Narrow frame insight
Contents
Five Insights: Narrow Frame
Interests
- Scientific method
- Scientific worldview
- Language
- Concept definitions
- Worldview
- Causality
- Knowledge creation
Scope
We look at the very way in which we look at the world. We take off our 'eyeglasses'.
Insight
We may need to update this ideogram. And call it the Holoscope ideogram. The inscription should read "holoscope" instead of "polyscopy". There was also that eye on the left, which Fredrik thought was not necessary...
Not only "the scientific method", but also our language represents the narrow frame. To see the whole, we must create the way we look at things.
Interpretation: Once we understood that "the scientific method", and more generally our (culturally) sanctioned ways in which we look at the world are our own or our culture's creation – it became clear that the "right" way to use it is to recreate it and continue recreating it consciously, so that we may see more. To adapt our way of looking at the world to what needs to be seen.
Reversals
- Scientific method – is a narrow frame; served well for some purposes, poorly for others; must be re-created
- Scientific worldview – what most of us believe is "scientific worldview", is really just the narrow frame that our culture adopted from the 19th century science; must be thoroughly revised
- Language: any fixed language is a narrow frame
- Concept definitions: Must be flexible, by convention; to see differently, we must be able to speak differently
- Worldview: Models are to be used, but not to be believed
- Causality: It's been the root of all evil; as M. C. Bateson observed, what we need is "cognitive therapy"...
- Knowledge creation: Must itself be created; Our trusted methods must be federated
Story
Double sleet experiment; "particle" and "wave" are words we've acquired through experience with pebbles and water.
Heisenberg's quotation. How it got ignored.
Keywords
Prototypes
Concept definition prototypes...
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