Processes and Boundaries of the Mind Extending the Limit Line
How is it that the world is conceived as exclusively populated by objects (e.g. books, cars, numbers, and people) while cognition is first and foremost a dynamic process? Inquiring into the `reified universe' Dr. Neuman explores questions of mind, reality
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Contemporary Systems Thinking Series Editor: Robert L. Flood Monash University Australia
CRITICAL SYSTEMIC PRAXIS FOR SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Participatory Policy Design and Governance for a Global Age Janet McIntyre-Mills DESIGNING SOCIAL SYSTEMS IN A CHANGING WORLD Bela H. Banathy GUIDED EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY A Systems View Bela H . Banathy METADECISIONS Rehabilitating Epistemology John P. van Gigch POWER, IDEOLOGY, AND CONTROL John C. Oliga PROCESSES AND BOUNDARIES OF THE MIND Extending the Limit Line Yair Neuman SOCIOPOLITICAL ECOLOGY Human Systems and Ecological Fields Frederick L. Bates SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice Gerald Midgley SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY FOR THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES Michael C. Jackson
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PROCESSES ANO BOUNOARIES OF THE MINO Extending the Limit Line
Yair Neuman Ben-Gl/rion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel
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To Orna, Yiftach, Yaara and Tamar and To Zvi Bekerman, who first introduced me to the writings of Bateson, Bakhtin and Volosinov
Preface Men who love wisdom must be good inquirers into many things indeed. Heraclitus
Someone has amusingly defined an intellectual as a person who finds at least one thing more interesting than sex. As a young child, before sex was an appealing alternative, I found myself fascinated by ideas. While my schoolmates were obsessively occupied with soccer and collecting bubblegum cards, I was occupied with collecting bubblegum cards and reading books that caught me in their imaginary world. I can still remember myself as a schoolboy playing with ideas and for instance trying passionately to convince a friend that, based on Darwin's theory of evolution, chimpanzees all over the world were going to evolve into an intelligent species and would get even with humankind for treating them so badly. Since my
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