I am fundamentally a biologist, a systems ecologist, and thus the notion of an ecology of ideas comes naturally, and the ecology of ideas becomes, reciprocally, a frame in which I can view the question of “what is an ecology”, or better “what have we distinguished when we see an ecology.” The same sort of reciprocal reflection applies also to the notion of “system”. What constitutes a matrix so that the elements are each autonomous yet each exist only due to the discontinuous but repeated interactions they have with each other?
And most relevant for me in the role of teacher... how does one present a matrix of ideas where each idea can only exist due to its relations with the other ideas? We don’t see this as the case in the world of ideas we grow up in, it is already a matrix, a coherent network, and we only occasionally notice some discontinuity or disharmony and become curious.
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YOUTUBE oP79SGTWrvw 2020 ASC P Bunnell 1
Submitted for the 2020 ASC Conversational Conference; Introduction to Reflections on Beauty, Truth, Good and Economy.
YOUTUBE Z3ad_dP4k-Q 2020 ASC P Bunnell 2
Submitted for the 2020 ASC Conversational Conference; Introduction to Reflections on Beauty, Truth, Good and Economy. (part 2)
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YOUTUBE 9V0KRALjgTY 2018 Languaging: a spark, some light ... and dark - part 1
This is part one of a presentation initially prepared for the Biosemiotics Conference in Berkeley, 2018. I have modified it since then. The whole is part of ongoing reflections, a work in progress.