we imagine and create our reality. It helps us share our inner world. 152 “The building up of more and more abstract metaphors form simple primary metaphors that are common to the to the experience of every member of our species is the key to imagining each other’s reality” See FINDING FRAMES: NEW WAYS TO ENGAGE THE UK PUBLIC IN GLOBAL POVERTY Lakoff on frames 153 Bacon vs Maturanas and Varelas autopoietic system See THE DYNAMICS OF SELF-RENEWAL: A SYSTEMS-THINKNING TO UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZAITIONAL CHALLENGES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS 154 truths that exist a priori vs truths from shared experiences “if reality is something we make together out of our shared experiences, then truths are not objective autonomous phenomena but, rather , the explanations we make about the common experiences what we share with each other” 155 “All of our truths are just a systemizing of our existing relationships and commonly shared understandings. 156 Economic need behind the creation of nation-state 292 “in reality the nation-stat is more of an ‘imaginary community’ – an artificial construct largely create by political and economic elites to foster more expansive national trading markats and to secure overseas colonies.” 293 Massimo D’Azeglio 1861, “We have now made Italy, now we have to make Italians”, nation-states had to establish picture of people with noble past and with greatness laying ahead 294 Creating identity meant suppressing diversity. At the unification of Italy only 2,5 % spoke Italian. Similar story in Germany and France 295 I MYTEN OM MASKINEN: ESSÄER OM MAKT; MODERNITET OCH MILJÖ“Vi måste reflektera över hur säregena och frörtusägbara föreställningar om världens beskaffenhet kan få investeringar I specifika materialla infrastrukturer att framstå som teknologier som är oumbärliga för männniskors överlevnad” The society is a bigger version of ourselves and acknowledging its possible breakdown would be recognizing our mortality. 22 interest is makebelief See THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER 24 our sustainability problem is cultural, how we think and organize 27 the zero sum game and the need for a vision 53 need for visions 66 How ideas affect material processes, get perspective on our idea systems to evaluate them and comparing them with alternative systems that might reflective higher value in terms of well-being See Thinking in systems 163 78 defamiliarizing 154 fetishisms 159 Cultural manipulations, cognitive processing of societal injustices to ease tension between the reality and the ideal. Ayni, Lancashire and water, Nigeria, oil and world market prices. See through the fog of cultural categories to perceive the real transfer of exergy, working hours and hectares. 160 Poverty and technology development are two sides of the same coin as time and spatial resources are limited. “Från gudaföda till maskinfetishems förblir de ekonomiska systems landskap möblerade med våra egenhändigt tillverkade synvillor”. 164 Dualism created dichotomies like the fissures between man and nature, spirit and matter, mind and body and it formed the idea of one ruling of the other See on Cartesian dualism Empathic Civilization 145 - 166 confronting cartesian dualism, semiotic, Pierce and von Uexküll 167 confronting cartesian dualism, knowledge is a relation, Maturana and Vareal, all perceptions are all made through culture filters, or prisms. 168 the relationship between subject and object can be recursive, or mutually reinforcing. See Shroedingers cat. Einsteins theory of relativity. vs Cartesian drive for certainty vs Heisenberg and uncertainty 169 Prigogine and uncertainty. Self-organization. See The dynamics of self-renewal: A systems-thinking to understanding organizational challenges in dynamic environments 6 - 170 Economics, politics and technology embedded in culture. Defamiliarization to be able to see our cultural perceptions 177 I PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTH People resist sustainable change as it asks them to “give up key capabilities and freedoms as social beings”, cultural frameworks shape and constrain our lives 151 “None of this is inevitable. We can’t change ecological limits. We can’t alter human nature. But we can and do create and recreate the social world. Its norms are our norms. Its visions are our visions. Its structures and institutions shape and are shaped by our norms and visions. This is where transformation is needed.” 219 sacred canopy 221 axiomatic economic truths dissolve under scrutiny 227 I A BLUEPRINT FOR SURVIVAL Political reality 5 real costs and the Spartan 21 I DECOUPLING DEBUNKED – EVIDENCE AND ARGUMENTS AGAINST GREEN GROWTH AS A SOLE STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY problem of political imagination 59 I THE DYNAMICS OF SELF-RENEWAL: A SYSTEMS-THINKNING TO UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZAITIONAL CHALLENGES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS Maturana’s and Varela’s autopoietic systems 11 I ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS – PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS Schumpeter’s preanalytic vision, what’s excluded and included, and Kuhn, paradigms and revolutionary science 23 fallacy of misplaced concreteness 30 invention of money 245 things really can be better 427 I ARBETSSAMHÄLLET – HUR ARBETET ÖVERLEVDE TEKNOLOGIN “At first, sheer force compelled them to produce and part with the surplus. Gradually, however, it was found possible to induce many of them to accept an ethic according to which it was their duty to work hard, although part of their work wnt to support others in idleness. By this means the amount of compulsion required was lessened, and the expenses of government were diminished. To this day, 99 per cent of British wage-earners would be genuinely shocked if it were proposed that the King should not have a larger income than a working man.”, Bertrand Russell 41 Kropotkin, instead of the right to work, the right for to well-being 48 Kropotkin, “The “right to well-being” means the possibility of living like human beings, and of bringing up children to be members of a society better than ours, whilst the “right to work” only means the right to be always a wage-slave, a drudge, ruled over and exploited by the middle class of the future. The right to well-being is the Social Revolution, the right to work means nothing but the Treadmill of Commercialism. It is high time for the worker to assert his right to the common inheritance and to enter into possession.” Lafargue on the shame as work as a right. 49 the triumph of one-dimensional thinking 50 difference between desired and desirable, Russel on Mills 51 how politicians lost their imagination to what works 52, 53 mild nihilism 53 one-dimensional acceptance of the existing worse and rejecting of the possible better 81 “Politics finds its oomph in the relative deprivation, not in handling necessity but in the realization of possibility”, See p 50 above 94 awake the happy robot with art 114 series of naturalized falsehood and the overwhelming wholeness 127 The elimination of the relative deprivation 215 Structures affect human beings and human beings affect structures. All societal change requires micro and macro changes 216 I DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST power of eye and picture in changing world view See Empathic Civilization Lakoff on metaphors 152 19 Schumpeter and preanalytic vision, Mannheim and worldview, Goffman and framing See Finding frame 68 -, sacred canopy Prosperity without growth 221, “map is not territory”, Korzybski “All models are wrong, but some are useful”, George Box 24 Have to replace a frame with a new one See Common cause 44 Finding frame 82, visual framing 26 Art of articulating an new goal, help politicians and economists who lacks the imagination and words to envision a better goal for the world. People, even economists, have thought about different goals, e.g Sismondi, Rushkin, Gandhi, Schumacher, Max-Neef, Sen. The doughnut of Raworth 40 what are not included in the models is important, Sterman 60 Distributing ownership/wealth See zero sum game Hornborg, poverty handling Georgescu-Roegen, success to the succeful loop Thinking in system 147 sign of Fay Lewis 150 try different approaches 151 I ENERGY AND ECONOMIC MYTHS open boarders and let human beings move freely, not 65 378 I THE ECONOMICS OF THE COMING SPACESHIP EARTH “The only answer to this, as far as I can see, is to point out that the welfare of the individual depends on the extent to which he can identify himself with others, and that the most satisfactory individual identity is that which identifies not only with a community in space but also with a community extending over time from the past into the future.” 10 I BEYOND GROWTH “I close with the wish that my work should receive rigorous but impartial examination. I am in a strong position to insist on this request because I was forced to fight so many mistaken ideas generally considered correct, ideas that have thus become so much more dear to the heart of many, yes, very many people, because their position in life is partly or wholly dependent upon accepting these ideas as true. Giving up these ideas would put them in the situation in which I now find myself, namely, at a mature age to have to look for a new position.” 198


World view We are one with the biosphere