Language and Self-Organizing Systems

[Gilbert Brenson-Lazan]

Hello,all.

Great thread!!!

All I can add is that many years of OS and other facilitating experiences 
in different countries, cultures and languages have convinced me of the 
wisdom and usefulness of the models of Radical Constructivism and the words 
(in a 1996 workshop) of Heinz Von Foerster:  "Reality (and probably 
self-organizing systems) is created, maintained and changed 
linguistically."   Especially when added to the well-known maxim of of 
Ludwig Wittgenstein: "The limits of a persons language are the limits of 
his/her world".

I am absolutely convinced of very few things, but one of them is that how 
we say what we say (linguistic construction) in the beginning stages of 
opening a space and how we construct the questions we ask, is equally or 
even more important than what we say.

At 02:00 a.m. 18/02/2005, you wrote:
>There are 12 messages totalling 1045 lines in this issue.


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