On 3 Dec 99, at 12:28, PEPE wrote:
> When we get together many Learning Individuals in a Learning Collective,
> why don't we get the same type of outputs from the Learning Individual
> that we would have got when the individual would have worked alone?
> "PEPE" <u198093@ximb.ac.in>
Hello Pépé and others interested in the dialectic of learning individuals
(LI) and learning collectives (LC):
It seems, by raising this point, Pépé has articulated a key problem in the
study of learning organisations (LO). The key problem seems to be this:
The process of learning has been expressed (specified) in various ways
(see for example the learning theories at
http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/theories.html). However, what still seems
mysterious is what happens when two (or more) such processes of learning
begin to interact. Sometimes, such interaction might produce mutually
nullifying effects and the interacting processes might 'run out of steam'.
At other times, the interacting processes might produce a mutually
strengthening effect and produce extra- ordinary results.
It is tempting to view the evolution SCIENCE itself as an instance of a
mutually amplifying interaction of numerous learning processes. One has to
look at the 'forms of interaction' among scientific groups to identify
some of the key features of such mutually amplifying interaction.
It is also tempting to view the evolution of SPECIES as another instance
of a mutually amplifying interaction of learning processes. Taking
Maturana's example of Frogs and Worms, both are engaged in their own
learning processes so to speak, and also engaged in an interaction that
makes them both more and more frog-like and worm-like respectively.
I would like to pause here, joining my thoughts with Pépé's, wondering
whether there is something deep and tricky in the interaction of multiple
learning processes!
Love.
DP
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Prof. D. P. Dash
Xavier Institute of Management
Bhubaneswar 751013
India
New E-Mail: dpdash@ximb.ac.in
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