Reco. for video "MINDWALK" LO342

Bonnie Morihara (moriharb@ucs.orst.edu)
Sun, 5 Mar 1995 18:59:25 -0800 (PST)

For those who have not seen it, or for relative newcomers to the
disciplines of systems thinking, I recommend the movie MINDWALK, which
should be available at your local video rental store.

The movie is based on the ideas in Fritjof Capra's book, THE TURNING
POINT, and stars Liv Ullman as a physicist, Sam Waterman as a US senator
and unsuccessful presidential candidate, and (?) as his college buddy and
now poet-in-self-exile living in France. The 3 characters engage in a
fascinating conversation about Descartes and Newton and their legacy on
modern science, and the need for a systems view to explain the complex
interrelationships particularly evident in modern science/society.

MINDWALK is a very enjoyable exploration of a few of the precepts of
systems thinking and non-linear dynamic systems. It's definitely food
for conversation.

(My apologies if someone has suggested this resource before. I've only
been on this list for 3 weeks.)

Bonnie Morihara, PhD student in education, Oregon State University
<moriharb@ucs.orst.edu>

"Knowing in fragments,
knowing without direction,
knowing without commitment"...
This is "ignorant knowledge."
--Canadian ecologist Stan Rowe

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Host's Note: Thanks Bonnie and welcome! I think "Mindwalk" is very much
on target for the Learning Organization topics. It was shown at one of
the Systems Thinking in Action conferences and Fritjof Capra was a
keynote speaker at last years conference.

-- Rick Karash, rkarash@world.std.com, host for learning-org
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