yes; the fewer boundaries we impose upon ourselves, the more
connections we can make.* I love analogies for that reason; they
can take things out of one context and place them in another; I
consider a lot of the "thinking systems' that exist as if they
are mazes; they have walls that one must travel down to reach
conclusions; and each system has their own walls, their own
pitfalls, their own "cheese" rewards. They are good to
understand as they can help us see things from different
perspectives from our own; even if we don't agree with them, we
can at least travel down their paths - seeing what another may
see. But they can be prisons - and their temptations are many.*
As I investigated systems of systems, the allure of "all the
answers" was strong; and I had to force myself to find "the
flaw"; there was always at least one; and its often very deeply
buried in a root assumption that is typically forgotten, but is
always there. I've tried to shift from "it simply can't be"
towards a "Perhaps it isn't yet" - a "nothing is impossible" way
of looking at things but trying to get a more scientific basis
behind that sense I have. I'm working on bridging conflicts; and
seeing the world from a historical perspective has proven a
tremendous help.* "I think this way; Now, when did this way of
thinking originate for our species?" In other words, an alien
POV as it were.* Quite a lot of fun actually.
