Interesting Dichotomies
January 6, 2021•181 words
INFORMATION VS SUBSTANCE
| INFORMATION | SUBSTANCE |
| FORM | MATERIAL |
| ORGANIZATION | STUFF |
SYSTEM | NODE |
| INTEGRATION | ISOLATION |
| STRUCTURE of relationship | STRUCTURE of thing itself |
Where it's situated | What it is |
| Gregory Bateson. Systems theory. Complexity. Randomness. Chaos. | Hard sciences. Physics. Quantification. Determination. Probability. |
CHANGE VS PERSISTANS
Living organisms
BOTH
"aggressively" engage in learning and hunt for useful adaptations to stay afloat in the fitness landscape
AND
"conservatively" preserve useful strategies and existing adaptations to continue exploiting their niche in the fitness landscape.
| CHANGE | PERSISTANCE |
| PLASTICITY | HOMEOSTASIS |
| ADAPTABILITY | STABILITY |
| ABILITY TO LEARN, TRANSFORM | ABILITY TO STAY THE SAME, UPHOLD |
TO YIELD (allowing the new to come in) | TO WITHSTAND (keeping the new at bay) |
MAP VS TERRITORY
"Two Bodies"
| MAP | TERRITORY |
| CONCEPT | something that can be seen, heard, touched, felt, smelled, tasted |
COGNITION (higher NS) | SENSORY INTEGRATION (deeper NS) |
The body that can be described, put into words, named by its parts | The body that can be felt, put into sensations, experienced by its qualities |
SIGNIFIED / Signifié mental concept (plane of content) | REFERENT (semantics): specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes (plane of expression) |