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definition: double bind

• the definition of a double bind is that you have a problem (a bind) in one context and you can't actually solve it in that context because it's caught in another context
• Gregory Bateson defined the double bind as an evolutionary trait of species due to their changing nature.
  • Since individuals of a species are constantly changing, there comes a day when all that it knows what to do in order to survive is outdated due to the changing environment. When it repeats the old behavior that served its survival in the past, it dies.

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• adjacency
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    • double bind
    • progress trap
• adjacency statement
  • progress traps are related to double binds because in a progress trap, an implemented solution to a problem in one context gives rise to a new problem in another context.
  • the original problem (bind) in one context appears to be resolvable but actual isn't. Future unfolding of the implemented solution unfold a future unexpected problem.
  • The two problems are not simultaneously occurring as in a double bind, but time-delayed
  • both double bind and progress traps emerge from the same root of violating holism
  • in not grasping the implications of the emptiness of phenomena, we ignore intertwingled nature of reality, we circumvent Indra's meet of jewels at our own peril