If gives us many observations and questions - and kindled my
curiosity as someone who has only been skimming this thread (have
you been reading any of them properly I hear you say?!) I am quite
open to this idea of unlearning and found Michael's thoughts about
restructuring thought provoking.
>If we accept that by 'Unlearning' we mean something more than simply
>'forgetting' there is then the question posed in different ways by Mike and
>Fides. Can there really be unlearning because it would leave a >vacuum> or
>a >rechunking to some new integration>. The danger with that route, it
>seems to me, is that it may leave us believing we can do no more than
>replace one mental model, one set of intuitive capabilities, with another.
>Somehow that strikes me as pretty limiting.
OK now I am lost - I think I was mental modelling unlearning as a
sort of paradigm shifting thing - new perspectives from which we
can never see things the same again (I remember a very profound
argument I once had with a Doctor about the nature of homosexuality
in which I did not agree at the time but which started off a whole
new thought process in my head (a meme perhaps) and these days my
whole perspective on the topic is probably 180 degrees
different). I am not sure I understand what you mean when you say
the idea of replacing one set of mental models and intuiitive
capabilities with another is limiting. Could you say some more.
I can see that it might create new possibilities and it seems to
link to the ideas which I have heard from Prasaad Kaipa (please say
if I have missed this Prasaad) about systems thinking and
polarities ... ie both/and not or.... but I am not sure
>
>Can we create the space to hold in our heads more than one model of the
>same reality, or even no model?
and how would this be unlearning? Are you saying the decision to
to this would be unlearning something or that the process would
lead to unlearning??
What sort of learning is unlearning - what other words might you
use for it which might help me grasp it - have you any metaphors
which might help me model it further???
>>I hope that the question engages the interest of others out
>>there and we can continue the thread - in a spirit of personal
unlearning.
>Takers?
Well I am engaged...
Julie Beedon
VISTA Consulting - for a better future
julie@vistabee.win-uk.net
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