Replying to LO26832 --
Dear Organlearners,
Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> writes:
>I suspect that labels which identify can be useful
>(it's more efficient to say, "Hello, At," than to say
>"Hello to the tall guy in the corner with the green
>shirt--no, not you, the one next to the woman in
>the purple--yes, you, hello").
Greetings dear Bill,
Yes, what you say is true when you cannot get close to the person whom you
want to greet. It happens, for example, in a lecture hall where the
students sit in rows of seats with only two or three corridors.
(But for me self its an architectural error based on the Mental Model
"fill the empty container".)
When I greet a person I need to make close eye contact. Dogs sniff at each
other, but humans look each other in the eye. Eyes tell more than words
can say. So what are we going to do with this problem?
(If I had any say in the allocation of symbols in ANSI, I would have
reserved ten codes for different eye expressions. But again it is a
problem like the lecture hall is one.)
>What you've done, At, in your usual clarifying
>way, is to remind us that, like Jack and Jill, vision
>and mission are in some senses complementary.
>It's not so important, perhaps, that we call them
>by prescribed names but that we recognize their
>complementary nature and the importance of such
>complementarity (?) in what we're doing.
Now you are speaking!! And this on merely the essentiality liveness
("becoming-being").
I think in my personal contemplations of any such a "becoming-being"
complementary dual as an "Elementary Organiser" (EO). For example, think
of "painting picture" as an EO. Now think of the incredible richdom of
artistic paintings over the whole world it has organised into. Another
example, think of "planting seed" as an EO. Now think of the horticulture
on the entire world we have today.
When both humankind (whatever labeling) and at least one animal species
share an EO, then I think of it as an "Elementary Sustainer of Creativity.
(ESC) In this sense "solving-problem" is not only an EO, but also an ESC.
Why? (1)Young kids up to old people, the rich and the poor, the white
through the brown to the black, all of them can solve problems. (2) Also
many kinds of animals solve problems too, although not as often as some
humans, yet perhaps more than some others.
In the sense of an EO (elementary organiser) the "mission-vision" can do
the same, although the two words do not suggest it. Perhaps the phrase
"calling-target" with "calling"=mission and "target"=vision would have
done better. But I do not think so because changing the course of a
titanic tanker takes a long time.
But wait, there is more to it, or click ESC.
When the vision is formulated more complex than the mission, it becomes
possible for some people to divide the vision in a YES and a NO part. Now,
for me any "becoming-being" complementary dual developing into a
"becoming-YES/NO" pair becomes an "elementary classifier" (EC)
An EC works differently than a EO. Whereas the EO creates a panorama of
species, the EC needs such a panorama of species to operate on. A couple
of months ago I was at a hospital of which in the voyer the mission and
vision were exhibited. The vision was too heavy so that the whole effect
made an EC out of what ought to have been and EO. Almost every worker in
that hospital, from bed servants to the matrons, wanted to classify things
which came to them rather than to self-organise with them.
By the way, the EO which I have been pestering you fellow learners with
for so many years now, is "LEP-LEC" (Law of Entropy Production and Law of
Energy Conservation).
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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