Replying to LO30542 --
Dear Organlearners,
DP Dash < dpdash@ximb.ac.in > wrote:
>Is simulating death a way of learning?
Greetings dear DP,
What a profound question! How do one simulate death? Having been in the
"jaws of death" usually makes one realise how worthless material
possesions are. So in such a simulation one ought to give up on such
possesions to gain something else. What?
An emergence in spirituality to a higher level of it. In other words,
simulating death will be a pround case of emergent learning. I remember
that Andrew is deeply impressed by May and Miriam who have given up on the
luxuries of civilisation to help the destitute to gain in knowledge and
compassion. These two women certainly have simluated death with respect to
the luxuries of Western civilisation.
Giving up on some part of a system's organisation to release some free
energy so that a new dimension to its organisation can be created, is
something which i call the "creative collapse". Someone like Derrida will
call it a "deconstruction". Creative collapses are often vital to emergent
learning.
With care and best wishes
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