Thanks so much for that Dr. Rees. The driver of the eighteen wheeler, being drunk, has failed to notice that his truck is not fit for purpose and the owners of the trucking company have ordered him to proceed regardless of circumstances. The truck is now careening wildly down the road. It is not a question of it's crashing, only when it will.
Thanks William. Having deployed Ashby's law in planning, strategy and projects for the past 25 years I completely agree with this piece. We are beginning to help organisations understand and respond better through www.switch-platform.com It is challenging work though, for many of the reasons you outline, people who have specific training and are less inclined to think in systems and over medium to long terms. In general, high levels of conceptual ability, awareness and motivation for proper action - seem rare.
I appreciate the resonance from your real-world experience. I've speculated that humanity's apparently low levels of "conceptual ability" have become so evident in recent decades because cultural evolution has vastly outpaced bioevolution. In effect, we have rendered our brains -- the highest level of control system we have -- cognitively obsolete for survival in today's environment. Hardly anyone thinks in systems terms; we cannot wrap our heads around almost any of the major problems confronting us today, from global heating to the role of AI. See: https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/article/view/855/522
Thanks so much for that Dr. Rees. The driver of the eighteen wheeler, being drunk, has failed to notice that his truck is not fit for purpose and the owners of the trucking company have ordered him to proceed regardless of circumstances. The truck is now careening wildly down the road. It is not a question of it's crashing, only when it will.
Nice summary of the human predicament, and in so many fewer words...
Bill thanks for a brilliant presentation of ideas we have been sharing the last two decades.
Here is the next installment on predicaments and outcomes. See video:
Civilization's Predicament and its unwinding behavior
https://lite.evernote.com/note/ee411e1c-c69e-5e16-c340-c6d87c523fec
Jack Alpert PhD Director:
Stanford Knowledge Integration Laboratory http://www.skil.org
(C) 913 708 2554
jackalpert@me.com
600 word summary of Jacks work
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAmZY0Hicy9KbLmuRpZRVAjtdR3UQC_bhEE
Well, Jack, in you own inimitable way, you show that we are two strings on the same violin.
Mad truckers are a popular genre of simulation games.
Thanks William. Having deployed Ashby's law in planning, strategy and projects for the past 25 years I completely agree with this piece. We are beginning to help organisations understand and respond better through www.switch-platform.com It is challenging work though, for many of the reasons you outline, people who have specific training and are less inclined to think in systems and over medium to long terms. In general, high levels of conceptual ability, awareness and motivation for proper action - seem rare.
I appreciate the resonance from your real-world experience. I've speculated that humanity's apparently low levels of "conceptual ability" have become so evident in recent decades because cultural evolution has vastly outpaced bioevolution. In effect, we have rendered our brains -- the highest level of control system we have -- cognitively obsolete for survival in today's environment. Hardly anyone thinks in systems terms; we cannot wrap our heads around almost any of the major problems confronting us today, from global heating to the role of AI. See: https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/article/view/855/522
As discussed in the paper (and above) 'the how' to address this - is the challenge.