Thread: difference between ‘outside’ and ‘meta’: Recently I’m noticing systems shopping conflated with being meta to systems. This is how I see the difference: ‘Systems shopping’ is my term for picking and choosing, mixing and matching, from different systems. 1/11
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Being meta to a system involves creativity, but it doesn’t necessarily involve any of the pieces of the original system. This is an important distinction between systems shopping and meta-systematicity. Systems shopping, by definition, gathers parts and pieces. 9/11
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Systems shopping is an act of collection and comparison, often collective and collaborative. The pieces acquired are definitional, sometimes deterministic. Meta-systematicity may, or may not, retain parts of the original system. It does not rely on them. 10/11
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The meta-systemic focus is application in context. Congruent application often requires starting from first principles, understanding partial contributions and functionality, re-working from scratch in a new context. It is paradigmatically different from systems shopping. 11/11
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This makes me think of John Shotter's excellent paper More than Cool Reason: ‘Withness-thinking’ or ‘systemic thinking’ and ‘thinking about systems’ PDF: http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Mail/xmcamail.2012_09.dir/pdfajAMfjg0fI.pdf …pic.twitter.com/EeY0GHjhaJ
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I don’t know that paper and it does seem relevant - have bookmarked to read. Thanks!
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