Destruction & Creation: A Method of Thinking by John Boyd @ Comprehensivist Wed
Details
We will be discussing John Boyd's short paper on "Destruction & Creation" which lays out his method of thinking.
Please read it here to prepare for this Meetup: https://fasttransients.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/destruction_and_creation1.pdf
Please watch our Meetup giving overview of John Boyd's Ideas here: https://youtu.be/6hDhznBtN24
In this seminal paper, John Boyd argues that to increase our capacity for independent action we need to continuously engage in a relentless process of destruction and creation of conceptual structures in order to shape and adapt to a fast changing world around us. We are subject to Godel's incompleteness theorem, Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle and Entropy. We need to continually reorient by deductive, destructive analysis pulling apart our old conceptual structures, and recreating them through creative inductive synthesis. Such dynamic orientation enables us to decide and act effectively while being responsive to changing context.
Format:
- Presentation by Shrikant
- Breakout rooms
- Go around with takeaways.
- General discussion
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