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  1. Oct 2023
    1. how do we 01:03:46 meet not match right so this is an image that meets all of this these images are going to go for 01:04:00 decontextualized singular responses that are going to create more double binds if you try to solve for life on land you're going to end up with life on 01:04:12 water being a disaster life in water or life in the air or life right if you try to solve for one you get into these contradictions and double binds
      • for: holism, progress trap, double bind, SDG failure

      • comment

        • In the current silo'd approach typified by the SDGs, unintended consequences, or progress traps are unavoidable and are built into the approach itself.
    2. this is what happens when we don't tend to the whole um 00:28:38 things break the responses that get made get made to one part at a time and then those responses create more problems right so if you say okay we have to 00:28:57 address the climate change problem so clearly we have to stop producing carbon okay but um that sends the economy into complete failure
      • for: holism, polycrisis, quote, quote - Nora Bateson, quote - polycrisis, intertwingled problems

      • quote

        • This is what happens when we don't tend to the whole, things break. The responses that get made to one part at a time and then those responses create more problems.
        • So you say we have to address the climate change problem so clearly we have to stop producing carbon.
          • but that sends the economy into complete failure.
          • If you send the economy into complete failure, then you're going to not have health systems and people aren't going to support themselves and your going to have food crisis
  2. Feb 2023
    1. “...the universe is individuating (in and through each of us) as the individual is universalising.”
      • Jan Smuts quote
        • the universe is individuating (in and through each of us)
        • as the individual is universalising.”
          • from his book "Holism and Evolution
    2. Holism’s father, Jan Christian Smuts, named that process of inner discovery, 'developing inwardness’.
      • definition : developing inwardness
        • the process of inner discovery
          • a deepening encounter and embrace of the complex, living "here and now"
          • gradual alignment with the on-going evolutionary process
        • defined by Jan Smuts
    1. Einstein declared after he studied ‘ Holism and Evolution ’ that two mental constructs would direct human thinking in the next millennium* his own theory of relativity and Smuts> of ‘ holism ’ .
      • Einstein studied Jan Smuts book, "Holism and Evolution"
      • Einstein declared that two constructs would direct human thinking in the next millenium, relativity and Smuts' "holism"
    2. )he most important result of the idea of the whole is the appearance of the concept of creativeness.
      • the most important result of the idea of the whole is creativity
    3. understanding of the universe would not be found merely in the examination of ‘ parts ’ but in the recognition of ‘ wholes ’ and the observation of process.
      • Jan Smuts = definition of Holism = progression of wholes
    4. Holism and Evolution by Jan Christian Smuts – a re- evaluation after 90 years

      = title = Holism and Evolution

  3. Jan 2023
    1. “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”

      !- quotable : Einstein on holism

    2. A re-evaluation of ‘Holism and Evolution’ by Jan Christian Smuts after 90 years.

      !- Title : A re-evaluation of ‘Holism and Evolution’ by Jan Christian Smuts after 90 years. !- Author : Claudius van Wyk

  4. Mar 2022
    1. PLE is the educational manifestation of the web’s “small pieces loosely joined,” a “world of pure connection, free of the arbitrary constraints of matter, distance, and time.”

      The quotation here is a strong one because I have always felt that many curriculums are constrained by the rules and laws that govern certain institutes - it leaves little to be explored and imagined sometimes ... so the aspect of small pieces coming together to create a larger whole feeds into that aspects of 'ecology'. It is what we might refer to in the design/ art space as gestalt.

  5. Jan 2017
  6. Dec 2015
    1. The good news is that, while there are many variables, they are finite in number, mostly known and measurable, and mostly have a quantifiable and reasonably regular impact on the cancer outcome (if you understand all the interactions sufficiently well).

      No room for holism?