Month: February 2017

Adaptive Action and Schroedinger’s Cat

Adaptive Action and Schroedinger’s Cat

Two articles particularly caught my eye this week. Both are well worth a read. The first, by Lisa Gill, begins by quoting Margaret Wheatley who suggests that: “I realised I had been living in a Schroedinger’s cat world in every organisation I had ever been in. Each of these organisations had myriad boxes, drawn in endess …

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“Feelings of tendency”

“Feelings of tendency”

This is taken from William James “Stream of Thought” chapter. In it he argues that we have often ignored the “transitive” parts of the the stream of our thing and placed undue emphasis on the “substantive” parts. By doing so, he suggests, we have tended to confuse ” …the thoughts themselves … and the things …

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