Posts Tagged ‘Systems’
On Borders and Beyond
We all live in a world which is in so many ways defined by boundaries, borders, measurements, limitations and attributed (arbitrary) values. That these various metrics are themselves only really tools with which to understand the world was long ago obscured by a culture and society that has become enamoured of it’s own image, projected upon the world, and mistaken for the essential reality underlying that world. That the boundaries, borders and many measurements we make of the world, that we impose upon the world, are not themselves the actual world they refer to appears to be illustrative a of deep error in our existential calculus. The old Zen proverb about the finger that points to the moon not itself being the moon is a salient reminder of the limitations of language, of number and of measurement or differentiation.
