读《How To Be a Systems Thinker》

读《How To Be a Systems Thinker A Conversation With Mary Catherine Bateson》

How people think about complex wholes like the ecology of the planet, or the climate, or large populations of human beings that have evolved for many years in separate locations and are now re-integrating?

What is it to be human, what it is to share the same planet, how we are going to interact and communicate with each other?

We use metaphors to deal with complexity, but if it doesn't fit it will cause you to make errors in how you deal with your problems.

One of the problems when you bring technology into a new area is that is forces you to oversimplify.

I wonder about is how we'll be able to teach a machine to know what it doesn't know but that it might need to known in order to address a particular issue productively and insightfully. （知道什么是我们不知道的，对我们解决问题也是至关重要的。）

One of the most essential elements of human wisdom at its best is humility, knowing that you don't know everything.

What positive feedback is saying is , do more of the same.
Negative feedback corrects what you're doing.

The problem is connected to a larger system, and it's not solved by the quick fix.

A metaphor is always a framework for thinking, using knowledge of this to think about that.

The switch is from making distinctions to recognizing relationships.
What's the connection? What's the difference? You can see that this constant necessity of recognizing that things are separate and different and can be used in different ways, and then seeing that everything is connected, and how it's connected and interdependent, that this is a sort of permanent balance in human intellect.

The cause of the Arab Spring was a five-year drought, with a lot of people having difficulty feeding their families, so they migrated from the villages to the cities, looking for jobs where they would be paid money and could buy food for their families. But there were no jobs in the cities, so they had revolutions.

Cybernetic revolution had two phases: the computer science side and the systems theory side.