In a message dated 98-10-29 09:30:14 EST, you write:
> In other words, the essence of the revolution is not in the practices
> (infomation and technology) themselves, but in the transformation of
> our thinking about them.
Thanks to At de Lange for an interesting, and apparently well- researched,
posting. Certainly one of the most lucid and insightful commentaries I"ve
seen from my occasional review of these posstings. Aren't both the Greek
quote, and your comment, a way of saying what we commonly observe today as
"our perception is our reality"?
Sad, too, is how much "wasted" energy is expended by people "creating" or
"discovering" what has already been identified by someone else, rather
than determining what exists and trying to build upon that. Your examples
point to that, and I would wager than each of us -- at least in the
business world -- have more than one personal experience that has taught
this lesson (in which we were either the "victim" or the "perpetrator").
I wonder how many times in history existing knowledge has been
re-invented. (Still, that's what happens without communication.) And, to
counter my own argument, maybe that's all that can happen at any level --
molecular to universal -- as part of the self- emergent process of life.
Dave K
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