Learning and Partisanship LO22535

Winfried Dressler (winfried.dressler@voith.de)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:33:50 +0200

Replying to LO22523 --

>A paradigm shift doesn't change the phenomena.

Jan, sorry for just picking a part of a sentence of your thoughtful
contribution. But this one is important for me.

What about the following:

A paradigm shift supports creation of phenomena.

To give a drastic example: How many paradigm shifts were necessary since
the origin of species, until tons of steel flying through the sky became
an observable phenomenum? Uncountable.

An airplane reflect a certain level of engineered organization. The idea
is also valid for levels of self organization, which are prerequisite to
engineered organization. These levels enhance by means of paradigm shifts.

Now, if by means of a paradigm shift new phenomena are being created, is
it possible that the old phenomena remain unchanged?

I remember very well the contribution, where At described the fate of the
San-people (LO18555, July 1998)

Liebe Gruesse,

Winfried

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